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Learning Basic Skills to Become an Automation Professional #pauto #automation #mfg

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Submitted by kbonfante on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 17:30.

How do you get your basic training, and your refreshers? Do you go to ISA section meetings? Do you read books? Does your employer offer training courses? Do you wander around the InterWebs looking for necessary information? YouTube and Google it? Or do you just wing it and learn what you need to know as you need to do it, and hope your ignorance doesn't cause too much damage meanwhile?

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Control Systems and the Great Toyota Fail

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 15:01.

"Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad."

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Longbow Research gingerly opens the flood gates for new contacts...#pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 17:21.

From an email to me from Mark Douglass of Longbow Research, by permission:

"This might be dangerous, but you could also let your readers know that if they want to participate in upcoming surveys they can email us. If they become a contact then they get the entire report, too. We really don't need 100+ more contacts but it's always nice to get a few more--at least at the senior or exec level b/c then they would probably have a bigger picture view."

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Bhattacharya Speaks

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Submitted by nbartels on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 15:43.

Hanging out on the Twittersphere this morning and came across the following, thanks to Eoin O'Riain at Readout: The Instrumentation Signpost. It's a Frost & Sullivan interview with Sudipta Bhattacharya of Invensys Operations Management. See here for what he has to say.

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About Marketing-- whether it is to engineers or your boss or anybody else...

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Submitted by waltboyes on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 15:23.

Seth Godin's blog, which is "must reading" for marketers...and other automation professionals should read him too just to find out what his take is on the near future of technology and society is...talks about the four basic types of customers...you know who you are, and automation marketers are

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Siemens gets order for combined power, control and field instruments from Novus

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 20:12.

Clearly showing that ABB isn't the only people who can automate all of the controls, both electric and process, in a plant, Siemens released this press release today:

NOVUS ENERGY SELECTS SIEMENS FOR BIOCHEMICAL PRODUCTION PLANTS

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10 Years from now...

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Submitted by IanVerhappen on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 20:36.

As we near the end of the calendar year this is a good time to pull out the crystal ball and solicit your input on what YOU think automation systems in 2020 will be like?

From 'The Great Kanduski: Best Practices in Industrial Networking'

Let's Get Started

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Submitted by IanVerhappen on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 20:52.

Here we go, the most challenging of all steps is the first one so I will start safe (baby steps concept) by sharing with you the topics I hope to cover in this blog:

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GE and FANUC part ways-- observers wonder

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 14:22.

From a press release from General Electric:

GE AND FANUC ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT TO DISSOLVE JOINT VENTURE 

FANUC to reinforce industry-leading CNC portfolio; GE to continue global investment in industrial automation and process control systems, software solutions and embedded computing

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