Now the gang is tweeting from the panel discussion on workforce development at Rockwell Automation's Automation Fair Manufacturing Perspectives.  Keith Larson (KL), Putman's VP of content, Walt Boyes (WB), Control's editor in chief, and Aaron Hand (AH), Control Design's managing editor are doing live coverage from Chicago's McCormick Place.

WB, 10:39 -- #autofair Panel on workforce development moderated by John Nesi

WB, 10:41 -- #autofair Panelist: Alberto Alfonso Goodyear Tire & Rubber

WB, 10:42 -- #autofair panelist:Dr Thomas Deusterberg The Aspen Institute

Now the gang is tweeting from the panel discussion at Rockwell Automation's Automation Fair Manufacturing Perspectives.  Keith Larson (KL), Putman's VP of content, Walt Boyes (WB), Control's editor in chief, and Aaron Hand (AH), Control Design's managing editor are doing live coverage from Chicago's McCormick Place.

Rockwell Automation's annual gathering of the clan, Automation Fair, is in full swing down at McCormick Place here in Chicago. Most of the Control editorial team is there on the show floor, reporting extensively on all the news coming out of the fair and generating copy for the electronic show daily that will be zipping through the electrons, hopefully to a mailbox near you, early this evening. 

Well, we've known it all along here, but now it's offical. Walt Boyes, Control's editor and chief, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control, a London-based institution that brings together thinkers and practitioners from the many disciplines which have a common interest in measurement and control.

This is so not the kind of thing I want to read on a Monday morning--especially when I'm in a pitched battle with my least favorite winter guest, bronchitis--but this is important. So listen up. If Stuxnet didn't scare you, and Walt's most recent post on bad data didn't, try this on for size.

As the 2010 Honeywell User Group Conference for 2010 winds down today, we are still bringing you some of the highlights. 

Here's a podcast of Walt Boyes interviewing Honeywell's Ray Rogowski about the future of wireless and a video of the highlights of the Demo Center. 

Maybe it's the two-hour time difference that messed us up. Maybe it's just that the Control/Control Design editorial team never gets tired. But here is a PS to our "last post" of the day. Don't miss these either.

Concoco/Phillips & Mustang Engineering on Safer Alarm Management

Virtual Environments at Geismar

 Enjoy.

Last post of the day -- for your late evening reading -- don't miss these stories on

The Evolution of Wireless

Setting Up Your Own Cybersecurity Management System

OneWireless at Western Refinery

Going Mobile with Field Advisor

This afternoon at the Honeywell User Group meeting, Walt Boyes has been busy. He talked with Henri Tausch, VP and general manager of the Honeywell Field Solutions business unit about its successes in Europe and did a podcast with Peter Henderson, senior product manager for the UniSim Operations Suite.

See the write-up of the Tausch interview here, and listen to the podcast here. 

Things are popping in Phoenix. It's only the middle of the afternoon there, and we have reports on

how Nigeria LNG uses the OTTER system to improve rounds efficiency at its Bonny Island site;

 The new Experion roadmap;

 and the global business report from Honeywell executives, Norm Gilsdorf, Harsh Chitale and Vimal Kapur.