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Your Control March electronic edition is now available at www.controlglobal.com #pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 16:24.

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Countdown Begins

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Submitted by nbartels on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 12:59.

The 2010 Control salary survey will be closing in six days. Here's your chance to weigh in on conditions in your corner of the process automation business. Fill out the survey here. The results will appear in our June issue.

 

From 'Unfettered Blog'

Yokogawa gets ready for the recovery; shuffles reps in two most important US territories #pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 20:23.

In a clear sign that Yokogawa's North American sales management sees the recovery beginning to happen, the company announced today that it was, effective March 16, appointing Techstar and BBP Sales as their representatives in the two most important US territories for the oil, gas and petrochemical focused automation giant. Techstar will represent Yokogawa in the all-important Houston area including the Ship Channel.

Let us now praise cabinetry and enclosures designed with at least half a clue...Hoffman gets it right. #pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 16:45.

I almost didn't open the email. I keep forgetting that Pentair has been trying to re-brand the venerable Hoffman enclosure as Pentair Technical Products, just like I keep forgetting that Pentair North Aurora Operations is really the old Aurora Pump Company plant, or rather the other way around. Rebranding can get sooooo confusing. 

I'm glad I did open it.

PR Wall of Shame: I will honor the [bleeping] embargo! #pr #fail

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 21:35.

Thanks to the ever vigilant Larry O'Brien, I have a new post for the PR Wall of Shame.

From the blog post:

The #pauto Parade of iPhone Apps continues: Baldor's BE$T now on iPhone

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 21:10.

From Baldor comes word that they've joined the iPhone revolution:

BALDOR BE$T ON iPHONE, AN INDUSTRY FIRST

Gruhn and Marszal Keynote Safety Conference in Calgary

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Submitted by waltboyes on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 20:10.


SIL Ratings for Fire & Gas Systems – Are We Barking Up The Wrong Tree?

Paul Gruhn – ICS Triplex

First WirelessHART sensor powered by energy scavenging #pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 18:20.

Industrial Wireless Temperature Transmitter Powered by Heat

ABB and Micropelt Prove Thermal Energy Harvesting to Solve the Battery Issue of Wireless Sensors
 
Freiburg, Germany -- March 10, 2010.  Wireless sensors are rather inexpensive and can be deployed almost anywhere. Deploying more sensors would lead to safer and more efficient process control, and much reduced maintenance cost – if cost and effort of battery maintenance could be obviated.

PR Wall of Shame-- another big peeve of editors-- sending the release as a PDF #pauto #fail

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 17:01.

This isn't tied to any specific release. But if you've done this, you know who you are.

I regularly get press releases from PR firms and from vendors directly, which are in PDF.

Now, Adobe Acrobat is a very nice program, and it looks nice.

But friends, this adds a step to my ability to post or print your release. I have to get it out of PDF and into Word or InCopy or our CMS.

More Mobile Computing: Advantech buys in-vehicle company DLoG

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Submitted by waltboyes on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 16:19.

Advantech Announces Acquisition of DLoG GmbH

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