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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.

 

Is ICS security actually moving forward?

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Submitted by jweiss on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 13:59.

The latest blog on Digital Bond's website is hacking a Logitech Mouse server. It is a very interesting blog and I learned a lot.  However, how does this help us prevent ICSs from going “boom in the night”?  

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

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

Reflections from the RSA Security Conference - the Blind Leading the Blind

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Submitted by jweiss on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 02:03.

I just returned from 3 days at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.  This is billed as the world’s largest cyber security conference. There were more than 18,000 attendees with more than 200 speakers. I want to personally thank RSA for recognizing the ICS community with 5 sessions on control systems and Smart Grid.  The sessions were:

In Search of the Holy Grail: ISA Marketing and Sales Summit v5.0 #pauto #manufacturing #mfg

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Submitted by waltboyes on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 20:44.

ISA Marketing and Sales Summit v.5.0

You are invited to submit an abstract for ISA's 5th Annual
Marketing and Sales Summit, In Search of the Holy Grail:
Integrating Marketing and Sales, sponsored by the ISA
Management Division. The Summit will be held 1-3 September
2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Don't miss your opportunity to share your expertise,
solutions, and best practices for how to survive and excel
beyond 2010 with other marketing and sales professionals.

CONTENTS
* How to submit an abstract
* Conference Location

A Concentration of Minds

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Submitted by nbartels on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 22:27.

It's interesting to watch an idea come of age. I've been covering manufacturing of one sort or another for more years than I'm usually prepared to admit to, and from the beginning, about once a year, someone would come up and say, "You know, you really oughta do a story on the decline of American manufacturing. The kids don't want to do this. The companies are moving everything overseas. What are we going to do when we don't make anything here anymore?"

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

Reminder: Four Subject Matter Experts Discuss Industrial Wireless Ethernet...and you're invited! #pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 16:33.

Wireless Ethernet: Ready for Industrial Prime Time

Sponsored by: National Instruments, Phoenix Contact & CONTROL

Content Type: Webcast on Wednesday March 3, 2010 at 2:00 pm ET

From 'Sound Off! Editors' Blog'

Four Wireless Subject Matter Experts in one Webcast! You gotta see this! #pauto

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Submitted by waltboyes on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 19:09.

Wireless Ethernet: Ready for Industrial PrimetimeWireless can today lay claim to perhaps the fastest uptake of any “new” instrumentation technology in the industrial marketplace. Wireless Ethernet, broadly encompassing standard and proprietary variants of 802.11 and 802.15.4 wireless protocols, are being successfully deployed to solve a broad and growing range of industrial problems from process control to environmental monitoring.

World Batch Forum Bounces Back

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Submitted by nbartels on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 13:30.

As you may know, the World Batch Forum has been struggling mightily over the last couple of years, which is too bad, because the group has always been a good source of engineering information. So I was glad to find this email from WBF Chairman Bill Wray in my mailbox first thing this morning. 

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