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FROM
THE EDITORS: Walt Boyes on information
delivery
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Beaming
it up to the enterprise
ControlGlobal.com
Getting aggregated data from the plant up through the enterprise
is the easy part, according to Editor in Chief Walt Boyes,
but getting real-time data to the enterprise level is much
harder than we'd like to admit.
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SPECIAL
TO THE WEB: ControlGlobal.com
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Transcending
the batch
ControlGlobal.com
On the 10-year anniversary of World Batch Forum's charter,
Chairman Maurice Wilkins examines the organization's growing
scope in this first installment of a new, "special to
the web" monthly column exclusively on ControlGlobal.com.
Supervisory
control and data acquisition
ControlGlobal.com
This newly revised "special to the web" reference
book, available from the ISA through ControlGlobal.com, offers
overviews of SCADA's component technologies, as well as details
necessary to understanding the big picture.
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FEATURED TOPICS: Insight you
can use
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OPC
maximizes object-oriented systems
ControlGlobal.com
Control devices for passing data from one OPC DA server to
another have gotten smarter and have more to say, making it
easier for vendors, OEMs, machine builders and end users to
communicate with them.
Unified
architecture-The future of OPC
ControlGlobal.com
With its eye on the future, the OPC Foundation has preserved
all the work that has gone before and embarked on the creation
of the Unified Architecture as a way of adjusting to the ever-changing
Microsoft world.
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UPCOMING EVENTS: Shows, seminars,
conferences
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Fieldbus
Foundation General Assembly 2005
Fieldbus.org
The Fieldbus Foundation will hold its 2005 General Assembly
Feb. 23-24 at the InterContinental Hotel in Vienna, Austria.
This year’s event, themed “Plant-wide Integration:
HSE + H1,” will follow a comprehensive, end user-oriented
agenda that will include user case study presentations, technical
training workshops and tabletop exhibitions.
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CONTACT US
We welcome your editorial comments and suggestions. Please send
these by e-mail to the Editor in Chief of CONTROL magazine, Walt
Boyes, at wboyes@putman.net.
Technical questions and customer support issues can be sent to support@putman.net.
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