Issue Highlights
- Ups and Downs of Taking the Bus—Part I
- More Than a Backbone
- Networking at RRR Tire Manufacturing
Ups and Downs of Taking the Bus—Part I
An early adopter of fieldbus technologies overcame a few startup and commissioning issues and qualified a control system.
More Than a Backbone
Fiberoptic media offer network benefits over copper in industrial environments.
Networking at RRR Tire Manufacturing
Tire machine maker uses IP67 networking to build equipment faster.
Control/ARC Podcast
Enterprise Integration with ARC's Bob Mick
Control's Dan Hebert and Walt Boyes talk about enterprise integration with ARC's Bob Mick. This is a rocket-fast tour
through the world of enterprise integration by a world-class expert from both the vendor and end-user side. Mick is passionate
about what the value of integration can be and informative about the perils and pitfalls too.
» Listen to this Podcast
Featured White Paper
Chasing Moore's Law
The Truth Behind the OS and CPU Upgrades for Industrial PC Users
The COTS (commercial, off-the -shelf) revolution has changed commercial computing, created personal computing, impacted telecommunications
and made huge changes in the industrial environment. Most of these changes have been incredibly beneficial, while some have been
problematic, and some have caused FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt). This white paper discusses the COTS revolution and all the FUD that
can come with it.
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Control/ARC Podcast
Professional Development with Dick Hill
We have candidates for the Hall of Fame, but for how long? Walt Boyes and ARC's Dick Hill discuss professional development and
how to get new, younger people into manufacturing and automation so that at the end of their careers, they will be eligible
for the Hall.
» Listen to this Podcast
New Products
Connect One's M2M Internet Solution.
Omega Engineering's Wireless Communication Brochure.
GE Fanuc's 6U Compact PCI 24-port NETernity Gigabit Ethernet Switches.
Banner Engineering's SureCross DX70 Wireless Developers Kit.
ControlGlobal.com Blogs
Hitchhiking Through Manufacturing!
Industrial Business Process Management?
As manufacturing companies transform their linear, primarily continental supply chains of the 20th century to
“necessary-to-compete” globally distributed supply networks and exchanges, they are realizing that their IT infrastructures
must change. Read this entry and find out how manufacturing industries are adopting this IT infrastructural change |
| Read our other blogs, Sound Off! Editor's Blog
and Unfettered Blog |
Market Intelligence Report
Calibration Practices
Watch this video and find out what Control learned after surveying its readers about their calibration practices.
Industry Events
Get information on all these events and more.
Plant2Enterprise Transformation Webcast Series
Lean Your Production with Industrial Business Process Management (BPM)
April 16, Webcast
CANECT 2008
April 21 - 22, Toronto, Canada
ExperTune—TiPS User Conference 2008
Common Sense Automation User’s Conference
April 23 - 25, Houston
ABB Automation World 2008
April 29 - May 1, Houston
OSIsoft Webinars
PI AF for Asset Model Management and Analytics Industry Focus/Application Report
April 30, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time