March 2012 Issue Preview
Ad Closing: February 10 2012| Material Closing: February 17, 2012
Cover Story
The Control Room of the Future
Tomorrow’s control room may look more like a “man cave”—big screens with futuristic, high-resolution graphics, gaming-like controllers, and close-to-reality and near-real-time simulation of processes. See how end users are implementing this future now.
Asset Management/Calibration
The Search for the Asset Management Holy Grail. How close are we to the system that can predict when maintenance is needed, order the job done, assign it to the right person, add up the cost and notify the system to compensate for the specific piece of equipment that will be down? Remote calibrators may be showing the way with field instruments and valves.
Valves, Actuators & Positioners
Sr. Technical Editor Dan Hebert covers some of the most significant advances over the last few years in modulating control valves, particularly in terms of automation features such as closed-loop local control, diagnostics, and fieldbus and wireless connectivity.
Our Columns:
Control Talk - MacMillan & Weiner chat with measurement guru Ram Ramachandran about the opportunities flow measurement offer for feed-forward, identification of valve backlash and stick-slip, online metrics and diagnostics, rejection of pressure disturbance, linearization, modeling and tracking down disturbances. Get the straight scoop on a spectrum of flow devices and applications.
Control Report - Jim Montague’s take on all things control-related.
On the Bus -Award-winning columnist John Rezabek talks fieldbus.
Ask the Experts -Our experts tackle your knottiest process control questions.
Lessons Learned - More on how process automation can help us safely scrape the bottom of the fossil fuel barrel.
Roundup Focus —Loop Controllers
Send us your best flow products for featuring in this section: 70 words of copy, a hi-res (300 dpi) photo, a sales contact phone number and a URL.
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Resources Focus —Pressure
Do you have tutorials, teaching videos, white papers or other educational materials on the subject of drives and motor controls available online for our readers? If so, send us a brief write-up describing them, a hi-res photo if one is available, a contact phone number, a direct link to the material and a general URL and we’ll include it in this feature. Please send to nbartels@putman.net
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