Automation systems today have become remarkable warehouses of knowledge and information. Beyond just system configuration, many years of effort is inevitably invested in these systems by not only control engineers, but operations, process, maintenance, business and management personnel as well. In fact, over the life of an automation system the total intellectual investment will come to exceed the initial hardware and software cost many times over.

This paper will discuss some of the factors contributing to the impending process industry automation knowledge crisis, present real–life industry examples and provide a proven solution to mitigate the problems.

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Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) are increasing in number, variety, resolution, sophistication and related computing power, and so are becoming all–pervasive in most process applications. To help make sense of this rapidly changing market, an electronic survey of Control readers was conducted. Respondents reported on how they use HMIs to interact with their plants’ control systems, the age of their existing HMIs, their visual presentation preferences and on how well their HMIs handle alarms.

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"More" may be "Less" when applied to safety systems architecture. Have the terms DMR, TMR and Quad become irrelevant in your safety system building vocabulary? Download this white paper to learn why categorizing the new generation of systems by its hardware architecture should be avoided.

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This month, Control and ARC Advisory Group's podcast series examines batch operations. The podcast includes commentary and insights by John Blanchard, ARC’s principal analyst. He is interviewed by Jim Montague, Control’s executive editor.

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» Learn more about batch operations by reading "Batch to Continuous."

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