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Automation & IT Resource Center

What’s needed in process automation?
ChemicalProcessing.com
A recent survey of end users provides an extensive wish list

We Want to Know
ChemicalProcessing.com
How has the use of online analytical devices at your site changed in the last two years?

Loggers Keep Feeding Data-Hungry Users
ControlGlobal.com
Recorders and DAQs Have Survived the Advent of PCs, Adapted to Cooperate with Software-Based Historians and Continue to Serve in Applications Where Computers Can't Go

The many faces of SCADA
ControlGlobal.com
Thought You Knew What A SCADA System Was? Think Again

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White Papers: In depth research


Title Author Date
Automation Solutions for Regulated Industries Honeywell 03/05/2008
This paper highlights the most advanced automation solution for the regulated industries. 
Anticipating and Resolving Resource Overloads Project Success Incorporated 02/25/2008
This white paper by Project Success Incorporated focuses on the resource that is of greatest concern to most organizations – personnel. In a project management system, personnel resources may be identified as individuals by name or as functional groups, such as computer programmers. 
Developing Operating Procedures For Projects Involving Multiple Organizations Using a Linear Responsibility Chart Project Success Incorporated 02/25/2008
One of the difficulties of managing projects that involve several (perhaps many) organizations is that the group has no pre-established procedures for handling actions that cross organizational boundaries. This white paper by Project Success Incorporated discusses the development of a procedures manual. 
IT Security for Process Control Using Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 ARC Advisory Group 02/25/2008
Ensuring the security of industrial control systems is hardly a new topic. The earliest users of modern control systems in power stations and chemical plants saw the need to protect access to vital control functions from unauthorized use. Similarly, in industries such as fine chemical or pharmaceutical where “the process is the product”, manufacturers have always sought to protect the secrets of their unique processes from the prying eyes of industrial spies. This white paper by ARC describes how the Siemens AG PCS7 Security Concept bundles key security measures in seveal specific areas to create a deep hierarchy of security known as “defense in depth”. 
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Timeless Resources

Process Engineering: National Instruments test and measurement whitepaper database
National Instruments developer zone has a plethora of whitepapers on instrumentation. The database covers both hardware and software needs.
Process Engineering: Measurement Technology whitepapers
This whitepaper database from Rosemount covers many areas of instrumentation including safety-instrumented systems.