PAT isn’t standing pat
ChemicalProcessing.com
Traditional laboratory-based analytical techniques more and more are moving online and even being replaced by the virtual analysis offered by soft sensors and inferential measurements.

Become a cyber-security pacesetter
ChemicalProcessing.com
Today, most plants with control systems must contend with many pressures both to allow access to data and to secure those data.

Still pondering whither fieldbus?
ControlGlobal.com
In this month's installment of On the Bus, Contributing Editor John Rezabek predicts HART devices will work so well that your career may be over before you can justify the cost to replace them with fieldbus.

The intrinsically safe fieldbus has arrived
ChemicalProcessing.com
Fieldbus has proven its merit in bringing projects online more efficiently, allowing better diagnostics, and control, and reducing maintenance costs and inventories. However, it has been limited in intrinsically safe services. At last, technology has come through once again with a solution. The capacity barrier of FISCO has now been significantly surpassed by a novel split architecture design that has already proven itself in the field.