Kane, L.
HP Control: Include control loops in asset management
The industry's renewed focus on frontline measurements for improving asset management (AM) and extending condition-based monitoring (CBM) to more process equipment is certainly good new..
HP Control: 2002 ISA show: hot topics, ongoing trends
The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) held its 2002 annual conference and exhibit on Oct. 21 - 24 in Chicago. Since most of the leading instrumentation suppliers did..
HP Control: Consider MRA
About five years ago, Invensys introduced what we considered to be an innovative online process analyzer based on nuclear magnetic resonance technology (see "HP Innovations," March 1998) which it call..
HP Control: Highlights from the ARC Forum
The ARC Advisory Group (Dedham, Massachusetts) held itsManufacturing Strategies Forum, February 11 and 12 in Orlando,Florida. This was an excellent meeting to learn about high-levelprocess and busines..
Asset management begins in the field
Asset management is one of the hottest topics in the HPI today. As mentioned in previous columns, it means different things to different people. But for engineers, the primary focus is..
HP Control: All together now
The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) held its annual Computer Conference & Showcase October 1 – 3 in Dallas, Texas. As reported in last month's column, the ISA show is a good ..
HP Control: Control developments at ISA
The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) held its annual conference and exhibit September 10 – 13 in Houston. This is always a good show for learning about trends in process cont..
Asset management driving control spending
Comparing our '99 Advanced Control and Information Systems Handbook with this edition shows some interesting trends. Growth in "information systems" projects has been substantially greater than in mor..
More Websites and e-newsletters
In the June issue "HP In Control," I discussed some interesting process control / instrumentation sites that I had found using the Google search engine (www.google.com). Some readers responded to my r..
HP Control: A day with Google
I rarely search the Internet for process control information. It's just too time-consuming (phoning or e-mailing a friend is much quicker). Enter "process control" into a search on most..
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