Exhibitions, meetings, twitter and "a gargle with the Da!"!Non-stop action as people return from summer "break!"As we mentioned when talking about the last issue the so-called "silly season" was filled with news from all quarters. This issue too marked the commencement of the event season and there are several mentions and accounts of happenings both in Ireland and abroad.
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Emerson's famous user group meeting was held in the capital city of country music, Nashville, and one of the talks given there discussed the development of an innovative calibration method linking Emerson's Asset Management software with the Beamex MC5 portable calibrator and CMX software. Control's Jim Montague described this presentation which was co-presented by Don Brady of GSK Cork and Emerson's Richard Barnes. (This article was forst published in the e-newsletter published throughout the Emerson Users Exchange.) Incidentilly this event usually held in the United States is schedule to have an European version next May. Another event held in this period and also in the United States was ISA's flagship event, Automation Week. This impressive event was held in Mobile, Alabama, a quiet sea port which had extremely impressive facilities for a relitively small place. As we discussed last year there was considerable room for improvement and indeed that is what we saw. Our blog Triumph on Mobile Bay, shows just how ISA rose to the challenge. One of the innovations at this event was the installation of a large screen on site which followed the tweets made concerning the event itself and process automation. Coincidentally we came accross an article on twitter. This was in Chris Rand's bmon e-letter and we included his "How many social media followers is enough?" as it answered the questions asked of this writer many times with regard to twitter and other social platforms. A perhaps surprising item in this issue is the story behind the writing of Instrumentation, Control Systems Documentation. This was an father-son work which had its origins in Cliff Meier having a "bit of a gargle with the Da" which rite he had not heard of before his year long assignment in the design of a microelectronics chip fabrication facility. This article, written by ISA's Susan Collwell, gives the full story on the impressive ISA Interchange "online source of automation news and technical content." There was also news on products with an emphasis on temperature including: A new Status alarm/switching unit from PJ Boner; Yokogawa's new YTMX580 wireless temperature transmitter built on the ISA100.11a standard; the new dual temperature and CO2 EE85 transmitter/sensor from Instrument Technology. Also featured was the new hand held calibrator from Quantitech and the expansion of smart verification to Emerson's Rosemount mag meters. The new PyroUSB 2.2 is a non-contact temperature sensor used in the measurement of low temperatures. The usual people section is also included in this issue. It is possible to advertise both in Read-out, Ireland's journal of instrumentation, control and automation, which circulates to approx 2500 named automation professionals throughout Ireland, and on the Read-out Instrumentation Signpost, which is visited by up to 6000 visitors per week. Rates (in Euro, Pounds Sterling or US Dollars) Read-out is generally distributed free of charge within Ireland but due to high distribution charges outside we regret a small charge is made for subscriptions in other countries. Subscriptions may be made using Paypal here. Our facebook "fan-page" lists most stories we receive even those not included in our printed publication. Who reads Read-out? [] Advertising Rates |
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