A Brazilian Automation site.
O site Engenharia de Instrumenta& cvtccvccedil;ão foi desenvolvido pelo engenheiro WAGNER
ESTEVES com a proposta de auxiliar os profissionais da área de instrumentaçco e
automação industrial, relacionando diversos assuntos, como: artigos, arquivos para
downloads, relação de fornecedores por tipo de instrumento, animações,
vagas, etc.
If you thought that engineers have a warped sense of humour An Engineering Mind from Todd who works (we think) on LabVIEW graphical programing software at National Instruments. It features many items including videos which poke fun at CERN, give dating advice for engineers, and sometimes have a few rants...smile and enjoy!
ISA S88 Control - Comments and musings about Control Systems and the ISA 88 standard, primarily Part 1 and Part 5, from a real control engineer, who wears a suit rarely - but sometimes!
Walt Boyes' Wireless Guide is possibly the most comprehensive listing/explanation/commentary on the subject.
Superfactory Newsletter, an e-newsletter dedicated to spreading manufacturing and enterprise excellence information with an aim to improve manufacturing efficiency and productivity worldwide.
INTECH E-news sent out by email regularly includes special issues for ISAExpo.
Transmission and Distribution (part of Penton Media) distribute several e-newsletters. Listed below:
Test, Monitor & Control which delivers news and updates about the importance of utilities tracking the condition of their lines and substations to effectively maintain and operate them.
Information Systems & Automation which monitors the pulse of the information technology and automation that supports power delivery.
BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks. BIG-EU represents European interests in the development of the BACnet norm and coordinates European BACnet activities.
The FreePatentsOnline search engine is one of the most powerful, fastest and easiest patent search engines on the web. This search allows advanced search techniques such as word stemming, proximity searching relevancy ranking and search term weighing to help you find exactly what you are looking for. Latent semantic searching is also available, and their account features let you organize, annotate and share documents, along with other helpful work-flow features.
ISA's CyberU - If self paced distance education is a better fit for your schedule, ISA has a wealth of distance learning options. You have hundreds of self directed courses to choose from in a format that meets your needs. These courses are sure to become a critical part of your technical training program!
Security Pages from ISA "At any given time a company's security can be breached.
Companies must be proactive in making sure networks are safe
and must work daily to ensure threats are eliminated. With
security threats getting more sophisticated, so should your
company's security policy. Are you doing enough to protect
your company?"
Gill Sensors - leading supplier of sensors specifically developed for harsh environments.
No beating about this
Bush! - We don't usually stoop to politics on this site, but we are Irish and it's in the
blood. We also like Jim Pinto and as a native of the most populous democracy on the globe he also enjoys a good political wrangle. So whether
you support Clinton, beloved of the Irish, or O'Bama, or, perish the thought, you are a republican
and support McCain, enjoy this acidic work from the pen of the Automation Laureate We think he must
have some Irish blood in him somewhere as this is worthy of Jonathon Swift! Now read The Iraq War - 5-years anniversary
Bush Lied or see his illustrated version on utube!
Pinto the Guru! - After all that warmongering and politics how about looking at the gentler side of Pinto!
Plant Engineering a magazine for plant engineering professionals responsible for the maintenance, repair, and operations of plant facilities, equipment and systems. (US)
Machinebuilding.net is a focused website where machine builders can find information about products and systems for machinery and industrial automation, and it offers suppliers a free route to market.
The IDC Technologies Software Compedium - an excellent list of over 120 programs, share- and freeware. The list has been broken up into Electronics/Data Communications/Electrical Engineering/General Engineering/software utilities/Office Freeware/
Before you start on your studies and you feel your maths is not up to scratch then the Calculator Edge will be an invaluable resource making calculations a doddle!
ISA Security Institute is a globally recognized body that is working toward establishing the ISASecure designation which identifies and promotes security compliant products and systems in the industrial automation industry.
Here is a report on IDC Technology's Industrial Wireless & Ethernet Conference held in December'07 in Sidney. This includes the paper "The Nuts and Bolts of Industrial Wireless Communications."
Control at Rockwell's Automation Fair
Another area where anxiety has been expressed is that of Radio Frequency. Pages on RF safety issues are provided by