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Everyone is talking about the cloud. The Wiki definition of the cloud is: "the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software and information…
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VB6 has been around forever. There are hundreds of thousands of developers using VB6 (Classic), but some have made the switch to VB.NET. This global environment includes C++, C# and…
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I recently received a call from an engineering buddy who was contacted by our customer about a level controller that was acting up at one of the water tower sites…
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Twenty-five years is a long time in automation software years - a very long time.
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This is the second part in a two-part review of Ignition. Last month's column was an introduction to the software, including a review of installation and its interface. This month,…
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Ignition is a product that you must take note of. Formerly FactoryPMI, which I reviewed some two years ago, Ignition is the same, but different.
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In the past, I have talked about OPC servers, devices and HMI with Visual Basic, which all present data to operators for real-time and historical information. Tabular data is the…
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Development application: Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch
Written by Jeremy Pollard January 20, 2011
Microsoft has entered the world of application-specific development with its Visual Studio LightSwitch offering, presently available as a free software program (like the Express versions of its popular development tools).…
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The software side of things: A review of ISA Automation Week
Written by Jeremy Pollard November 12, 2010
The Instrument Society of America (ISA) has changed its name a few times in the last 10 years. It is now called the International Society of Automation. Like its name,…
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This month is a bit of a departure from my usual software review. Instead, I'm reviewing a book that I believe every budding automation and control engineer should read -…
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