As much as I enjoy finding stories to share about Emerson's experts in action, I also enjoy reaching that part of the year where it's time to use up unused vacation, unplug from the day-to-day, and spend time with family and friends. As such, this could well be the...
Update: Much has changed since this post was written. RSS is still a viable technology but the choice of readers is more limited. Microsoft Outlook and Feedly are some possibilities as of 2018. Original post: If you've been following this blog for a while, you know...
One of the innovations taking hold in the Information Technology (IT) community is services oriented architecture (SOA). As stated by the SOA entry in Wikipedia:There is no widely-agreed upon definition of service-oriented architecture other than its literal...
Today is the last day to share your thoughts with Intech Magazine on their fieldbus survey. From their email to me: Fieldbus has been in the industry for just over a decade and is an important part of the automation solution package. InTech magazine is conducting a...
It was one year ago today that we launched the Emerson Process Experts blog. This welcome message began the journey into the blogosphere for us here at Emerson. From rereading the initial post, I think we managed to stay pretty true to the mission: ...to use a blog to...
It's that time of year to visit with friends, family, and loved ones. This will be the last post for 2006. Enjoy your holiday season and I look forward to sharing more stories as 2007 comes rolling in. For those of you in the northern hemisphere where the snow falls,...
Do you ever get the feeling you have to know more and more to do your job? Control magazine editor-in-chief, Walt Boyes, nails it in a recent blog post when he writes:We need to be interdisciplinary generalists (wow, there's a mouthful for you) that can do field...
If you've been reading the Emerson Process Experts blog for a while, you know that every once in a while I'll jump on my soapbox to extol the virtues of RSS, RSS searches and blogs. Some examples of my enthusiasm on these topics include: Moving to More Efficient,...
For those who have seen some of my prior posts, you know I've been harping on why I think RSS (really simple syndication) is great. Last Friday, Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 7 (IE7) blog confirmed that we will all be receiving IE7 with embedded RSS...
As Walt Boyes recently reported in his coverage of the Emerson Exchange, a successful year has brought on the need for additional experts throughout Emerson Process Management. Here in Austin, Texas where our Process Systems and Solutions organization is based there...
As blogs have brought self-publishing to individuals and their growth has skyrocketed, the next wave--self-published videos--have arrived and even come to our conservative world of process automation. YouTube and Google Video are two examples of sites where you can...
Last Friday, I mentioned how RSS is speeding up the process of finding information. Podcasts are the way to receive this information in an audio format, typically via MP3 file or AAC file popularized by the iTunes Music Store. Unlike reading text, I find it impossible...
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