Crane Operator controls OSB plant by guest blogger Andrew Green It’s been said that money doesn’t grow on trees. While that may be true, have you ever thought about just how much we use and consume that does come from trees? The desk where you’re sitting and probably reading this from, the paper you…
DetailsCo-op student working on a control panel Guest Blogger Jacob Dupuis I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first walked in the doors of Revere. I was excited to finally get to put some of the knowledge I had gained in the classroom to good use, and get some hands on engineering experience.…
DetailsModernization risks By guest blogger Steven Hawkins Implementing and managing system upgrades have been identified as an area of major concern by control system users surveyed. These concerns should be addressed as identifying risk, whether you upgrade a legacy system migration or expand focus based on current and future business needs. In your modernization approach,…
DetailsLuigi De Bernardini, CEO of Autoware, headquartered in Italy and one of our AAG partners, provides an insightful discussion of the direction he sees systems integrators needing to take to adjust to the changes taking place across the industrial landscape as solutions to their problems become more software based and more reliant on cloud-based storage.…
Detailsby Guest Blogger Nan Johnson VP Municipal Systems The professional services agreement is a negotiated agreement that provides the municipality with a path to have a qualified systems integrator under contract to provide support for the water/wastewater plant control systems as well as their collection and distribution telemetry systems. Selection of an integrator may be…
DetailsBy Guest Blogger, Marc Handley This month we will focus on Network optimization. This is a very broad topic to cover so I will only cover a few of the areas that we see the most concerns with. Network Infrastructure There are many technologies that can offer you optimization in your network, starting with your…
DetailsAs most of you probably know, SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. It’s a term that’s been around since the 60s and grew out of the utility power and natural gas industries where it was necessary to operate equipment at remote, unmanned substations. (Read a detailed history of SCADA ) In general terms, SCADA allows…
DetailsIndustrial IT is an area where we are seeing increased interest from our customer base. This as control systems and their supporting networks become ever more sophisticated, more critical to plant operations, and more integrated into higher level business systems to aid in business optimization and critical decision making. Because of this growing interest and…
DetailsWe have combined previous blog posts on the subject of legacy migration with a description of project we performed to create a white paper on this very important subject. Download the Legacy Control System Migration white paper.
DetailsGoogle has chosen Jackson County as the site for a $600 million data center that will be built on 350 acres of land on the former Widows Creek coal plant. The land is owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. According to a release from the Alabama Department of Commerce, the data center could create up to…
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