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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
Congratulations to Automation World's Wes Iversen who won a regional award for excellence for his article in April 2007 on Safety from the American Society of Business Press Editors. That's two years in a row for him. I thought that article was the best survey of the issues on safety integrated systems that I had seen.
7:25:18 AM 
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Speaking of Jim Cahill, thanks for pointing to my Automation World article on safety--and then expanding on it. That was an interesting article to write--and I hope to read.
7:08:19 AM
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Jim Cahill over at Emerson Process Experts went into FUD-fighting mode earlier this week. Seems ARC Advisory Group quoted someone from the FDT Group who made inaccurate comments about EDDL. While I have seen how Enhanced EDDL takes care of most if not all the problems with the original spec that the FDT Group sought to overcome, most non-Emerson companies see a need for representing their products "more fairly" through a different user interface. FDT is a Microsoft Windows application, while EDDL is text based. The future is here in terms of developers moving to text-based scripting and protocols. Witness the explosion of XML, for example, and other mark up languages. I just make the same comment about this that I have made previously when the DeviceNet people mis-represent Profinet in their comments--FDT Group, you have valid reasons for your technology, stick to those and don't get into mis-representing the "other guy." I just think that's good marketing in general. But when you spread untruths about the "opponent" then the crap just blows back at you.
7:03:32 AM
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The Siemens ExiderDome finally made it to Chicago. I wrote a preview from Monterrey, Mexico in April. Wes Iversen, Automation World managing editor, went to the grand opening press conference Monday. Unfortunately, weather delayed the arrival of the barge until Monday evening. It's set up now. I'm heading to Navy Pier in a couple of hours for the Siemens Automation Summit user conference and another look at the ExiderDome. There will probably be some news later today. Directly after the event I'm driving back home. So probably not much until tomorrow.
6:55:05 AM
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