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INDUSTRIALCONTROLS
Nick
May 23, 20231 min read
TLDR; Kenexis: Safety Instrument System Engineering Handbook
TLDR; covers books that help industrial automation professionals. Some of these are dull (but important!) reference texts with arcane...
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Nick
May 16, 20231 min read
TLDR; Automation of Water Resource Recovery Facilities
TLDR; is a series of books that will help you advance in your professional careers and, in this case, deal with insomnia. Automation of...
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Nick
May 9, 20232 min read
Pro-tip: How to take tests
Pro-tips exist to give you an edge in your field. Getting a professional license, or certification, are both examples of how to get...
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Nick
May 2, 20231 min read
TLDR; Energy Conservation in Water and Wastewater Facilities
TLDR; is a series dedicated to books that I have read and might benefit your career. If you work as an integrator or plant engineer in...
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Nick
Apr 25, 20233 min read
Pro-tip: Never stop learning
Pro-tips exist to help you stand out. One easy way to stand out from your peers is to study the top literature in your field on your own...
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Nick
Apr 18, 20233 min read
How not to... Deal with heat
When you take a lot of heat at work, be in in a metaphorical sense or physical one, you have problems. If you ignore it, you are likely...
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Nick
Apr 11, 20232 min read
Cyber: Cloud
Cyber is dedicated to helping your company avoid being targeted or get up ASAP. Amazon Web Services is now more profitable than the...
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Nick
Apr 4, 20232 min read
Data visibility: the case for not everyone seeing everything
Everyone wants to have access to everything at all times. Everyone. After all, why should the CEO not be able to see the real time...
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Nick
Mar 28, 20231 min read
Pro-tips: Voters
Pro-tips exist to make you a better automation professional. Sometimes, that involves making important decisions, or helping your...
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Nick
Mar 28, 20232 min read
Cyber: Reality check
Cyber is a series dedicated to improving cybersecurity of industrial control systems. These are certainly my least pleasant posts to...
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Nick
Mar 21, 20232 min read
Cyber: Making the Business Case
This could fall under Pro-tips but is specifically for cyber security. The line gets blurry, but I doubt it matters. Cyber security is,...
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Nick
Mar 14, 20231 min read
TLDR; The Cuckoo's Egg
TLDR; is a series dedicated to books that might help the automation professional. While this is not quite in the realm of industrial...
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Nick
Mar 7, 20231 min read
TLDR; The Culture Code
TLDR; is a series of book reviews for the industrial automation professional. While this particular read is not specific to industrial...
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Nick
Feb 28, 20231 min read
Cyber: The downfall of POTS
Cyber is a series that will help empower you to protect your industrial automation better. Or at least know why it is so hard to defend....
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Nick
Feb 21, 20231 min read
Cyber: Defense in Depth
Cyber is a series dedicated to protecting your industrial controls. Defense is Depth is more of a philosophy than anything else. The...
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Nick
Feb 14, 20233 min read
Cyber: Real-time analytics in process control
I am not sure if this would fit best as a Pro-tip or How not to... article. However, I think may be a worthwhile investment in making a...
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Nick
Feb 7, 20232 min read
How not to... Design local controls
How not to is a series dedicated to learning from the mistakes of others. While learning from your own mistakes is generally more...
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Nick
Jan 31, 20231 min read
Pro-tip: Tricks of the malicious operators
Pro-tips exist to make you a better automation professional. Or into an automation professional, as it may be. Plant staff will realize...
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Nick
Jan 24, 20233 min read
Pro-tip: Man versus machine
Pro-tips are designed to help you stand out as an automation professional. Remember: learning from someone else's mistakes is more...
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Nick
Jan 17, 20234 min read
Sample calcs: Sizing pull boxes and conduits
Sample calcs are going to be short examples of how to do calculate something that might help you out. They are geared towards issues...
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