The Great Graphics Debate: Is Going Gray Good for HMIs?
This is the advice that Larry Sawicki gives for specifying graphics for industrial human-machine interfaces (HMIs). The control systems engineer at Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department in Arizona urges automation professionals to adopt a graphical-design strategy that focuses the operators' attention on the things that require it.
Bloomberg Markets - OPEC Confounds Skeptics, Agrees to First Oil Cuts in 8 Years
OPEC Cut Output in Bid to End Record Glut
OPEC confounded its doubters and sent crude oil prices soaring by agreeing to its first production cuts in eight years. The deal, designed to drain record global oil inventories, overcame disagreements between the group's three largest producers -- Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq -- and ended a flirtation with free markets that started in 2014.
Bloomberg Markets - Goldman Sees OPEC Meeting Down to the Wire With 30% Odds of Deal
Goldman Sees OPEC Meeting Down to the Wire With 30% Odds of Deal
The oil market is pricing in a 30 percent chance of producers reaching a deal to cut output at OPEC's meeting in Vienna, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The most important market news of the day. Get our markets daily newsletter.
Automation World - FDT Streamlines Device Management in Multi-Network Facilities with CODESYS
FDT Streamlines Device Management in Multi-Network Facilities with CODESYS
FDT Technology's roots in the industrial automation marketplace span the horizon for process, hybrid and factory automation - standardizing device integration and management for all common fieldbuses, regardless of manufacturer. This includes a common environment for accessing the most sophisticated device features.
Harvard Business Review - Cybersecurity's Human Factor: Lessons from the Pentagon
Harvard Business Review - Companies Should Understand Where Cybercrime Thrives
Companies Should Understand Where Cybercrime Thrives
As global cybercrime increases, governments and businesses are struggling to keep up with the threats they are facing. Because of the changing and innovative methods of attack being used against them, it is of the utmost importance that they constantly refine their knowledge of the particular enemies they face.