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Cybersecurity begins with fi rewalls and network segmentation, but these
barriers must be accompanied by constant monitoring and verifi cation
of internal communications and data to protect applications.
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The age of
enlightenment
has arrived.
Scan to
explore the
first app for
flow metering
Program your flow meter with
nc.
y, I your iPhone or iPad!
ustr
d
n
ns I
e
m
e
Si Siemens introduces SITRANS CONNECTION, the first app for Clamp-on flow
2
1
0
2
©
Introducing the Foxboro Evo™ system.
usa.siemens.com/clamp
You’ve been waiting for a control system that shines light into every corner of the plant.
Protect
Engineer So every member of your team can be enlightened — with the context-rich information
Flow measurement has gone mobile! With the new enhance all metering functionalities, including
Maintain EvFoxbooro they need to manage risk and turn opportunities into profi ts. A system with the power and SITRANS CONNECTION app and connection kit for programming, operational review, data logging and
Operate fl exibility to know the past, collaborate in the ever-evolving present, and even predict the Apple devices, Siemens gives you total control of download. The app makes connectivity possible almost
Manage future. This is the next generation of advanced automation. This is Foxboro Evo. See what your flow – right at your fingertips. anywhere, without the need for a laptop.
the Foxboro Evo process automation system can do for you at
Foxboro.com/FoxboroEvo SITRANS CONNECTION enables direct serial communi- And SITRANS CONNECTION even allows you to share
This changes cation between an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and terminal window access with a Siemens technician for
everyone any SITRANS F US clamp-on ultrasonic flow meter to instant service and support.
Tel: 1-888-FOXBORO E-mail: [email protected]
Answers for industry.
© Copyright 2013. All rights reserved. Invensys, the Invensys logo, Foxboro, and Foxboro Evo are trademarks of Invensys plc,its subsidiaries or affi liates.
All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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34 / What’s Inside your Armor? 51 / Stick It!
Cybersecurity begins with firewalls and network segmenta- Insertion flowmeters come in many varieties, but they all
tion, but that’s not enough protection. by Jim Montague share similar characteristics and problems. by Walt Boyes
W E B E X C L U S I V E S
S I m u l A t I On A n d m Od e l I n g
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Excerpt from new book by walt Boyes and Peter Mar-
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many more varied applications and helping to optimize them. www.controlglobal.com/RealTimeControl
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crazy Scary fukushima reporting
My colleague, Stuart Nathan, at www.theengineer.co.uk, is dead right on in his column
entitled “Fukushima alarmism is a bigger risk than radiation.” Let’s just look at why.
I worked for the old Texas Nuclear Corp., now part of ThermoFisherScientific, in the Walt bOyes
Editor in chiEf
1980s and early 1990s. I went through radiation safety training, and carried a license and [email protected]
a dosimeter for nearly 10 years. So I’m pretty to get. Solar, wind and geothermal power can pro-
sure of my facts here. duce somewhere on the order of 20% of the re-
Despite what Nathan calls “breathless cover- quirements of current generation, and coal and oil
age” of “desperate” and “crazy” attempts to cre- plants pollute, are severely limited resources, and
ate a “freeze-wall” around the leaking contain- are major sources of carbon emissions. It’s no ac-
ment vessels, the idea is neither desperate nor cident that China is in the process right now of
crazy, and has been used to deter various kinds building and commissioning 72 nuclear plants.
of contamination, including nuclear. This type The attitude fostered by the coverage of Fu-
of coverage, including misleading citations and kushima by reporters and editors who have no
demonstrably false statistics, is the norm when clue is dangerous to the entire body of engi-
discussing nuclear power, and in fact, is normal neered infrastructure. It fosters NIMBYism
when discussing science at all. (that stands for “not in my back yard”) and an
This is bad for civilization, for power genera- unrealistic worldview. It’s one of the reasons
tion, for engineering and for science education. children choose as early as grammar school not
I’ve written before how teachers-in-training for to enter science tracks. It’s one of the significant
elementary schools not only do not understand roots of the lack of trained engineers and tech-
science, but are actually afraid to teach it. nicians we see in the process industries.
Nuclear power has a phenomenal record of We learned to make safe nuclear plants long
over 50 years of safe operation worldwide, but ago. We learned to safely dispose of radioactive
you’d never know it from the coverage that waste years ago. But with irresponsible and bi-
these accidents get. It was beginning to look ased reportage of nuclear effects, nobody knows
like the United States would actually do nu- about this, and worse, nobody believes it.
clear plant projects again until Fukushima and When Texas Nuclear was on Research
the hysteria surrounding it. Now most of those Boulevard in Austin in the 1980s, there was a The attitude
projects have vaporized. But as Nathan points Whole Foods across the street. Every so often,
out, “The reactors at Fukushima Daiichi were the barbarians would come picket us, protest- fostered by
old, scheduled for shutdown; their newer neigh- ing against food irradiation (which also has
bors at Fukushima Daiini worked perfectly.” been shown to be entirely safe), just because we Fukushima
It is sad, too, that the howling about Fukushima had the word “nuclear” in our name. We were
Daiichi is drowning out the real tragedy here: the making industrial nucleonic gauges for level, coverage by
devastating effects of the tsunami on that part of density and elemental analysis and didn’t do
Japan. Again, Nathan points out, “18,500 people food irradiation. But the ignoranti didn’t know clueless reporters
lost their lives as a result of the tsunami. Of those, that and didn’t care.
the number attributable to Fukushima is zero, de- You can’t have reasonable decisions in a is dangerous to
spite the meltdowns continually being described democratic society with that level of willful ig-
as ‘deadly’ and radiation levels as ‘lethal.’ ” norance and partisan reporting. the entire body of
Demonizing nuclear power is stupid. Unless
the ITER project actually works and produces fu- engineered
sion reactions that give off more power than they
require, nuclear reactors are the best source of infrastructure.
clean, non-polluting power we have or are likely
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