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Mobility, Efficiency Push HMI Growth
New Packaging Requirements Also Will Increase HMI Demand

All the Right Connections
Gateways and Protocol Adapters Help Users Resolve an Ever-Growing List of Network Options

A Taste for Troubleshooting
You Dont Need to Have a Complicated Machine to Benefit From Machine Diagnostics via the Cloud

Secure Against Process Automation Errors
What Kind of Prioritized Operator and Technician HMI Access Can Protect the Process and Still Give Links Needed to the Outside?

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White Papers: In Depth Research

Is Cloud Computing Right for You?
Author: IDC Manufacturing
Posted: 10/03/2011
Drawing on the manufacturing-specific responses from a broad IDC survey, this report details the trends surrounding cloud computing in the industry. The report looks at adoption rates, important characteristics, and business benefits and how those factors will impact manufacturing IT budgets in the next two years.

In our 2011 predictions for manufacturing, we discussed the growing business need for dealing with complexity. We noted that survey work indicated that CEOs wanted to "capitalize on" complexity rather than simply reduce it. This wording provided a nuanced but important distinction between unnecessary complication or waste that must be eliminated and the unavoidable complexity of sophisticated products produced in elongated supply networks and sold into global markets. The impact of complexity was further magnified by the volatility of macroeconomic conditions, raw material costs, and consumer confidence.

Capitalizing on complexity in a volatile context requires sufficient information and adept analysis - normally good news for IT investment. However, manufacturing IT organizations established an excellent track record of improving IT productivity in the decade from 2000 to 2009, when IT spending as a percentage of revenue improved some 25%. So the need for new IT capabilities in the complex context is couched in an expectation that productivity improvements will continue. And cloud computing is the most important productivity platform for the next decade.

Five Myths of Cloud Computing
Author: HP
Posted: 10/03/2011
In recent years, cloud computing has been as visible as any topic in IT. Its front-page news status has been accelerated by Amazon, Salesforce.com, Yahoo, and Microsoft, among other firms aggressively vying for leadership in providing cloud infrastructure or services. However, this race for mindshare has obscured cloud computing facts. Many admit to the haze surrounding cloud computing.

This white paper separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, in doing so, will aide senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloud computing. While dispelling cloud computing myths, we will answer tough questions: How hard is it to adopt a private or hybrid cloud? How difficult is it to maintain and secure a cloud? How will the cloud transform my business? Do I have the right skill sets in place? What are some of my cost considerations? HP is committing extensive resources to helping customers with all of their questions and concerns around cloud computing.

So, where did cloud come from?

New Controllers Extend Integrated Automation to Small Systems
Author: Siemens
Posted: 07/07/2010
In the past, automation users designing small control systems have been challenged by many requirements to integrate with other connected devices, such as HMIs, additional controllers, networks, business systems, etc. Attempting to meet these system needs, and the inability to meet them with existing technology, forced designers to choose a larger controller than otherwise needed, or a PC-based controller, or even a "green-board" custom controller. Now, controller-technology trends have produced a new option, which is "just right" for many applications.

The Advantages of Small Form Factor HMI
Posted: 03/20/2008
This white paper discusses HMI's and the trends, specifically the need for small form factor versions.

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