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The chairpersons of the ISA99 Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security committee have announced plans to establish ISA99 Working Group 7 (WG7): Safety and Security of Industrial Automation and Control Systems. This is a joint working group between the ISA99 committee and the ISA84 functional safety standards committee, as well as other international standards programs and related interest groups, to promote greater awareness of the impact of cyber security issues on the safe operation of industrial processes.
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Imagine that you could hear the insights of more than 100 people with decades of experience about how to run a plant to meet the challenges of today's hypercompetitive, globalized world. In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant provides exactly that experience. The authors assembled more than 100 experts, whose ideas were distilled into a simple, easy to read story. Unlike most books on manufacturing, which are deep dives into arcane topics, this book provides an expansive view.

Do people count as assets? It depends on what you mean by asset. People are not assets like tangible fixed assets such as equipment. People cannot be owned. People do not depreciate. If they are assets, people are intangible assets.

L'entreprise qui pense que l'Homme est bon

Studies that examine high-performing companies to uncover the reasons for their success are both popular and influential. They’re the basis of the insights behind best sellers like In Search of Excellence and Good to Great. But there’s a problem: The “great” companies from which these studies draw their conclusions are mostly just lucky.
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From Harward Business Review

Faire en sorte que le SI soit au service du métier, qu’il fluidifie et optimise le fonctionnement de l’entreprise, et qu’il soit réactif aux évolutions de l’entreprise et du métier : ceci est une exigence de la direction générale depuis que l’informatique existe, mais son acuité augmente sans cesse face à la compétition et aux attentes des clients, tandis que sa difficulté croît du fait de l’ampleur et la lourdeur de l’existant, ainsi que de la complexité croissante du SI. Le problème concerne l’ensemble de l’entreprise, notamment la direction générale, la MOA et la MOE.

« Je vois des ordinateurs partout, sauf dans les statistiques [de productivité] » Robert Solow (1987)

Paris, 3 janvier 2008

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

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Feat shatters long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter.

Version V0401 integrates support for ISA88 and ISA95 into a single standard providing support for general recipes
Research Triangle Park, NC (26 November 2008) — WBF, the Forum for Automation and Manufacturing Professionals today announced the release of Version V0401 of B2MML and BatchML, which combines the two markup languages into a single related set of standards useful to the general process industries.