Pacesetter - December 2006

Matrikon Pacesetter - December 2006:
Year in Review Edition

This month’s Pacesetter issue features a special Year in Review where we offer you once again some of the most popular Whitepapers, Case Studies, Recorded Presentations, Articles, and Podcasts that were published during the 2006 year.
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Pacesetter December 2006

Whitepapers
Want to Talk Dirty? Dirty Data That Is: 8 Steps to Ensuring Data Quality
An Inside Look at Proactive Maintenance: Control Asset Monitoring
Turning Raw Data into Knowledge: From KPIs to Workflow Processes
Where Has OPC Come From, and What Does the Future Hold?
Creating Effective Operators with Alarm Management
How to Find a Needle in a Control Asset Haystack
6 Cost-Reducing Business Processes: Intelligent Information Management
Alarm Management Best Practice Techniques: Keeping the Peace
3 Critical Elements of Cyber Security: Industrial Security & Compliance
Where Did All the People Go? The New Case for Condition Monitoring
Keeping OPC Connections Up and IT Security Locked-Down
Advanced Condition Monitoring in Upstream Production
Production Optimization through Advanced Condition Monitoring
Revealing the Hidden Critical Data You Are Already Collecting

Case Studies
How Did Kestrel Coal Reduce Their Alarms by 97%?
Santee Cooper Achieves 98% Uptime
Want Less Down-Time? See How PacifiCorp Energy Did It
AOC Accesses Field Data and Improves Business Return
AmerenUE Protects Equipment, Prevents Outages
Shell Enables Real-Time Access to Remote Field Data
Propal Paper Production Integrates Live Production Data
Husky Increases Sales with Positive Turn-Key Solutions
Noranda Ensures Controller Performance Benefits
Nova Chemicals Implements Matrikon's OPC Client for ODBC
Abitibi Produces Quantifiable Production Improvements

Recorded Presentations
How to Achieve Condition Based Maintenance in Pulp & Paper
Bang for Your Buck: Get the Most Out of Your Operations
Advanced Alarm Management: Dynamic Alarming & Early Event Detection
Plant Data Collaboration: Power Industry
Upstream Data Collaboration: Oil & Gas Industry

Articles
Moving Past Dynamic Alarming to Early Event Detection
Connections for Growth & Success: Jim Pinto eNews

Podcasts
Unleashing Your Potential: Make Intelligent Decisions with Existing Data
Turning Raw Data into Knowledge: From KPIs to Workflow Processes

Workshops in 2007
Alarm Management Hands-On Workshops
Asset Management Hands-On Workshops
OPC Hands-On Workshops
Process Control Hands-On Workshops
Process Information Management Hands-On Workshops