Control & Automation – it’s a pretty wide-ranging subject! But I believe there are core skills and interests that are likely to be common to pretty much everybody in the business. My own field, for the last 20 years or so,  is C&I in midstream Oil, Gas & Petrochem, but I’ve been in or touched on enough other businesses to know that this is nothing like the whole story.

 

Our newsletter, we hope, will alert you to events that you might otherwise have missed, perhaps highlight some trends and hot topics that you haven’t got around to looking at yet; and maybe sometimes just interest and amuse you.

 

If it’s going to work, we need a two-way street: we’ll need to know who you are, what you like and dislike, what you found interesting, anything you think might be interesting, especially if you’re willing to write the article (and we will try to respond), so please let us have your thoughts and ideas or just tell us who you are and what your line of business is. We’d especially like to hear from the thousands of you who work in industry, utilities, transport, etc. but feel you never see much to do with the things that you actually do appearing in IET publications (doesn’t mean the academics etc aren’t welcome, but you’re pretty good at making yourselves heard anyway).

 

Just to start the ‘getting to know you’ process: I graduated from Glasgow with a Physics degree 40 years ago, then meandered through various fields in security, manufacturing and pharma biotech before finishing up in O,G &P. Now I’m mainly responsible for design of control schemes for LNG plants, refineries, etc and functional safety on these plants (CFSE).

 

Now, how about you?



Stewart Taylor