Please click a session below to download and listen to recent mp3 podcast recordings.

• Benefits of Simulation Dr. Tom Fiske, Senior ARC Analyst, along with Jim Montague from CONTROL Magazine, discuss the benefits of simulation for control system checkout, training, factory acceptance testing, and commissioning, saving millions, easing plant start-ups, and improving plant safety.

• Delivering the Promise of the Virtual Plant Significant business and operational benefits can be realized by changing the focus from simulation fidelity or complexity to accurate process dynamics and automation system integrity.
  
  
• MiMiC v3 Testing and Training MYNAH's Martin Berutti and Nobin William talk to Control Engineering's Peter Welander about MYNAH's process simulation platforms for control system testing and training.
  

• Simulation System Integrity One of the most important, yet overlooked, decisions in the development of an operator training system is the design of the off-line automation system.  This topic is also covered in detail in a new white paper, Control System Integrity and Operator Training.  This podcast and paper discuss different methods of off-line control system implementation as well as the best practice approach for operator training systems.

• Understanding Simulation Fidelity We are often asked to help users define the simulation complexity or fidelity required to test automation system application software or train operators.  This is probably one of the most confusing tasks when specifying or applying process simulators.  Wrong decisions at this point of the project can confuse the user into spending much more money than needed and may result in a simulation system that is inoperable.

• Simulation Objections Answered Those who have used simulation for automation system software acceptance testing and operator training would not do a project without using this technology.  Those who have not adopted the use of simulation systems for automation projects, in general, have wrong perceptions that do not reflect the reality of using this technology.  Their objections will be answered here.