PAS Musings

5-to-1 Benefit!

One of the magazines I read is The Economist.

A conservative British publication bringing wonderful insights from abroad on the USA – not all of which are so very flattering.

Last week’s issue contained an opinion piece on US immigration policy…

The article starts by referencing the film “Idiocracy” as “one of the most unjustly neglected films of the past few years” – perhaps because the genius behind it also created “Beavis and Butt-Head, two of the most disgusting creatures on television”.

Like I said, it’s an opinion piece.

But the Economist uses the analogies well – America's immigration policy of limiting  the entry of skilled workers onto its fair shores to just 85,000 per year is costing the country dearly – especially in this time of skilled labor shortages!

But then politicians aren’t always rational, are they?

By contrast, we engineers are rational – or at least we like to pride ourselves on that.

And that’s why the PAS Integrity software, which exposes the plant’s intellectual property – information “hidden” deep inside the automation infrastructure – is so valuable and so popular.

Integrity takes down the “political” barriers between control systems, databases and applications while easing our “labor pains” in spite of local skilled labor immigration policies.

That’s valuable.

And value begets popularity.

If you aren’t already using Integrity at your plant, chances are that your competitor is. 

But you probably already know that – unless, of course, you’re so busy doing manual searches for information in your automation system that you don’t have time to find out – or to read The Economist.

As Bill Gates calculates, and respectable publications like the Economist agree, every foreigner who is given an H1B visa creates jobs for five regular Americans.

1 immigrant generates 5 American jobs.

A good payback.

Just like Integrity.

So, depending on where you live there are 2 actions for you:

1) Buy Integrity.

and, optionally:

2a) In the US – write your congressman & senator to loosen up H1-B quotas (and save the country)

2b) Outside the US – encourage your government to move fast on legislation encouraging new high-talent business ventures.

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Book Triple-Play!

First there was The Alarm Management Handbook released by PAS in May 2006.

Co-authored by Eddie Habibi and Bill Hollifield, both of PAS.

Many sell-outs, multiple printings.

A big hit with customers – even a year later, we are still receiving bulk orders. 

Priced at $89.95.

 

Then there was Alarm Management: Seven Effective Methods for Optimum Performance as released by the ISA in March 2007.

Co-authored by Eddie Habibi and Bill Hollifield, both of PAS.

Priced at $89.00.

Also a big seller.

 

And last week, on April 21, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has published the "Alarm Management and Annunciator Guidelines"

This time the book is coauthored by PAS and EPRI – with strong contributions by our now-famous authors.

This book also promises to be a best-seller – especially since alarm management is THE HOT TOPIC – in the U.S. power industry anyway.

EPRI doesn’t publish their member prices, but this Guideline has so much valuable content in it, and is so apropos to today’s need that the list non-member price is set accordingly.

You can visit www.erpi.com to find out the non-member price (search for "alarm management guideline" and follow the links provided).

Once find the price, though, you might want to consider joining EPRI for the “insider discount”....

Or you can think about how otherwise to spend funds that would otherwise buy…

 

Obviously, the SEVEN STEPS of ALARM MANAGEMENT as defined by PAS are pretty important!

Still haven’t read the book?

Order one today!

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