News from Automation Fair including new products and important announcements on software direction.

News from the ISA Expo in Houston. Developments in wireless sensor networks.

News from the Emerson Exchange on wireless and from MESA International on Metrics Matter.

Gary interviews Carter Johnson, vice president of Visiprise and conference chair of the MESA International Plant2Enterprise conference that will be held October 9-12 at the Disney Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando.

Production performance management and manufacturing intelligence. Empower operators to operate a plant profitably. Organize for the 21st century. Adobe version 8 3D and Connect.

eMvoy, a new company that offers nationwide rating of manufacturers searchable by location or category. OMAC comments and questions. New book "Thinking for a Living" about managing knowledge workers.

Trip reports on Profibus (PTO) annual meeting in Phoenix, National Instruments' NI Week and trip to Emerson Process. News from Automation Federation, HMS and general fieldbus thoughts.

Interview with John Ross of CitectDealing with DarwinGuns, Germs and SteelIAONA disbandsSee you at Profibus Annual Meeting in PhoenixControl cover story on Fighting the Fieldbus Wars -- really it's no longer war, just competition

Return from Alaska; ARC Forum; OPC UA spec released along with vendor support; Siemens and Emerson work for interoperability plus challenge to ODVA; manufacturing analysis-GM, Ford, Airbus; Schneider, Invensys, MESA conferences; send ideas for 2007 coverage.

Honeywell Users Group and Rockwell Automation RSTechEd. Editor ethics, process control systems forum and energy harvesting device to charge batteries.