Sorry for my absence last week, I was attending the 2007 Siemens Automation Summit, or as I tried to call it SAS.  Okay, I admit, that was a poor attempt to jump on the TLA (three letter acronym) bandwagon as Honeywell did with their annual user group (or HUG) which happened to be held the same week.  While I had envisioned BLOGGING ...

A while back I had an interesting conversation with a well respected burner management (BMS) expert, Mr. Mike Scott from AESolutions.  We were chatting about the requirements for PLC based BMS systems, and what the latest release of NFPA standards (NFPA 85 and NFPA 86) mandate.Something that we found quite interesting was with NFPA 86 -2007 - ...