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December 2008 |
Sponsor: Rockwell Automation |
Integrated Architecture
Rockwell Automation Process Solutions provide Process and Plantwide Control on a single platform: Integrated Architecture. Rockwell Automation: Process expertise to address your industry's challenges.
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Sponsor: ABB |
ABB releases AC 700F Controller
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ABB's Freelance 800F control system combines easy engineering with an open, modern system architecture. Freelance 800F is proven in more than 14,000 applications - in all industries.
The compact control system allows the integration of all common fieldbuses, leaving the user to select any they wish.
The newly released AC 700F controller provides new Information Management functions available via PGIM 800F.
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Sponsor: Honeywell |
Improving Business Performance
Honeywell is committed to helping customers improve business performance and increase profitability. Honeywell can help you meet these objectives with integrated solutions that improve safety, reliability and efficiency. Learn more about Honeywell's comprehensive solutions that protect your people, process and assets, while reducing costs and improving productivity.
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| Featured Articles |
Seven Steps to Protect Your Control System
Utility Automation & Engineering, November 2008
By Justin Lowe, et al, PA Consulting
Ensuring the resilience of control systems from security threats is vital to ensuring a utility’s future. Systems are at risk from cyber threats, such as hackers, viruses and worms, because of the increased use of standard IT technologies like Microsoft Windows, TCP/IP, Web technologies and wireless.
The Evolution of Redundancy
Industrial Networking, Winter 2008
By Bob Wagner
To minimize downtime due to system failures most major suppliers have developed products and systems to provide redundancy in an attempt to maximize system availability. These products range from redundant power supplies and cabling schemes to redundant processor and I/O systems with automatic failover.
Is there one controller that can do it all?
Intech, November 2008
By Mark Harned and Bob Nelson
A single controller can now do the job of multiple dedicated controllers of the past. With so much expected from a single controller platform, the engineering tools to support all the disciplines involved in a typical automation system become more important then the controller itself.
What Was Old Can Be New Again
Power Engineering, October 2008
By Steve Blankinship
More than 600 ABB Procontrol P13 instrumentation control systems are operating worldwide—about 160 of them in the United States. The plants range from small 30 MW cogeneration facilities all the way up to utility-scale coal plants in the gigawatt-output range. I&C upgrades for Procontrol P13 Systems can be done incrementally, depending on your need.
Do PLCs Eliminate Need for a DCS?
By Bill Lydon, Contributing Editor
In the past it was fairly easy to determine whether a PLC or a DCS was right for an application but in recent years this has become more difficult. It is argued that more powerful PLC products coupled with new software tools provide an integrated process control system rivaling a distributed control system (DCS) for process control applications.
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| Resources & Literature |
Omron publishes Industrial Automation product catalog
The catalog contains 800 pages with more than 4,800 products, including hundreds of new items.
Rexroth Offers Lean Problem Solving Tips
'Daily Problem Solving in a Lean Organization' explores principles and work practices that businesses which have already implemented lean can use in daily problem solving to sustain the improvements they've made, and to deepen their commitment to lean.
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| Application Stories |
The Power Of Coordination
Industrial Automation Asia, October 2008
By Pekka Immonen, et al, ABB Power Systems
Due to the lack of control coordination, industrial power plants are typically not fully optimised. The purpose of a coordinated control and optimisation system is to improve plant stability and responsiveness to demand or supply disturbances, and to minimise overall fuel costs.
Emerson wireless monitors fuel and feedstock delivery at BP Bitumen
Wireless instruments monitor the pipeline integrity of transfer lines from the BP refinery and report exceptional conditions to control room operators.
Upgrading Process Controls at a Nuclear Plant
Nuclear Power, September 2008
Process control and instrumentation systems at Progress Energy’s Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina were supplied in the 1960s and 70s. Its ventilation control was recently upgraded to a DCS including a fault tolerant Ethernet network, redundant Experion server cabinets, two redundant (C200) controller chassis pairs and remote I/O chassis. Next is the radiation monitoring system. Is controlling the reactor a possibility?
Batch tracking and reporting with ISA 95
South Africa Instrumentation & Control, October 2008
SAB Maltings, Cape Town, South Africa, installed a Wonderware system to track products through the process to get a complete view of production variables applicable to each batch. The system is compatible with the ISA-95 industry standard.
From Plants to Power
Control Engineering Asia, September 2008
By Alexandre Bouriant and Nico Hees.
Bio Power e.K. in Bavaria, uses a Simatic PCS 7 to control its biogas power generating system. Germany has 3,500 biogas plants!
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| Featured Training |
Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification
January 12-14, 2009 Research Triangle Park, NC
Engineering requirements for specification, design, analysis, and justification of safety instrumented systems (SISs) are the focus of the course. Methods of analyzing risk and of matching system performance to overall plant/process risk levels, and analyzing system performance are emphasized. $1,395.00
Web Seminar: Introduction to Process Control
January 14, 2009 2-3:30 pm
Process control is defined, the definition and technology of a loop is discussed; the importance and an introduction to the methodology of measurement in control as well as the technology of the control loop are explained. Control strategies as well as an introduction to controller tuning are covered. Additionally ISA standard P&ID symbols are introduced. And continued throughout the seminar materials. Price: $225
Database Management for Industrial Automation & Control Systems
February 2-3, 2009 Research Triangle Park, NC
Learn the ways in which information is stored, managed and protected in a modern IACS including how to access and manipulate that information and what steps can be taken to safeguard and insure the availability of that information. $1,195.00.
System Checkout, Testing, & Startup
February 4-6, 2009 Research Triangle Park, NC
This course provides the information necessary in the Checkout, System Test and Startup of process control systems; enhanced through exercises for each of the necessary stages from risk analysis through Site Acceptance Testing. $1,195.00.
Practical Safety Instrumentation and Shut-down Systems for Industry
February 26-27, 2009 Cork, Ireland
The Safety Instrumentation & Shut-Down Systems workshop is an intensive, practical and valuable two-day course. It enables you to participate in hazard studies and specify, design, install and operate the safety and emergency shut-down systems in your plant using international safety practices.
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| Company & Organizational News |
Ralph Carter named President of Rockwell Software
Carter, former president and CEO of Pavilion Technologies, was named president of Rockwell Software.
ABB acquires Ber-Mac Electrical and Instrumentation
ABB will acquire the business of Ber-Mac Electrical and Instrumentation Ltd. of Calgary, Canada, to expand its presence and capabilities in the oil and gas sector.
Schneider Electric integrates Citect into its automation and control solutions
Citect was acquired by Schneider Electric in 2006. Since then the companies have achieved an average annual growth of 20 percent in the SCADA business.
Emerson names Les Hastings Project Manager for Life Sciences
Hastings joins Emerson from Rockwell Automation. He's responsible for concept and execution phases of large global projects across the Life Science industry.
Siemens and USDA partner in Biofuel project
Siemens will supply a DCS in a project to improve the processes used to convert non-food-based biofuel feedstocks into liquid bio-fuel intermediates.
Fieldbus Foundation And ISA to work on wireless
As part of the wireless backhaul network initiative, the Fieldbus Foundation and ISA will develop a standard to interface between different technologies.
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| Project News |
Honeywell to control Russian paper mill
Honeywell will supply Experion and DaVinci Quality Control systems to Vaahto Pulp & Paper Machinery for the first light weight coated (LWC) paper plant in Russia.
Rockwell Automation to supply automation to Chinese Provincial Government
Rockwell to supply automation technologies to help Hebei provincial government upgrade traditional industries.
ABB System 800xA to automate waste management in Australia
Automation solution processes municipal waste into high-grade compost and generates emissions-free electric power from waste biogas.
Emerson to supply automation and services to Flour
Emerson will supply PlantWeb, Fisher valves, Rosemount transmitters, Daniel and Micro Motion flow meters, DeltaV and Ovation digital automation systems, and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software.
Invensys to control world's first hydrogen power plant
Invensys will supply I/A Series automation and Triconex safety controllers for the world's first hydrogen-fuelled power plant, to be constructed in Fusina, Italy.
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Emerson to host bioenergy summit
December 11, 2008 Madison, Wisconsin
“BioRefinery/BioEnergy Summit: Reducing the Risks of Migrating Vision to Production” will look at the opportunities for alternative fuels to contribute to global energy supply-demand gaps.
HazardEx Conference & Exhibit
February 25-26, 2009 North Yorkshire, UK
The two day conference will give everyone interested or involved in safety for engineering plants insight and case study examples of how peers have executed safety programs in their facilities.
Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo North America
March 10–12, 2009 Las Vegas, Nevada
Papers, panel discussions, presentations and technical sessions related to technology, markets, business strategies and policy covering the wind, solar, biomass, hydro, geothermal, ocean/tidal/wave, bio-power, bio-fuels hydrogen and energy sectors.
ABB Automation & Power World
March 24-26, 2009 Orlando, FL
Event merges ABB Automation World and ABB Power World into one comprehensive users conference and exhibition.
Joint OMAC and WBF conference
May 4-6, 2009 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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