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October 2008 |
Sponsor: ABB |
Industrial cpmPlus Smart Client
ABB's Industrial cpmPlus Smart Client harnesses the power of System 800xA's single point change management and engineering in a browser-based thin client that provides secure, real-time access to automation system information, inside or outside of the manufacturing facility. In addition to browser-based graphical displays, Smart Client also provides trending and Statistical Process Control, alarm and event reporting, and a Microsoft Excel interface.
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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: Honeywell |
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Improving Your 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 |
Domino Theory
Control, September 2008
By Rich Merritt
For several years now, ISA88 has been accepted worldwide as a way to define recipes and control batch processes, and ISA95 is gaining more acceptance as a way to connect batch control systems to higher- level software, such as data historians and ERP. But users and vendors are beginning to discover that both ISA88 and ISA95 can be used for more than just batch.
Multivariable controllers balance competing objectives
Control Engineering, September 2008
By Vance VanDoren
Multivariable controllers differ from traditional single-variable controllers in that they can regulate more than one process. Doing so can be difficult if each actuator effects more than one process variable, but if those interactions can be quantified, the controller can determine the control efforts required to drive all of the process variables towards their respective setpoints simultaneously.
Sergeant at alarms
InTech, September 2008
By Claire Hackney
Most alarms are there to help ensure the integrity and health of operations. Some alarms are required for regulatory agencies, and some are needed for system maintenance as well as those that can only be addressed by specialty groups. Yet, the vast majority of alarms are designed for operations response.
Product Spotlight: Micro DCS - Small to Midrange Process Control
Our contributing editor, Bill Lydon, recently reviewed the newest hardware and features of the ABB Freelance control system. ABB describes Freelance as a small footprint DCS for small to medium sized plants in the process industry and for applications requiring DCS functionality in a compact system with intuitive and efficient engineering tools.
How Control Engineers Can Deliver the Most Value
By George Buckbee, ExperTune
Control Engineers are a scarce and valuable resource for process plants. When applied to the right tasks, control engineers can easily deliver 10X their annual salary in results. This paper discusses the various tasks that a control engineer typically performs, and examines ways to help focus these valuable resources on the areas that yield the greatest returns to the business.
Reduce column energy consumption
Chemical Processing, August 2008
By Gary Faagau
Distillation columns are one of the biggest energy users in plants, yet the efficiency of these towers can be extremely low. The column can be operated to make the necessary split at reduced energy consumption. Here are five common ways distillation columns can waste energy.
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| Resources & Literature |
ARC publishes report on benefits of Sustainable Manufacturing
According to the report, these practices can help reduce energy and raw material costs, reduce risk, reduce costs associated with future carbon or other emissions taxes, improve public image, and increase customer acceptance.
Longwatch publishes white paper on Video Process Monitoring
“Video Process Monitoring” white paper discusses the newest trend in HMI/SCADA: Embedding video into an HMI screen, so operators can actually see what is happening in a process plant, along an assembly line, or in remote areas.
ABB announces Reliability Fingerprint service
Fingerprint service is a two-week assessment focused on improving site productivity, reliability practices and maintenance costs.
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.
Emerson publishes Pressure Regulator Application Guide
Application Guide provides information on the principles of various products and applications such as liquids, process gases, fuel gases, sanitary, and tank blanketing.
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| Application Stories |
ConocoPhillips Goes Wireless
Industrial Networking, Summer 2008
The ConocoPhillip Sweeny refinery in Old Ocean, Texas, standardized on Honeywell Process Solutions’ (HPS) OneWireless platform. Sweeny presently operates four mobile Experion PKS stations and 32 transmitters. So far, the plant’s wireless network has had only two multinode interruptions in more than 14 months of operation.
Emerson controls acetylene bottle filling at SABIC
PlantWeb digital plant architecture with FOUNDATION fieldbus and mass flowmeters reduces annual cost by €300,000 and improves production efficiency by 30 per cent at SABIC Europe B.V.
Sweetening Ethanol, Sugar Mix
Control Engineering, September 2008
By Brandon Henning, GE Fanuc
One of Brazil's largest sugar producers GE Fanuc's Proficy Plant Applications efficiency module provides a comprehensive view of key factors including equipment downtime, quantity, and event sequences. The system also uses Proficy HMI/SCADA Cimplicity, PACSystems controllers, and Series 90-30 PLCs.
Wonderware replaces SCADA at BHP Billiton
South Africa Instrumentation & Control, September 2008
BHP Billiton’s Hillside aluminium smelter near Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal replaced its existing VXL supervisory system with Wonderware’s InTouch HMI/SCADA system, Historian, and ActiveFactory.
Solar powered actuators provide remote pipeline valve control
Process & Control Today, August 2008
The Puesto Hernanadez-El Corcobo Norte Oil Pipeline traverses 80 km of wilderness in south-west Argentina. In this unforgiving environment,remote valve control and indication has been successfully achieved by the use of Modbus-enabled Rotork EH Range electro-hydraulic actuators, operated by solar powered battery packs.
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| Featured Training |
MatrikonOPC User Group Europe 2008
October 22, 2008 Barcelona, Spain
Conference provides an environment that facilitates hands-on learning and provides integrators and end users with professional development that enables them to counter industry wide challenges.
Free Webinar: Video, the Next Sensor for Factory Automation
October 22, 2008 9-10 a.m. EDT
Webinar discusses the emergence of new video technology, integrating video with an HMI/SCADA system, and how video can be integrated with process historians, alarms and other event information.
FDT Technical Seminar
October 28, 2008 Greenville, SC
Free one day seminar has technical presentations on FDT, customer needs, user benefits, and the solution. Live demonstrations will follow demonstrating HART, FOUNDATION fieldbus and Profibus utilizing FDT-DTMs.
Gas Turbine Technology and Planned Optimization of Combined Cycle Power Plants
November 17 to 21, 2008 London, England
This course is divided into two parts. The first encompasses design and general operation and maintenance characteristics of gas and steam turbines in a combined cycle power plant. The last day of the course discusses the computation of the performance characteristics of the combined cycle plant and the characteristics of the plant. Entire Five Day Course: £3,000.00
Practical Safety Instrumentation & Emergency Shutdown Systems for Process Industries
October 27-28, 2008 Calgary, Canada
This workshop provides the essential grounding in the safety management principles and technical requirements needed to achieve conformity and competency in safety systems.
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| Company & Organizational News |
Fieldbus Foundation releases Diagnostic Specification
Fieldbus Foundation released its final Diagnostic Profiles Specification, based on guidelines established by the NAMUR Working Group 2.6.
WirelessHART specification approved by IEC
HART 7.1 was approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as a Publicly Available Specification (IEC/PAS 62591Ed. 1).
Consortium Targets Early 2009 for Cyber Security Compliance Testing
Automation World, September 2008
The ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) expects to produce a first draft of an embedded controller security assurance specification by the end of 2008, and testing can begin by the first quarter of 2009.
Invensys donates automation technology to UMass BioManufacturing Center
Invensys donated an InFusion enterprise control technology to the UMass Lowell BioManufacturing Center. With equipment and services from Wyeth Biotech and Dakota Systems, the center will provide a full-scale manufacturing operation.
SCADA market in Oil & Gas industry to reach $1.3 Billion in 2012
The worldwide market for SCADA Systems for the Oil & Gas industry is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3% over the next five years.
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| Application News |
Invensys to control coal-fired power stations in Chile
Invensys will supply distributed control systems to Maire Tecnimont Group for two coal-fired power stations currently under construction in Chile.
ABB to automate steel mill in Sweden
ABB will supply electrical and automation equipment for SSAB’s steel mill in Borlänge, Sweden, including System 800xA, ACS800drive systems, motors and MNS switchgear.
Emerson wireless network to monitor wells in Venezuela
Emerson will install Smart Wireless technology in the Morichal District oil fields for PDVSA, the Venezuelan state-owned oil company.
Honeywell to install safety system at Danish oil facility
Honeywell's Safety Manager will be installed at DONG Oil Pipe's facility in West Jylland, Denmark.
MIPAC provides controls at Birla Nifty Copper
MIPAC will implement advanced control strategies to improve process performance at Birla’s Nifty Copper Operation in Australia.
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| Featured Events |
ISA EXPO 2008
October 14-16, 2008 Houston, TX
ISA EXPO is your source for in-depth technical coverage of topics critical to automation and control success. Participate in a single exchange and immerse yourself in that technology, or attend offerings from multiple exchanges for a more global automation and control view.
Cyber-Con 2008
October 26-29, 2008 Boston, MA
Conference provides an interactive and informative forum for users to share ideas and thoughts about common customer challenges, suggestions and recommendations from the global customer community and communicate collectively to the Industrial Defender team.
WBF 2008 European Conference
November 10-12, 2008 Barcelona, Spain
This year's theme, Bridging the Divide between IT and Manufacturing, will provide attendees with insight into the successful application and use of current, new, and cutting-edge manufacturing management, integration, and control methods and technologies.
Automation Fair 2008
November 19-20, 2008 - Nashville, TN
Rockwell Automation's Automation Fair® provides an excellent opportunity for them to stay aware of the latest and best that automation technology has to offer. Automation Fair is the premier industry event focusing on advanced automation products, integrated control and information architecture — and value-add services and solutions.
POWER-GEN International 2008
December 2-4, 2008 Orlando, FL
Featuring insightful discussions, educational conference sessions and networking exchanges with the power sector’s leading companies, you’ll have the opportunity to network and learn from thousands of experts about the technologies and trends on the forefront of the power industry’s future.
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