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Process Control Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to the Automation.com portal for Process Control with valuable information and resources for controls and automation engineers on the latest process control products including software, hardware, methods and techniques. Process control includes paper, petrochemical, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cement and other continuous production operations. Process control is continually improving with new sensor innovations, communications, controllers, software, and other technologies.
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Articles
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Market Levels Rising in the Process Level Measurement & Inventory Tank Gauging Segments
- 05/11/12 Automation.com, May 2012 By J Timothy Shea, Senior Analyst Due to expected increasing demand for level measurement and inventory tank gauging technologies as tools to help companies to continue to improve operational efficiencies, increase productivity, gain greater control over inventories and enhanced accuracy, VDC is forecasting a 5.2% CAGR through 2016. |
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Sensors Improve Pump Performance and Provide Protection
- 05/21/12 Pumps & Systems, May 2012 By Craig McIntyer, Endress+Hauser Pump monitoring instrumentation is often not included with installations, but proper sensors can protect a pump and help with efficient operation. |
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The Proper Use of Guided-Wave Radar in Steam Loops
- 05/21/12 Sensors, May 2012 By Keith Riley and Ravi Jethra, Endress+Hauser This article discusses the use of guided-wave radar (GWR), also known as time-domain reflectometry (TDR), in your steam loop, including the way that this technology functions and how it differs from more traditional forms of level indication. |
White Papers
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Optimization of energy usage
Automation.com, May 2012 By ODVA ODVA describes optimization of energy usage (OEU) in the industrial sector and an overview of ODVA’s vision of a comprehensive approach to energy optimization including OEU in the industrial ecosystem; ODVA’s vision of OEU in the Production domain; Industrial use cases for OEU; ODVA’s technical approach to OEU; and OEU in practice. |
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Report from the Field: Seven Best Practices for Automation Cyber Security and Compliance
- 05/13/12 By Industrial Defender With cyber attacks against industrial and infrastructure automation systems becoming common, new tools and practices are essential to maintain security and compliance. This field report reviews the seven major cyber security issues that appear most frequently and explores the best practices required to solve them. |
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Long-Term Instrument Control and Connectivity Solutions
- 05/03/12 Automation.com, May 2012 By National Instruments The key to developing long-term instrument control applications is software and hardware that enable seamless connectivity to any instrument in an application and offer built-in capabilities for advanced data analysis and presentation. The two decisions, the instrument and the software, should be independent of each other. |
Application Stories
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Fuel cell generator units controlled by NI hardware and software
- 05/21/12 Machine Building, May 2012 By National Instruments To turn ammonia into electricity, ammonia must be reformed into hydrogen and nitrogen, the hydrogen is separated from the gas stream, and the pure hydrogen stream fed to a fuel cell to produce electricity. In Diverse Energy's PowerCube, NI CompactRIO hardware controls and monitors the entire process. |
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New applications for positive displacement pumps
- 05/21/12 Asian Engineer, May 2012 By Eugene McCarthy The process industry is finding uses for positive displacement pumps that are very different from traditional applications. |
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Controllers tackle all aspects of plant operation
- 05/21/12 Process Engineer, May 2012 La Vichimica in Italy specialises in the reprocessing of solvents from different process industries, notably pharmaceuticals. ControlCare Field-based Control System (FCS) from Endress+Hauser controls the process. |
Resources & Literature
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SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 4th Edition - $109.00
After completing these 15 self-study units, readers should be conversant with SCADA nomenclature and architecture, understand the basic technology of the system’s building blocks, understand its limitations, understand how it can benefit particular operations, and have a basis for selecting appropriate SCADA technology for their operational requirements. |
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Instrumentation and Control Systems Documentation, 2nd Edition - $79.00
This book provides the reader with knowledge needed to understand and apply the symbols and documents used to define a modern industrial instrumentation and control system. |
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Control Loop Foundation - Batch and Continuous Processes - $109.00
This book is a guide for engineers, managers, technicians, and others that are new to process control or experienced control engineers who are unfamiliar with multi-loop control techniques. After the traditional single-loop and multi-loop techniques that are most often used in industry are covered, a brief introduction to advanced control techniques is provided. |
Training News
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Safety Instrumented Systems Training Course - Electronic Download
This course on Safety Instrumented Systems is designed to make the learning experience comfortable and easy. Everything is explained in easy to understand terms, with plenty of graphics, interactive simulations and worked problems. Everything that you need to know about Safety Instrumented Systems, put together, in an easily digestible form, stripped of all the complexity, but still useful to impart skills to you that you can actually use in your work. |
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Gas Monitors Training Course - Electronic Download or Online 14-Day Access
This self-paced training course which covers all of these aspects of Gas Monitors. Learn how these instruments work, what do they measure, how to select them, install them, calibrate them & maintain them. The subject is explained by means of text, rich graphics, Flash based animations, real-life plant photos and videos and interactive simulation exercises. There is also a self-assessment test & a glossary. |
Training & Seminars
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ExperTune adds wizards to PlantTriage for DCSes
- 05/17/12
Wizard automatically extracts DCS controller configuration, allowing it to deliver control system diagnostics within an hour. Wizards are available for Invensys, Honeywell, Siemens, Rockwell and Bailey DCSes. |
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Honeywell announces Intuition Executive software
- 05/09/12
Intuition Executive delivers enterprise-wide information management, decision support and collaboration tools to help companies achieve operational excellence. |
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Horner releases XL4 1/4 DIN Controller
- 05/04/12
The XL4 3.5" Color OCS supports online programming changes, allowing automation engineers to modify logic "on-the-fly" without placing the controller in stop mode. |
Company & Organization News
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Marathon Achieves Invensys Certified Partner Product Status
- 05/24/12 Marathon’s everRun MX is a software-based, fault tolerance solution that supports ArchestrA System Platform 2012 and Wonderware InTouch 2012 software. |
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HART Seeks Nominees for HART Plant of the Year Award
- 05/24/12 End users and manufacturers from all world areas are encouraged to enter their plant or customer’s plant for recognition. Nominations will be accepted through 15 July 2012. |
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MESA International and WBF want to Merge
- 05/23/12 MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association)and WBF (The Organization for Production Technology) entered into an agreement to merge the two organizations. |
Project News
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Invensys to supply ACA.HF software to Valero
- 05/22/12 ACA.HF monitors and measures hydrofluoric acid levels in real time by analyzing differential responses from online sensors. Valero will implement the solution at seven refineries globally. |
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Honeywell to install quality control system at European paper plant
- 05/17/12 Honeywell has been selected by Mitsubishi HiTec Paper Europe GmbH to replace its current quality control system (QCS) with Experion MX. |
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Metso to automate a combined-cycle power plant in Turkey
- 05/07/12 The 205.5 MW greenfield power plant fueled by natural gas is scheduled to start up by the end of 2012. |
Event News
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Call for Papers for 7th ISA Marketing & Sales Summit
- 04/18/12 ISA has issued a call for papers for the 7th Annual ISA Marketing & Sales Summit, which takes place 15–17 August 2012 in Austin, Texas, USA. |
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Sensors Expo covers MEMS Technology
- 04/01/12 Sensors Expo takes place June 6-7 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. |
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Siemens Announces 2012 Automation Summit Program
- 04/01/12 Lt. Col. Rob “Waldo” Waldman, also known as “The Wingman,” will provide the keynote address during the 2012 Automation Summit at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. Downtown Hotel, June 25-28. |
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