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Emerson remotely monitoring 1000 control valves in the North Sea
- 11/11/08
Control valves on North Sea installations are being remotely monitored by the Solberg & Andersen and Emerson diagnostics center in Norway.
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Emerson wireless network keeps bitumen pipeline hot
- 11/10/08
Wireless instruments monitor heat-tracing on pipeline which must be hot to facilitate pumping.
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Emerson wireless monitors fuel and feedstock delivery at BP Bitumen
- 11/06/08
Wireless instruments monitor the pipeline integrity of transfer lines from the BP refinery and report exceptional conditions to control room operators.
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Emerson wireless devices protect hot tanks at Hunt Refining
- 10/29/08
Hot tanks at the refinery are fitted with wireless temperature transmitters as a cost-effective means of keeping control room operators informed of conditions inside the tanks.
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Emerson wireless prevents breakdowns at Coogee Chemicals
- 10/27/08
Smart Wireless instruments mounted on a rotating reactor at Coogee Chemical Company, Kwinana, Australia, prevent frequent reactor breakdowns and lost production time.
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Emerson wireless improves wellhead monitoring at BP Wytch
- 10/23/08
Wireless transmitters monitor wellhead annular pressure at BP’s Wytch Farm onshore oilfitters field.
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Emerson Smart Wireless Network improves safety at Boise paper mill
- 10/21/08
Boise enhanced safety at its paper mill in St. Helens, Oregon, by using Smart Wireless products to monitor its eye wash and safety shower stations.
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Emerson's wireless instruments monitor tanks at Technochem
- 10/08/08
Fourteen Rosemount wireless pressure transmitters monitor levels in tanks at Technochem Environmental Complex Pte Ltd (TEC) in Singapore.
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Emerson's wireless improves monitoring of Mexican power plants
- 10/06/08
Wireless instruments enabled one analytical team to cover 10 percent more plants, adding annual service revenues of $512,000 and improving power production per unit of fuel consumed.
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Genzyme uses Emerson wireless to monitor temperature, pressure and level
- 10/02/08
Genzyme uses wireless temperature, pressure, and level transmitters to protect product quality and to reduce waste at its Therapeutics enzyme manufacturing facility in Allston, MA.
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Proximity Sensing Via Wireless Network
Control Engineering, August 2008
A railcar wheel monitoring system shows how a wireless network sensor operates reliably in extreme temperatures, high vibration, and dirt, with five years between battery changes.
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Get Required Information on a Budget
Automation World, August 2008
American Refining Group in Bradford, Pa., installed a wireless mesh sensor network from Emerson Process Management to monitor high-level alarm switches on tanks in its remote tank farm. American Refining has 24 wireless Emerson sensors right now, and its technicians are still adding and building network.
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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.
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Fisher BioServices deploys General Electric Wireless Mesh
Control Engineering, August 2008
Fisher BioServices provides customized, turn-key solutions for life sciences applications. It adopted General Electric’s RF Mesh based Kaye Labwatch system to meet stringent U.S. FDA (Food & Drug Administration) regulations.
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ABB Robots Use Wyless Wireless
Process & Control Today, July 2008
ABB Robotics needed a worldwide wireless data network and an internet-based Management Platform to provide real-time control and visibility of its network and connections. Wyless’ managed wireless data network is currently operational in 30 countries for ABB Robotics. Its customers can now communicate data securely and reliably from the robots direct to the service centre.
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Evonik Degussa: A case study in explosion proof wireless networks
Process & Control Today, July 2008
Evonik Degussa Seal Sands installed an explosion proof WLAN from Extronics to enable quick, efficient assessment of OEE to be extended to the extreme environments and Zone 1 hazardous areas found in its plant.
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Tiny, wireless and self-energized
Plant Services, April 2008
By Sheila Kennedy
A new generation of sensors is poised to revolutionize predictive maintenance. Article details several case histories invlvingh wireless, self-energized sensors.
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Implementing Smart Grid Solutions
Control Engineering, April 2008
By Jake Rasweiler, Arcadian Networks
When the project is fully implemented later this year, Great River Energy power company will be able to monitor system performance instantly, gathering customer use and billing data at some 620 points on the system. Substations are equipped with WiFi hot spots so field crews can communicate wirelessly with operations when needed.
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ABB Wireless Sensors Stop Robot Cable Breaks
Industrial Ethernet Book, April 2008
By Wolfgang Zimmermann
Vehicle lamp manufacturer Hella uses a robot cell for the assembly and inspection of automotive headlamps in a highly automated production shop. Sensor cable breakages in trailing cable installations were a common cause of failure. ABB WISA wireless connections on the sensor/actuators eliminated the interruptions.
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Careful, hot wireless
Intech, January 2008
By Davis Shull and Joseph Cordaro
Introducing wireless technology into a government site where nuclear material is processed brings new meaning to the term harsh environment. At Savannah River National Laboratory, we are attempting to address not only the harsh radio frequency and harsh physical environment common to industrial facilities, but also the harsh regulatory environment.
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Avoid Collisions on the Track
Andritz Inc. uses high-speed Ethernet radios to create a robust anti-collision network for three different dual Portal Crane projects for the pulp and paper industry. Andritz chose ProSoft Technology's RadioLinx Industrial Hotspot for each multi-million dollar crane.
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Wireless solutions enable temperature profiling and tank level measurement
By Emerson Process Management
PPG Industries installed Emerson’s Smart Wireless solution at its Chemical Division facility in Lake Charles, LA. The plant uses ten wireless Rosemount transmitters for pipeline and steam header temperature measurement, which enables operators to watch for cold spots and adjust steam throughput.
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New system allows two plants to act as one
Intech, December 2007
By Hesh Kagan
The Lower Colorado River Authority merged two power plants under one functional management system and implemented a new layered WiMax/WiFi wireless infrastructure to link the two plants and provide the foundation for a number of other wireless-enabled applications.
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Wireless technology increases productivity at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel
By Emerson Process Management
Wireless transmitters are delivering previously unattainable data on conditions in the 80-inch hot strip mill in Mingo Junction, Ohio, enabling operating personnel to improve product quality and increase productivity.
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Wireless Helps Avoid Collisions
Control Engineering, October 2007
By Robert Dunlop, Andritz, and Adrienne Lutovsky, ProSoft Technology
For three multi-crane installation projects, system engineers at Andritz Inc. felt that a wireless Ethernet was the only way to achieve a reliable, high-performance anti-collision system.
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Wireless technology monitors temperatures in railcars
By Emerson Process Management
A wireless system monitors rising temperatures in railcars containing chemicals at Croda Inc, a specialty chemical manufacturer in Mill Hall, PA. Croda uses this information to improve the performance and safety of their facility, saving the company about $15,000 per year in reduced maintenance.
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Wireless solutions protect remote pumping facilities at Milford Power
By Emerson Process Management
Although the remote stations are heated during cold weather, executives of Milford Power wanted a way to continuously inform plant operators of severe temperature drops in case of a heater failure so that fast corrective action could be taken.
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Westermo Ethernet switches serve water treatment plant in France
- 11/14/07
At the Seine Grésillons treatment plant, technicians can connect locally at any point of the network by wire or WiFi to the same production management interface to obtain data.
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Wireless PCs streamline warehouse operations
Plant Services, August 2007
Empower operators by installing an onboard computer on each forklift, making the location of items and empty storage space immediately visible. At City Furniture, Tamarac, Fla., all 35 forklifts are equipped with GX-1200 fixed-mount rugged computers from Glacier Computer.
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Treatment Plant Calls Cell Phones with Alarms
Control Engineering, May 2007
By Jason Tincu, Xenia Water Reclamation Division
InduSoft SCADA software and Sixnet I/O modules communicate to operators via cellphones at a water treatment plant in Xenia, Ohio.
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Sense Tire Pressure without Batteries
Design News, May 2007
Using Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology, Honeywell and Michelin developed a pressure and temperature sensor that does not require batteries. To power the sensor, the sensor antenna converts the radio frequency signal to a voltage with a frequency determined by the spacing of stripes and temperature.
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Wireless networking benefits
Intech, June 2007
By Dan Bowen and Doug McNeil
A pickle plant opted to install wireless access points with a wireless controller to extend to every possible area of Mt. Olive's manufacturing footprint, including outdoor areas such as its waste water treatment facility and brining tanks.
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Automatic Fault-alarm System for Conveyor Belts
One-page application note describes an automatic fault-alarm system for conveyor belts that uses wireless to connect the conveyor controller to the main control system. When an error code is received, the PC searches its database to retrieve the error description, and then uses a TTS (Text-To-Speech) system or recording to broadcast the message over a loudspeaker.
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Wireless aids molding machine ERP
By Jim Montague, Executive Editor, Industrial Networking
Cornucopia Tool & Plastics of Paso Robles, Calif., uses a variety of injection molding machines to produce a line of plastic products and injection machine molds. The company partnered with Integrated Quality Management Systems (IQMS) of Paso Robles, a developer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, and wireless hardware developer Crossbow Technology in San Jose, Calif., to beta test a wireless data handling system.
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Wireless Communication Saves the Day...And the Bottom Line
ThyssenKrupp's Waupaca Foundry prides itself on using state-of-the-art technology in its production processes. When plant 4 began looking at ways to improve efficiencies, three key factors drove the decision to implement a wireless communications solution: record keeping, accuracy, and cost reduction. The Waupaca Foundry in Marionette, Wisconsin reaped a $600,000 ROI when they decided to go wireless.
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