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What Is the Future of the Pulp & Paper Industry?
The pulp and paper industry has experienced considerable change in recent decades, including advancements in digital technologies, rising energy costs, and international demand for tissue and fluff puBy: Contributing Authors18 September, 2013 | 2 minutes -
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Managing Industrial Supplier Relationships: Focus on Quantifiable Metrics
The key to supplier relationship management is selecting the most quantifiable metrics in your specific case. Also take into account how repeatable the results will be, even with changing personnel inBy: Contributing Authors16 September, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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Achieving real world benefits with statistical process control
Achieving real world benefits with statistical process controlBy: Contributing Authors11 September, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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New Standards and Technologies Streamline Safety Systems
New Standards and Technologies Streamline Safety SystemsBy: Contributing Authors09 September, 2013 | 2 minutes -
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Leveraging DoD Wireless Security Standards for Automation and Control
Industrial control systems are increasingly under attack and basic wireless security is inadequate. Government-validated technologies can be used to achieve greater cybersecurityBy: Contributing Authors04 September, 2013 | 10 minutes -
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Foundation Fieldbus Analysis for Floating Production Storage and Offloading Projects
Advantages of using Foundation Fieldbus on floating production storage & offloading project, analyzing results as if implemented using Foundation Fieldbus.By: Contributing Authors26 August, 2013 | 13 minutes -
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What Kind of MES Do You Need?
What kind of MES do you need?By: Contributing Authors21 August, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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Getting real about pressure transmitter accuracy
Getting real about pressure transmitter accuracyBy: Contributing Authors19 August, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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Component MES Offers Manufacturing IT Alternatives so You Can Have It Your Way
Coupled with component MES, enterprise batch records provide manufacturers with a cost efficient, non-disruptive (to their existing installed base of technology) manufacturing IT solution that is scalBy: Contributing Authors14 August, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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Top 10 Industrial Alarm System Blunders
Proper alarm methods improve safety, the environment and plant profitability.By: Contributing Authors12 August, 2013 | 9 minutes -
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How to Gain Automatic Control of Effluent Residual in Wastewater Treatment Plants
Important factors and specific trim controller configurations for gaining control of effluent residual in wastewater facilities.By: Contributing Authors07 August, 2013 | 4 minutes -
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How to Get Better Control of Effluent Residual in Wastewater Facilities
In wastewater effluent facilities not having good control of residual results in chemical waste. Gaining effluent residual control is more important than having an excellent process tuning.By: Contributing Authors05 August, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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Nine Technologies to Watch for the Automation Industry
Many of the hottest technology trends today represent a convergence of largely internet and IT-based enabling technologies.By: Contributing Authors29 July, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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The cybersecurity threat – taking it personally
The cybersecurity threat – taking it personallyBy: Contributing Authors24 July, 2013 | 5 minutes -
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Using Smarter Technology to Solve the Municipal Water Conundrum
Using smarter technology to solve the municipal water conundrumBy: Contributing Authors23 July, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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APC: What’s in an Acronym?
APC is any control strategy that utilizes multiple inputs and outputs to achieve higher-level control objectives and that involve functions not normally represented on P&IDsBy: Contributing Authors22 July, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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How to Tap Hidden Manufacturing Potential Using OEE
Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) monitoring techniques can reveal hidden production capacity and new insights into causes of system downtime.By: Contributing Authors17 July, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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Simple, Model-Based Process Control
Simple, Model-Based Process ControlBy: Contributing Authors15 July, 2013 | 17 minutes -
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How to Protect Water and Wastewater Facilities from Cyberattack
An industrial cybersecurity solution must be “secure by default,” easy to use, flexible to changing environments, self-documenting and integrate well with other defensive layers.By: Contributing Authors10 July, 2013 | 3 minutes -
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13 Ways Through an Industrial Firewall: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
When firewall deployment is considered, relevant firewall vulnerabilities should be identified, and both compensating measures and alternatives evaluated.By: Contributing Authors08 July, 2013 | 9 minutes
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