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  • SCADA system monitors Canadian hydroelectric plants

    Citect SCADA and Exele alarm software monitor three hydro generating stations, four sub stations and the distribution system for the City of Edmundston,New Brunswick.
    14 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Keyence Simplifies Inspections for Timex

    IM-6500 Series image dimension measurement system inspects the concentricity of every single cut wheel and automatically records the measurements.
    09 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Rotork valves control pipeline compressor stations in Turkey

    Rotork supplied, installed and commissioned actuators for operational and safety-related duties on pipelines carrying products including natural gas from Asian countries through Turkey.
    07 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Neutec Pharmaceuticals adds BACnet in Facility Expansion

    Neutec Pharmaceutical expanded its 80,000 square foot facility to over 400,000 square feet, and installed BACnet.
    06 May, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Baumer Sensors Monitor Movement of "Roboy"

    To simulate the human locomotor system, Roboy's project team of scientists and industry experts designed the robot's internal motion system using more than 100 analog sensors from Baumer.
    06 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • PcVue Automates Oil and Gas Operations In Canada

    Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) manages the process control and monitoring of its 300 gathering stations, 5200 compressor stations and 150 gas processing facilities with PcVue SCADA software.
    03 May, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Honeywell goes to the Barges

    Custody transfer measurement on barges is shifting from traditional methods under open conditions—allowing vapor to escape from tanks—to closed solutions, eliminating vapor release to the atmosphere during tank gauging.
    24 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Korenix switches prevent broadcast storms on Tibet Railway

    By installing wired and wireless Korenix industrial Ethernet switches in 22 of its trackside railway stations and 96 field level sites, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway eliminated the risk of broadcast storms on its monitoring and control system network.
    23 April, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Emerson vortex flowmeter replaces magmeter at paper mill

    The mill had previously used a magnetic flow meter to measure the flow of white liquor. The flowmeter was occasionally subjected to a significant vacuum that partially collapsed the liner, so they replaced it.
    19 April, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • NUM CNC controls laser cutting machine

    Using CNC hardware and software from NUM, Favor Laser in Taiwan developed a high precision laser cutter that is capable of producing very small or very large parts from sheet metal.
    16 April, 2013 | 7 minutes
  • Lear Assembly Plant uses ISD MES software to improve quality

    The entire auto seat assembly process is managed by an Integrated Systems Design (ISD) PC-based quality assurance system that improves overall seat quality by monitoring the seat assembly and sequencing process.
    15 April, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Fairbanks Scales uses IFS Metrix Service Management

    Fairbanks Scales is now running IFS Metrix Service Management, encompassing service functions ranging from work orders, service inventories, contract management and mobility.
    12 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson's Asset Monitoring software improves CO2 separator installation

    Essential Asset Monitoring solutions provide 24/7 automated monitoring and continuous asset health analysis of the CO2 separator’s bottoms pump, air water column blower, stripper cross exchanger and boiler blower.
    10 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Rotork wireless actuators control tank farm

    16 Rotork IQ40 actuators, one Pakscan P3 wireless master station and three network repeaters are used to control six 100,000 barrel tanks and four booster pumps at Martin Midstream Partners tank farm in Corpus Christi, Texas.
    04 April, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • Emerson's wireless technology helps RWE maximize gas storage capacity

    Installation of five Smart Wireless networks and more than 100 wireless measurement devices has increased visibility into the process, enabling the plant to improve control and run closer to its capacity.
    27 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Wiley Uses Softing's PROFIBUS Tester to Reduce Commissioning Time

    The PROFIBUS Tester identified potential, covert failure nuisances within the PROFIBUS network before DCS commissioning started, reducing the overall time needed for commissioning the DCS by about 25%.
    26 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Aegis Software MES tracks Murrietta Circuits

    Aegis’ software provides setup validation and traceability, Route Control and WIP Tracking, automating quality data collection and repair, and Interactive Paperless Documentation.
    26 March, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Dürr Cyplan supplies Organic Rankine Cycle system to utility

    The Stadtwerke Groß-Gerau Versorgungs-GmbH (GGV) municipal utility company installed the ORC and increased the power to heat ratio of its cogeneration units (CHP).
    15 March, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Metso controls biomass gasification plant in Vaasa

    A Metso DNA automation system controls the bio-gasification plant, which was constructed as part of the existing coal-fired power plant. The produced gas will be combusted along with coal in the existing coal boiler.
    11 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Ghent University uses Parsum in-line particle sizer

    The university uses the instrument to continuously monitor granulation processes and to develop effective automated strategies for process control.
    05 March, 2013 | 2 minutes
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