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New Emerson Facility Features Integrated Operations (iOps) Center
By Bill Lydon, Editor Emerson invested nearly $70 million in a new 282,000-square-foot Innovation Center in Round Rock, Texas. The center serves as the global headquarters for Emerson’s automation systems and project services business, which helps customers safely, reliably and profitably operate facilities in various industries. -
Honeywell to supply modeling software to China
Honeywell’s Refining and Petrochemical Modeling System (RPMS) and its Intuition Executive advanced information management software will be installed in 17 PetroChina refining and petrochemical sites across China. -
TÜV Rheinland Offers REACH Registration Services in U.S.
REACH is a European Community safety and environmental regulation that deals with the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemical substances. -
Lockheed Martin to Acquire Industrial Defender
Industrial Defender is a provider of cyber security solutions for control systems in the oil and gas, utility and chemical industries. -
ACM Facility Safety Announces Spring Process Safety Courses
Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training covering various aspects of process safety, including P&ID drawings, hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies, Safety Integrity Level (SIL), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), and similar topics. -
ACM Facility Safety Offers Free Process Safety Workshop
The free workshop teaches the essential elements of Safety Instrumented Systems including how to comply with myriad safety requirements. The workshop is available in a two-day classroom in Calgary, or as a three-day webinar. -
UOP to control Propylene plant in China
Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical, a Chinese petrochemical producer, selected UOP's C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane to propylene. -
Endress+Hauser sales reach $2.43 billion
Endress+Hauser Group increased its net sales by approximately 7 percent to over 1.8 billion euros ($2.43 billion) in the 2013 financial year. -
Schneider Electric's Integration of Invensys
By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies. -
2014 Manufacturing Outlook from Siemens CEO
By Bill Lydon, Editor Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, provided his views on the 2014 manufacturing outlook and other industry topics, including the first live display of an assembly line at the Auto Show in Detroit, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first assembly line. -
Honeywell UOP to control two petrochemical plants in China
Shandong Huachao Chemical will use the UOP C4 Oleflex process to produce isobutylene, while Zibo Qixiang Tengda Chemical will use the UOP Butamer process to transform normal butane to isobutane. -
Metso to supply valves to Sadara Chemical in Saudi Arabia
The control and on/off valves, emergency shut-down valves, and ball and butterfly valves will be delivered to Sadara's fully integrated chemicals complex currently under construction in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. -
Windows XP Cyber Time Bomb set for April 8, 2014
By Bill Lydon, Editor The huge installed base of automation software running on Windows XP will be vulnerable to cyber-attacks with the end of Windows XP support April 8, 2014. More than 12 years old, Windows XP is the longest supported version of Windows ever and therefore is the most used in industrial automation systems. -
AVEVA supplies Everything3D design software to EMS-CHEMIE
EMS-CHEMIE moved to the Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) software for design of its chemical facilities right in the middle of an ongoing project. -
Developers of Dream Report come out of hiding
By Bill Lydon, Editor I recently had the opportunity to discuss Ocean Data Systems – a little company you likely have never heard of - with Roy Kok, their VP of Sales and Marketing. Their product, Dream Report, is OEMed by a number of well-known software providers. Here is a synopsis of my interview with Kok. -
Cyber Security Lessons from a Military Leader
By Bill Lydon, Editor Major General Robert E. Wheeler gave a compelling and informative keynote presentation on cyber security at the ISA Automation Week conference in Nashville, TN on November 6, 2013. The cyber security challenges faced by the military and industrial automation systems are strikingly similar. -
ACM signs Autopro to implement SIL safety software
ACM Facility Safety provides SafeGuard Sentinel SIL safety software that systems integrator Autopro Automation Consultants will help implement in process industries. -
Adaptive Process Control delivers built-in, bottom line benefits
By Robert Golightly, AspenTech Adaptive Process Control provides a set of innovative, patented techniques for automatic adjustment of the controllers in real-time and elevates maintenance to a built-in and continuous part of the management process. -
Pervasive Sensing highlighted at Emerson Exchange 2013
By Bill Lydon, Editor Emerson’s Sonnenberg and Zornio discussed pervasive sensing as a growing trend. They framed the discussion around the idea of pervasive sensing as the way to achieve the pursuit of actionable information to improve operations and maintenance. -
Foxboro Evo System Features Multiprocessor Controller
By Bill Lydon, Editor Foxboro has dramatically stepped up the power of their controller with the Foxboro Evo process automation system introduction. This controller is a great example of the new breed of controllers that leverages the latest technology.