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Inspire 2014 Conference Covers Process Safety
The theme of Inspire 2014, May 6-8, 2014 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is how the interaction among Culture, Safety and Technology can be used to improve safety in process plants. -
MAVERICK Technologies Named Best system integrator
CIO Utilities Technology magazine named MAVERICK Technologies the best source for automation in the utilities industry. -
Yokogawa to supply SCADA System to water company in India
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) will use the SCADA system to monitor the city’s water distribution network and wastewater facilities. -
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. -
Water and Wastewater Industry needs smart pumps
The European Smart Pumps Market for the Water and Wastewater Industry earned revenues of $192.4 million in 2013 and is predicted to reach $267.9 million in 2018. -
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. -
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. -
Endress+Hauser donates instrumentation to Polk State College
Through the donations of Endress+Hauser, Rockwell Automation and TriNova, Polk State College will be the new home to a $1 million, state-of-the-art PTU (Process Training Unit). -
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. -
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. -
Flowserve to supply pumps for Seawater Desalination Plant in Chile
Flowserve will supply pumps and an energy recovery system (ERS) for the seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant located near Antofagasta, Chile. -
Yokogawa to control Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia
Yokogawa will supply the control system for the SWRO-4 Desalination Plant, which is being built in Jubail, Saudi Arabia by the Power & Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu (Marafiq). -
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. -
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. -
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. -
VRTX uses Netbiter to remotely monitor water treatment systems
In this video case study, Carl Steffen, Engineering Services Manager at VRTX Technologies, San Antonio, TX, explains how they use Netbiter to remotely monitor their water treatment systems. -
Yorkshire Water installs 450 Chlorine Monitors
Free chlorine monitors from Analytical Technology overcome the traditional issues associated with buffered amperometric monitors, such as manhandling 25 litre containers of buffer around sites. -
New Approach for Shortening Schedules and Minimizing Risk on Automation Projects
By Paul Hodge & Joe Bastone, Honeywell The advantages of optimized project workflow can be realized at both ends of the project schedule. The benefits are essential to ensuring control systems pose the least risk to project schedule and allow for safe, efficient and reliable plant startup and operation. -
ISA Water/Wastewater Symposium issues Call for Abstracts
The symposium will be held 5-7 August 2014 and covers how instrumentation, SCADA and automatic control are vital to the treatment and distribution of water and wastewater.