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  • Honeywell announces Assurance 360 support service

    The program provides comprehensive support throughout the plant’s lifecycle in addition to expert resources to guarantee performance outcomes, differentiating it from traditional service offerings.
    18 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson to monitor machinery health at truckless mine in Brazil

    Emerson’s machinery health technology will help ensure reliable operation of the pit-to-plant conveyor system for the S11D Iron Mining Project in Brazil.
    18 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Endress+Hauser introduces on-line thermowell sizing calculator

    On-line thermowell calculation tool helps customers stay compliant with the new ASME PTC 19.3 TW-2010 thermowell standards.
    14 June, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • The Benefits of Listening Skills for an Industrial Career

    The Benefits of Listening Skills for an Industrial Career

    The knowledge of individuals can be openly shared environment at an industrial plant or facility is inquisitive and friendly and egos take a back seat.
    By: Gregory K. McMillan
    14 June, 2013 | 8 minutes
  • Pump Customers Becoming Less “Centri-frugal”

    Efficient technology design is now the name of the game, and centrifugal pump suppliers now face a flood of new competition says IMS.
    13 June, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Aligning Business and Manufacturing Objectives: A Quick Guide

    By Mark Davidson, LNS Research Largely due to the misalignment of goals and objectives, a considerable number of organizations struggle to realize the full business value that manufacturing can generate. There are several steps all organizations that utilize manufacturing can take to properly and optimally align goals.
    12 June, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • RTU as an Intelligent Remote Gateway

    By Kevin L. Finnan The trend toward intelligent devices in remote SCADA installations would seem to put remote terminal units (RTUs) on the path to obsolescence. Instead, it illustrates the evolving value of RTUs in contemporary systems.
    12 June, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • The Technical Advantages of Polyamide Cable Protection Systems

    For the past several decades, most industries within the US market have been dominated by the use of PVC jacketed metallic conduits. In Europe, they use polyamide conduits and fittings. What's the difference?
    By: Robert Aulenbach
    12 June, 2013 | 6 minutes
  • World Relays Market Fell in 2012

    After two years of double-digit growth, the world market for electro-mechanical and solid-state relays contracted by $125 million, or 3.6 percent, to approximately $3.35 billion in 2012.
    11 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Where's the Beef? Kepware finds it

    Beef producer in Kansas uses KEPServerEX software to help confirm that its meat automatically moves from the warehouse to the retail location without human intervention.
    11 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Improving Equipment Utilization with vimana

    By Thomas R. Cutler Curtiss Wright Controls in Shelby, NC used vimana to improve equipment utilization on a production cell with 4 high-end CNC-based Horizontal Milling machine tools by over 20% in just ten weeks.
    10 June, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Epicor to supply ERP to Urbanas in Colombia

    Construction company Urbanas will use the ERP to integrate all of its financial and project information, customer relationship management (CRM) tools and business analytics.
    10 June, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Open Source Building Automation

    By Bill Lydon, Editor The inaugural Haystack Connect event introduced a movement that has the potential to be the next big wave in building automation by fostering an entirely new open system in the industry that goes beyond open protocols to encompass system software.
    07 June, 2013 | 4 minutes
  • PAS announces PAS University

    PAS University offers training solution courses in alarm management, control loop optimization, high performance HMI, cyber security and change management.
    04 June, 2013 | 1 minute
  • Endress+Hauser Announces E-Direct Online Instrument Store

    E-direct web site simplifies ordering of instrumentation products for measurement and control.
    03 June, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Premier Oil installs ProcessVue alarm management

    ProcessVue ensures that data from safety-critical plant is always logged, enabling engineers to identify the cause of a plant upset, including the sequence of events (SOEs) leading up to this.
    31 May, 2013 | 5 minutes
  • Vibration Measurement Application Note

    By Lion Precision The basic problem stems from the fact that there are myriad methods and tools to measure vibration, and each of these may have different measurement units and confounding factors so the results may differ greatly.
    30 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • EPLAN releases iPhone and iPad App

    App allows users to access over 230,000 components in the portal and transfer the data that has been collected into their EPLAN project.
    29 May, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Human Reliability was focus of PAS Technology Conference 2013

    By Bill Lydon, Editor Three legendary industry veterans including Eddie Habibi - PAS Founder & CEO, Larry Evans - AspenTech Founder & former CEO, and Pat Kennedy - OSIsoft Founder & CEO, shared their industry insights on improving human reliability at the recent conference.
    28 May, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Davis Instruments Publishes Process Instrumentation catalog

    Process instruments featured in the catalog range from calibration equipment to mixers to pumps.
    22 May, 2013 | 1 minute
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