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  • ABB acquires CGM

    Sweden-based CGM provides control room design and ergonomic solutions for maximum control room operator effectiveness.
    By: ABB
    24 August, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson to automate hydropower plant in China

    Emerson is automating the Shehong Liushu Hydropower Project that will bring clean electrical power to China’s Sichuan province.
    By: Emerson
    19 August, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson to supply BP with automation equipment and services

    Emerson signs 10-year agreement with BP for enhanced oil and gas project execution and operational reliability.
    By: Emerson
    17 August, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • ABB announces Loop Tuning Accelerator Service

    Service reduces the time between diagnosing control loop issues and tuning the loops to improve performance.
    By: ABB
    12 August, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • SUPCON upgrades SAMS DCS to FDT2

    SAMS makes full use of the FDT Group developed and tested Common Components to ensure the best compliance and interoperability.
    12 August, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • ABB to provide power and automation for oilfields off UAE coast

    ABB will provide a power management system based on System 800xA, plus transformers, shunt reactors and associated equipment.
    By: ABB
    15 July, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • Honeywell Profit Blend Optimizer improves performance at Russian refinery

    LUKOIL’s Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery uses Profit Blend Optimizer software, which is designed specifically for on-line blend reformulation and optimization
    By: Honeywell Process Solutions
    07 July, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • Honeywell to supply automation and security to LNG terminal

    HPS will supply control, safety and security systems for the expansion of Freeport LNG’s terminal, located on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.
    By: Honeywell Process Solutions
    23 June, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson to automate power plants in India

    Emerson will provide automation technologies and expertise for two new 800-megawatt supercritical generating units at the Darlipali Super Thermal Power Station in the Sundergarh District, Odisha, India.
    By: Emerson
    12 June, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • Honeywell to automate paper mill in Finland

    Stora Enso Oyj is implementing Honeywell’s technologies as part of a modernization and optimization effort at their paper mill in Varkaus, Finland.
    By: Honeywell Process Solutions
    11 June, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • The Chinese DCS market grew in 2014

    Unlike the world market, the oil and gas sector is relatively small in China while the power and chemical sectors are especially large.
    04 June, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • Lower oil price is changing the outlook for distributed control systems

    IHS says the market in the oil and gas industry is expected to be affected by the lower oil price; since oil companies have been cutting back investment.
    28 May, 2015 | 1 minutes
  • ISA publishes Fourth edition of pocket guide on automation system tuning

    “Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide” by Gregory K. McMillan has been updated to deliver more precise and optimal tuning for nearly all types of applications in the process industries.
    By: International Society of Automation (ISA)
    08 May, 2015 | 2 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Yokogawa promotes Daniel L. Duncan to CEO

    Since July of 2014, Duncan has been chief operating officer (COO)
    By: Yokogawa Corporation of America
    08 May, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • Endress+Hauser and Rockwell Automation invest in Purdue lab

    Donations to Purdue University included process measurement instrumentation, a control system, control panels, servers, hardware, piping, large industrial water tanks, pumps, valves, cabling, and engineering guidance.
    By: Endress+Hauser, Inc.
    08 May, 2015 | 3 minutes
  • Schneider Electric acquires LimeWare

    LimeWare is a provider of system analysis and auditing software for Foxboro Evo process automation and I/A Series distributed control systems.
    By: Schneider Electric
    29 April, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • ISA wants to keep unemployed members

    ISA allows members who are unemployed at their membership renewal date can extend their full membership status by nine months.
    By: International Society of Automation (ISA)
    08 April, 2015 | 3 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
  • Emerson automates supercritical power-generating unit in India

    Located in Krishnapatnam, the Sri Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Thermal Power Station is a $2 billion investment by APGENCO that will provide new, low-emissions generation capacity.
    By: Emerson
    08 April, 2015 | 2 minutes
  • PID Control Using a Data Acquisition and Control System

    By Terry Nagy, Computer Aided Solutions The architecture of data acquisition and control systems which have their own DSP processors makes them well-suited for use in PID applications.
    By: CAS DataLoggers
    23 March, 2015 | 5 minutes
  • ISA conference to be held in Abu Dhabi

    ISA and DMS Global will host automation conference and exhibition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 26-27 May 2015.
    By: International Society of Automation (ISA)
    13 March, 2015 | 2 minutes
    Sponsored By International Society of Automation (ISA)
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