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SureStart mitigates financial and safety liabilities, while minimizing any negative impact to plant operations.

LumiShield provides significantly better corrosive resistance and chemical inertness than that provided by traditional metals such as stainless steel and exotic alloys.

HPS will install an integrated Honeywell control and safety solution, including a new fire and gas system, to improve automation, increase cyber and physical security, and improve operator effectiveness.

Yokogawa will deliver DCSes for the PP13 and PP14 combined cycle power plants that Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) is building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Honeywell’s Assurance 360 Program will provide ongoing services and support to Sasol synthetic fuels and chemicals plant

“The Value of Automation: The Best Investment an Industrial Company Can Make” contends that the immense capabilities of automation systems are untapped because their true potential value is not adequately measured or recognized.

Roop is a financial management executive, an instrument and electrical engineer, and a power plant manager.

Exida, an ISASecure accredited test lab, certified the Schneider Electric Field Control Processor 280 to the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.

Written from a practical perspective, Advances in Reactor Measurement and Control book explains how to improve batch and continuous reactor and control system performance

Ripon Cogeneration replacied its obsolete distributed control system (DCS) with the PlantPAx process automation system from Rockwell Automation.

By Bill Lydon, Editor According to a recent survey, automation users want and deserve more from an automation controller. Albert Rooyakkers, CTO of Bedrock Automation, explains why they went back to the drawing board to design and develop this new, innovative automation controller.

The ASM Consortium has been working continuously together for more than 20 years to maximize safety and performance by preventing or minimizing the impact of abnormal situations.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Some industrial automation vendors and computer technology providers are offering cloud services that include historians, analytics, and complete MES (Manufacturing Execution System). These services offer a new way to improve operations by applying more computing power. Another important trend is leveraging new, more powerful controllers within the secure automation system environment. Should you be using one or the other, or both?

According to ARC, the global DCS market grew about 4 percent in 2013.

The US chemicals market is expected to make investments of nearly $80 billion by 2020, creating strong opportunities for automation solution providers.

Heide Refinery used two weeks of planned downtime at its pyrolysis plant to migrate to new safety systems.

Products include process controllers, digital indicators, chart and strip recorders and paperless videographic recorders.

Yokogawa will supply control systems and safety instrumented systems for a waste-to-energy facility being built for SITA Cornwall Ltd. in the U.K.

Metso will provide automation, safety and emergency shutdown system extensions to the existing Metso DNA system when the polyethylene plant is upgraded.

Emerson migrated an old burner management system on a distillation column furnace to Emerson’s DeltaV during the plant’s annual scheduled shutdown this 2014.