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Preem will use the enhanced high performance process manager to as much as triple the capacity of the refinery’s existing controllers.

DCS shipments, after returning to pre-slowdown levels in 2010, saw strong double digit growth in 2011, says ARC.

Honeywell will provide an Integrated Control and Safety System for the floating LNG liquefaction, regasification and storage unit for the Exmar-Pacific Rubialis Energy project offshore Colombia.

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.

Yokogawa will supply a CENTUM VP control system to control plant facilities such as reaction tanks and distillation units, and field instrumentation and equipment including FOUNDATION fieldbus flowmeters, pressure transmitters and control valves.

Yokogawa will supply the control system that will renovate the first of four 20 MW power generation units at the Lahendong geothermal power plant, which is located in the Lahendong district on Sulawesi Island.

"Control System Migrations: A Practical Project Management Handbook," by Daniel Roessler, is a clear and practical application guide to effectively managing control system migrations.

An Experion PKS will be installed in all of the mill’s major process areas including wood preparation, pulping and drying, as well as the chemical recovery and combined heat and power plant.

Rand-Whitney Containerboard had two goals when it decided to replace the distributed control system at its Connecticut mill - system reliability and a good relationship with the new vendor.

ARC says ABB retained its leading worldwide market position in this core automation market based on revenues.

Vaskiluodon Voima is replacing an automation system installed in 1989 with modern technology that further improves plant availability and safety.

Invensys will provide PRO/II steady-state simulation software to help KBR accurately model its process technology.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The new high-performance CompactRIO cRIO-9068 controller has a dual core ARM processor and FPGA on the same chip that supports LabVIEW and Real-time Linux. This looks like a great platform for industrial automation applications because it incorporates control, optimization, analytics, and business enterprise interfaces.

Metso will supply a complete control system retrofit for steam turbine and generator line 1 at Varme's Fana combined heating and power plant on the western coast of Norway.

CHARMS marshalling technology was developed initially for offshore platforms, which have space and weight limitations and where last-minute automation design changes routinely result in high costs and expensive delays.

Yokogawa will execute the front end engineering design (FEED) for a project to consolidate the control rooms and systems at its Mizushima-A oil refinery.

Emerson supplied a DeltaV system to manage more than 2900 inputs and outputs, including Rosemount instruments, Micro Motion Coriolis meters, Fisher control valves and regulators, and wireless HART, Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus communications.

Metso automation systems will be used for the turbine control, sluice gate control, excitation control, vibration monitoring as well as for a power plant/river training simulator.

Temperature controllers from West Control Solutions are being used by Active Magnetic Inspection on two stress relief ovens that each required monitoring of 60 product containers.

Emerson will provide PlantWeb, DeltaV digital automation system, DeltaV SIS process safety system, CSI 6500 Machinery Health Monitor, AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, and pressure, temperature, radar level, and vortex flow transmitters.