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Yokogawa to help Turkish company monitor Saudi Arabian water project
The Jubail-Riyadh water transmission system, owned by the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), will transport water from desalination plants near Jubail on the Persian Gulf coast to Riyadh, the growing capital city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. -
IBASE Technology collaborates with National Chiayi University to build smart agriculture control room system
The collected agricultural production data and fertilizer management data are fed to a remote monitoring system using big data analysis technology to explore the most suitable agricultural production conditions and the best decision-making plan in visually creating a smart agriculture integration framework. -
Can You Diagnose Problems in an Industrial System with No Observability?
An experienced engineer compares the process of solving a pipeline problem in his neighborhood with similar situations in industrial settings. -
Industrial Digital Transformation Made Easy with MQTT
By Arlen Nipper This article will look at the problems with proprietary manufacturing protocols and discuss how the open-standard MQTT can enable Digital Transformation. -
The Role of Standards in Functional Safety
Internationally recognized functional safety standards have been widely adopted to increase equipment/process safety. Compliance needs continuous focus. -
What Is Functional Safety?
Functional safety requires automatic protection or correction. Every specified safety function must be carried out and meet the set level of performance. -
Rockwell Automation boosts TAE Technologies' efforts for nuclear fusion energy
While designing upgrades to the vacuum, the TAE Technologies team determined simulation wasn’t necessary, although they did need an understanding of the system limits to know what’s possible. They chose a solution they’re familiar with and turned to their partners at Rockwell Automation. -
Epson Robots announces Air Automation Engineering as an Authorized Service Center
The partnership establishes AAE as an official Authorized Epson Service Center and will expand beyond selling Epson Robots, automation products and integrated solutions to include maintenance and repair of the installed base of Epson robots. -
Siemens launches nationwide Process Automation Innovation Tour
The traveling tour is designed to bring the latest innovations in automation, instrumentation, networking, and cybersecurity right to the doorstep of the process industries. -
HANNOVER MESSE announces postponement of 2020 event
HANNOVER MESSE 2020 has been postponed to the week of 13 to 17 July. Deutsche Messe AG is thus responding to global developments related to the Coronavirus. -
How Process Historians Turn Data Into Actionable Information
Process historians were once simply software packages that stored and presented real-time process data, but today historians are being used for much more. -
AutoQuiz: Why Must Voltage Be Reduced Along with Frequency in a Variable Frequency Speed Controller?
To maintain a constant (rated) flux density, the applied voltage must also be changed in the same proportion as the frequency (per Faraday’s law). -
How New Technology Is Enabling Wider Application of Wireless Valve Control
Although few engineers now hesitate to use wireless for monitoring purposes, wireless valve control has not enjoyed such success. -
Buhler’s Grain Milling Automation Relies on OPC Technology
Buhler, a provider of grain milling solutions, standardized on Softing’s industry-hardened S7/S5 OPC Server to provide reliable connectivity between Buhler’s “WinCoS.r2” automation system and multiple S7-400 PLC’s -
Arbonne International Automates Distribution Center
Network marketing is a distribution system, or form of marketing, which channels goods or services from the manufacturer to the consumer through a "network" of independent distributors or consultants. -
How to Implement Secure, Remote Access to an Industrial Automation System
The two main ways to implement secure remote access are with a hosted VPN and with a traditional VPN.A hosted VPN works well in most applications and is much simpler to implement and support.t -
AutoQuiz: What Process Confirms That a Company Meets the Needs of Customers and Complies With Statutory and Regulatory Requirements?
ISO 9000 is a family of international quality management systems standards designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory an -
Alarm Management and DCS Versus PLC/SCADA Systems
There are very few if any chemical or refinery units that would not benefit from state-based alarming. -
Local Learning: Gruhn to speak on safety, HMIs, more
ISA past president Paul Gruhn, PE, CFSE, will be presenting at local meetings around the country during the first quarter of 2020. As a global functional safety consultant with aeSolutions, Gruhn has gained extensive experience consulting with sites around the world. -
How to Reduce Control Valve Noise
Understanding and reducing noise from control valves is an important consideration for the process industries, especially those close to residential areas.
