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Process Automation I/O Market Driven by Safety
The market for process I/O modules is mainly driven by two forces: an increasing need for intrinsically safe I/O modules and the increasing demand from the Middle East and the BRIC countries. -
Metso to automate UK waste-to-energy plant
Metso will supply a Metso DNA distributed control system, an integrated safety system and an information activity server to the 68MW plant in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK. -
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. -
FCI FS10A Analyzer Flow Switch Achieves SIL-2 Compliance
The Model FS10A Analyzer Flow Switch/Monitor meets the requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 compliant service. -
Mettler Toledo publishes Hazardous Area Catalog
Catalog covers weighing solutions for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries with hazardous environments. -
Counterfeit exida safety certifications discovered
exida discovered a counterfeit certificate falsely claiming that a product meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508. -
Rotork valves control pipeline compressor stations in Turkey
Rotork supplied, installed and commissioned actuators for operational and safety-related duties on pipelines carrying products including natural gas from Asian countries through Turkey. -
Phoenix Contact offers virtual training
Virtual Technology Center (VTC) class topics include safety, Ethernet, routing/firewall, VPNs and several levels of training on Phoenix Contact’s PC Worx software. -
GAMBICA forms industrial network security group
GAMBICA, the Trade Association for Instrumentation, Control, Automation and Laboratory Technology in the UK, formed an industrial network security group to counter the threats of viruses, industrial sabotage and terrorism. -
Honeywell to Automate Steam Production Plant in Finland
Honeywell will supply building automation, process control and safety systems for a new bubble fluidized-bed (BFB) boiler site. -
MOHR to Supply Spent Fuel Pool Instrumentation to 10 nukes
MOHR will supply its EFP-IL SFPI system as a solution for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Order EA-12-051 requiring installation of SFPI in all U.S. commercial nuclear power stations. -
ISA announces introductory course on process safety
Process Safety Fundamentals (EC50CT) provides a sound foundational understanding of leading process safety concepts, standards and procedures, and accentuates the need to regard process safety as a fundamental daily priority. -
Honeywell goes to the Barges
Custody transfer measurement on barges is shifting from traditional methods under open conditions—allowing vapor to escape from tanks—to closed solutions, eliminating vapor release to the atmosphere during tank gauging. -
IMS says market for Hazardous Area Equipment to drop
Sales revenue this year of hazardous area equipment in the Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region will grow by less than half of what was estimated in 2012. -
Thomas & Betts Publishes Safety Technology Catalog
Products in the catalog include hazardous and emergency lighting, and surge suppression products. -
Sauer-Danfoss announces TÜV-Nord-Certified safety courses
Software PDLP simplifies functional safety software project management. Three training courses are scheduled. -
Intertec Instrumentation expands its factory
The factory expansion - an investment of more than CAD $3 million for the company - follows a period of sustained growth, with demand for field shelters increasing by some 500% during the last two years. -
Oldham Joins HART Communication Foundation
Oldham specializes in providing safety, gas and fire detection systems. -
Yokogawa to control Cheniere Energy LNG Plant
Yokogawa will supply the integrated automation and safety system for the new liquefaction trains at Cheniere’s LNG facility in Sabine Pass, LA. -
Dedicated Alarm Annunciator Panel Evolution - Deserve Renewed Attention
By Robert Myles Given the issues present in large-scale PLC/DCS systems and the advantages offered by Dedicated Alarm Annunciators, the additional cost to include one as a redundant system is well outweighed; particularly when the system or the process they are protecting and the cost of a shutdown (or worse) is taken into account.
