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Proactive Security Concepts Instead of Reactive Defense: Safety and security in industrial plants needs rethinking
By Dr. Alexander Horch, HIMA This article explains why the process industry needs to switch from passive to active defense mode for cybersecurity and what it must do to ensure plant security in the digital era. -
HIMA talks functional safety concepts at ARC Industry Forum
At the ARC Industry Forum which was held in Orlando, Florida, from February 12 – 15, HIMA presented its comprehensive functional safety concept which offers security by expanding the scope from the safety instrumented system to its security-relevant environment. -
Webinar Recording: How to Document Safety Instrumented Systems Inspections and Tests
Learn best practices for inspecting, testing and documenting a safety instrumented system. Explore applications for these practices in the field, including valves and simpler instruments. -
ADAS iiT Consortium earns National Instruments' 2018 Technical Innovation Award
The four partner companies in the ADAS iiT Consortium have pooled their expertise to create a unique one-stop solution for simulating and validating Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for autonomously operated vehicles. -
COPA-DATA helps Slovenian energy utility company enable remote monitoring capabilities
The plant control system refurbishment with zenon resulted in an operational cost reduction of 30 per cent and a 15 per cent production increase through the elimination of downtime and sub-optimal operation. -
ABB to help enable first digital substation in Latin America
When fully operational, these projects are intended to produce enough clean energy to power more than 350,000 households, reducing CO2 emissions from conventional generation by more than 1.5 million tons. -
What You Can Learn About Pipeline Leaks From Government Statistics
Nearly any industrial pipeline leak results in costs in the tens of millions of dollars, and costs are increasing over time. About a third of the documented costs involve property damage and cleanup -
Siemens announces partnership with Perceptive Engineering to enhance control in pharmaceutical manufacturing
Siemens AG and Perceptive Engineering Ltd announced a partnership which offers Perceptive’s PharmaMV and Siemens Simatic Sipat software products closely integrated to provide a solution for advanced control and optimization applications in both continuous and batch pharmaceutical manufacturing. -
ISA announces 2018 Leak Detection and Repair/Fugitive Emissions (LDAR) Symposium
Designed exclusively to meet the needs of LDAR and air compliance professionals, the three-day event, to be held 5-8 March 2018 in Galveston, Texas, features a technical program and lineup of expert speakers as well as ISA-led training, a vendor exhibition and networking activities. -
The Perfect Analogy for Electrical Safety Principles
By Philip Allen, Grace Engineered Products Driving to work last week, deep in thought, pondering the many reasons companies use Permanent Electrical Safety Devices (PESDs) in their electrical safety programs I finally stumbled across a perfect analogy for electrical safety principles. -
Endress+Hauser announces opening of third Chinese plant
The plant will give the centers of competence for flow measurement engineering, liquid analysis and temperature measurement engineering additional capacity. -
Endress+Hauser announces free instrumentation training for military veterans
The technical curriculum being taught by Endress+Hauser will offer in-depth training on technology and instrumentation for monitoring and managing temperature, flow and pressure for machinery and equipment in industrial process industries. -
Columbia Machine announces partnership with OTTO Motors
As a Certified OTTO Motors Integration Partner, Columbia Machine is able to incorporate the OTTO 1500 Self Driving Vehicle (SDV) into current and future applications. -
ISA announces Beamex to continue for 5th year as ISA partner
This announcement signifies that Beamex will continue to work with ISA to co-develop informational and educational resources, such as custom webinars on vital issues in calibration and instrumentation process improvement—which are offered at no charge to ISA members and customers worldwide. -
5 Best Practices to Achieve Cost Competitiveness in Commodity Chemicals
By Eric Kaufman, AspenTech Right now, commodity chemical producers need to shift their focus from growth to improving cost competitiveness. These 5 best practices show how cost competitiveness can be mastered to help commodity chemicals producers achieve sustainable competitive differentiation. -
PI releases 250 page catalog for mechatronic actuators and nanopositioning systems
Products covered in this catalog use PI’s in-house designed and manufactured Mars Rover-tested piezo ceramic actuators as their drive principle. -
Control Station announces 2018 North America training services calendar
Control Station’s 2018 training services calendar currently lists a total of sixteen workshops scheduled in industrial centers across the United States and Canada. In particular the scheduled workshops target process manufacturers located throughout the Great Lakes, Gulf and Pacific Northwest regions. -
Journey of Understanding: How Seeq Empowers Insights & Analytics
By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com With Seeq, users now have an application to perform analytics and optimize operations on their own, without having to engage data scientists and other IT experts -
Koch-Glitsch partners with INVISTA Performance Technology to bring DTL process technology to refineries
DTL process technology converts light olefins, present in fluidized-bed catalytic cracking (FCC) off-gas, coker off-gas and other refinery streams, into high-octane gasoline blend stock. -
Safe and Sound: 7 Strategies on How Young Startups Can Protect Their Digital Assets
By Rick Delgado, Freelance Automation Commentator This guide seeks to educate a startups management on inexpensive methods of protecting their digitals assets and online business information.
