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Report observes a decline in the incident rate in the petroleum and chemical industries, but an increase in the incident rate in the water & wastewater and the power & utilities industries.

Emerson will provide equipment, software, and services to modernize LUKOIL’s process automation at their oil and gas refineries, petrochemical plants, and related facilities.

Using PlantWeb control and predictive maintenance technologies, INEOS Chlor has been able to reduce venting of hydrogen gas and instead use it as a fuel to heat onsite boilers for power generation.

One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors.

Engineering Institute of Technology focuses on advanced distance learning in engineering and technology in areas such as industrial automation, electrical and mechanical engineering and industrial IT.

The new endorsed partners are Avanceon LP, located in Exton, Penn., and Tegron LLC, an operating unit of Glenmount Global Solutions, located in Irving, Texas.

Wonderware IntelaTrac mobile solution achieved Enterprise Mobility validation through Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility Validated Solution Program.

The new OPC UA technology provides an efficient and secure infrastructure for communications - from sensor to business enterprise computing for all automation systems in manufacturing and process control. OPC UA leverages web services to provide a single programming paradigm in a scalable architecture that can be implemented is a range of devices - from embedded to enterprise.

By Paul Miller and Dick Hill, ARC Advisory Group Tuesday morning's general session for all forum tracks included presentations by Andy Chatha, ARC's President and Founder, Marty Edwards from the DHS Control Systems Security Program at Idaho National Laboratories (INL); Thomas Lange, Director of Modeling and Simulation at Procter & Gamble; and Ralph Rio, Research Director, Enterprise Advisory Services here at ARC.

Huff joins PAS from Invensys where he was Vice-President of Product Marketing and Portfolio Management.

The transition of the manufacturing base from Western Europe to low-cost eastern European countries has opened new prospects for automation.

The combination helps pulp mills improve fiberline operations by incorporating environmental and quality aspects into their control systems.

Matrikon Deutschland entered a license agreement with BASF for all production facilities worldwide to integrate and use Matrikon’s Control Performance software.

GE will supply Proficy software including Plant Applications, Historian, iFIX and Portal rolled out in a phased format led by a significant pilot project.

Centro Energia Teverola optimized their maintenance strategy for inlet filters on gas turbines, contributing to an overall efficiency improvement of more than 1%.

Web site covers maintenance and asset tracking software for all types of facilities.

Management uses Visual KPI to monitor and manage operations, predictive maintenance engineering, vibration analysis, emissions tracking and daily reports.

Prior to joining BlueCielo ECM Solutions, van der Scheer served as CEO of HITT NV, a company focusing on traffic management and navigation systems in the marine and aviation industries.

Silver Spring Foods will use the ERP system to manage its recipe management, quality control/quality assurance, accounting, lot tracking/inventory control, purchasing, sales order entry, and production processes.

A pilot ethanol processing plant built by Chematur Engineering uses Emerson's DeltaV control system with WirelessHART, Wi-Fi, FOUNDATION fieldbus, AMS, and Rosemount wireless pressure and temperature transmitters.