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Monitoring and Managing the Unpredictable: 3 challenges for renewable energy

  • June 11, 2018
  • Feature

By Alan Binning, COPA-DATA UK Renewables are set to be the fastest-growing source of electrical energy generation in the next five years. This article explores three common issues for renewables — managing demand, combining distributed systems and reporting.

ABB to help Finnish power company enhance process monitoring capabilities

  • June 7, 2018
  • News

Housed in a glass-clad building, the 400-kilovolt (kV) Länsisalmi substation plays a key role in Finland’s transmission grid. As part of the project, ABB replaced an outdoor air-insulated switchgear (AIS) installation with its gas insulated switchgear (GIS) technology, freeing up 70 percent of the space occupied by the old facility.

Honeywell to help process monitoring at Romanian refinery

  • May 30, 2018
  • News

OMV will use the Honeywell Connected Plant's Process Insight Reliability Advisor to continuously feed plant data through Honeywell UOP process and fault models, and to provide performance information and process recommendations.

Honeywell to help Chinese chemical company enhance process production capability

  • May 29, 2018
  • News

Honeywell will provide licensing, the process design package, proprietary and non-proprietary equipment, on-site operator training, technical services for startup and continuing operation, and key catalysts and adsorbents for the project.

Honeywell provides process technologies for Thai aromatics facility

  • May 24, 2018
  • News

As part of the project, Honeywell UOP will provide licensing, design, key equipment and catalysts and adsorbents. When completed in 2022, the complex will produce 1.2 million metric tons per year of paraxylene used to make plastic resins, films and fibers

Honeywell helps Finnish waste plant enhance control room technology

  • May 23, 2018
  • Case Study

In addition to the Experion Orion Console, the Leppävirta site will implement Honeywell’s Field Device Manager, which uses smart instrumentation to perform device configuration and management capabilities.

Triton announces intention to sell Aventics to Emerson

  • May 17, 2018
  • News

The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018 subject to regulatory approvals, finalization of necessary consultations and other customary closing conditions.

Schneider Electric's Peter Martin inducted into MCAA Hall of Fame

  • May 2, 2018
  • News

Martin has authored three books, coauthored two, has been a contributing author for three more, and has published dozens of articles and papers in the field of automation and control. He holds or has pending multiple patents in the areas of real-time business measurement and control.

Addressing Global Cyberthreats: Insights on the cyberspace from General Michael Hayden

  • May 1, 2018
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor, Automation.com The world might not be able to eliminate the cyberthreat from existence, but today’s industrial businesses can take proactive action to ensure that they are able to effectively respond and recover if a cyberattack does come.

Rockwell Automation announces partnership with McRae Integration to develop brewery automation solut

  • April 30, 2018
  • News

The collaborative solution combines McRae’s scalable and repeatable software solutions with the PlantPAx distributed control system from Rockwell Automation. In addition, product and solution support, service and training capabilities are available globally.