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ASM Consortium visits BP site and focuses on procedures

  • September 17, 2012
  • News

The Abnormal Situation Management (ASM) Consortium met in Hull, UK for a quarterly meeting to discuss their latest research and administrative business.

Emerson integrates gauging system and wireless for tank farm automation

  • September 17, 2012
  • Case Study

System installation costs can be reduced up to 50% by wirelessly connecting the tank farm to the control room, with the added benefit of reducing implementation time as much as 60%.

ABB publishes leaflet on new CoriolisMaster mass flowmeters

  • September 14, 2012
  • News

According to the leaflet, the new flowmeters provide unmatched measurement accuracies and easy installation and handling in a compact, space-saving design.

AVEVA to supply software to Organika-Sarzyna

  • September 13, 2012
  • News

Organika-Sarzyna, one of Poland’s largest chemical producers, will use AVEVA NET to provide a data integrity management program for a new MCPA (phenoxy herbicide) production plant installation.

Honeywell opens engineering office in Tianjin, China

  • September 5, 2012
  • News

The new office will serve customers in oil and gas, chemical, power and pulp and paper industries.

Fox obtains hazardous area approvals for Mass Flow Meter

  • August 29, 2012
  • News

Model FT3 Thermal Mass Flow Meter & Temperature Transmitter obtained FM, FMc, ATEX, and IECEx approvals.

Emerson gains hazardous area ratings for Vibration Transmitter

  • August 28, 2012
  • News

CSI 9420 now has Class I, Div 1 and ATEX Zone 0 intrinsic safety ratings, so it can be installed directly in hazardous areas.

Metso announces free RapidDraw3D Valve Model Generator

  • August 28, 2012
  • News

RapidDraw3D Valve Model Generator allows users to create realistic, to-scale, 3D valve assemblies and export them to any CAD program for use in plant piping diagrams.

Particle Sizing Webinar

  • August 23, 2012
  • News

Webinar from Malvern Instruments highlights the benefits of real-time particle sizing for the effective monitoring and control of granulation processes.

Fieldbus Foundation Updates DesignMATE Design Tool

  • August 21, 2012
  • News

The updates cover DesignMATE's library of registered devices, and revised terminology used within the software to align with current FOUNDATION fieldbus installations.

ACM Facility Safety Announces Spring Process Safety Courses

  • March 7, 2014
  • News

Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training covering various aspects of process safety, including P&ID drawings, hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies, Safety Integrity Level (SIL), Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), and similar topics.

ACM Facility Safety Offers Free Process Safety Workshop

  • February 21, 2014
  • News

The free workshop teaches the essential elements of Safety Instrumented Systems including how to comply with myriad safety requirements. The workshop is available in a two-day classroom in Calgary, or as a three-day webinar.

UOP to control Propylene plant in China

  • February 20, 2014
  • News

Ningbo Fortune Petrochemical, a Chinese petrochemical producer, selected UOP's C3 Oleflex process technology to convert propane to propylene.

Endress+Hauser sales reach $2.43 billion

  • February 4, 2014
  • News

Endress+Hauser Group increased its net sales by approximately 7 percent to over 1.8 billion euros ($2.43 billion) in the 2013 financial year.

Schneider Electric's Integration of Invensys

  • January 28, 2014
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies.

2014 Manufacturing Outlook from Siemens CEO

  • January 27, 2014
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, provided his views on the 2014 manufacturing outlook and other industry topics, including the first live display of an assembly line at the Auto Show in Detroit, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first assembly line.

Honeywell UOP to control two petrochemical plants in China

  • January 21, 2014
  • News

Shandong Huachao Chemical will use the UOP C4 Oleflex process to produce isobutylene, while Zibo Qixiang Tengda Chemical will use the UOP Butamer process to transform normal butane to isobutane.

Metso to supply valves to Sadara Chemical in Saudi Arabia

  • January 17, 2014
  • News

The control and on/off valves, emergency shut-down valves, and ball and butterfly valves will be delivered to Sadara's fully integrated chemicals complex currently under construction in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Windows XP Cyber Time Bomb set for April 8, 2014

  • January 3, 2014
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor The huge installed base of automation software running on Windows XP will be vulnerable to cyber-attacks with the end of Windows XP support April 8, 2014. More than 12 years old, Windows XP is the longest supported version of Windows ever and therefore is the most used in industrial automation systems.

AVEVA supplies Everything3D design software to EMS-CHEMIE

  • December 10, 2013
  • News

EMS-CHEMIE moved to the Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) software for design of its chemical facilities right in the middle of an ongoing project.