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Improving Processes by using Sequential Empirical Optimization (SEO)

  • September 13, 2013
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor The ability to improve manufacturing operations is growing with the application of software that can leverage lower cost computing. More than 30 years ago, ULTRAMAX Corporation commercialized an interesting software product to optimize the operating performance of industrial processes. I recently caught up with the Founder and CEO to learn more about the product and their philosophy and perspective of industrial process optimization.

AVEVA to supply PDMS software to Russian design company

  • August 29, 2013
  • News

LLC GSE-Giprokauchuk is a Russian company that does design and research for the chemical, petrochemical and synthetic rubber industries.

Metso to supply ball and butterfly valves to polyurethane plant

  • August 20, 2013
  • News

The valves will be used in an MDI integration project (diphenymethane disocyanate) and a new PO/AE integration project under construction in China (epoxy propane and acrylic ester).

Honeywell Process Solutions Shares Service Risk

  • August 2, 2013
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor At the recent Honeywell User Group (HUG) 2013 conference, Honeywell announced new services under the Assurance 360 program for owners of Honeywell systems. The overall goal of these programs is a reduction of unplanned events, faster problem resolution, and better plant performance.

Endress+Hauser Announces October Training Schools

  • July 22, 2013
  • News

Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training on either the Endress+Hauser Process Training Unit (PTU) or live instruments in training stands, both designed to simulate operating conditions.

Honeywell System Integrator Program 'Firing on all Cylinders'

  • July 8, 2013
  • Feature

By Bill Lydon, Editor The Honeywell system integrator initiative was launched in 2009 and has quickly become a solid program to serve small to midrange customers with Honeywell’s modular systems. There are 200 system integrators in the program with 55 of them located in the United States.

RTU as an Intelligent Remote Gateway

  • June 12, 2013
  • Feature

By Kevin L. Finnan The trend toward intelligent devices in remote SCADA installations would seem to put remote terminal units (RTUs) on the path to obsolescence. Instead, it illustrates the evolving value of RTUs in contemporary systems.

Empowering Users to Create Information Dashboards

  • June 10, 2013
  • Case Study

By Bill Lydon, Editor Over the last two years, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) UK Petrochemicals has empowered users to create custom dashboards based on Excel spreadsheet data and calculations using software from Sabisu. The software enables people to organize their data around "Communities" related to areas of interest.

Monsanto Muscatine Named 2012 HART Plant of the Year

  • May 15, 2013
  • News

Monsanto engineers used the full capabilities of HART Communication to “get connected” and integrate the intelligent information from more than 600 HART-enabled devices into their control systems.

Mettler Toledo publishes Hazardous Area Catalog

  • May 10, 2013
  • News

Catalog covers weighing solutions for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries with hazardous environments.