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Yokogawa to provide process automation tools to Oman petrochemical facility
The Liwa Plastics Industries Complex is being built in Sohar, on Oman’s northern coast. This package order is for 15 analyzer houses and associated analysis systems consisting of process analyzers and sampling instruments. -
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What Do Your Motors Really Do?
By Markus Brettschneider, ABB Food and Beverage This article explains how food plant managers can add a similar level of connectivity to retrofit most motors with smart sensors to bring their plants to the digital age. -
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ABB to deliver friction hoist and control system to Canadian potash mine
For this project, ABB will supply the production hoist and all related mechanical and electrical systems at the South shaft of the K3 mine. Mechanical equipment for the friction hoist will include ABB’s synchronous motor and ABB’s SIL 3 rated Safety Brake System to provide safety, security and reliability for hoist operation. -
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Out of the Dark Age: How Data Can Transform Industrial Safety
By George Schuster, Rockwell Automation Many safety teams, in comparison, are stuck in the dark ages. That’s because they still rely on antiquated data-collection and reporting techniques. A Connected Enterprise provides an opportunity to close this disparity – and revolutionize industrial safety through the use of safety data. -
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Gateways, Partitions and Tenants: A Checklist for Building the Right Architecture for Cloud-based Historians
By Jan Pingel & Matthew Burd, Honeywell Process Solutions One of the most important characteristics of a connected plant is the ability to increase and enhance collaboration to help solve previously unsolvable problems. The emergence of the cloud-based historian is a key component, therefore, to bringing the connected plant to life because it greatly enables this type of collaboration. -
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Skkynet announces Francois van Vuuren as newest member of Skkynet Advisory Board
Mr. van Vuuren has been certified as a Certified Licensing Professional, and is currently in charge of service sales in the EMEA and APAC regions for Silicon Valley-based Harmonic, and will be a valuable asset in assisting Skkynet with complex partnership and sales negotiations. -
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Rotork provides LP actuators for Middle East oil refinery
One significant order involves the supply of 70 LP range linear pneumatic actuators for the operation of large gate valves. The order for these actuators includes the assembly and factory testing of local control panels with digital valve positioners. -
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Questions to Ask When Specifying a Frame Grabber for Machine Vision Applications
Standardization has changed the game in many industries, making life easier for engineers and manufacturers alike. Nowhere has standardization been more keenly observed than in frame grabbers. -
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Emerson announces completion of Total Uncertainty Management program with Statoil
The program focused on how E&P companies can improve history matching, uncertainty management and quantification across the entire reservoir characterization workflow through Roxar Tempest ENABLE, Emerson’s history matching and uncertainty estimation software solution. -
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ISA and the Automation Federation to work with US and the UK on initiatives to reduce risks of industrial cyberattack
The objective of the gathering was to examine operational technology/Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) cybersecurity challenges facing both the US and the UK. -
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Okuma America earns Charlotte, NC 2017 Mayor’s International Community Award
Okuma’s donation of $100,000 in machine tools to the engineering technology programs at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC), enables students to gain valuable hands-on machining experience and the skill set needed to enter the manufacturing workforce -
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B+B SmartWorx announces appointment of Mike Fahrion as CTO
Fahrion will assume this role in addition to his leadership of the Edge Intelligence Communications Product Division of the company. -
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Fluke announces launch of Fluke Pressure Calibration Tool Grant Program
The Fluke Pressure Calibration Tool Grant Program lets educators have a chance to win Fluke pressure calibration tools for their labs by giving Fluke’s product design team input on the specific challenges facing technicians working in the process industries. -
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Rockwell Automation CEO lauds potential of IoT at IoT World Forum
According to the Global IoT Decision Maker Survey published by International Data Corporation (IDC), nearly one-third (31 percent) of those surveyed have already launched IoT solutions, and another 43 percent are looking to deploy solutions in the next 12 months. -
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Wood Group announces acquisition of CEC Controls Company
This follows the acquisition of the Automated Technology Group (ATG), one of the UK’s largest independent suppliers of control and power solutions for industrial automation, in September 2015. -
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ABB to showcase solar technology investments at Intersolar Europe
ABB’s solar conversion technology is suitable for power ranges from small kW to multi-MW, and is backed up by a comprehensive package of communication, monitoring and control solutions, designed to maximize solar power profits and support across the entire life cycle of a project. -
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AMCI partners with IDEC to create AMCI by IDEC line of stepper motors and controllers
The AMCI by IDEC product line includes controllers, stepper motors, and integrated solutions for the FC6A MicroSmart PLC. Integration is a combination of two or more components that usually make up a system. -
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ABB helps automate Quebec lithium mine
Nemaska Lithium is developing the Whabouchi spodumene deposit to meet the growing global demand for lithium batteries to be used in electric vehicles and energy storage systems, as well as in various consumer electronics. -
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Data Device Corporation announces acquisition of North Hills Signal Processing Corporation
This addition of North Hills Signal Processing to the DDC family expands DDC’s transformer product and technology portfolio with MIL-STD-1553, RF wideband, interface and power magnetic solutions, along with expanded manufacturing capabilities and engineering resources. -
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How to address Safety, Reliability, and IoT in your Material Handling applications
This free June 6 session will explore emerging trends in material handling and the best ways to ensure that equipment is designed and operates reliably and safely.
