All Control & Instrumentation

Flowmeter upgrade for Austrian crude-oil pipeline
Added: 16 Dec 2012
Vienna – Adria-Wien Pipeline GmbH (AWP) has upgraded custody-transfer measurement on the Adria-Wien…

Rapid response restores fire-hit power plant
Added: 12 Dec 2012
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO) of South Korea faced serious problems w…

ABB introduces HV flameproof motor
Added: 10 Dec 2012
London – ABB has launched a new high voltage flameproof induction motor that is certified up to IEC…
Software improves plant control strategies
Added: 7 Dec 2012
Swedish researchers have teamed up with the paper industry to improve plant control strategies

Reducing bulk solvents in the process industries
Added: 3 Dec 2012
Bulk solvents used in the process industries can pose a serious threat to human and environmental h…

Tata saves £250k on fume-extraction energy costs
Added: 30 Nov 2012
Rotheram, UK – Tata Steel has cut annual energy costs by £250,000 following the installation of var…

Invensys to 'focus more' on process automation
Added: 30 Nov 2012
London – Invensys will invest more heavily in its industrial software, systems and control equipmen…

New flowmeter can be installed ‘hot’ into live pipework
Added: 29 Nov 2012
Spirax Sarco has launched a rotor insertion flowmeter for steam, gas and liquids, which is designed…

Invensys selling rail unit to Siemens for £1.74bn
Added: 29 Nov 2012
London - Invensys plc is selling its rail business to Siemens for £1,742 million as part of a strat…

Water industry needs less data, more information
Added: 28 Nov 2012
London – Regulators are driving the water industry to adopt whole life asset management to help rai…

Yokogawa rejigs SIS for heat, other vendors' control systems
Added: 28 Nov 2012
London – Emergency plant shutdown, fire prevention and firefighting in the oil, natural gas, petroc…

Landfill gas analysers for China
Added: 23 Nov 2012
Beijing – The Liulitun landfill in Haidian District of Beijing has installed a UK-made Geotech fixe…

Virtual look to Rockwell automation release
Added: 23 Nov 2012
London - Current demands on operators to improve productivity and safety, and on engineers to strea…

New VPU surge voltage protection devices from Weidmüller
Added: 22 Nov 2012
Weidmüller’s new comprehensive lightning and surge protection VPU series fulfils requirements for p…

Improved detection of hazardous chemicals
Added: 21 Nov 2012
Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a system to quickly detect trace amounts of ch…

Energy metering in the process industries
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Currently, how well geared up are UK process companies to measure the amount of energy they are usi…

Energy: Headline prices only part of the story
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Chris Best, joint managing director at energyTEAM, reveals management ‘tricks’ that could save you …

Time to get smart when it comes to process measurement
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Industrial instrumentation is undoubtedly getting smarter, but what are the key drivers encouraging…

MCerts for Europe
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Andrew Chappell of the Environment Agency on the emergence of a Europe-wide certification for emiss…

New Industrial Ethernet Router ensures different networks interoperate with top-level security
Added: 15 Nov 2012
Weidmuller’s new total solution Router is designed for Gigabit Ethernet security applications in re…