All Control & Instrumentation

SCADA security: An alternative to patching
Added: 22 Oct 2012
On-line article posted by Eric Byres of Tofino Security:
When it comes to the patching of SCADA and…

Demand grows for virtualised services
Added: 19 Oct 2012
London – UK businesses are increasingly turning to virtualisation to help them reduce costs yet gro…

Virtual patching to reduce risk
Added: 18 Oct 2012
London – In today’s industrial organisations, patching process control system software to remove se…

Welsh power station drives down oil costs
Added: 17 Oct 2012
Aberthaw, UK – Aberthaw Power Station in Wales is saving £350,000 a year on its oil costs following…

Saudi Aramco inks procurement deal with Yokogawa
Added: 17 Oct 2012
Riyadh – Saudi Aramco has signed a corporate procurement agreement (CPA) with Yokogawa: a deal cove…

Experts debate choice between Rockwell and Siemens PLCs (Comment added)
Added: 17 Oct 2012
The PLC market is dominated by two giants - Siemens and Rockwell. Optima Control Solutions works wi…

UK valves suppliers meet N Sea demands
Added: 15 Oct 2012
?The oil & gas sector is driving demand for UK manufacturers of valves and related systems - as ref…

£2.5m to promote water industry innovation
Added: 15 Oct 2012
Grants totalling over £2.5m have been awarded to seven research projects that aim to develop proces…

Cott Beverages solves level sensing problem at UK plant
Added: 15 Oct 2012
Nelson, UK – Cott Beverages has completed a project to resolve a level-sensing problem on a bottle-…

Oxygen sensor for safer pharma, chemicals operations
Added: 12 Oct 2012
London – Pharmaceuticals and speciality chemicals are typically produced in batches by mixing sever…

SMEs to help oil and gas sector to innovate
Added: 11 Oct 2012
London – Thirteen small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are to share UK government funding for f…

Severn Trent Water taps Capula for AMP6
Added: 9 Oct 2012
Gouda, The Netherlands - Severn Trent Water has appointed Capula, recently acquired by Royal Imtech…

Testing regimes demand careful consideration
Added: 5 Oct 2012
Testing is a very important - and sometimes under appreciated - aspect of bringing a new product to…

Alstom turbines for new gas-fired power station
Added: 2 Oct 2012
London – Alstom has been awarded a contract to supply the electromechanical equipment for the new C…

New SIL3 SAFESERIES safety relays from Weidmüller
Added: 2 Oct 2012
New SIL3 SAFESERIES safety relays from Weidmuller
With its new SAFESERIES safety relays, Weidmüller …

New guided wave radar from VEGA
Added: 24 Sep 2012
The new VEGAFLEX 80 Guided Wave Radar ‘automatically’ delivers versatility and reliability for leve…

BP taps Emerson for new FPSO project
Added: 21 Sep 2012
London – Emerson Process Management has been awarded a $21 million contract to provide integrated c…

Process sectors move to embedded-PLC terminals
Added: 18 Sep 2012
Wellingborough, UK – Cost and factory space requirements, particularly in the food & beverage and p…

Recycler trims £50k off energy bill
Added: 17 Sep 2012
A plastics recycling company is set to save nearly £50,000 a year on energy costs following the fit…

New differential pressure sensors from Kistler Instruments
Added: 17 Sep 2012
Sponsored article:
Kistler Instruments (www.kistler.co.uk) has launched a range of small, versatile,…