All Control & Instrumentation

Who monitors the monitoring system? (Comment)
Added: 9 Nov 2012
Condition monitoring (CM) has been used in the marine industry for many years, typically using data…

Honeywell launches mobile app
Added: 8 Nov 2012
London – Honeywell has unveiled a mobility application that provides secure remote access to it’s E…

Automation of new biopower plant
Added: 7 Nov 2012
Helsinki – Pohjolan Voima officially started up a new biopower plant in Hämeenkyrö, Finland – the c…

Yokogawa control system for Rabigh II project
Added: 7 Nov 2012
London - Yokogawa is to supply its Centum VP production control system and the ProSafe-RS safety in…

Metso valves for Sappi expansion
Added: 3 Nov 2012
Helsinki – Metso will deliver all the automated process valves required for Sappi’s fiberline expan…

New Aurora Trace Laser moisture analyser from GE
Added: 30 Oct 2012
BILLERICA, MASS. — GE has unveiled the new Aurora Trace moisture analyzer, which uses high definit…

UK against mandatory reporting of cyber attacks
Added: 26 Oct 2012
London – The UK government will, next year, launch a collaborative initiative with industry to help…

Actuators for district heating in Moscow
Added: 26 Oct 2012
Moscow, Russia – With temperatures dropping as low as -40°C, thousands of multi-flat dwellings in M…

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…