All Control & Instrumentation

Partial stroke testing system goes remote
Added: 13 Sep 2012
London – Dutch valve safety product maker Netherlocks has developed the facility for entirely remot…

Getting on with wireless
Added: 6 Sep 2012
London – Even the more optimistic among proponents of convergence between WirelessHart and ISA100.1…

ABB technologies at WWEM 2012
Added: 6 Sep 2012
London – At the Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring (WWEM) 2012 exhibition, 7-8 Nov, at …

Hydrogen monitoring improves Syngas efficiency
Added: 5 Sep 2012
London – Syngas (synthesis gas) is manufactured from feedstocks containing carbon, such as coal, he…

Big tanks go for advanced level sensing
Added: 4 Sep 2012
London – ?Tank-fill level can be a relatively straightforward parameter to monitor, but level senso…

Hima-Sella starts UK refinery upgrade
Added: 4 Sep 2012
Stockport, UK – Under a circa £1.75-million contract, Hima-Sella has commenced work on a site-wide …

Drive saves Kent metals company £10k a year
Added: 4 Sep 2012
Sittingbourne, UK – Medway Galvanising Co. Ltd is set to save over £10,000 a year in electrical ene…

Intelligent biogas analysers control AD desulphurisation
Added: 4 Sep 2012
Basildon , UK - With increasing volumes of waste now being processed to generate ‘renewable energy’…

Prepare for the Internet of Things
Added: 4 Sep 2012
Viewpoint from Mike Lees, business manager of HardwarePT:
Every year the world of enterprise IT deli…

Cloud computing offers silver lining
Added: 4 Sep 2012
Growth plans shouldn’t be put on the backburner despite a difficult economy, according to Chris Pap…
Japanese researchers improve coating technique
Added: 31 Aug 2012
A research group at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan have improved a co…

Research to investigate impact of biofuel processes
Added: 23 Aug 2012
Aston University Bioenergy Research Group (BERG) has been awarded £424,000 of research funds, as pa…

Nanosensor array detects harmful substances
Added: 22 Aug 2012
The University of California has enabled a US company to develop a novel sensor that can detect sma…

Cyber attack hits Saudi Aramco
Added: 20 Aug 2012
Riyadh - Saudi Aramco has come under a cyber attack, which caused a sudden disruption to parts of o…

Waiting for a single wireless standard
Added: 17 Aug 2012
?Imagine you have just powered up a brand new smartphone, say the popular Samsung Galaxy, only to f…

Wood Group PSN to build CMMS for Shell Prelude
Added: 15 Aug 2012
London – Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has been awarded a $10 million (AUD) contract by Shell to build the…

Disconnect while live connector for hazardous atmospheres
Added: 9 Aug 2012
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ABB launches hazardous-area wireless devices
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London – ABB has launched a wireless mesh router and wireless bridge for hazardous field automation…

Oil & gas cyber threat
Added: 8 Aug 2012
Livingston, UK – Information security breaches at businesses, government agencies and industrial co…

Instrumentation: Engineers not using their intelligence
Added: 8 Aug 2012
London – Over 40% of companies are not using intelligent features embedded within process instrumen…