All Control & Instrumentation

Bridging the divide
Added: 23 Jul 2012
The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

Thermal imaging for hazardous environments
Added: 19 Jul 2012
?Thermal imaging offers clear advantages in ATEX-rated and other hazardous environments, but the la…

2,000 actuators for RWE coal plant
Added: 19 Jul 2012
Altdorf, Germany – SIPOS Aktorik has received confirmation of an order for the commissioning and DC…

Research hub to address burning bioenergy issues
Added: 17 Jul 2012
David Willetts has launched a research hub dedicated to exploring bioenergy processes and techniques

Sensors show set for Silverstone
Added: 16 Jul 2012
London – The Sensors + Systems Show for control and instrumentation is this year being held, 24-25 …

Flow meter research to benefit process industries
Added: 13 Jul 2012
A new type of flow meter could facilitate the measurement of multiple velocities in a pipeline

UK units to protect Middle East pumping projects
Added: 9 Jul 2012
Great Yarmouth, UK – East Anglian electrical engineering firm Softstart UK is involved in two water…

Wireless limits security costs at US paper maker
Added: 9 Jul 2012
Stevenson, Alabama – Rock-Tenn is a major US manufacturer of paperboard and paper-based packaging, …

Lafarge using wireless to monitor critical instruments
Added: 4 Jul 2012
Bristol, UK - Lafarge Plasterboard is monitoring critical field instruments remotely from the plant…

Improving miner safety
Added: 3 Jul 2012
A penny-sized device is being developed to improve miner safety

Biscuit problem crumbled
Added: 2 Jul 2012
London – ?A process that defied automation has finally been brought into the 21st century by system…

Virtual reality goes underground to monitor nuclear waste
Added: 29 Jun 2012
Cologne, Germany – Research agencies in Germany have joined forces to develop what they believe wil…

Industrial wireless market to show five-fold growth
Added: 29 Jun 2012
San Diego, California — The worldwide market for industrial wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has dou…

BP selects Emerson as preferred N Sea automation supplier
Added: 27 Jun 2012
London – BP Exploration has selected Emerson Process Management as its preferred automation contrac…

Cyber care in the community
Added: 26 Jun 2012
Cyber attacks on UK industrial companies, including those targeting control and automation systems,…

Towards the energy-intelligent pump
Added: 26 Jun 2012
Frankfurt, Germany – With pumps consuming an estimated 20-25 % of the electricity produced worldwid…

MI5 chief: UK industry under "astonishing" rate of cyber attacks
Added: 26 Jun 2012
London - Industry is now coming under an “astonishing” rate of cyber attacks, according to Jonathan…

Honeywell leadership on the move
Added: 24 Jun 2012
London – Honeywell has appointed Darius Adamczyk as president of Honeywell Process Solutions. He mo…

Energy-cost cooler
Added: 23 Jun 2012
Reading, Pennsylvania — RPA Engineering is employing Allen-Bradley technology within, what it claim…

Major Dounreay hazard destroyed
Added: 19 Jun 2012
One of the most dangerous legacies of Britain’s early atomic research has been destroyed