All Control & Instrumentation

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

SICK, Yokogawa in global process instrumentation deal
Added: 18 Jun 2012
Frankfurt, Germany – Yokogawa Electric Corp. is to distribute and service process analytical instru…

Imtech to acquire Capula
Added: 18 Jun 2012
Gouda, The Netherlands - Royal Imtech NV is to acquire Capula in a move intended to extend its posi…

BARA reports big demand for UK automation grant
Added: 15 Jun 2012
London – The British Automation and Robot Association (BARA) is urging UK manufacturers to apply fo…

UK industry must plug field communications gap
Added: 15 Jun 2012
Experts from Siemens, HMS Industrial Networks and Schneider Electric give their views on why field …

Wireless helps Barking Power listen out for problems
Added: 14 Jun 2012
London - Barking Power Ltd operated by Thames Power Services, has installed Emerson Process Managem…

BP taps Emerson for Clair Ridge project
Added: 14 Jun 2012
Dusseldorf, Germany – BP has awarded Emerson Process Management a $23-million contract to supply in…

Distillation control helps MOL cut energy costs by Euro1.2m a year
Added: 14 Jun 2012
Dusseldorf, Germany – Oil & gas major MOL Group has reduced energy costs at its gas distillation pl…

Metso to automate UK waste-to-energy plants
Added: 13 Jun 2012
Helsinki – CNIM Group has selected Metso’s DNA automation systems for the North Hykeham greenfield …