All Control & Instrumentation

Control rooms - do we still need them?
Added: 13 Feb 2012
Current advances in the field of process control are likely to spell the end for traditional contro…

Heinz generates energy savings at Irish plant
Added: 10 Feb 2012
Dundalk, Republic of Ireland – The first steam generators to be used with the HJ Heinz Group have b…

Automation settles microbrewery nerves
Added: 6 Feb 2012
Stroud Brewery, an organic craft microbrewery based in Gloucestershire, has moved from making beer …

Rockwood Pigments moves to paper-free maintenance
Added: 31 Jan 2012
Rockwood Pigments’ manufacturing site at Kidsgrove, Stoke-on-Trent, is on its way to saying goodbye…

System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

Yokogawa for Arrow LNG project
Added: 23 Jan 2012
Tokyo – Yokogawa Electric Corp.. has been awarded a contract by CJV – a JV between Chiyoda Corp. as…

UK fracking company adds leak monitoring equipment
Added: 20 Jan 2012
Cambridge, UK – Cuadrilla Resources of Lichfield, UK, recently announced the presence of significan…

Virtual reality for UK nuclear reactor group
Added: 20 Jan 2012
Sheffield, UK – Virtalis has designed and installed two virtual reality (VR) systems for the new Nu…

Petrobras approves "world's first" modular small scale GTL facility
Added: 20 Jan 2012
London – Petrobras has qualified and approved CompactGTL’s modular gas-to-liquid (GTL) technology f…

Statoil targets four oil & gas production technologies
Added: 18 Jan 2012
Oslo – Statoil has identified four technologies as critical to its strategy to increase production …

Thames Water advances secure remote monitoring and control of critical assets
Added: 11 Jan 2012
London – Thames Water is installing industrial-grade Ethernet routers – which provide secure, ADSL …

Statoil contract to develop real-time environmental monitoring system
Added: 16 Dec 2011
Oslo – Statoil has awarded Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies a contract, worth NOK150 million over t…

Line between DCS and PLC systems continues to blur
Added: 9 Dec 2011
London – The field of industrial automation (IA) is at a cross roads. All major IA vendors acknowle…

Russia fertiliser producer adds Honeywell simulation system
Added: 8 Dec 2011
London – Russia’s largest mineral fertilizer producer EuroChem is to equip five of its ammonia prod…

Oakwell orders 43 Litre Meter flowmeters for Dubai project
Added: 8 Dec 2011
London – Litre Meter has shipped 43 VFF positive displacement flowmeters to Singapore-based Oakwell…

Cisco doubles wireless standards
Added: 29 Nov 2011
Under a deal with Cisco Systems, Honeywell is offering a new wireless access point from Cisco withi…

Tata Steel taps Emerson for Wales plant upgrade
Added: 24 Nov 2011
Austin, Texas – Tata Steel’s Port Talbot facility in Wales has upgraded control of its largest stea…

Automation industry event set for London
Added: 23 Nov 2011
London – Control & automation industry association GAMBICA and Intellect - a ’technology industry’ …

Hanson Cement prevents emissions rules halting UK plant
Added: 23 Nov 2011
Clitheroe, UK – Hanson Cement has resolved an inherent design fault on the bearing assembly of a la…