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Process safety: smart enclosures
Rob Smith | Added: 4 Apr 2016
Materials specification and innovative design are modernising the enclosures market, writes Robert …

Case study: weighing solution offers ground control
Added: 22 Mar 2016
Flooring manufacturer finds firmer footing with new weighing installation.

Batch production: weighing it up
Added: 22 Mar 2016
Accurate weighing is the key to effective batch production within a process, writes Michelle Knott.
Case study: slurry power
Added: 23 Feb 2016
A biogas plant is generating electricity from low-temperature waste heat.

Case study: a sense of security
Added: 9 Feb 2016
New sensors reduce reliance on field calibration at UK packaging company.

Calibration: monitoring the vital signs
Louisa Hearn | Added: 9 Feb 2016
As process control instruments proliferate in the plant, operators are turning to new technologies …

Maintenance: the end of repairs?
Added: 26 Jan 2016
Using technology to predict and prevent failures of equipment is a well-known and growing trend. Bu…

Calibration: Field factors
Added: 22 Jan 2016
The case for calibrating equipment in either a workshop or the field is not always black and white,…

Feeding the future
Louisa Hearn | Added: 19 Jan 2016
The food and drink industry is being squeezed from every direction. Will process innovation become …

Step change for heat exchangers
Added: 11 Jan 2016
The transition from shell-and-tube to plate heat exchangers is gathering pace, writes Michelle Knot…

Clean screens
Louisa Hearn | Added: 6 Jan 2016
Self-cleaning filters are making steady inroads into production processes, writes Louisa Hearn.

Critical care
Added: 17 Dec 2015
There are real advantages to be gained from renting specialist equipment, writes Will Russell of As…
Small and potentially mighty
Added: 20 Nov 2015
Big data, the industrial internet of things, smart integration and the cloud are all buzzwords we c…
Battle stations: industrial cyber crime
Rob Smith | Added: 19 Oct 2015
As computer hackers set sight on industrial targets, cyber security experts are throwing their weig…

Hot spot: thermal monitoring technology
Added: 28 Sep 2015
Food manufacturers use thermal monitoring technology to control a wide variety of their processes. …

Under control
Added: 8 Sep 2015
Safety systems are the first-response unit when things go wrong in a process plant, preventing smal…

A sense of danger
Added: 5 Aug 2015
Can a new generation of detection devices mitigate the risk of catastrophic gas leaks within the pr…
Biomass boilers: what are the boiling points?
Added: 1 Jul 2015
With maintenance issues and capital costs causing concern, Robert Smith finds out whether biomass b…

Smooth operators
Added: 1 Jul 2015
Ensuring high lubrication quality should be at top priority within almost every process plant.

What goes around
Added: 24 Jun 2015
Prevention is far better than a cure when it comes to safeguarding critical rotating equipment.