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ABB

Bringing process and power together

Added: 18 Feb 2013

Managing the process and the power systems that serve it through a single integrated control system…

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Siemens adds widescreen terminal devices

Added: 15 Jan 2013

Manchester, UK – Siemens Industry has added “highly efficient” industrial thin clients to its range…

Rotork at Dutch water treatment plant

Water industry needs less data, more information

Added: 28 Nov 2012

London – Regulators are driving the water industry to adopt whole life asset management to help rai…

ABB Survey 12

Time to get smart when it comes to process measurement

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Industrial instrumentation is undoubtedly getting smarter, but what are the key drivers encouraging…

MCerts for Europe

Added: 19 Nov 2012

Andrew Chappell of the Environment Agency on the emergence of a Europe-wide certification for emiss…

UK valves suppliers meet N Sea demands

Added: 15 Oct 2012

?The oil & gas sector is driving demand for UK manufacturers of valves and related systems - as ref…

Emerson Barking

Getting on with wireless

Added: 6 Sep 2012

London – Even the more optimistic among proponents of convergence between WirelessHart and ISA100.1…

BP FPSO2

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…

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…

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Flexible automation of hygienic processes

Added: 25 Jul 2012

?In the food and beverage sector Analysing each individual part of a plant or installation will sho…

Emerson Barking

Sensing safety

Added: 25 Jul 2012

?Recent advances in the field of sensor technologies are proving timely for process operators in th…

CPI

Bridging the divide

Added: 23 Jul 2012

The UK process industries need to resolve long-standing differences between academics and businesse…

SABIC CAMERA Teesside

Thermal imaging for hazardous environments

Added: 19 Jul 2012

?Thermal imaging offers clear advantages in ATEX-rated and other hazardous environments, but the la…

KSB Dutch power project

Towards the energy-intelligent pump

Added: 26 Jun 2012

Frankfurt, Germany – With pumps consuming an estimated 20-25 % of the electricity produced worldwid…

Dounreay coast

Major Dounreay hazard destroyed

Added: 19 Jun 2012

One of the most dangerous legacies of Britain’s early atomic research has been destroyed

Man and his dog

Goodbye to one man and his dog

Added: 12 Jun 2012

?The process plant of the future will be controlled by just one man and a dog: the man to feed the …

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…

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…

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Steaming ahead at Dalkia biomass plant

Added: 22 Jul 2011

Energy services company Dalkia, owned by Veolia Environnement and EDF, has recently commissioned on…

smartphone

Smartphone calling

Added: 20 Jul 2011

Patrick Raleigh explains how the latest smartphone apps are widening the maintenance capabilities o…