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Industry analysis: unleashing the potential of the IIoT
Rob Smith | Added: 3 Oct 2016
Technologies that connect us to the Internet of Things already exist, but don’t expect everyone to …

Meet the next generation of tech innovators
Louisa Hearn | Added: 5 Sep 2016
A new wave of graduate entrepreneurs are being helped on their way to deliver highly disruptive tec…

Micro-generation: a new frontier
Added: 4 Nov 2015
The UK’s rapidly growing waste-to-energy market is catching the eye of control technology firms.
Service in the sky
Added: 17 Sep 2014
Does the future of the computerised maintenance management system reside in the Cloud?
Remote control
Added: 3 Jul 2014
As technology costs come down and engineering skills get stretched, an increasing number of offshor…

Centralised control room operations
Added: 8 Jul 2013
In recent years there has been a growing move to centralise control room operations within the proc…

Energy: Headline prices only part of the story
Added: 19 Nov 2012
Chris Best, joint managing director at energyTEAM, reveals management ‘tricks’ that could save you …

Virtual patching to reduce risk
Added: 18 Oct 2012
London – In today’s industrial organisations, patching process control system software to remove se…

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…

Stop-start water cycle blocks technology flow
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – ?After a slow start to the current Asset Management Plan - AMP5 (2010-15) - suppliers have…

Drax axes 'new biomass' plans
Added: 8 Mar 2012
London – ?Drax Group PLC has scrapped plans to build a dedicated 300MW biomass plant at its 4,000MW…

Cloud is only as good as you make it
Added: 4 Oct 2011
London — Businesses expecting automatic improvements to their IT infrastructure by moving to the cl…

Oil & gas sector needs better planning of pressure safety valve testing
Added: 3 Oct 2011
London — Valve engineering and management company Severn Unival is advising oil and gas companies t…

Manager kicks a hornets' nest
Added: 21 Jul 2011
Patrick Raleigh reports from the ACE conference in Manchester, where a wireless challenge was throw…

Energy issues form the backdrop to OE11 event
Added: 1 Jul 2011
David Clough sets the scene for a show that puts the sustainability of the oil and gas industry fir…

Control systems blamed for a third of downtime
Added: 7 Jun 2011
Houston, Texas – An industry-wide shortage of software-experienced engineers and over-extended equi…

7 out of 10 relay preference for simpler safety
Added: 11 Apr 2011
London - If you’re one of those engineers who prefers to stick with more basic, tried-and-tested te…