Following 13 months of critical execution to keep complete functionality of Melbourne Water’s Eastern Treatment Plant that processes more than 52% of Melbourne’s waste water, engineering solutions provider O’Donnell Griffin completed the electrical works component of the wet weather upgrade project. [ + ]

To integrate a pneumatic cylinder into an automated system, it is necessary to supply signals to the controller indicating the position status of the cylinders. Pneumatic cylinder manufacturers, machine builders and end users have developed a number of ways to detect extension or retraction of a pneumatic cylinder and provide a signal to the control system. [ + ]

Rockwell Automation’s ControlLogix helped a large-scale New Zealand cheese manufacturer automate its cheese slicing process. [ + ]

The Fisher Fieldvue DVC6200f with linkage-less, non-contact position feedback and FOUNDATION fieldbus communication provides prompt alerts on potential valve problems. [ + ]

Enterprise-wide centralised control combined with mobility solutions and local control station (iPC) architectures are the fundamental building blocks for industrial digitisation. [ + ]

ABB’s PCS 6000 Statcom enables further growth of Europe’s largest wind farm. [ + ]

If the analyser in your analytical system requires gas but your sample is liquid, the only option is to convert the liquid to gas. This process is called vaporisation or flash vaporisation. The objective is to convert a sample of all liquid to all vapour instantly - without changing the composition. [ + ]

Process plants have useful lives of 30 to 50 years, during which time they are routinely retrofitted. Virtual reality software simplifies and helps keep track of retrofit planning and testing. Fraunhofer researchers and BASF SE are jointly developing VR solutions for the plant life cycle. [ + ]

Virtualisation offers the promise of lower IT costs and higher levels of business continuity for industrial companies. [ + ]

Nature inspires advanced anaerobic technologies to cleanly transform wastewater into green energy. [ + ]

In the course of modernisation of one of its stormwater basins, the wastewater treatment plant Waiblingen-Hegnach decided to implement radar measurement technology from VEGA. The basin, which is 5 kilometres away from the treatment plant, is monitored reliably by three radar sensors. [ + ]

Powder-handling tasks typically impose rigorous demands upon the actuators and isolators used in their materials handling systems. [ + ]

The volatility of the coal industry, and the ongoing search for alternative energy resources, has resulted in many Australian coal miners investing heavily in R&D to discover the optimal coal-to-liquid process (CTL). CTL plants cost billions to get established so it is critical to ensure the project viability before proceeding. [ + ]

Billions of packages of all kinds are filled around the world every day. ‘Package’ can mean bottle, jar, tube, box or can - any container filled with product. All prepackaged goods by law display net weight or volume and number of pieces. [ + ]

Companies in Australia have discovered that direct digital manufacturing is a powerful alternative, rather than a direct replacement, to the conventional manufacturing processes. [ + ]