Process Technology

Process Technology magazine and ProcessOnline website cover all things automation, control and instrumentation, with application and technology information for all industry sectors including food, water, mining, manufacturing, oil&gas, utilities and infrastructure. The media channel includes a monthly print/digital magazine and weekly eNewsletter. Check out magazine back copies below.

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• Industrial-strength MQTT networks — Part 2
• A guide to collaborative robot safety
• Overcoming challenges to realising predictive maintenance for Industry 4.0
• Virtual capabilities change practices for processing operations
• Remote connectivity in the post-COVID world

• Digital transformation and data analytics in the process industries
• Industrial-strength MQTT networks — Part 1
• Remote commissioning will continue after COVID-19
• Vibrating fork level instruments come of age
• Automotive parts manufacturer combines IT and Operations

• Manufacturing operations transformation
• M12 connections — the workhorse of digitalisation
• Open path toxic gas detectors — key to an integrated strategy for worker safety
• How vibration measurement saves manufacturers time and money
• Securing cellular modems in industrial applications — best practices

• Plug it in: the electrification of everything
• Australia’s EV boom: what is driving its success?
• Smart building showcase
• Insights: Kathryn Wood-Enriquez, Powerflo Solutions; Jason Venning, Fimer; David Sullivan, ABB Australia; Stephen Armstrong, Pacific Automation; Rafael Koenig, Weidmüller
• Matt Browne, Donesafe; Rosanne Jessop, Pilz Australia and New Zealand; Boris Gabin, Emerson Automation Solutions; Jon McGettigan, Fortinet International; Damien McDade, Aveva; Mark Ferguson, Kaishan Australia; Laureate Professor Ravi Naidu, CRC Care

• From choice to necessity: remote capabilities
• Edge computing: unearthing new value for mining and metals
• Industry 4.0 technology enablers in the fluid power industry
• The OT data revolution
• What do you need to know about digital twins?

• Knowledge is power
• Measuring consistency from lab to process
• Increasing the safety and reliability of ageing facilities with single loop logic solvers
• Protecting sensors in weld cells
• Decarbonisation and digitalisation: our industry can take the lead

• The roles of DCS and SCADA in digital transformation
• Machine safety: 10 common misconceptions
• Can a solution provider handle cybersecurity? Eight questions to ask
• National operations in a COVID-19 environment
• The craft of digital brewing

• Why supply chain digitisation is no longer optional
• Seiko packs its machines with added value
• Real-time location for food safety
• From nameplate via digital twin to asset health
• Understanding industrial network redundancy

• Choosing an ICS cybersecurity monitoring system
• Making resilient transformation the goal
• Systems engineering: bridging the gap
• Modular-enabled automation
• Cybersecurity in industrial applications

• Digitisation, digitalisation and digital transformation
• Industrial network infrastructure: your future business foundation — Part 2
• Getting started with digital twins
• ANSTO automates radioactive waste storage processes
• OK, but what does digital transformation mean to me?

• Industrial network infrastructure: your future business foundation — Part 1
• Inaction on emissions is not an option in a post-pandemic world
• The Internet of Things and 5G
• Twelve common Industrial Ethernet mistakes
• AI for industrial control: hocus pocus or real outcomes?

• COTS hardware in oil well production and monitoring
• Sanitary temperature sensor calibration
• Zero Trust security for industrial control systems
• A new era in oil and gas flow computing
• Collaborating on real-time data

• Going it alone
• Capturing and storing solar energy for later use
• What does ‘lifetime warranty’ mean for electrical equipment?
• Insights: John Leadbetter, VEGA Australia; Martin Broglia, Bonfiglioli Transmission; Stephen Ball, AVEVA; Warwick Bardsley, Endress+Hauser Australia; Russell Palmer, Yokogawa Australia & New Zealand; Kathryn Wood-Enriquez, Powerflo Solutions
• Chris Hoey, Bürkert Australia; Michael Sainsbury, IPD Group; Lina Goodman, Tyre Stewardship Australia; MSS Data Solutions; Simon Brown, ResourceCo; Armin Fahnle, ATS Global Australia and Indonesia; Mark Ferguson, Kaishan Australia

• 4D printing demystified
• The role of wireless in modern production
• Frequently asked questions about OPC UA over TSN
• Moving from the lab to the process
• Taking advantage of existing HART data with minimal expense

• Instrumentation — it’s not just for process control
• Digitalisation: it’s time to walk the walk
• How the Internet of Things can transform your water network
• Choosing the right heat exchanger for wastewater applications
• Building cyber resilience for industrial control systems

• Know your TCO: a look at medium-voltage VFDs
• Digital transformation or control system tuning?
• Digital twins: a primer for industrial enterprises — Part 2
• Automation can improve workplace safety but vigilance is still a must
• Are we embracing disruption?

• Digital twins: a primer for industrial enterprises — Part 1
• Edge technology: accessing and integrating critical isolated data
• New situations require new solutions
• Making integration and continuous improvement easier
• Digital technologies support the future of industrial measurement

• Machine automation and its role in digitalised manufacturing
• Don’t get caught without a cybersecurity strategy
• Turning the dream of predictive maintenance into reality
• Continuous level measurement — is non-contact radar always the answer?
• I have my head in the clouds

• The digital transformation of industry
• Economic challenges: now is the time for innovative ideas
• Transformation of the edge
• How the coronavirus pandemic can deliver new opportunities for Australian industry
• The state of manufacturing and Australian regulations

• Automation opportunities in the new space era
• The importance of being easily replaceable
• Successful OT/IT network convergence is possible
• Achieving a safe mobile robot installation
• OT-IT convergence challenges that increase cyber risk

• From Dickens to the Jetsons: forget the crystal ball
• Breaking down business risks through machine health visibility
• Gas flow measurement: what you don’t know can be very expensive
• Four generations of I/O integration
• Python and machine learning are incredible tools for IA

• AI finding a home in the water industry
• Making buildings smarter for a sustainable future
• Knowing your AC from your DC
• Insights: Anthony Wong, Rockwell Automation; Michael Sainsbury, IPD Group Ltd; Rafael Koenig, Weidmüller Australia; Kathryn Wood-Enriquez, Powerflo Solutions; and
• Adrian Minshull, Hydroflux; Harry Mulder, Omron Electronics; Tim Keech, SMC Corporation; Mauro Dellemonache, Schneider Electric

• The road from automation to autonomous systems
• Condition monitoring using the drive as a sensor
• Is 5G ready for manufacturing?
• Choices in gas detection
• Fearlessness — the true driver of digital transformation

• Moving bulk solid materials
• Floating roof monitoring using radar technology — Part 2
• Collaborative robots — application benefits for manufacturers
• Solving problems with metal additive manufacturing
• Steps to achieving industrial cybersecurity

• Cybersecurity in industrial control systems
• Floating roof monitoring using radar technology — Part 1
• Taking the next step in process optimisation
• Signal conditioning — getting the most for your money
• Without security, safety in the IIoT is of little value

• Evolving from safety relays to safety PLCs
• Digital transformation in manufacturing — Part 2
• Driving paper production at pulp and paper mill
• Australia’s mining future discussed at AIMEX
• Smart water meters: evolving rapidly

• Digital transformation in manufacturing — Part 1
• AI automatically detects disturbances in power supply grids
• Screw or rotary lobe? — Optimising energy efficiency
• Choosing RFID for industrial applications
• The evolution of mobile field tools

• Blockchain and supply chains
• Key challenges in the food and beverage industry
• Collaborative robots — designing for productivity and safety
• Make learning and development part of your mantra
• A strong current of digitalisation in the water industry

• IT/OT convergence
• Requirements for IEC 61511 best practice compliance
• Taking management by storm: how to make the leap from technician to leader
• Incorporating cybersecurity into water utility master planning — Part 2
• Taking a process safety approach to industrial cybersecurity risk management

• Incorporating cybersecurity into water utility master planning — Part 1
• SUEZ solves big data problem with magnetic flow meters
• Securing SCADA in the cloud
• Selecting a process manufacturing analytics solution
• IO-Link enables Industry 4.0 and reduces costs

• IIoT: combining the best of OT and IT
• Safe robotics — safety in collaborative robot systems
• Innovation that will transform the energy future — Part 2
• Implementing secure remote access to machines
• The IoT hub and how the IA triangle went to bed

• Innovation that will transform the energy future — Part 1
• Ultrasonic gas leak detection: what it is and how it works
• Why Australian manufacturers must improve cybersecurity
• Bridging the gap between HART devices and the IIoT
• Digital twins in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

• A smart city needs a smart grid
• AI and computer vision for waste treatment process monitoring
• IIoT key for sustainability in global supply chain
• Insights: M Bacon, Control Logic; D Hegarty, APS Industrial
• D Crossley, SICK; D Sullivan, ABB; A Hird, Honeywell

• Measurement data on the lookout for artificial intelligence
• Addressing the challenges of online monitoring
• Autonomous systems — big data in products, services and operations
• Three reasons to measure pH inline
• Building the mine of the future

• Making sense of complexity
• Leveraging process historian data: context required
• How to bridge the industry-wide knowledge gap
• The future of production intralogistics
• The challenges of hiring an apprentice instrument technician

• Reaping the benefits of the Industrial IoT
• Advances in temperature calibration procedures
• Measuring the level and volume of bulk solids — Part 2
• A new era of connectivity, thanks to OPC UA
• DMC vs RFID in manufacturing

• Measuring the level and volume of bulk solids — Part 1
• Cloud-driven process historians
• Mobile robotics — forklifts will never be the same again
• A real-world Survivor story
• The importance of analyser maintenance

• The Kaizen Paradox
• Maximising monitoring: three key ways to improve profitability
• How zoomorphism can teach us to make better robots
• Factor 1 sensors: the evolution of metal detection
• A world of true open connectivity

• Smoothing out interoperability issues in smart factories
• Revolutionising asset management in the oil and gas industry
• IICA celebrates 75 years
• Electrosensitive protective devices for safe machines — Part 2
• Consumer electronics expectations meet industrial control

• A real-world approach to the IIoT for process reliability
• Driving the digital transformation with augmented reality
• Electrosensitive protective devices for safe machines — Part 1
• Arc faults in underground electrical enclosures
• A culture of reliability

• Industrial cybersecurity: people, processes and technology
• Wireless links and networks: determining your antenna needs
• Connectivity: backbone of the digital enterprise — Part 2
• The evolution of industrial gears

• Connectivity: backbone of the digital enterprise — Part 1
• From mass production to mass customisation
• 7 common cable management mistakes
• Quality monitoring in milk processing — Part 2
• I4.0: How do we create smart factories?

• Pressure relief device monitoring: how to detect releases, leaking and fugitive emissions — Part 1
• Quality monitoring in milk processing — Part 1
• New events to feature at AOG 2018
• Linear guide systems: when to use plastic linear bearings or recirculating ball systems
• Top trends for 2018: STEEM forward vigorously

• Australian energy security in a connected world
• Reliable power at a reasonable price — is it possible and how?
• Building cyber-resilient energy delivery systems
• How algorithms can improve our responses to environmental incidents
• Can Australia lead the world in storage?

• Human factors and their impact on plant safety
• Connecting the IIoT
• Control system migration — Part 2
• Automated field calibration for the oil and gas industry
• Change creates opportunities

• Applications for cameras in retail distribution centres
• Control system migration — Part 1
• Is the belt speed accurate on your conveyor belt scale system?
• The less-is-more approach to robotic cable management
• How to avoid becoming a victim of digital Darwinism

• An IoT primer — bridging the gap between OT and IT
• Overcoming the complexities of tank scheduling
• Automation — the positive future for mining
• Folded-path gas analysers — making the analyser fit the process
• Functional safety in times of rising cybercriminality

• Energy infrastructure demands mission-critical networking
• Functional safety for machine controls
• Five ways integrated automation makes plants safer
• Recent advances in precision positioning systems
• Where are all the fieldbus sites?

• Digitising complex discrete manufacturing processes
• The undiscovered country — Part 2
• The connected mine
• Cloud robotics
• The evolution of industrial control systems

• The undiscovered country — Part 1
• The maintenance of things
• Protecting operations in the energy sector against cyber attacks
• Improving predictive maintenance with oil condition monitoring
• Innovation in mining

• Direct torque control
• Wireless cybersecurity in an industrial context – Part 2
• Innovation beyond the ISO standard
• Complete lifecycle efficiency
• Working with millennials

• Wireless cybersecurity in an industrial context — Part 1
• The evolution of the smart manufacturing enterprise
• Is Li-Fi the future for industrial networks?
• Using flow conditioners for improved flow measurement
• Industry 4.0 in practice

• Edge computing primer
• The digital transformation of Australian industry
• CIP process efficiency — Part 2
• Single-ended and differential voltage measurement — Part 2
• Industry 4.0 in the mining sector

• CIP process efficiency: real-time monitoring and control — Part 1
• Single-ended and differential voltage measurement: choosing which method to apply — Part 1
• Where is Australian manufacturing heading in 2017?
• Logistics in the era of Industry 4.0
• The robots are definitely coming in 2017

• Future smart cities — are we ready?
• Are we ready for Robotopia, when robots replace the human workforce?
• EtherCAT at an abattoir
• Generating a power solution for Micronesia
• The future of wireless charging

• Fiscal measurement of natural gas
• Robots everywhere
• Industry 4.0: Ignore at your peril
• Monitoring motor supply pays off
• Training: are the fundamentals being left behind?

• Big data analytics and the IIoT
• Complete traceability is a must for modern business
• 24-volt drive technology in continuous conveyor systems
• Data integration for Industry 4.0 — achieving open and standardised cloud connectivity
• Workforce education is a shared responsibility

• Tank farm monitoring — meeting Australia’s fuel reserve needs: Part 1
• Functional safety with IEC 61511 Edition 2 — is your plant ready?
• What makes RFID systems industrial strength?
• Sensors in hygienic conditions
• New opportunities arise when innovation meets need

• The digital twin
• Safeguarding robotics in packaging applications
• Embedded safety drives and networks
• Digitalisation in the water industry
• Water storage tanks

• Alarming discoveries
• Cloud-based SCADA as an IIoT gateway
• Radar with 360° vision that can see through objects
• Ten tips to get the most out of optical gas imaging
• Intelligent sensor technology and the cloud

• Comparing IS barrier solutions
• Metal detection or X-ray inspection
• Thin client HMIs in process automation
• Smart glasses for Industry 4.0 tested on the shop floor
• Intelligent sensors the key to Industry 4.0

• The IIoT evolution
• Effective motor control for high-efficiency motors
• New energy-efficient motor technologies
• The control system kill chain — Part 2
• Effective use of time

• The control system kill chain — Part 1
• Industrial wireless challenges overstated
• Wireless networks in the water and wastewater industries
• Meeting emerging challenges in manufacturing with lightweight robotics — Part 2
• Cybersecurity needs focus in a connected world

• Meeting emerging challenges in manufacturing with lightweight robotics — Part 1
• The future of control systems and Industry 4.0
• Enabling mobility in network monitoring
• Preventing, detecting and mitigating pipeline commodity releases — Part 2
• The future of IIoT and unleashing enterprise potential

• Viscosity control for upstream oil and gas
• Preventing, detecting and mitigating pipeline commodity releases — Part 1
• Appetite for LNG grows, industry struggles
• The recent rise of robots in manufacturing

• Smart water metering for a dry continent
• Emission standards and free trade — the good the bad and the ugly
• Underground water mining
• Manufacturing a better working environment

• Industrial computers and the IIoT
• Detecting hydrogen sulphide gas
• Monitoring biomass combustion
• Improving temperature measurement accuracy
• Disruptive technology is coming to the process industry

• Joining and fastening food-grade conveyor belts
• Improving turns in machine building
• Upgrade to upscale
• Changing vapour phase
• Things that matter: digitalisation is the key to shaping the future

• Trends in SCADA
• IT and OT convergence in oil and gas
• Piezo technology in pneumatic valves
• Information exploitation
• Information, mobility and visibility: the value proposition for the IoT in manufacturing

• Selecting the right safety logic system
• Five reasons to switch to distributed modular I/O
• Big data in manufacturing
• Accuracy and repeatability in linear motion systems
• Remote access today

• Manufacturing and the cloud
• Industrial wireless networks — comparing the standards: Part 2
• ACI Connect 2015
• Energy efficiency a priority at Victorian desal plant
• How big data helped one manufacturer make productivity gains

• Industrial wireless networks — comparing the standards: Part 1
• Qenos control system optimisation exceeds expectations
• CMMS vs EAM: What is the difference? Part 2
• Protecting petroleum pipelines
• Sensorless vector drives prove the difference for machine builder

• Are your compressed air costs inflating your overheads?
• Upgraded bearings double the service life of vibrating screens
• CMMS vs EAM: What is the difference? - Part 1
• First on-site SEM-based minerals analysis system in Australia
• Keeping computing systems in food plants clean

• Treating security like safety
• Ensuring security for networks of the future
• Top tips for specifying VFDs
• Simulation reduces time and cost for ABB Cranes
• Cobots perform in-mould labelling for NZ plastics company

• Reliable wireless communication for factory automation
• Qenos makes a step change with adaptive process control
• Simulation tool helps Byrun the robot to walk, jump and hop
• Collaborative robots: the smarter way forward
• Computer scientists enhance robotic manufacturing

• Position sensing – using secondary feedback encoders
• Extracting HART data from smart instruments
• Emission monitoring benefits for power plants
• Wind farm turning big data into smart data
• How to make your learning stick

• The impact of the Internet of Things
• Slips and trips - are you compliant?
• First-aid compliance in the workplace
• Time ripe to capitalise on energy-efficiency initiatives
• Safety a priority - Total Facilities 2015