ABB System 800xA Minerals Library Release 5.1/5
12 November, 2014System 800xA Minerals Library Release 5.1/5 offers enhanced control, routing, yard and port functionalities.
Emerson DeltaV v13 distributed control system
10 November, 2014Version 13 of the DeltaV distributed control system is designed to deliver greater efficiency and performance for process control applications.
Optimising clean-in-place processes in food and beverage operations: Part 2
07 November, 2014 by Benjamin Jude and Eric Lemaire*Existing clean-in-place (CIP) processes are time intensive and waste large amounts of energy, water and chemicals. In Part 1 of this article the risks and costs associated with inefficient CIP processes were discussed, but new innovations in CIP technology can now allow plant operators to cut costs in an environmentally friendly manner while still conforming to regulatory safety standards.
Splunk and Kepware form alliance, using IT technology to gain new insights from industrial data
03 November, 2014The integration between Splunk Enterprise and KEPServerEX breaks down the industrial data and IT data silos to deliver new real-time insights that were previously unavailable.
Emerson DeltaV Virtual Studio v2.3
30 October, 2014With the release of DeltaV Virtual Studio v2.3, Emerson has expanded the virtualisation capabilities in the DeltaV distributed control system.
Fast track automation of LPG terminal in Mexico
28 October, 2014 by Marcelo Carugo and Fernando Mirafuentes*Emerson has helped an LPG terminal in Mexico to implement terminal automation with safety and fire systems, in just one week, including an integral control system, 100% monitoring of the operations and compliance to all international environmental and safety requirements.
Optimising clean-in-place processes in food and beverage operations: Part 1
10 October, 2014 by Benjamin Jude and Eric Lemaire*Clean-in-place (CIP) processes are often intensive and waste large amounts of energy, water and chemicals. New innovations in CIP technology allow plant operators to cut costs in an environmentally friendly manner while still conforming to regulatory safety standards.
Emerson DeltaV distributed control system
04 August, 2014The DeltaV distributed control system (DCS) helps plants improve operations by harnessing today's predictive technologies in an easy, intuitive and interoperable way to connect people, processes and production.
5 reasons to upgrade your old DCS to a new automation system
03 July, 2014An older DCS is typically not capable of running a modern process plant at optimum levels, creating increased costs and possibly causing excessive downtime.
Kepware Technologies KEPServerEX version 5.14
19 March, 2014KEPServerEX version 5.14 software offers liquid electronic flow measurement support, store-and-forward support for data logging, and improved support for Siemens S7 PLCs and Allan-Bradley ControlLogix.
Emerson Process Management launches new innovation centre
04 February, 2014Emerson Process Management has introduced its Integrated Operations Initiative to address customers' needs for streamlined decision-making, easily accessible expertise and the safe, collaborative collocation of essential personnel.
Foxboro Evo process automation system
17 December, 2013The Foxboro Evo system includes a high-speed controller, field device management tools, a maintenance response centre, an enterprise historian, 1-n redundancy and cyber security hardening.
Honeywell Experion LX distributed control system
20 November, 2013Experion LX is a purpose-built distributed control system (DCS) for small to mid-size operations with continuous and batch process control applications with less than 5000 I/O points, one engineering server and up to 15 operator stations.
Migrating legacy control systems: making sure the benefits outweigh the costs
08 November, 2013 by Glenn Johnson, EditorControl system performance can have a significant impact on a plant’s bottom line, and recent years have seen the emergence of new technologies that can greatly assist in further improving plant efficiency, performance, safety and business integration. But taking advantage of these new technologies will, in many cases, mean upgrading the existing DCS infrastructure.
Siemens Braumat 7.0 brewery automation system
07 November, 2013The updated Braumat process control system version 7.0, to be released in the first half of 2014, will incorporate functional features that will provide an increase in the number of signals or parameters for processing, enhancing the functional scope of the system.
