Proficy SmartStart Manufacturing Energy Management Solution
15 January, 2010 byGE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced the availability of the Proficy SmartStart Manufacturing Energy Management Solution, a packaged software and services solution that offers a low-risk approach to energy savings within manufacturing. Providing insight into energy usage, the application is designed to help users reduce energy costs, improve production planning, identify sources of energy waste and drive energy management best practices, while correlating energy costs with manufacturing production.
ExperTune PlantTriage version 9
15 January, 2010 byExperTune’s PlantTriage version 9 now allows an engineer or technician to tune over 50 control loops a day. PlantTriage identifies loops to be tuned and gives the best PID values and before-and-after simulations quickly confirm the settings.
Wonderware Corporate Energy Management Application
13 November, 2009 byInvensys Operations Management has introduced the Wonderware Corporate Energy Management Application, designed to enable manufacturing and industrial automation customers to implement an energy management program and achieve sustainability goals.
Open asset management with FDT: the core of a ‘smart’ process plant
30 October, 2009Field Device Type (FDT) technology remains one of the automation industry’s best-kept secrets. In spite of this, it is rapidly gaining market acceptance by simplifying the digital communication between a plant’s field devices and its control environment. It is at the heart of a ‘smart’ plant’s IT infrastructure and can deliver major cost savings to the plant’s operations.
Socially interactive devices: Have you talked to your device lately?
04 September, 2009 by John DuBay, ABB Process Automation, Asset Management ServicesAs well as being a source of information, the internet allows people to interact on a social level. Social internet-based environments have many powerful applications that can be utilised to service equipment in the industrial sector.
Online support saves OneSteel time and money
13 August, 2009As part of its Solution Enhancement Support Program (SESP), OneSteel implemented a secure, online connection to Honeywell’s global technical assistance centre (TAC) support team enabling faster and more accurate problem identification and resolution.
Internet-based remote asset management system
30 July, 2009Camvnet (Control and Monitoring Via the Net) is an internet-based remote asset management system with process control applications.
Eco-footprint management tool
09 June, 2009 byIFS has launched its Eco-footprint Management tool to provide organisations with control and transparency on the environmental impact of their operations. The tool offers customers an enterprise standard methodology to help them control costs and meet the need to prepare for compliance with environmental legislation.
Why use software for calibration management?
30 April, 2009Every plant has some sort of system in place for managing calibration operations and data, but the different methods for doing it vary greatly in terms of cost, quality, efficiency and accuracy of data.
Plant interaction hotspot tool
14 March, 2009 byExperTune’s PlantTriage software now includes a tool that graphically highlights plant interactions. Using the Interaction Hot Spots tool, engineers can quickly pinpoint the root cause of process interactions. Engineers can resolve these upsets to improve quality, energy, production rate and process uptime.
Where did all the people go? — the new case for condition monitoring
10 January, 2009 by Michael CurrieNot so long ago the main reason companies monitored equipment condition was to reduce direct maintenance expenses. Condition monitoring and its logical extension, condition-based maintenance, served them well by identifying impending failures early enough to avoid costly repairs and reducing downtime by only performing maintenance when required.
How to find energy savings in process plants
20 December, 2008 by George Buckbee*Process plants can make significant reductions in energy usage, with appropriate focus. Using the techniques presented here it is typical to see energy savings from 0.5% to 2% of total energy cost, with some plants seeing as much as 20% reduction. These techniques can be applied with little capital investment.
Condition monitoring system
01 November, 2008The Vibromac 107 is designed to provide continuous condition monitoring. An upgrade from previous versions, the system allows the user increased plant availability, through the monitoring of many operational conditions involved in screening and feeding of material.
Production analysis software
01 November, 2008Proficy DataMart reaches deep within manufacturing operations across a business to provide a single, unifying view into operational performance. Its data cubing technology layers on top of the Proficy Plant Applications suite of software modules.
Asset management software
05 October, 2008FactoryTalk AssetCentre is an asset management software package which enables users to securely and centrally manage ever-changing process automation production environments.
