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Rethinking the Machine
October 2022

Rethinking the Machine

The BEUMER Group has completely redesigned and overhauled its paletpac range of robust palletizers. The modular machines now have identical or similar components and modules and – wherever possible – are based on the same design. The total number of components has been reduced and faster deliveries are possible. If replacement parts are later needed, this will also go faster.

Processing Machinery
Getting Real-Time Information from Biotechnological Processes
October 2022

Getting Real-Time Information from Biotechnological Processes

How Raman process monitoring is providing a spectra of benefits across the biopharmaceutical industry. Dean Stuart, Product Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Equipment & Services Measurement & Instrumentation
Water Reliability for the Southern Black Forest Region
October 2022

Water Reliability for the Southern Black Forest Region

Persistent droughts and heat waves in many regions of the world are forcing cities and municipalities to place a stronger focus on the reliability of the water  supply not only by optimizing their networks but also by searching for additional sources that could contribute to long-term reliability. Two examples in the  German county of Lörrach show how measurement and automation technology specialist Endress+Hauser supports numerous communities with innovative  flow instruments.

Measurement & Instrumentation
Standardized IT/OT Data Interoperability is Here Today – Ask for FDT UE
September 2022

Standardized IT/OT Data Interoperability is Here Today – Ask for FDT UE

Enable a direct connection to the IT world with OPC UA integration/information modeling making data sharing seamless

Automation & Communication
The Right Dosage
September 2022

The Right Dosage

Goods and products manufactured with industrial processes often contain water in various concentrations. To date, laboratory instruments have been the most common tools for measuring moisture. While the processes are highly precise, they also have disadvantages. Endress+Hauser is enhancing an existing level measurement technology so that it’s also capable of determining material characteristics, radar-based sensors supply real-time information regarding material moisture.

Measurement & Instrumentation
Enabling Accurate Measurement for Custody Transfer in the Hydrogen Industry
September 2022

Enabling Accurate Measurement for Custody Transfer in the Hydrogen Industry

The decarbonization of energy systems has seen greater interest in the production, distribution and use of hydrogen. To ensure it can become a viable business, custody transfer for hydrogen is essential and this is now being made possible using the latest generation of measurement technologies, as Ricardo Mendes, Global Product Line Manager, ABB explains.

Measurement & Instrumentation
Artificial Intelligence Helps Lifting Data Treasures
September 2022

Artificial Intelligence Helps Lifting Data Treasures

Every day, sensors in production plants collect huge amounts of data. However, companies seldom realise how valuable the correct evaluation of large amounts of data is. This creates data graves whose potential remains undiscovered. The Heubach Group had a similar experience. However, with Festo AX artificial intelligence, it was proven that benefits for maintenance, engineering and productivity can be achieved from central PID data.

Automation & Communication Industry 4.0 Measurement & Instrumentation
A Step Towards Smart Oil Platforms
July 2022

A Step Towards Smart Oil Platforms

For smart devices, use in the oil industry, for example on an offshore oil platform, represents a real endurance test. The Pepperl+Fuchs brand ECOM Instruments subjected the Visor-Ex® 01, the first system consisting of smart glasses and smartphone certified for use in hazardous areas, to this endurance test during its development phase. The practical test reveals great potential for rollout in future applications.

Automation & Communication Equipment & Services
Medical Facility Improves Safety and Energy Savings With Innovative Maintenance Program
July 2022

Medical Facility Improves Safety and Energy Savings With Innovative Maintenance Program

Medical gas leak detection with acoustic imager in Mediclinic hospitals has improved safety levels and cut costs while enabling the company to meet sustainability goals.

Maintenance Measurement & Instrumentation
Services Around Your Bulk and Solids Project
June 2022

Services Around Your Bulk and Solids Project

A holistic approach on customer support for the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries

Processing Machinery
Adding Apps Into the Field!
June 2022

Adding Apps Into the Field!

What comes to mind when you hear the word “app”? WhatsApp? TikTok? Linked-in? Broadening our scope from these examples that deliver entertainment and connection, what can apps do for users in the process industries? Quite simply, an app is an application software that generates benefits for the user - on your mobile device, in the cloud or on a server 'under the desk'. Let’s take a look at three apps for process instrumentation, exploring their different approaches as well as their advantages.

Automation & Communication Industry 4.0
Integrate Your Field Data
June 2022

Integrate Your Field Data

Standardization provides the basis for digitizing the process plant

Automation & Communication
Maximum Safety and Efficiency During Filling
June 2022

Maximum Safety and Efficiency During Filling

Pharmaceutical powders form the basis for numerous antibiotics that are essential for comprehensive medical care. However, margins are low and production conditions are complex. This has led to a shift of manufacturing capacities to lower-cost markets. With this development in mind, how can supply bottlenecks be avoided? And what does it take to revive local production?

Processing Machinery
FDT Unified Environment Empowers Data-Centric Business Models
June 2022

FDT Unified Environment Empowers Data-Centric Business Models

FDT 3.0 provides the standardized universal solution for open automation integration, configuration, monitoring and mobility

Automation & Communication
Cloud-Based Fluid Management Allows Innovative Opportunities
June 2022

Cloud-Based Fluid Management Allows Innovative Opportunities

Cloud-based, smart solutions deliver transparent, digital communication. ProMinent’s web-based platform ensures safe monitoring of system statuses and process data in the cloud from any location. This allows operators in various sectors to improve their process reliability and system efficiency.

Automation & Communication Industry 4.0 Measurement & Instrumentation Pumps, Valves & Compressors
Accelerated Asset Inspections with Advanced Software Features for Reporting
March 2022

Accelerated Asset Inspections with Advanced Software Features for Reporting

Pre-planned routes and faster report compilation for optimised inspection processes

Explosion Protection & Safety Maintenance
The ON Ramp to Digital
March 2022

The ON Ramp to Digital

Users in process automation have the most to gain from insight through data from sensors and actuators. This is where the advanced physical layer for Ethernet, short Ethernet-APL comes in, the data highway to the field of process plants. Many questions must be answered when deploying Ethernet-APL for the first time. This article discusses topologies for Ethernet-APL that can be realized with currently available infrastructure components.

Automation & Communication
A Real Piece of the Ice Age, Bottled
March 2022

A Real Piece of the Ice Age, Bottled

"Untouched since the ice age" is not a marketing slogan, but a fact - a real piece of the ice age that still exists today: When the ice melted, immense amounts of water drained away into the rock of the Swabian Alp mountains. The earth shifting in an unusual way then caused this reservoir to be sealed off approximately 400 meters below the outside world. As a result, EiszeitQuell has an original purity and quality - just like water over 10,000 years ago.

Measurement & Instrumentation Processing Machinery
Chemical Company Plays It Safe With Explosion-Protected Motors
March 2022

Chemical Company Plays It Safe With Explosion-Protected Motors

Even under normal conditions it is not simple to always have the right motor on hand to address a wide range of applications. It is all that much more difficult in large chemical companies if several thousand drives have to be kept running around the clock in harsh explosive environments. In the future, one of the largest chemical companies in the world will be depending on a team of external specialists and the comprehensive range of Simotics XP explosion-protected motors from Siemens.

Achema 2022
Actuators for a Geothermal Power Plant
February 2022

Actuators for a Geothermal Power Plant

Proven electric actuation technology is helping to boost green energy in Taiwan

Pumps, Valves & Compressors

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