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Accelerated Asset Inspections with Advanced Software Features for Reporting
March 2022

Accelerated Asset Inspections with Advanced Software Features for Reporting

British inspection specialist PFE Limited uses FLIR Thermal Studio software to accelerate site inspections and reporting, and to deliver consistent reporting quality to its demanding customer base. Based in Wallasey, North-West England, PFE Limited is a family-owned business, specializing in a wide range of inspection and reliability services for industrial customers. To provide trustworthy and repeatable...

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
Process Spectrometer for Robust Inline Quality Control
February 2022

Process Spectrometer for Robust Inline Quality Control

Bringing color measurements from the lab to the process

Measurement & Instrumentation
Maintenance of Ageing Plants
January 2022

Maintenance of Ageing Plants

How production security can be at risk if water treatment fails

Equipment & Services
Butterfly Valve Meets the Stringent Hygiene Standards in German Brewery
January 2022

Butterfly Valve Meets the Stringent Hygiene Standards in German Brewery

Around three years ago, EBRO ARMATUREN worked closely with its customers to develop a butterfly valve adapted specifically to the requirements of the chemicals industry. A prototype has already been deployed in the food and beverage sector, including at Schneider Weisse. Besides the FDA compliance required with regard to food and pharmaceutical technology, resistance to chemically aggressive media...

Pumps, Valves & Compressors
Safe Use in Extreme Applications
November 2021

Safe Use in Extreme Applications

AS-Schneider valves are being successfully used at the Amal oilfield in Oman which uses steam generated at the Miraah solar thermal facility. Steam injection is a common enhanced oil recovery method.

Pumps, Valves & Compressors
Delivering the IoT to the Oil and Gas Industry
November 2021

Delivering the IoT to the Oil and Gas Industry

Keeping a critical infrastructure running – The challenge of covering the last mile to service an oil rig

Automation & Communication Measurement & Instrumentation
FDT 3.0 and OPC UA
November 2021

FDT 3.0 and OPC UA

Enabling IT/OT Interoperability in the New Age of Automation

Automation & Communication
Automation With Robotics Increases Chocolate Production
October 2021

Automation With Robotics Increases Chocolate Production

Fixed robots reduce workforce requirements by 20% in a business area with fluctuating production levels.

Automation & Communication
Spanish Tannery Solves Waste Issues With ZLD
October 2021

Spanish Tannery Solves Waste Issues With ZLD

Zero liquid discharge(ZLD) is a waste management technique which transforms liquid waste streams from industrial plants into clean water, which can be reused in the process, and a minimal amount of solid residue, which often include valuable by-products.

Processing Machinery
Spot-on Timing for a Plant Conversion Project
September 2021

Spot-on Timing for a Plant Conversion Project

Process plants are often very extensive. Many of the plant components are interlinked and their functions coordinated. People who work in this area of plant construction know that there is generally less effort and expense involved in building a new plant, rather than adapting the existing one to meet new requirements. Despite the numerous challenges – and the restrictions imposed by the Corona pandemic and its consequences – the new and renovated production reactors went into operation again right on schedule.

Equipment & Services
Digitalization of Work Procedures - Get Real Work Done Digitally
September 2021

Digitalization of Work Procedures - Get Real Work Done Digitally

The world is going digital - this applies to our private lives as well as to large parts of our work. In the process industries, the focus is often on end-to-end digital engineering, the analysis of big data, or the utilization of legacy data. But in what way can digitalization change daily work routines and increase work efficiency? A practical example is provided by the specialty chemicals company Lanxess, which has abandoned the classic clipboard, thus demonstrating very clearly what digitalization actually means and what benefits it offers.

Industry 4.0
Overcoming High Current Mixer Start-up Issues
September 2021

Overcoming High Current Mixer Start-up Issues

An industrial chemical mixer's high torque start-up was causing problems for a Mexican manufacturer of specialist automotive cleaning products. They turned to new Variable Frequency Drive technology to resolve the problem.

Processing Machinery
First Dual-Mode Desalination Plant Helps Tackle Water Scarcity in Singapore
August 2021

First Dual-Mode Desalination Plant Helps Tackle Water Scarcity in Singapore

Daily production set for up to 30 million gallons of fresh drinking water

Automation & Communication
Efficiency Booster for Liquid Filling Machines
August 2021

Efficiency Booster for Liquid Filling Machines

8% increased machine speed and boosted machine efficiency to 91% after upgrading from a PLC system to a motion control solution. These are the impressing numbers the liquid filling sachet and tube packaging solutions provider Unette presents after integration of Trio Motion Technology’s complete machine control package including controller, servo drives and motors, to improve its overall productivity. 

Processing Machinery
Driven by Customer Needs
April 2021

Driven by Customer Needs

30 years of tradition in chemical and pharmaceutical solids handling allow CO.RA. to guarantee its products based on strict norms. Design and development and manufacturing of products are based in Italy and a qualified service team supports customers worldwide, on-site and remotely.

Equipment & Services Processing Machinery
Enterprise Mobility Concepts – Process Optimisation in Industry 4.0
April 2021

Enterprise Mobility Concepts – Process Optimisation in Industry 4.0

The modern employee increasingly works in an agile environment. This also includes the workplace. Here, access to all relevant information and data is necessary when working from home, in the office, in the factory or on the factory premises.

Automation & Communication Industry 4.0

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