DSM Composite Resins in Ellesmere Port, UK, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of polyester resins, replaced some of its ageing magnetically coupled pumps by canned motor pumps, resulting in significant savings.
The Evonik Degussa carbon black factory uses residual gas for steam and electricity generation in the thermal afterburning plant. A safety system was installed to automate the boiler control and monitoring system for the gas flare.
The Longwatch Video Surveillance System now has an interface to Flir’s A-Series Thermal Imaging cameras, so that thermal images can be viewed on standard HMI/SCADA software, such as Wonderware InTouch or GE Fanuc iFix.
Dynamic Arc Recognition and Termination (DART) is considered to be an important innovation for intrinsic safety applications.
From deep seas to productive fields, polymer products and solutions help to seal, damp, and protect in water and food applications. Here are some examples of that happening in practice.
A CC-Link based control system has integrated eleven boreholes in the Jutland region of Denmark, so that the on-demand water supply can cope with the increasingly variable daily demand brought about by the growth of tourist visitors.
Plant monitoring and control is particularly vital in the continuous process industries, where multiple machines must act in harmony day after day.
Traditional filling technology based on piston pumps and time pressure filling systems, but new challenges and stringent validation requirements have put the focus on peristaltic pumps.
In a large snack food plant, a Compressed Air Management system has helped to reduce energy bills, by combining the compressed air supply for production operations, integrating retrofit variable speed drives, reducing pressure and fine tuning.
Axellia is a leading producer of fermented anti-infective active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and injectable finished products.
The large German discount supermarket chain ALDI SÜD is now offering its German customers shopping bags made of the biodegradable plastic Ecovio. These bags are manufactured for ALDI by the Victor Güthoff & Partner Group, headquartered in Kerpen, German
Compressed tablets are still the most popular dosage form for pharmaceuticals. Over 75% of pharmaceutical products are sold in solid dosage form. Strong growth is predicted for compressed tablets due to the nutraceuticals market, especially in the USA.
Proper specification and selection of sealing systems for centrifugal pump power frame applications can help sustain the service life of pumps and avoid the need for pump replacement or rebuilds and their associated costs in time and money.
Godiva Chocolatier in Brussels, Belgium meet the highest quality standards with the installation of Self-Cleaning Filters and Compact Sieves, delivering maximum customer satisfaction everytime.
Explosion-protected panel PCs for the on-site control and visualization of processes make machinery and equipment user-friendly, highly available and cost-efficient.
An explosion-proof smart fluid heater provides fast and accurate temperature control in a closed-loop system at Chemring Marine Ltd, where it boosts the temperature of a flushing agent used in the manufacture of marine distress flares.
A major steel plant on the east coast of Sweden has recently installed a new rolling mill.
Industrial Ethernet is widely used in the industry and is now finding its way into process instrumentation.
The food industry probably faces more inspection problems than most other manufacturing industries.
Ciba, a leading global manufacturer of specialty chemicals, has implemented an innovation process management solution to enhance its capacity to govern innovation processes and focus resources on high-value product innovation projects.
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