On a high-speed food and beverage line, small errors rarely stay small across the wider production environment
Sometimes, digitalization is really straightforward. For example, retrofitting existing water treatment plants to enable transfer of measurement and sensor data to the cloud is now as simple as plugging in an expansion card.
Valuable energy is lost in pressure reduction stations, exhaust steam pipes and condensation systems. With Energify system, the company CFT GmbH offers a simple and robust solution for the cost-effective conversion of even slight pressure differences into energy. This saves electricity costs and lowers CO₂ emissions. The system performance is controlled precisely with sliding gate valves from Schubert & Salzer.
Maintaining wind turbines and identifying potential vulnerabilities is expensive and time-consuming, especially when they are located offshore. As a result, rotor blades are often simply replaced, a costly process, when damage is merely suspected. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, working in concert with the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, has developed a solution that can be used to identify cracks and breakages inside the blades remotely at an early stage.
Addressing complex fluid measurement challenges of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) across different industries.
As part of a retrofit at Stockholm’s largest combined heat and power plant, Kraftvärmeverk 1, 241 AUMA electric actuators have been installed . The modern actuators with Profinet communications now ensure the smooth generation of electricity and heat from renewable fuels.
Product packaging has always polarized: while it is indispensable for maintaining product and consumer safety, some materials are constantly under scrutiny regarding their environmental impact. The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduces binding regulations across the EU to mitigate these effects by reducing and replacing certain types of packaging. Packaging manufacturers and brand owners alike can meet those challenges and become PPWR-compliant without sacrificing efficiency and packing quality.
Concrete producer PRO BETON’s lone worker protection equipment has incorporated Wearin's IoT solution, which alerts the control center in the event of an accident and detects falls with unrivalled reliability.
Reliable measurements despite films and adhesion
As a pillar of the global economy, the process industry is facing major challenges: high energy consumption and high use of fossil fuels, rising energy costs and stricter legal regulations make the decarbonization of the industry increasingly urgent. In order to achieve CO2 reductions and higher energy efficiency in their own operations, it is essential that companies drive the digitalization and automation of their entire production process. Author: Axel Lorenz, CEO Process Automation, Siemens
Simplified commissioning and operation for a wide range of applications
Growing range of topics for the process industries available in up to 6 languages
For maximum accuracy when loading, unloading and transporting hydrocarbons in the oil & gas industry
Conveniently configure offline for different languages
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?
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.
Bringing color measurements from the lab to the process
Keeping a critical infrastructure running – The challenge of covering the last mile to service an oil rig
An interview with Mark Pontin, Managing Director at Resolve Optics Ltd. The company specialises in design, development and manufacture of custom lenses and optical modules.
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.
Proof of concept for inexpensive chip-integrated optical infrared components
German researchers develop smart solutions for energy-adaptive production facilities
An interview with Jürgen Skowaisa, Product Manager Radar at VEGA Grieshaber KG in Schiltach, Germany about advantages of the technology and the new line of radar devices for a wider field of applications.
Many industrial processes depend on maintaining the correct temperatures. Ensuring that these processes remain efficient, produce goods and materials of the right quality and above all remain safe, demands accurate temperature measurement.
Easy and safe maintenance of radar level devices in the field
Easy to operate offline solution for packaging serialisation for pharmaceuticals
How you can convey combustible bulk materials safely. By Jim Vingerhoets, Global Product Manager Explosion Protection, Fike
For 100% oil-free production processes
Monitoring up to eight physical factors in industrial applications
With the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 rapidly gaining acceptance in wider industry, a digital transformation is now being seen as the only way to keep pace with modern consumer demands.
The technology company Continental was honored with a total of eight prizes for its innovative products among which there are the Trackman XP, vehican interior solutions and surface pioneering materials
In chemical and pharmaceutical environments, it is sometimes hard to maintain the integrity of the product during dispensing operations, especially in IBC. This challenge was accepted by CO.RA. with its DUK, a flexible and easy cleanable system
Can withstand extended exposure to very high UV levels, providing a new level of protection particularly for GRP field enclosures destined for rough environments
Wastewater management is a critical issue to face in today’s industry. In this article, Surendra Mappana explains how dedicated water automation products are helping industrial water users and utilities address the key challenges
The proof-testing of safety instrumented systems in liquid level measurement applications has traditionally relied on workers in the field. However, new technology in modern smart devices is enabling this vital task to be performed remotely
It’s a commonly held belief that industrial products such as drives and motors equipped with electronic components do not require any specific maintenance
Criteria for design, operation and maintenance industrial plant on-board of a ship
Lean principles can help companies transform the quality, productivity and flexibility of their operations
The NEMO® B.Max® pump range adapted itself to meet biogas production's requirements of continuous supply to the fermenter to ensure an uninterrupted fermentation process
The well-known trade show for the process industry gave us the chance to meet with Salvatore Lardieri, CEO at CO.RA, who describes the company with a look at its past and future goals and innovations
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