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.
4-20mA head transmitter for Pt100/Pt1000 sensors
Carbon-neutral steam generation for industrial and commercial processes
For demanding monitoring and control applications in the chemical industry and the food sector.
A mobile worker’s best friend
Higher reliability and lower maintenance for agitator drives
Energy-saving motor/inverter solutions for new installations and retrofitting
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.
Digital positioner for pneumatic control valves makes diagnostic data easily available
A holistic approach on customer support for the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
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.
Standardization provides the basis for digitizing the process plant
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?
Sensor analyses gas or air contents in liquids
Accurate measurement of various layers in interface applications
Improved safety and uptime in hazardous applications through detailed valve assembly and diagnostic data
A year-long industry study of the European Gas Research Group (GERG)shows that Raman analysis proves its worth in LNG custody transfer
With rotatable touch display and IO-Link
Technology for hydrogen generation expected to go into production in 2025
With vibration recording acceleration sensor for predictive maintenance
Firmware update adds web server functions, “HCiR” and parallel access to HART devices to Ethernet gateways
Building AI-based detection tools without being a specialist
For optimization of processes for many applications across industries
For the measurement of numerous fluids in different industries
Specially developed valve for installation with plastic pipes
Pre-planned routes and faster report compilation for optimised inspection processes
"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.
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.
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.
Variety of sizes for different size of applications and plants
Process moisture analyzer for biomethane injection stations
Variable measuring ranges from -40 to +330 °C for capture and analysis of thermal images
Moore Industries announces the addition of more than 1,000 product 3D CAD models to their online catalog, now available for download in multiple file formats for use in most popular CAD design systems.
Detection and visualization of air and gas leaks
Inline measurements in real time directly in the system and without sampling
Food-compatible lubricants in all axes avoid potential contamination
PROFINET technology continues to see growing interest and acceptance in process automation. To cater to the high level of interest in and demand for an easy-to-understand introduction to digital communication in field automation and the digital transformation, PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) is offering an internationally oriented series of workshops on this topic.
Air pollution control and project management expert FEG Global solved an acrid odour issue for seafood manufacturer Whitby Seafoods with its patent-pending Liquid Gas contact Scrubber
How production security can be at risk if water treatment fails
BenLink, a company owned by the Swiss technology group Bühler, announces its strategic partnership with Alfa Laval. With this partnership, Alfa Laval gets access to BenLink’s digital crowd platform and network of over 4,000 local and field technicians.
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