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.
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?
Accurate measurement of various layers in interface applications
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.
Quick and easy to install device for versatile applications
Adding remote control capabilities ultrasonic flowmeters
Bringing color measurements from the lab to the process
High-precision measurement of liquid chromatograph flow rates
Level measurement in hygienic applications
IO-Link is enjoying increasing popularity, with demand for the communications standard growing rapidly, especially in the food & beverage industry. The fieldbus-independent technology for point-to-point communication is easy to use and provides a cost-effective way to digitalize industrial plants.
With stainless steel sensor rails for quick and easy setup in different application areas
IO-Link sensors with metal housing & all-round visible LED
Enabling IT/OT Interoperability in the New Age of Automation
Keeping a critical infrastructure running – The challenge of covering the last mile to service an oil rig
A Polish producer of various milk-based products faced a problem of breaking granules during the transfer of instant milk within its process. In Piab’s piFLOW®p vacuum conveyor they found the solution they were searching for to solve the problem.
Portfolio expansion with focus on air leaks and partial discharge detection
Free virtual Ethernet-APL Technology Workshop offered to users on October 5 and 6
Glenn Schulz, Managing Director at FDT Group, gives us the details of the FDT 3.0 IIoT ecosystem, as well as insights on smart manufacturing and mobility, CIP security enhancements and 5G technology
Oil-free pump series with design for increased safety
Compacting powdery foodstuffs for the perfect aroma
Endress+Hauser is wrapping up the integration of SensAction AG, a specialist in the field of concentration measurement for liquids based in Coburg, Germany. Now operating as Endress+Hauser Flow Germany AG, the company’s products and technologies broaden Endress+Hauser’s offering for measuring and analyzing quality parameters.
Compact level transmitter with IO-Link connectivity especially designed for food & beverage applications
Early identification and economic assessment of anomalies on the cloud or on premise
Web-based solution for smart monitoring and management of control valves in process plants
Auto hotspot finder and motor focus enable optimal use
IP65/NEMA 4 enclosure with interchangeable sensing module for easy replacement
The German AMA Association for Sensor and Measurement Technology (AMA) awarded the AMA Innovation Award 2021 to two nominated teams. Due to the pandemic, the award winners were chosen digitally on May 3, 2021.
Reliable sensor for permanent process control in hygienic design
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.
While the wheels of industry need to keep turning to produce the everyday items that we take for granted, there is a growing realization that this cannot be done at the continuing expense of the environment.
“Size changeover” is not necessarily a term that immediately makes people stop and pay attention in the pharmaceutical industry. However, considering the challenges in pharmaceutical manufacturing, which are characterized by cost and competitive pressure as well as strict regulations, intelligent size changeover means competitive advantages in terms of efficiency, product quality and process reliability.
The increasing variety and complexity of parenteral drugs calls for new dimensions in quality assurance. Fully automated inspection technology with a combination of visual inspection and container closure integrity testing (CCIT) offers the highest product and hence patient safety. Pharmaceutical manufacturer CDM Lavoisier decided to change their inspection processes for no less than 30 products in four different packaging formats. They are now all inspected on the new AIM 3000 from Syntegon.
Monitoring and additional control functionality for any 4…20mA/HART field device
SAMSON and InfraServ Wiesbaden Join Forces to Develop Digital Information System for Biological Water Treatment Plant in Industrial Park
Brownfield digitalization in line with Namur Open Architecture (NOA)
For use in a wide range of applications with low flow rates
Easy-to-clean solution for applications where frequent cleaning is a must
Controller-independent access to new and existing PROFIBUS DP networks
Raising the standard of iron measurement
Robust housing for use in intrinsically safe applications
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