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?
Cloud-based, smart solutions deliver transparent, digital communication. ProMinent’s web-based platform ensures safe monitoring of system statuses and process data in the cloud from any location. This allows operators in various sectors to improve their process reliability and system efficiency.
The DCS has been the link to production information from the plant floor for decades. We interviewed Mark Taft from ABB who gives a review on DCS technology, digital transformation, and sustainable production.
Improved safety and uptime in hazardous applications through detailed valve assembly and diagnostic data
Reliable mixing processes for smaller batch sizes
The new European HQ of Fluke in Eindhoven, Netherlands is home to a 400sqm customer experience centre to allow customers to experience using products in realistic environments.
Swedish engineering group will integrate the acquisition into Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions
Building AI-based detection tools without being a specialist
High temperature stability allows use in CIP and SIP applications
2-axis (multi-rotatable) LED display and adjustment module
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.
Low energy consumption enables a wider field of applications
Process moisture analyzer for biomethane injection stations
Variable measuring ranges from -40 to +330 °C for capture and analysis of thermal images
For the safe production of hydrogen by electrolysis
Proven electric actuation technology is helping to boost green energy in Taiwan
Detection and visualization of air and gas leaks
Suitable for the oil and gas industry and resistant to drilling mud
Association brings together plant operators, suppliers and service providers with the aim of fast and easy information exchange
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.
Smooth and efficient handovers for greater information transparency for safer and more productive plants
How production security can be at risk if water treatment fails
An easy alternative to nitrogen purge for void space layup
IR detection to first-class SIL 2 high demand mode and SIL 3-capable IEC 61508 ed. 2 with a proof test interval of 8760 hours.
Novozymes and Saipem enter agreement to create a more sustainable CO2 capture
Brewers will often attribute their success to passion, determination and innovation, but once a beer has been developed and branded, it’s all about consistency. Process monitoring therefore has a key role to play. In the following article Keijo Pyörälä from Vaisala will explain how in-line refractometers, located strategically at every stage of the brewing process, enable process optimization, save energy, reduce waste, lower costs and help deliver top quality beer.
Coperion Partners in Development of Manufacturing Technologies for Graphite-Polymer Based Bipolar Plates
Collaboration of Continental and INAM to drive sustainable material development for the industrial and automotive sector
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
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.
When choosing a gas detector for use in water treatment applications, engineers should focus on simple, efficient, proven products for this challenging marketplace.
Portfolio expansion with focus on air leaks and partial discharge detection
Advanced Analytics for the management of intelligent flow control assets
Easy-to-disassemble single- and twin-screw feeders
Preserving the purity of process fluids with the right material
Versatile interface options for a broad range of markets
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.
For measurement of relative and absolute pressures in liquid and gaseous media
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