Technological change is hard, but don’t be a sleeping giant. Now is the best time for process industries to get more competitive, stay agile, and maintain sustainability. Unleash your production potential and take control of your processes…
New upgrades or expansion projects don’t have to be late or bust the budget. With good planning and strong management, they can finish on time—or even early. This simple fact runs contrary to experience for many companies. Process facility projects can be very challenging, from a
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Your company’s transition toward smart manufacturing already is underway, whether you know it or not. In the past few decades, manufacturing engineers have adopted what are now recognized as early versions of smart manufacturing technologies…
Process plant operators looking at their existing automation systems are facing pressures from two directions. First, the distributed control system (DCS) platforms controlling those units are getting older and exhibiting age-related problems and failures. Second, newer technologies are capable of extending what those older systems can
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Do you know if your process operates at an acceptable risk level? Let’s find out.
Let’s say you’re the lead configuration engineer on the automation portion of a greenfield installation project, and you need to give your start-up guys a head start with a set of default PID tuning constants. You want to hand it over in a way that the
We discuss a practical way to achieve sustainable benefits with the proper application of ISA standards during the design phase.
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When automation is inadequate or used incorrectly, it can cause serious incidents leading to loss of production, equipment damage, environmental releases and harm to personnel. Prevent these potential catastrophes before they occur by applying proper safety standards and procedures.
Safety & Automation:
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Our clients used to ask us if we could handle working with a DCS from vendor A or a PLC from vendor B. Now it’s more about finding ways to improve their business outcome.
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Do you know if your process operates at an acceptable risk level? Let’s find out.
