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Emerson is installing Ovation controls to replace PLCs at a power station that provides electricity and steam to the refinery.

Improvements include web-based tools for dynamic workload planning, detailed productivity reporting, and exporting productivity data.

For control of its effluent stream, AVG in Hamburg, Germany, relies on backscattered light turbidity measurements using equipment supplied by METTLER TOLEDO.

Handbook details the need, design, and implementation of an optimal Human-Machine Interface (HMI) for process operators and automation systems.

The pilot plant and lab will help Massachusetts biomanufacturing companies bring new biopharmaceuticals closer to commercial production.

MIPAC will implement advanced control strategies to improve process performance at Birla’s Nifty Copper Operation in Australia.

By Rick Zabel, Automation.com The proposed name change of ISA (to "International Society of Automation") is up for a vote again during ISA Expo in Houston, October 14-16, 2008. Last year, the change was voted down, but I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the change. And there are many reasons for the change. If ISA is truly the global society of automation professionals, then its name should reflect its cause. It's time for a change!

The facility in Tulare, CA, houses application support, customer support and warranty service.

PlantWeb digital plant architecture with FOUNDATION fieldbus and mass flowmeters reduces annual cost by €300,000 and improves production efficiency by 30 per cent at SABIC Europe B.V.

Invensys donated an InFusion enterprise control technology to the UMass Lowell BioManufacturing Center. With equipment and services from Wyeth Biotech and Dakota Systems, the center will provide a full-scale manufacturing operation.

Tool enables user to inspect CANopen and POWERLINK device description files conforming to the CiA 306 and CiA 311

Kepware will deliver Industrial Defender’s host intrusion detection software as a KEPServerEX Security Agent Driver Plug-in.

ACUSIM computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software now supports Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008.

The office will provide oil and gas, refining, and chemical companies with service-based consulting and solutions.

The worldwide market for SCADA Systems for the Oil & Gas industry is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.3% over the next five years.

Achilles will be integrated into Kongsberg's regression tests to ensure the quality of the frameworks provided by the Kongsberg Maritime Technology Base.

ABB will supply six complete gearless mill drive systems, transformers, ringmotors, project engineering, installation, training and other related support services.

Allied will carry a broad range of products from MCC, including diodes, transistors, MOSFETs and circuit protection products.

Emerson named Steven A. Sonnenberg executive VP and promoted John M. Berra to chairman of Emerson Process Management

The sensors replace externally mounted pressure switches, infrared switches, and string potentiometers because magnetostrictive technology proved to be more durable and reliable.