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Enerchem’s Slave Lake fractionation plant in Albert, Canada, replaced an outmoded HMI system with an Ignition HMI/SCADA system from Inductive Automation.

Overall, close to $78 trillion is expected to be spent globally between now and 2025 on five industry sectors - extraction, utilities, manufacturing, transport and social.

Four companies joined CSIA, another became certified, and two earned recertification.

Tuning of Industrial Control Systems simplifies modern control system tuning by eliminating mathematical complexity and addressing the real-world needs of control system technicians.

An HMI from InduSoft improves productivity through automated monitoring and tracking of operations at Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee in Fort Worth, Texas.

Metso will supply 140 actuated on-off and emergency shutdown (ESD) ball and butterfly valves to the PETRONAS Gas Berhad's gas processing plant modernization project in Kerteh, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Upgrades to Proficy Mobile allow managers to view and execute workflows, facilitates a tight integration with SCADA systems, and enables geo-intelligence capabilities which can be used with Google Maps.

Yokogawa Electric's confocal image single-cell drug discovery support system has been selected for the Japan Science and Technology Agency’s (JST) next-generation technology transfer program (NexTEP).

Wireless sensors powered by thermoelectric generators in environments where temperature differentials exist will help boost the market to nearly $1 billion by 2024.

Founded in 1989, Columbus now has over 900 employees worldwide, customers in 42 countries, and 6,000 successful ERP implementations worldwide.

More than 53.8 million electronic control relays were sold in 2013, with 13.1 million classified as measuring & monitoring relays. Most were for building automation applications.

Niagara Tools of St. Catharines, Ontario, is a specialty cutting tool manufacturer.

Hoffer will supply turbine flowmeters used for critical cooling flow measurement systems for the new lead ship of the DDG-1000 class, the USS Zumwalt.

In spite of cold as low as -70F, Honeywell will upgrade process control with an Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and Foundation Fieldbus at the Molikpaq platform on the Sakhalin shelf, Russia.

Siemens Energy will perform service and maintenance for three Siemens (SGT6-5000F) gas turbines that will be installed at Shell Canada's Carmon Creek project.

By Marcus Koh Leong Hai, Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University is developing an intelligent eco-building management system at Clean Tech One at Clean Tech Park, Singapore’s first eco-business park. Paradox Engineering’s technology will be used to research energy efficiency verification and intelligent control for buildings

What are the Essentials of pH in Industrial Applications?

ProbMe configuration software for Econais Wi-Fi Modules, Development Kits and Reference Designs provides an easy, fast and secure way to add new devices to a network.

The PLM market grew 4.8% to $35 billion in 2013, slowing after several high growth years coming out of the global recession, says CIMdata.

PlantPAx process automation and Ethernet motor control systems will be installed at LSB’s new nitric acid and ammonia plants currently being constructed in El Dorado, Ark.