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Exida certified the LESV-Flow Sensor meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.

Bestobell Marine will supply cryogenic globe, check and FLIV valves for the 173K LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) Carrier being constructed for Teekay LNG Partners LP of Canada.

Werum is a provider of software for production control and production monitoring for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry.

As main automation contractor for the massive upgrade, Emerson provided technologies and services that helped enable the Chicago-area refinery modernize its facility to process advantaged crude supplies.

Simple To Complex Machinery Guarding Solution From a simple to complex machine guarding, Tapeswitch Corporation offers a full product line of trapped key power isolation and machine access solutions that is custom configured to your machinery power type, access point structures doors, hatches, gates, control panel lock-out, and power isolation operation and trapped key access lock-out component configuration.

UOP's 1,000th system for purifying hydrogen is being installed at Ruwais Refinery, United Arab Emirates, and operated by the Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company (TAKREER).

Tapeswitch Corporation Offers : New Programmable, Mini, Type 3, CAT 3 Safety Laser Scanner For A Simple To Complex Machine Guarding/Area Guarding Solution for Machine Builders and Users.

10 Pitfalls of DIY Control Systems

Mexican manufacturers are the second-largest importers of U.S. packaging and processing machinery, because companies like Nestlé and PepsiCo are expanding manufacturing operations there.

By Bill Lydon, Editor At Automation Fair 2013, I spoke with Rockwell Automation’s Frank Kulaszewicz about the progress on their new architecture developments. The new controller architecture will consist of a backplane and each module will have its own IP address. Every motor drive, intelligent overload, intelligent sensor, intelligent light curtain, and other device will have an IP address.

Application Finder intelligent software tool allows users to search for the appropriate laser profile sensor by considering a number of application-related search criteria.

The HIMax Programmable Electronic System fire & gas detection system will be installed on the Kittiwake Oil Platform in UK North Sea.

Brad Steege and Joe Mustari are Subject Matter Experts that can address custom technical wire and cable, retractile cords, cable assembly and connector needs.

Use a smart transmitter & smart electrodes and do standardization and/or periodic buffer calibrations based on electrode life expectancy.

By Bill Lydon, Editor The improvement of manufacturing productivity and quality requires sharing data and synchronizing controllers. This can now be accomplished by using new standards that were jointly developed by PLCopen and the OPC Foundation.

Codenomicon, a Finland-based cybersecurity company, specializes in identifying unknown software bugs.

ISA will conduct four highly intensive technical training events—comprised of technician, automation engineering and safety courses—in Denver, Houston, and Carson, California during 2014.

Franklin Control Systems moved into a 60,000 sq. ft. engineering and production facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, doubling the company’s space under a single roof.

By Andrew Stuart, Honeywell Process Solutions Today, plant personnel have access to new human-machine interface (HMI) solutions providing the ability to display and interact with system or plant-wide data. This enables high-quality collaboration with the field or with experts in other locations.

ABB replaced all of the electrical equipment including 5500KW motors, converter, transformer, motor control centers, switchgear and mechanical auxiliary equipment such as the cooling system pump skid, chillers and fin-fan heat exchangers.