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Automating procedures within control systems can serve to make your operators more effective and more consistent. With studies showing more than 40% of all plant incidents stemming from some form of human error, it makes sense to give automation a larger role in day-to-day operations. |
08/01/2007 |
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Politics, Appearances and Thinking Green The push to green energy is good for automation vendors everywhere, but U.S. government rhetoric may put companies on this side of the Atlantic at a competitive disadvantage. |
08/01/2007 |
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Users seeking appropriate process safety systems arent getting enough help from unspecific standards and ideal-world certifications. Heres how to gain useful safety capabilities in a buyer-beware world. |
06/01/2007 |
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The evolution of plant automation Understanding the purpose of control and safety systems helps users ensure each is appropriately optimized. The duties of the SIS are to protect the people, environment and assets against unsafe conditions. |
03/03/2007 |
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Plants get help in boosting reliability More and more companies are placing greater emphasis on maintenance and seeking help from vendors to boost the effectiveness of their efforts, as some recent major investment decisions demonstrate. Many automation companies now are benefiting by building up asset management services alongside process control capabilities. |
02/26/2007 |
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Debunk plant myths about diagnostics Your current control system can probably do more than you think. Everybody can agree that diagnostics are a good thing they can identify problems early, and keep the plant running at peak performance. Learn how your existing control systems and analog instruments can deliver diagnostic capabilities, at a fraction of the cost of system or instrument replacements. |
02/08/2007 |
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Making the most of diagnostics Make the most of your diagnostics with this helpul summary from George Buckbee of ExperTune, Inc. |
02/08/2007 |
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Data validation: Jewel in the fieldbus crown? Many users and most suppliers to the industry see process availability as the big payout benefit of Foundation Fieldbus (FF) diagnostics a good portion of it realized through data validation. |
11/09/2006 |
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November Process Puzzler: Consider options for automation Readers suggest ways to automate an HCl absorber in this month's Process Puzzler in Chemical Processing. |
10/31/2006 |
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Boiling water is easy as one, two, three, four Theres more to boiler level control than measuring level and adjusting a feedwater valve. Improved measurements and inverse response are just a few of the influences on operating boilers in a reliable manner. |
09/15/2006 |
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Process analysis gains greater online role Faster. Smaller. Smarter. Modular. All express the future of process analytics. And un-stoppable describes the ongoing migration of process analytical instruments to continuous, online, field-mounted use at chemical plants. |
09/11/2006 |
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Cutting the wires of communications Users want wireless, vendors want to sell wireless, so whats the problem? This article tackles one of the most discussed topics: the use of wireless communications in process automation. |
08/15/2006 |
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Protect the perimeter and the process A visit to Honeywell's Geismar plant reminded Editor in Chief Mark Rosenzweig how to integrate security and control. |
04/12/2006 |
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Oil refinery minimizes manual tank measurements The strategy was to enhance plant profitability, increase throughput capacity, upgrade product yields and improve on-stream reliability. Read here to find out what they accomplished. |
02/10/2006 |
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Editor-in-Chief Mark Rosenzweig writes that the causes of two incidents should get attention from other processors. |
01/24/2006 |
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Distillation control and optimization, Part 1 Control columnist Bela Liptak describes the distillation process and PID-based controls, reviews optimization strategies, and shows how advanced controls can cut operating costs of distillation. |
01/11/2006 |
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Condensate cripples compressor Readers offer tips on how to keep a standby compressor ready for service. |
01/05/2006 |
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Chemical Processing's readers offer tips about how to properly isolate a waste heat boiler. |
01/02/2006 |
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There's always something more to learn about HART Communications Since HART technology has been around for many years, most people feel that they know all that there is to know about it. The fact is the vast majority of HART applications utilize only a fraction of the full capability of HART. |
10/12/2005 |
