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Take Advantage of Fieldbus
Digital networks offer both technical and economic benefits.

Rethink Reactor Temperature Control
Cascade strategy offers simplicity and fast response.

Leadership Focus Podcast: Control System Migration
ChemicalProcessing.com
To remain competitive, control system migration is a necessary task -- but that doesn't mean it's a pleasant one. To alleviate some of the discomfort, Ken Keiser, a migration marketing specialist for Siemens Industry Inc., offers tips to make the process successful.

Traci Purdum, senior digital editor, talks to Ken Keiser, a migration marketing specialist for Siemens Industry Inc., to learn how facilities can take the pain out of control system migration.

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Readers' Choice Awards: The Bout is Over
Record number of readers select technology leaders.

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White Papers: In Depth Research

Six Ways to Sustainability through Document & Business Processing
Author: CDC Software
Posted: 08/30/2010
Employ key "green" business technologies to reduce paper consumption, as well as comply with key regulations. Discover how Business Process Management and Document Management solutions can significantly slash material costs, while improving user productivity.

Get Smarter And Faster With Integrated Supply Chain Planning
Author: CDC Software
Posted: 07/28/2010
Supply Chain Planning and Forecasting coupled with a process ERP solution is the perfect fit to synch sales and marketing with manufacturing and supply chain operations. "Best Practices in Demand Planning" shows you how this integrated solution can reduce forecast errors, increase plant throughput, and reduce inventory levels.

Staying Competitive in the Changing Chemical Manufacturing Marketplace
Author: Microsoft Dynamics
Posted: 06/01/2010
Positioned at the core of most supply chains, chemical firms must deal with many challenges to growing profitably -- flat demand, deflationary prices, and emerging competitors to name a few. Both chemicals firms large and small must develop the insight to change and win in today's ever-morphing competitive landscape. This white paper identifies and discusses how chemicals companies can combine data from many sources -- multiple ERP systems, multiple divisions and multiple applications -- maintenance, human capital, CRM, and supply chain to name just a few -- to create a complete or holistic view for critical decisions. Download now.

Managing Chaos in the Chemical Sector
Author: Microsoft Dynamics
Posted: 05/06/2010
This white paper outlines how the chemicals industry's leading operators are successfully transforming their operations to achieve a competitive advantage for decades to come. Learn what chemicals operators are doing to: improve integration and collaboration with supply-chain partners both upstream and downstream; Establish business processes and use management systems to better identify and manage both customer demand and volatile supply channels; Innovate both new products and feedstock sources and, Upgrade operations and optimize processes with improvement methodologies such as Lean.

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Timeless Resources

Process Engineering: National Instruments test and measurement whitepaper database
National Instruments developer zone has a plethora of whitepapers on instrumentation. The database covers both hardware and software needs.
Process Engineering: Measurement Technology whitepapers
This whitepaper database from Rosemount covers many areas of instrumentation including safety-instrumented systems.

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The Optimized Plant

The Optimized Plant

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Honeywell can help sustain the life of your assets and maximize the operational performance of your plant or mill.

Wastewater analysis should be easy

Wastewater Analysis Center

Sponsored by Hach

Wastewater analysis should be easy. Learn about wastewater analysis solutions including spectrophotometers and chemistries to get accurate results, time after time.

Business Performance

Business Performance

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Improve performance and increase profitability with integrated, comprehensive solutions that protect your people, process and assets, while reducing costs and improving productivity.

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