Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) opened its newest cybersecurity lab to help manufacturers confidently adopt digital transformation strategies, while protecting the integrity of their plant operations, networks, systems and data. The facility, part of Emerson’s larger global cybersecurity network, reinforces…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won a multi-million-dollar order to modernize a major oil refinery in Kazakhstan, as the Republic’s ‘Digital Kazakhstan’ program seeks to elevate economic sectors including the oil, gas and chemicals industry and accelerate growth nationally with…
The International Society of Automation (ISA; Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.isa.org), developer of ANSI/ISA 62443 series of automation and control systems cybersecurity standards (adopted by the International Electrotechnical Commission and endorsed by the United Nations), has created an open, collaborative…
Thyssenkrupp Materials Services GmbH (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-materials-services.com) continues to drive digital transformation: since early 2019, an artificial intelligence (AI) solution, supported by Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure, has been integrated into the processes of the largest materials distribution and service provider…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.com) has conducted a running test of the prototype EX ROVR, a plant inspection robot with explosion protection features to limit the danger of the robot itself igniting an explosion or fire from…
Apart from ensuring the conformity of the process and the quality of the product, professional calibration, first and foremost, improves the quality of the process At many plants in the chemical process industries (CPI), measurement instrumentation is usually calibrated during…
In the course of ongoing digitalization, the construction of large-scale plants is facing significant market changes, for which companies have to prepare intensively. This is the core result of a new, broad- based benchmark study by the VDMA e.V's (Frankfurt…
Haldor Topsoe A/S's (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) ClearView Hydrogen is a complete connected plant service that leverages the power of continuous upload of data to offer plant owners improved asset utilization, energy savings, and less unplanned downtime. Based on a stream…
Coupled with advanced analytics and networking capabilities, today’s smart sensors help processors optimize the facility Picture a piece of equipment not just monitoring its own health, but also automatically ordering the part it requires and, when it notes that the…
Note: This story is also available in a complimentary, full-screen version https://www.chemengonline.com/eh-modern-instrumentation-simplifies-maintenance/ Built-in diagnostics and condition monitoring improve maintenance, process reliability and plant availability Today’s modern world is steadily digitizing all our daily routines, but the majority of the chemical…