Aveva (London; www.aveva.com) announced that it has acquired production accounting software from South Korean based company MESEnter to extend Aveva’s value chain optimization solution. MESEnter’s software offering, previously branded MES ENTER ErrorSolver and now rebranded Aveva Production Accounting, has been…
The right mix of data collection, analysis, visualization and alerts can make the very daunting task of maintaining hundreds of pieces of equipment a simpler and more effective process Chemical manufacturing is a labor- and capital-intensive process that is both…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo; www.yokogawa.com) announced that it completed the acquisition of all shares in Denmark-based Grazper Technologies ApS (Grazper), as mutually agreed. Grazper has developed advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for analyzing images, and Yokogawa aims to leverage these…
Equinor ASA (Stavanger, Norway; www.equinor.com) and Royal Dutch Shell (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on digital collaboration to develop solutions and methods together through the exchange of expertise within data science, artificial intelligence and…
At the ARC Industry Forum in February, Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS; Houston; www.honeywellprocess.com) released the Experion PKS IT Highly Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE), a new technology that centralizes up to 80% of IT infrastructure used in project engineering. The PKS…
At the Connected Plant Conference being held this week in Atlanta, KROHNE is showcasing its OPTIMASS 6400 twin bent tube Coriolis mass flowmeter in booth #108. The event, presented by Chemical Engineering and POWER, runs from February 25-27, 2020 at…
Each year, the Connected Plant Conference, presented by Chemical Engineering and POWER, recognizes people who are in the front line of implementing digital technologies in the chemical process and power industries. This year, we congratulate the following winners of…
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Italy-based ASEM, S.p.A., a leading provider of digital automation technologies. ASEM provides a complete range of Industrial PCs (IPCs), Human-Machine Interface (HMI) hardware and software, remote…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced the launch of its pilot platform reciChain in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a response to one of the most pressing environmental challenges – plastic waste. The pilot project will introduce…
Dell Technologies (www.delltechnologies.com) has announced the startup of the world’s most powerful industrial supercomputer, the HPC5, which was powered at Eni S.p.A.’s (Milan, Italy; www.eni.com) Green Data Centre. The drive to create environmentally sound and sustainable futuristic performance brought Dell…