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Hydrostatic level measurement in difficult access areas

Transmitter with an integral remote housing (up to a distance of 10m) allows commissioning, adjustment and viewing to be carried out at a potentially safer place of work
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Reduce plant downtime and improve machine availability

Schaeffler showcases products and services for the inspection and maintenance of plant and machinery, including torque measurement products and oil analysis services
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Condition monitoring technology for industrial control

Motor Condition Monitor and Plant Condition Monitor both use an advanced technique known as model-based fault detection MORE »

Researchers examine the market for PLCs

IMS Research has been studying the market for PLCs and the way some suppliers are shifting towards offering integrated automation systems MORE »

// - Photoelectric sensors suit food manufacturing machinery

// - Configuration and visualisation solution

// - Drive saves £14,000 in a year

// - Energy efficient balancer shaft leads to engine fuel savings

// - Actuators with enhanced functionality

// - Reccorders allow ‘transparent’ production during cooking

// - Energy improvement: look at the big picture for real savings

// - Intelligent actuation allows better system control at solar power plan

// - Pump sensors and controller deployed to power car plant HVAC

// - Design advances extend the scope of heat exchangers into new areas

// - Time lapse seismic proves worth as a tool to boost field output

// - Composite technology: repairs and maintenance wrapped up

// - Bitumen companies go wireless to monitor production facilities

// - Next-generation nozzle check valve reduce operating costs

// - Tank farm operators show new confidence in fieldbus

// - StatoilHydro publishes report into Norwegian rig's oil spill

// - Spot oil spills and leaks with the help of colour coded bacteria

// - Industry urged to act as refrigerant phase-out looms

// - Digital valve control goes wireless

// - Gas turbines for liquefied natural gas

// - Pressure relief systems 'neglected'

// - Remotely monitor plant-floor operations

// - Easier recycling of electronic waste

// - Module simplifies implementation of Zigbee

// - Preventing localised hydrogen cyanide gas emissions

// - Securing industrial control systems against threat of cyber infection

// - Roller chain drives offer longer life, even in harsh environments

// - Despite the advantages of ac, dc drives still have a future

// - Low harmonic drives ease stress on the power supply

// - Magnetic flow meter offered with Profibus PA

// - Reverse buckling bursting disc for accurate pressure relief

// - Sewerage sludge materials handling package

// - Filters improve diesel cleanliness by 500 per cent in mine

// - Coal-fired power plants capacity to grow by 35 per cent in next 10 years

// - Digital automation for coal gasification plant

// - Process analysers - pushing for the standardisation of devices

// - Single source for stainless steel products

// - Trend for fast track project implementation grows

// - Burner for high temperature applications

// - Advanced solutions key to creating competitive advantage

// - Asset performance management: improving process productivity

// - Powder testing for optimal process design and operation

// - System migration: make sure you improve control, not just replicate

// - Affordability, portability and precision key to thermal imaging

// - Measuring process humidity for optimal product quality

// - Efficient decomposition of pharmaceuticals through ozonisation

// - Portable rental steel tanks increase on-site storage capacity

// - Membranes for use in thermal concentration processes

// - South American power producers invest for a mixed fuel future

// - CFB offers potential solution to carbon emissions problem

// - Co-ordinated control ensures quality assured energy supply

// - Revamps of power projects are now key to automation contracts

// - Health monitoring systems are key to the modern plant

// - Silica analyser helps reduce your plant costs

// - Actuators must withstand high humidity, salt, wind and rain

// - Major scale actuation adopted at Indian coal plant

// - Initiative boosts anaerobic digestion expansion plans

// - Initiative boosts anaerobic digestion expansion plans

// - Pocket conveyor belts are flexible and environmentally friendly

// - Development of specialist quality materials will dominate in 2009

// - Control system covers all aspects of automation

// - SERCOS lll master software driver library to be open-source

// - Fully automatic pure steam condensate sampling system

// - Peristaltic technology tackles endocrine disrupting chemicals

// - Ageing plant and the implications for asset integrity

// - Securing integrated Scada systems against cyber attacks

// - Smart wireless solutions solve compliance and complexity issues

// - Pumps, valves and filters: advances in materials handling

// - Materials focus on insulation, energy, emissions and quality

// - Corrosion solutions conference

// - Regulatory enforcement drives continuous emission monitors

// - Plant studies support use of wireless in capital projects

// - Better power transmission helps stabilises manufacturing process

// - ROV undertakes large scale photographic surveys

// - Digital automation of coal gasification plant

// - Asset management: seamless solutions key to creating business advantage

// - Roller chain drives offer long life in harsh environments

// - Planning reliable and efficient statistical tests

// - Peristaltic pumps tackle the problem water pollution

// - Motor bearings benefit form lower friction

// - Triple eccentric valves for gas-to-liquid project in Qatar

// - Refrigeration plant supplies rapid cooling

// - Fuel for thought: how to meet the growing demands of industry

// - Chiller cuts cooling energy costs by up to 50 per cent

// - 'Significant' potential for electric drives in the chemical industry

// - Compressed air: saving a packet at corrugated packaging plant

// - Efficient gearboxes ensure reduced energy consumption at sewage works

// - Monitoring motor vibration: it can harm both energy and efficiency

// - Chinese projects focus on the economics of heat recovery

// - AsiaTAC to include stainless steel training seminar

// - Sustainable compounds use natural fibres and fillers

// - Safety system protects personnel and operations

// - Survey data vital to selecting routes for subsea pipelines

// - Dual-purpose gas detection cameras

// - Gas pipeline monitoring: moving from analogue to wireless

// - Actuation design evolves for potentially explosive areas

// - The IEC 61511 revision: functional safety comes of age

// - Navigational warning systems for oil platform

// - Vibration sensor offers extended operating temperature range

// - Smart Wireless field starter kit gains additional input devices

// - Process control instruments with web interface

// - Seals solve nuclear problem

// - Synchronised drives help give a train a lift during maintenance

// - Variable speed ac drives to change compressor industry

// - Harmonic distortion - how to combat an increasing problem

// - Proficy Maintenance Gateway 2.0 reduces downtime

// - PID tuning automated in control design and simulation software

// - Four-spiral wire hydraulic hose performs as six-wire hose

// - Networking: the key to ensuring process safety in the future

// - Microchannel technology applied to intensification of distillation

// - How clean is your steam? How to ensure the correct process grade

// - Particle size analysis reduces cement manufacturing costs

// - Safety culture key to preventing tank farm disasters in the future

// - Trends and developments in temperature measurement

// - Simple device integration with PROFIBUS PA Profile 3.02

// - Top five dominate process level measurement device supplies

// - Main automation suppliers focus on integration and flexibility

// - Novel wastewater purification approach by switching atoms

// - Overcoming clogging problems during the pumping of sewage

// - Accurate gas analysis drives process efficiency

// - Advanced automation needed to achieve smart grid success

// - Security of supply: meeting the operational challenge of maintaining

// - Motors help minimising impact of sulphur dioxide on environment

// - Modularisation - a key driver to power plant efficiency

// - Lab and online analytics for power generation plants

// - Largest circulating fluidised bed boiler begins production

// - Automating functions at a Peruvian hydropower plant

// - Organic Rankine cycle technology boosts onsite power projects

// - Stockpiling electrons: key to take-up of renewable energy?

// - Fusion energy: 3D software helps engineers develop next stage

// - Anti-wear and corrosion solutions boost boiler life

// - Using virtual reality to design and simulate power plant performance

// - Compact screw jack delivers high performance

// - Instrumentation needle valve with half-inch bore

// - Centum VP integrated production control system now at R4.02

// - Wonderware Intelligence software for historical and real-time data

// - Higher loads and better wear key to success of enhanced sealing

// - Pump technology advances on automated processing lines

// - Strategic tie-ups the way ahead for automation providers

// - Get smart and cut energy costs with integrated motor controls

// - Measuring process humidity for optimal product quality

// - Key safety lessons outlined following leak investigation

// - Creating successful working relationships across cultures

// - Microchannel technology intensifies distillation process

// - Top five dominate process level measurement devices

// - AchemAsia 2010: process engineering community meets

// - Compact panel PCs feature Intel Atom N270 processor

// - Romanian cogeneration plant meets EU energy efficiency goals

// - Multi-billion dollar investment spurs US transition to smart energy grid

// - Holistic energy saving strategy unites production and the environment

// - Steam management brings major savings in condensate recovery

// - Specialist lighting solutions reap economic rewards for industry

// - Hydrogen fuel cells: from automotive power to distributed generation

// - Eastern European market for automation and control solutions

// - Machine condition monitoring device is easy to use

// - Zigbee interface converts standard switches to wireless devices

// - Improving profitability and performance

// - Think small and make the most of associated gas developments

// - Maintain radio communications in remote environments

// - Modular actuation solutions for major refineries

// - Cutting the cost of flaring with dynamic simulation

// - Coal bed methane production: success depends on location

// - AUMA - modular actuators from engineering experts

// - WEG - An expanding global success story in power suuply, distribution, transmission, control and automation systems

// - Need for powerful cranes drives development technologies

// - Explosion protected safety switch key station

// - New standard in competency for Ex protection

// - Fault diagnostics in gas turbines

// - Dynamic simulators for improved plant performance

// - Simple rules to make your simulator worth the investment

 
 

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