Category: Process Automation & Control

ARI-Armaturen has been designing and manufacturing specialist valves used for isolating, securing, controlling and steam trapping across a wide range of industrial processes for more than 50 years. The company’s...

As process plants become more highly automated, information is gathered at the device level to provide feedback for control loops. Yet, increasingly intelligent devices are now talking to each other and working independently....

Parmareggio Unigrana has used Product4Automations’ low cost Movicon 11 SCADA to automate one of the creameries that has helped it become a major butter producer, as well as world-famous for its cheese. With demand for the...

Controlling machinery processes is crucial to productivity – but it can also affect energy use, impacting on the bottom line. t-mac Technologies    outlines its product offering, which helps identify...

Norman Glen, from NEL, explains how important it is to accurately calibrate densitometers used in the oil and gas industries, and shows the role NEL has played in helping companies achieve such accuracy Accurate density...

In addition to their well-known uses in saving energy,   variable-speed drives are also sophisticated control elements in their own right. Neil Ritchie, from ABB, looks at the functions plant managers are coming to...

Using variable speed drives (VSDs) to control fans and pumps saves energy and cuts running costs, but, according to Stephen Takhar, managing director at Vacon UK, if the VSDs have been in service for over  five years, it...

Pet food manufacturer Iams is using the NWA?Quality Analyst statistical process control package, available from Adept Scientific, to ensure consistency at each stage of the process When it comes to cat and dog food, The Iams...

According to Mike Abbott from Siemens Industry Automation, assessing primary and secondary processes from a single perspective and finding a common    automation technology platform can drive down costs and...

Cherwell Laboratories has introduced DataTrace Pro (DT Pro) integrated software for use with DataTrace wireless data-loggers for critical manufacturing and validation applications. DT Pro offers users insight into productivity...

Paul Hurst, from Products 4 Automation, explains how Progea’s Movicon 11 SCADA solution has been used in a system developed by GIMA?Spa for Wrigley that collects, stores and displays statistical data for OEE?purposes. When...

Optimal Automation has upgraded a legacy control system to a PLC and networked SCADA system on a large fluidised bed dryer (FBD) at a major pharmaceutical manufacturer. By working with the client to optimise the efficiency of...

Chemicals manufacturer Allessa Chemie has found a more mobile way of working by implementing Schad’s Extend7000 to monitor power distribution changes. Immediate notifications help reduce downtime and allows the company to...

An example of where the flexibility of Bürkert’s process equipment has proved its worth is in an application at Stroud Brewery, where the challenge was to combine traditional organic craft brewing with the latest...

Bürkert Fluid Control Systems explains how it offers three different, yet equally important, approaches to automation: centralised and decentralised automation, and locally installed, compact pneumatic valve block...