Kane, L.
HP Control: How can e-commerce help you?
If you read Wendy Weirauch's editorial, you know Gulf Publishing will be getting into electronic-commerce (e-commerce). Our first project involves putting our Composite Catalog of Oilfield Equipment a..
HP Control: Systems integration insights from NPRA
The National Petrochemical and Refining Association held its annual Computer Conference and Showcase November 14–17 in Kansas City, Missouri. The topic of the question-and-answer session was syst..
HP Control: Fieldbuses embracing Ethernet
Using Ethernet networks for process control applications has generated a lot of controversy. Ethernet's low cost, and the fact that it is the communications medium of the Internet, has made it popular..
HP Control: Trends in control
The organizers of INTERKAMA (world's largest instrumentation and control conference held in Düsseldorf, Oct. 18–23), forwarded a series of short papers on trends in control to help promote t..
HP Control: Maximize control/information system benefits
This year's Control and Information System's Handbook includes many new entries and players. Comparing the '95, '97 and current Handbook, we are reminded of past pitfalls as well as new trends. Max..
Concerns of control company execs
The Measurement, Control & Automation Association (MCAA) held its annual executive forum May 17–18 in Malvern, Pennsylvania. MCAA is an organization of instrumentation and control suppliers and i..
Why Fieldbus Technology?
Potential benefits of fieldbus have been touted for many years, but products have only recently become available. We have always believed that once several suppliers offered fieldbus products, the t..
HP Control: Consider other control system benefits
In spite of remarkable advances in control systems, multivariable control algorithms, intelligent field devices, process modeling techniques, information system integration and user experience,1 quant..
HP Control: Moving control into the field
I recently turned into our Production Dept. the articles for our May supplement, Fieldbus Technology. It will be mailed to readers of Gulf Publishing Co.'s three magazines – Hydrocarbon Processin..
Innovations from Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, that area of California so aptly named due to its large concentration of high-tech electronics firms, has some developments coming down the pike that could have a significant impact on..
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- Essar launches hydrogen power plant at Stanlow refinery (U.K.) 7/16
- Trelleborg partners with Airbus on hydrogen-powered air travel 7/16
- Neste, Mitsubishi Corporation agree on strategic partnership to develop supply chains for renewable chemicals and plastics 7/16
- Vale, Komatsu and Cummins announce collaboration to develop dual-fuel large trucks, powered by ethanol and diesel 7/16
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