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Increase your margin by 25%

Advanced Industrial Modeling Inc.: Korchinski, W.
Chevron: Beerbaum, A.
PREP Consulting Inc.: Geddes, D.

Here’s how to make sure that the planning LPs always match the plant

Improve exploration, production and refining with ‘add-at-will’ wireless automation

Chevron Corp.: Laframboise, G.
Emerson Process Management: Karschnia, B.

After the technology was validated, a wireless infrastructure was installed blanketing 80% of a US refinery

Advanced process control in the plant engineering and construction phases

Bechtel Corp.: Sakizlis, V.  |  Vakamudi, K.
Honeywell Process Solutions: Coward, A.  |  Mermans, I.

Testing MVC performance using a dynamic model offers several benefits

Building and installing a reliable industrial Ethernet infrastructure

Belden: Shuman, B.

Here are six practical guidelines to consider

How to have a successful data reconciliation software implementation

INOVx Solutions: Ayral, T.
Inlibra Software Solutions Corp.: Won, H.  |  Cho, W-S.
FertiNitro: Samad, I.

Follow these guidelines to ensure success

HP Control: Process control practice renewal 2010—performance

Clifftent Inc.: Latour, P. R.

In August 2010, I followed Allan Kern’s “Continuous Improvement or Core-Competency editorial”1 with a review of the purposes of process control and IT in the HPI. After 50 years, it is ..

HP Control: APC application ownership

Petrocontrol: Friedman, Y. Z.

Advancec process control (APC) requires skilled control engineers, and where such engineers are not available, even well-implemented APC applications quickly become ineffective. That much is known and..

HP Integration Strategies: Sustainability program management with EAM

ARC Advisory Group: Rio, R.

Moving to a sustainable manufacturing model requires significant changes throughout the enterprise. Some HPI companies use a top-down approach in which senior managers set targets to which engineers a..

Preem AB selects Allegro solution

Allegro Development Corp., a provider of energy trading and risk management (ETRM) systems, announced that Preem AB will implement the Allegro 8 platform to manage its oil supply, trading, refining, logistics, sales and marketing operations. Allegro’s single, integrated solution will give Preem visibility and control around their extensive crude oil refining and trading business.

HP Automation Safety: Cyber security certification for automation products and suppliers

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Thinnes, Billy
exida LLC: Cusimano, J.

The United Steelworkers Union (USW) issued a press release chastising the oil industry for the series of fires and explosions that keep happening at US refineries. USW pointed out that there has been ..