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Latest version now available of ABB’s System 800xA

System 800xA serves as the foundation for a number of unique industry-specific automation applications. Designed from the beginning to act as an integration platform, it has been proven to promote collaboration, improve operator effectiveness, achieve seamless control solutions, and provide flexible evolution paths through integrating diverse, usually separate plant systems, applications, information or fieldbus and controller platforms.

SourceGas implements trading and risk management solution

Allegro Development announced that SourceGas has completed the successful deployment of the Allegro 8 platform across its natural gas operations. Allegro provides SourceGas the ability to capture physical and financial natural gas trades, manage transportation, actualization and invoicing on a single, integrated solution

CPFD Software set to distribute Barracuda in China

CPFD Software LLC, the creators of the Barracuda simulation package for particle-fluid systems, announced the signing of a distribution agreement with Hi-Key Technology to distribute and support Barracuda in China.

Boosting temperature inferential control performance in distillation columns

Beijing University of Chemical Technology: Huang, K.  |  Luo, X.

An effective compensation method improves performance

HP Control: Continuous improvement or core-competency?

Tesoro Corp.: Kern, A.G.

In the past decade or two, the concepts of key performance indicators (KPIs), continuous improvement, core-competency and best practices have received a lot of attention. What are the relationships be..

Improving data reconciliation and yield accounting

Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.: Patil, P.  |  Roy, G.

Here's how the Mathura Refinery's data reconciliation and yield accounting project was implemented

Practical process control system metrics

Tesoro Corp.: Kern, A.G.

Here are several useful examples

Agile supply chain planning

M3 Technology: Acuff, C.  |  Jasper, D.
Chevron Corp.: Thomas, C.  |  Tong, D.

Providing a common workspace improves data integration

Service-oriented architecture simplifies data source integration

Infosys Consulting: Samdani, K.

Here's how the approach helps refinery scheduling and also contributes to business-wide SOA adoption

Predicting octane numbers for gasoline blends using artificial neural networks

Iran University of Science and Technology: Pranghooshi, E.  |  Sadeghi, M. T.
Sahand Univerity of Technology: Shafiei, S.

The ANN models were more accurate than regression models