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ECS implementation makes a difference at Beaumont plant

Invensys Operations Management has successfully implemented an InFusion enterprise control system (ECS) for ExxonMobil Lubricants and Specialties. Through a joint Invensys and ExxonMobil team effort, the installation was successfully completed and the plant was back to full production on schedule with no safety incidents.

A nanotechnology partnership is good news for Japanese spectrometer users

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH has formed a strategic marketing alliance with SII NanoTechnology, Inc. to market SPECTRO’s inductively coupled plasma optical emission (ICP-OES) and mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) in Japan.

HP Control: Inferential control model input selection

Petrocontrol: Friedman, Y. Z.

It is not a secret that I prefer to base inferential models on engineering principles, rather than on regression. Having said that, the use of regression is widespread, and being a consultant in the f..

HP Integration Strategies: Data historians provide effective decision support in near real time

ARC Advisory Group: Avery, Allen

Plant data historians are moving beyond their traditional role as a tool for collecting and archiving data to better understand past plant performance, to becoming a powerful tool that can be used to ..

HP Innovations: HPInnovations

Siemens expands anaerobic- digestion product offeringSiemens Water Technologies has acquired the JetMix hydraulic mixing system from Liquid Dynamics Corp. This proprietary system agitates sludge withi..

Mass spectrometer systems producer expanding presence in Germany as well as worldwide

Inprocess Instruments, a provider of specialized quadrupole mass spectrometer systems for online gas analysis, is consolidating its research and development, production and administration by expansion and a change of location in Bremen, Germany.

Fieldbus Foundation welcomes latest EDDL enhancements

The Fieldbus Foundation today announced it welcomes the latest enhancements to electronic device description language (EDDL), which are incorporated in the second edition of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61804-3 standard.

Hyperion to supply simulator for ethylene plant in India

Hyperion Systems Engineering will supply the operator training simulator for an ethylene cracker and associated units, which form part of a polymer complex to be built in Dahej, India, that will manufacture 1.1 million tpy of ethylene, 400,000 tpy of propylene, 150,000 tpy of benzene and 115,000 tpy of butadiene.

Field device application designed to simplify instrumentation management

Honeywell has introduced Field Device Configurator (FDC), a software application for the MCToolkit hand-held configurator device.

New silicon detection analyzer

XOS (USA) has rolled out a new product, the Signal analyzer. It can detect silicon down to 0.5 ppm.