Over the past five years, the industrial evolution has been propelled by the same technologies that have dramatically changed our private lives.
Smart manufacturing is a topic that has generated considerable discussions within industry and standards organizations.
Refineries and chemical processing plants are complicated to model, control and optimize.
A common misconception in largescale process manufacturing is that minimizing downtime by increasing reliability is the key to increasing profitability.
Crude oil is separated into more valuable products, such as naphtha, kerosene, light diesel, heavy diesel and atmospheric residue, in crude distillation units (CDUs).
The HPI has been going through a digital transformation, increasingly adopting digital technologies to improve existing processes and structures to improve performance.
Driving profitable refinery operations often requires owner-operators to balance production flexibility and product optimization with asset availability and equipment reliability.
When WirelessHART first hit the market in 2008, most of the native devices using it were process measurement instruments.
Digital transformation is a strategy for improving performance by applying technologies for measurement, connectivity, data storage, analytics and visualization