Emerson Process Management (Austin, Tex.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6515-544) and Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D; Nuremberg, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6515-545) are expanding their system interfaces to enable both companies to support global fieldbus standards. The companies will exchange technology and engineering support in order to…
At ARC's 14th annual forum (June 26-28; Boston, Mass.), OPC Foundation (Scottsdale, Ariz.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/6515-549) released its latest interoperability solution, OLE for Process Control Unified Architecture (OPC-UA). This new series of specifications aims to provide secure, reliable interoperability for moving data…
The beauty of fiber-optical spectroscopy is that small, inexpensive devices with no moving parts bring their capacity to where the samples are, rather than the other way round. As a result, spectra can be recorded in almost real…
These meters have no moving parts The Vortex PhD (photo) is an inline meter that measures flow of liquids, gas or steam. With a fully welded sensor construction, the Vortex PhD has no moving parts nor holes that…
The usage of Coriolis flowmeters for measuring mass flowrates has become widespread in the chemical process industries, and the range of fluids with which these meters can be employed is likewise diverse. Among those applications, Coriolis flowmeters can readily be…
The infrared approach to temperature monitoring is especially useful in situations where process temperatures are extremely high, the target is in motion, and the need to avoid contaminants is significant Accurate temperature measurement can often be quite challenging, especially in…
An industrial group, composed of Honeywell, Adaptive Instruments, Endress + Hauser, Flowserve, Omnex Control Systems, 3e Technologies International, and Yokogawa, have joined the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA; Research Triangle Park, N.C.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5830-542) SP100 working group (chartered last year)…
Corrosion has the chemical process industries seeing red in their metal tanks and pipelines — and on the bottom line, too. In the U.S., for example, chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical producers incur direct costs of $1.7 billion/yr for corrosion, or…
Last month, Invensys Process Systems (Foxboro, Mass.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/5829-531) launched InFusion (www.InFusionECS.com), claimed to be the world’s first enterprise-control system (ECS). InFusion (diagram) is designed to help industrial enterprises more effectively align plant operations and maintenance departments with the business to…
After years of investment in enterprise business systems and plant floor automation, the manufacturing community has finally turned its full attention to connecting these two distinctly different, yet intimately related aspects of the manufacturing enterprise, says Kevin Roach,…