At the Connected Plant Conference being held this week in Atlanta, KROHNE is showcasing its OPTIMASS 6400 twin bent tube Coriolis mass flowmeter in booth #108. The event, presented by Chemical Engineering and POWER, runs from February 25-27, 2020 at…
Each year, the Connected Plant Conference, presented by Chemical Engineering and POWER, recognizes people who are in the front line of implementing digital technologies in the chemical process and power industries. This year, we congratulate the following winners of…
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Italy-based ASEM, S.p.A., a leading provider of digital automation technologies. ASEM provides a complete range of Industrial PCs (IPCs), Human-Machine Interface (HMI) hardware and software, remote…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced the launch of its pilot platform reciChain in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a response to one of the most pressing environmental challenges – plastic waste. The pilot project will introduce…
Dell Technologies (www.delltechnologies.com) has announced the startup of the world’s most powerful industrial supercomputer, the HPC5, which was powered at Eni S.p.A.’s (Milan, Italy; www.eni.com) Green Data Centre. The drive to create environmentally sound and sustainable futuristic performance brought Dell…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo; www.sdk.co.jp) has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) based search system to look efficiently for information useful for capital investment evaluation from the company’s knowledge databases. This new search engine uses an AI system named “KIBIT,”…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.yokogawa.com) announced the opening of the Open Process Automation (OPA) Test Bed Collaboration Center, located six miles north of ExxonMobil's Houston campus in The Woodlands, Texas. The opening of the center follows the announcement in…
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) is participating in the latest funding round of Fero Labs (New York, N.Y.; www.ferolabs.com), a start-up aiming to optimize industrial processes by using explainable machine learning. The investment is led by the…
Honeywell (Morris Plains, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) today announced the release of Experion PKS IT Highly Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE), a transformative new technology that centralizes up to 80% of IT infrastructure used in project engineering. This allows industrial manufacturers to lower…
Industrial internet of things (IIoT) technologies support online, continuous condition monitoring for pumps Because pumps are often critical to process operation and safety, condition monitoring for pumps has long been a respected practice in the chemical process industries (CPI). However,…