Improving productivity, flexibility, and speed in operations as well as processes is the goal which every industry player strives to achieve and digital transformation offers just that. With its many efficient and problem-solving technologies, the industry is slowly beginning to realize the plus points and necessity of this much needed transformation. After all, everyone wants to stay ahead in the game and nobody wants to be left out.

Until the pandemic, most people had never heard of mRNA vaccines. Today, they are widely expected to hold the key to curing life-threatening diseases such as cancer — unfortunately at a potentially prohibitive price.

With a revenue of 1.4 billion dollars in 2020, Tata Chemicals needs no introduction. Zarir Langrana, Executive Director and President (Global Chemicals Business), Tata Chemicals in an interview with PROCESS Worldwide shares the various measures undertaken by the company in the background of trending concepts such as circular economy, digitalization and decarbonization.

How can high-shear granulation be reliably and securely scaled up from the lab to production? In addition to thorough knowledge of the process, it is helpful to have modular systems that enable the process parameters to be set very accurately.

Extremely long life cycles are typical for many plants in the process industry. With the new version 3.1 of Simatic PCS neo, Siemens has completely rethought the plant life cycles in the process industry and, in addition to a variety of new functions, the completely web-based process control system shows how the challenges of long life cycles will be mastered in the future. Users of all process technology sectors already benefit from it today.

Ensuring the design team and stakeholders work together is crucial at the start on any large capital project. Collaboration is essential when it comes to working with many different groups, partners, subcontractors, and inter-departmental personnel, as they work with multiple information sources and make numerous design changes as part of the review process. Failure in any of these work processes can result in costly mistakes once handover is complete as the project moves into construction – and even more so as it moves into operations.

For many years, industrial gases were bought in China from Linde and its competitors Air Products and Air Liquide without thinking much of it. But now Linde & Co. and their market power are suddenly seen as a problem in the People's Republic.

Pumping oleum is challenging enough — add a submersion depth of 11 meters, and things get really interesting. But a magnetically coupled sealless pump is up to the challenge, providing safe and reliable handling of hazardous liquids.

The chemical industry is leading the hydrogen race — no wonder that the light gas is also capturing the imagination at Achema. The mysterious green molecule of endless possibilities plays a decisive role at the leading trade fair for chemistry, the event organizers at Dechema believe.

Digital twins ensure competitiveness. This is the experience of numerous users in the process industry who are working with a solution developed by Siemens and Bentley Systems. Bart Moors from Siemens and Alistair Stubbs from Bentley Systems describe what makes this platform unique and, furthermore, how they can help customers to advance their digital maturity.