Engineering companies are increasingly focusing on the development of Big Data analysis tools. Only recently, the Japanese plant builder Chiyoda announced the creation of a business unit dedicate to Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Now US company Jacobs Engineering follows by unveiling Connected Enterprise — a suite of integrated capabilities and solutions to enable digital transformation.

German company Thyssenkrupp has received another major order for the cement plant business of its Industrial Solutions business area. The value of the contract awarded by Société des Ciments de Sigus, part of Groupe Industriel des Ciments d’Algérie (GICA), is in the mid three-digit million euro range.

Surge protective devices are safety-related components and, as such, an essential part of process plants. Information about the status and performance of these components as well as on the status of the plant itself play an important role in continuous monitoring and predictive maintenance. Get to know a system, which acquires all this information — and also enables it to be utilized in the Internet of Things.

Siemens sees digitalisation as the key driver for industrial growth: At the SPS IPC Drives the German electronics giant presented its new strategic focus on discrete and process industries.

The project has been awarded by Anwil and will be responsible for producing 1,265 metric tonnes of nitric acid and 1,200 tonnes of ammonium nitrate per day. Thyssenkrupp’s patented Envi NOx process will be used to remove green house gases from nitric acid production.

From the desktop to the high seas: 3D Designing plays an important role in the life of engineers in various sectors. Alain Houard Vice President for Marine & Offshore Industry at Dassault Systèmes enthusiastically expounds on the effectiveness of the 3D Experience platform for marine and offshore industries in an exclusive interview to PROCESS...

The acquisition is expected to strengthen DSM Material’s’ position in the Indian engineering plastics industry and also allows the firm to grow its business in the country without investing heavily in capital expenditures.

Process engineers at oil & gas refineries will find that the rugged ST100 Thermal Mass Flow Meter Series from Fluid Components International (FCI) provides highly accurate, dependable measurement of air and fuel gases to optimise the performance of the boilers utilised by sulfur recovery units (SRUs).

Fieldbus systems represent the best way to use the knowledge available from intelligent process devices. One example is in reducing the cost of maintaining instrumentation.

Sandwich belt high angle conveyor technology provides an economic solution for high volume steep and vertical conveying. A comparison of four alternate conveying paths shows of different heights shows the advantages of the system in terms of cost as well as land area and spatial volume.