During the “Factory Acceptance Test” (FAT) often expansions and adaptations are required which cost time and money. Now a new type concept for plant operating and construction companies forms the basis for even more efficient engineering, greater standardization and safety.

From shipyards to life-sciences: Automation manufacturers benefit from Korea’s industrial transition – Since the 1960s, Korea has seen an unparalleled transition from an agricultural country to one of Asia’s technology trailblazers. The technological edge secured the “land of the morning calm” a place among the world’s leading shipuilders, cars and electronics manufacturers and plant engineering specialists. After the shipping crisis and the declining crude price, Korea’s multinationals have set their sighths of life-sciences and process engineering. To promote the transition from shipyards to lab-floor, process understanding and state of the art technology are becoming the key enablers.

... the answers are unequivocal. Reliability is the top priority in the process industry.

Due to the ever-expanding functionality of modern process control systems, their implementation no longer remains simple. To leverage the benefits of productivity enhancement tools available in the latest process control packages, a clear and complete software functional requirement specification document must be developed before configuring any process control system. Read on to know more…

Antwerp Port Authority and FPIM (Federal Participation & Investment Company) are to jointly acquire a stake in Nxt Port, the digital data platform for the port community. The port authority also announced that it would acquire the Nationale Maatschappij der Pijpleidingen (NMP) from its current shareholders Ackermans & van Haaren and Electrabel. With the takeover the port authority will gain ownership and control of 720 km of pipelines.

Emerson Process Management and Lubrizol have completed on-schedule, on-budget factory acceptance of Emerson’s integrated automation solution for Lubrizol’s greenfield additives manufacturing plant in Zhuhai, China. Emerson is the Main Automation Contractor for the plant, which will offer select additive component manufacturing as well as additive package blending.

Caywon Pharmaceutical Group will become the first international pharmaceutical company to adopt Crowd Machine as the key enabling technology to power its Pharma 4.0 digital transformation initiative. The company seeks to accelerate the translation of biomedical advances into innovative products through “distributed partnering”.

In the present times, when strategies to ascertain workplace safety and environment conservation have become a necessity, fail-safe PLC systems can work wonders. These systems minimize the risks involved in critical applications where the possibility of hazards is high. The fault-tolerant architecture ensures that the failure of a component does not interrupt the process operation, thus ensuring safety.

Siemens recieves major order from Asia: The company will deliver a total of eighteen compressor trains for oxygen production sites in India and Inner Mongolia. The order volume is in the three digit million Euro range...

A feature on the Indian process sector’s ability to conform to Industry 4.0 – Industry 4.0 has become a keyword for the engineering world as a whole. However, it is a challenging leap that comes along with various challenges. With industry experts’ views on the several challenges and possible solutions, we have tried to find out whether the Indian process sector is ready to embrace Industry 4.0.