KBR has secured a contract from Basra Oil Company to provide Integrated Field Management Services for the Majnoon Oil Field in Iraq. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide comprehensive upstream engineering, project and operations management, modern field facilities and maintenance services to enhance crude production, modernize field facilities, and implement advanced AI and digital technologies to optimize reservoir performance.

Under a strategic partnership between Dataparc and Hitachi Systems, Hitachi Systems will integrate Dataparc’s industrial data platform into its suite of digital manufacturing solutions which will help its customers to unlock deeper operational insight and accelerate their journey toward smart manufacturing.

Known for its massive oil and natural gas reserves, the Gulf region is a critical global energy supplier and is actively adopting some of the most innovative technologies to monitor the performance of critical equipment, enhance plant efficiency and production, and even slash operational downtime across its numerous industrial plants in the region. Read on to know more…

Siemens and Caphenia have teamed up to accelerate the production of sustainable aviation fuel. Under the partnership Siemens will provide digitalization and automation solutions for Caphenia’s plasma technology which converts bio-methane into synthesis gas.

This smart technology has been in the news for quite some time but how useful is it for industrial plants? Bart Moors, General Manager Process Industries Software at Siemens and Prathamesh Gawde, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bentley Systems highlight the many benefits of adopting the digital twin technology across industrial facilities.

Numerous four-legged robot dogs are inspecting different spaces across the industrial plant; facility personnel are wearing head-mounted displays which helps them to get access to detailed information about an equipment or process in real time and diverse physical assets of a system or production process at the plant can be replicated into a virtual system, get ready for the plant of the future!

A metaphor for an obvious, unresolved problem that everyone notices but no one talks about – that’s the famous elephant in the room. In the pharmaceutical industry, one specific topic immediately comes to mind: Annex 1. However, PharmaXchange at Bausch+Ströbel impressively demonstrated that this supposed “elephant” was not ignored here, but rather tamed – and viewed as an opportunity.

Merck has invested 500 million euros to develop its Semiconductor Solutions mega site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. With this move, the company aims to strengthen its global supply chain resilience.

Schubert has expanded its ‘4You Service’ portfolio and now offers its customers measurable benefits in terms of efficiency, availability and sustainability – both in analogue and digital form.

With everything changing around us right from the way we secure our knowledge, to communicating with people to the way the workforce across industries is being made to upgrade their existing skill sets to take on more productive tasks, one thing is certain: Change is constant. Smart technologies like Augmented Reality have not only entered the workforce but are transforming the workforce like never before.