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:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/47/4f/474fac12fca989a8d8db63de335dd78d/0129188583v2.jpeg "Under the new contract, Air Products will supply about 36.5 million pounds of liquid hydrogen to NASA for the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida; NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; and NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. (Source: Air Products)")
:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/cd/1f/cd1f2c8c755b62b5693a7a25ceb830e8/0129165850v2.jpeg "Mizushima industrial complex in Okayama Prefecture: Here, AMEC’s ethylene cracker will be gradually phased out by 2030. (Source: Asahi Kasei)")
:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/11/d1/11d1742b523f3c25e3daf075e1966b03/0129132942v2.jpeg "From left: Yassir Ghiyati, CCO, Topsoe; Mohammed Benchekchou, VP and Managing Director, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Central Asia, Topsoe; Alfons Juan, Vice President of Strategic Supply & Contracting, Acwa; and Thomas Altmann, Executive Vice President, Innovation & New Technology, Acwa. (Source: Topsoe)")
:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/be/e1/bee13b8d51a419b9b8f0685e2b9d47bf/0128917673v1.jpeg "The Centerwave 6000 measures pipes from 32 to 1,600 mm. (Source: Maag Group)")
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:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/d5/72/d5728578b35b72f365f5086bc1d068da/0128662441v2.jpeg "Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group has announced the launch of its new multistage process pump (MSPP 210), designed to enhance safety and reduce downtime on air separation equipment. (Source: Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group)")
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:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/24/c8/24c84ab6b1bcd24468a87820a07a85aa/0128194707v2.jpeg "Ajax Equipment has supplied Binding Solutions with a feed system comprising buffer hopper, screw feeder and agitated screw feeder for a pilot plant handling iron ore and additives. (Source: Ajax Equipment )")
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:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/02/02/020250273eb250f46d355a16c1baeb74/0129163933v2.jpeg "Under the agreement, Adnoc and Taqa will jointly develop the central utilities project, including the electricity grid connection, steam production, process cooling, and a range of water and wastewater utilities required to enable Ta’ziz’s chemicals and transition-fuels projects. (Source: Adnoc)")
:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/71/3b/713bcd0d20244ceda895e06bd851d5a9/0129162836v3.jpeg "Dr. Dirk Elvermann, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Digital Officer of BASF (left), with the Commerce and Industry Minister of India, Piyush Goyal, at a meeting in New Delhi. (Source: BASF)")
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:quality(80)/p7i.vogel.de/wcms/a2/b4/a2b49bac283b5a9d421b5ad482cff849/0129130217v2.jpeg "The EU and India concluded negotiations recently for a historic, ambitious and commercially significant free trade agreement, the largest such deal ever concluded by either side. (Source: European Commission )")
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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!
Smart, innovative and autonomous – this is how one would describe the plant of the future. Although industrial plants have existed for over 260 years, only recently have these facilities significantly evolved. With the help of various new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twin, Augmented Reality and Robotics being incorporated across industrial plants, plant personnel can optimize their processes, enhance production based on real-time data, reduce downtime, slash costs and even carry out autonomous plant inspections. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that these contemporary technologies are slowly but steadily revolutionizing today’s industrial plants into the plants of the future.
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