PlantStruxure Collaborative System to Automate Processes, Optimize Energy Usage

PlantStruxure is Schneider Electric's new collaborative system designed to allow industrial and infrastructure companies to meet their automation needs and at the same time deliver on growing energy management requirements.

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Fatalities reported after massive explosion at power plant in Connecticut...

From news reports:

An explosion that sounded like a
sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a
fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five
workers, injuring a dozen or more and leaving crews picking through
debris for more possible victims.

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Fatalities reported after massive explosion at power plant in Connecticut...

From news reports:

An explosion that sounded like a
sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a
fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five
workers, injuring a dozen or more and leaving crews picking through
debris for more possible victims.

read more

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