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Safety Shutdown: How to Avoid the Cost of Separate Valves

Is It Allowable to Use the Control Valve as a Safety Shutdown System?
Post Date: 02/26/2013
Author: Katherine Bonfante

ISA100.11a - Fieldbus Wars Round 2 Begins

To Directly Influence the Outcome of This Dispute, End Users Should Vote With Their Time by Participating in the Appropriate Standards Committees
Post Date: 02/25/2013
Author: Ian Verhappen

Understand the Function of Safety Instrumented Systems

SIF, SIS, SIL, SRS, SLC? What Does All This Mean?
Post Date: 02/22/2013
Author: Katherine Bonfante

Biodiesel Production Can Be Safe and Efficient

See How Greenleaf Biofuels Built Its Biodiesel Production Plant Within the Fuel Storage Tank Farm of New Haven Harbor in Conn. to Provide Easy Access to Truck, Rail, Barge and Deep-Water Vessel Delivery Points
Post Date: 02/21/2013
Author: Gus Kellogg, Rahul Bobbili, Dianna Overmyer

ISA100 Gives Up on Convergence

No Deal Between ISA 100 and Wireless HART Standards. Back to the Drawing Board
Post Date: 02/04/2013
Author: Dick Caro

Automation Could Have Prevented Chernobyl

Bela Liptak Tells How Automatic Safety Controls Could Have Prevented the Accident at Chernobyl
Post Date: 01/10/2013
Author: Bela Liptak

Set New Standards in Productivity and Efficiency

The Right Instrumentation Can Help Both Processes and People Realize Their Full Potential
Post Date: 01/04/2013
Author: Control Global Staff

Boost Safety and Compliance While Testing New Limits

Enabled By Wireless, Instrumentation Takes on New Safety Roles
Post Date: 01/02/2013
Author: Control Global Staff

Audit Helps Spanish Refinery Optimize System Performance

Integrated Automation Assessment Benchmarks System Performance Against Industry Best Practices
Post Date: 12/20/2012
Author: Keith Larson

Power Supplies Take Sophisticated Paths

Using Many of the Same Data Processing Tools and Software as Process Controllers, Power Supplies Are Diversifying Their Capabilities and Serving in Many New and Different Applications
Post Date: 12/10/2012
Author: Jim Montague

Emergency Shutdown of LPG Tank Farms

Is It Allowed from the Standard Point of View to Use the Existing Level Transmitters to Control the Inlet and Outlet Shutdown Valves?
Post Date: 12/10/2012
Author: Béla Lipták

DCS Migration: Failure Is Not an Option

And Doing Nothing Is Not a Solution. DCS Migration Is an Opportunity to Design, Implement and Maintain a 21st-Century Control System That Will Help Industry Processes Be More Efficient and Safe
Post Date: 12/10/2012
Author: Matt Sigmon

BP Should Have Read Oobleck

Apologies Only Make Environmental Damages Disappear in Fairy Tales, Yet There's a Lesson to Learned from Children's Fables
Post Date: 12/06/2012
Author:

Trunk Testing Tribulation

It's Challenging to Power Down Segments While the Plant is Down, Let Alone While a Process Is Up. Powering Down Is Not an Attractive Option
Post Date: 12/04/2012
Author: John Rezabek

Be Sustainable or Be Doomed

We Have Made Major Contributions to the Death of Planet Earth. We Need to Change Our Way of Living and Be a Lot More Sustainable
Post Date: 12/03/2012
Author: Katherine Bonfante

Systems Update Balances New Capabilities, Lifecycle Support

Honeywell Users Treated to Past, Present and Future Technology Perspectives
Post Date: 11/29/2012
Author: Keith Larson

Using Modular Procedural Automation to Improve Operations

Standard Automation Methodology Improves Operations and Prevents Incidents by Enabling the Sharing of Best Practices Among Operators
Post Date: 11/29/2012
Author: Fractionation Research Inc. (FRI)

Cybersecurity Takes Cultural Commitment

Panelist Stress Need for Policies, Work Processes that Affirm Security
Post Date: 11/26/2012
Author: Keith Larson

Real-Time PIG Data Transmission?

How Can We Improve the Safety of the Pipelining Industry? See What Our Experts Say
Post Date: 11/12/2012
Author: Bela Liptak

Flexibility Driving the Future of Automation

Flexible Production, Cloud Computing Pave the Way to Future for Rockwell Automation and Users
Post Date: 11/08/2012
Author: Jim Montague