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Information Systems

CONNECT2016: Schneider Electric honors innovators, introduces innovations

The company announced the winners of its 2015 global System Integrator Alliance Partner Excellence Awards for industry, and revealed the extended power of its PlantStruxure PES.

CONNECT2016: Schneider Electric extends Universal I/O Capability for Foxboro and Triconex

At annual event, company releases new intelligent marshalling offerings improve flexibility, reliability and efficiency of control and safety system design and operations.

CONNECT 2016: Schneider Electric Automation Conference opens in New Orleans

Attendees are connected with the best subject matter experts, the best process automation and safety technologies on the market, and the best sources of real-world experiences.

Use computational fluid dynamic analysis to revamp fired heaters

Furnace Improvements Services Inc.: Garg, A.  |  Chilka, A.

A refinery process fired heater system consists of multiple sub-units, of which the fired heater is the most critical, as it impacts the overall efficiency of the system.

Automation Strategies: The “big picture” on ExxonMobil’s open system initiative

ARC Advisory Group: Miller, Paul

Several noteworthy presentations were given at ARC's 20th Annual ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida in February.

Innovations

Hydrocarbon Processing Staff: Andrew, Bob

Planned shutdowns, turnarounds and outages (STOs) are often scheduled for preventive maintenance and new equipment installation that must be performed to keep a plant running and in regulatory compliance.

Viewpoint: Pave the way to safer, more productive plants with the IIoT

HP Editorial Staff: Calder, B.

The next generation of manufacturing will be driven by connectivity. It is happening today in modern plants: the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is enabling manufacturers to embed physical objects with the capacity to both communicate with and sense the world around them.

Linear position sensors gain preference in industrial process control applications

TE Sensor Solutions: Otto, E.

Today’s industrial process control applications increasingly use automated systems to optimize operations and ensure a safer, more productive process.

Automation Strategies: Data analytics solutions require valid data

ARC Advisory Group: Rys, R.

Process plants collect enormous amounts of data, both from the sensors connected to the control system and from other sources, including edge devices in the plant and remote devices in the cloud.

Add power to environmental real-time data through analytics

Wood Group Mustang: Black, P.

Advancements in technology are delivering ever-increasing amounts of data that need to be processed and acted upon.