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Emerson opens flow calibration and service center for Middle East and Africa

Emerson Process Management today announced the opening of its new Middle East Flow Service Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Representing an investment of $3 million, this new center serves customers in the Middle East and Africa, featuring an in-region VSL Calibration and Measurement Capability (CMC)-certified calibration facility.

Honeywell forms new advanced solutions business

Honeywell has formed a new business focused on providing advanced open software and services to the process industries. By integrating the open connectivity and broad platform capability of its Matrikon acquisition with its applications and solutions business, Honeywell’s new business can deliver a breadth of solutions.

Merger in the process analyzer business segment

Laboratory analysis systems company Metrohm has joined together with Applikon, a producer of process analyzers.

ECS implementation makes a difference at Beaumont plant

Invensys Operations Management has successfully implemented an InFusion enterprise control system (ECS) for ExxonMobil Lubricants and Specialties. Through a joint Invensys and ExxonMobil team effort, the installation was successfully completed and the plant was back to full production on schedule with no safety incidents.

A nanotechnology partnership is good news for Japanese spectrometer users

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH has formed a strategic marketing alliance with SII NanoTechnology, Inc. to market SPECTRO’s inductively coupled plasma optical emission (ICP-OES) and mass spectrometers (ICP-MS) in Japan.

HP Integration Strategies: Data historians provide effective decision support in near real time

ARC Advisory Group: Avery, Allen

Plant data historians are moving beyond their traditional role as a tool for collecting and archiving data to better understand past plant performance, to becoming a powerful tool that can be used to ..

Fieldbus Foundation welcomes latest EDDL enhancements

The Fieldbus Foundation today announced it welcomes the latest enhancements to electronic device description language (EDDL), which are incorporated in the second edition of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61804-3 standard.

What are the strategies for sustainable chemical production?

Special Secretary to Government of Kerala, and Chairman, Chemical Engineering Division Board of the Institution of Engineers: Nair, M. P. Sukumaran

New environmental challenges require a new way of thinking by the hydrocarbon processing industry

Considerations for blast-resistant electrical equipment centers

Lectrus Corp.: Cole, D.  |  Austin, D.

Guidelines explore protecting critical systems from disaster

HP Control: Process control practice renewal—select CVs

Clifftent Inc.: Latour, P. R.

I followed my April 2010 call for renewal of process control and IT practice with editorials on purpose in August, performance in October and consequences in December. Now I turn to selection of contr..