Innovation through Smart Services

In the world of M2M, every connected product turns its manufacturer into a new kind of service business.By Harbor Research.

It’s becoming clear that machine-to-machine communication, or M2M, will represent the third wave of the internet. Be it through the exploding interest in Smart Grids, building automation, vehicle telemetry, or healthcare monitoring to name a few, ...

Silver lining

Bob Gill, Group Editor

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully, said English essayist Dr Johnson in 1777. While, hopefully...

The Question of Integration

While there are undoubted benefits from integrating control and safety on the same platform, this approach can also create some adverse consequences, cautions Robin McCrea-Steele.

New digital technology now makes it feasible to integrate process control and safety instrumented functions within a common automation infrastructure. While this can provide productivity and asset ...

Safety the Smart Way

Jonas Berge explains how a smart safety instrumented system (SIS) with integrated HART capability can boost diagnostics capability and increase process availability.

A smart safety instrumented system (SIS) emphasizes an architectural capability rather than an individual technology or component. It spans the safety instrumented function (SIF) as a whole, from s...

NI starts recruiting for Penang

National Instruments (NI) is commencing recruitment for its new R&D and operations facility in Penang, Malaysia. The company is on the hunt for expe...

Emerson selected for Singapore biopharma plant

Emerson Process Management has been chosen by Switzerland-based Lonza to provide engineering and design services and digital automation architecture and control technologies for its new Lonza bioph...

Digi expands M2M portfolio with Indian acquisition

Digi International has announced the purchase of substantially all the assets of the US, Indian and Singapore affiliates of MobiApps Holdings, a developer of machineto- machine (M2M) communications...

Automation services market set to expand

The services business remains one of the best growth opportunities for automation suppliers today, and one of the best ways for end users to take advantage of the growing expertise of suppliers to ...

Schneider and Krohne partner for pipelines

Schneider Electric and Krohne unveiled a “new and innovative” pipeline management solution at the Gastech 2009 exhibition in Abu Dhabi (May 25-28). The combined product and services solution is...

Safety advice on Jurong Island

A chance to get an update and fill in knowledge gaps on the ever-important area of process safety attracted a 150+ audience to the Chemical Process ...

Invensys joins Intergraph SmartPlant Alliance

Invensys Process Systems (IPS) has joined Intergraph’s SmartPlant Alliance, integrating its software with Intergraph’s SmartPlant Enterprise engineering solutions to enable automated project ex...

Smart Grid technology standards announced

US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced significant progress that will help expedite development of a “smart” electric power grid. After chairing a meeting of...

Turck goes direct in Thailand

Turck Singapore has announced that it has officially set up direct support operations in Bangkok and Rayong for the support of Turck business a...

Advantech launches Embedded Core Services

The industrial PC market developing in many different directions and in many diverse fields, together with customers asking for more software a...

Revealing Analysis

By using real-time analytical software, companies are gaining greater insight into processes, detecting problems faster, and improving quality. By Jack Wilkins.

Process Analytics and Intelligence – sometimes called Manufacturing Intelligence – has transformed the way companies produce goods, understand their manufacturing processes, and ensure a qualit...

More power for fieldbus

From Pepperl+Fuchs, the 500 mA High-Density Power Hub, a component of the company’s Field Connex fieldbus infrastructure, ups the power supply ...

High availability control system

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has announced a scalable high availability solution for its multi-domain PACSystems RX3i controller. Built on a sync...

RFID goes to hazardous areas

As part of its recently released range of solutions for hazardous areas displayed at May’s Achema exhibition, BL ident from Turck is a comprehe...

Keep an eye on building energy

Citect, a Schneider Electric company, aims to give facilities managers and owners the tools to closely monitor costs and optimize energy use in b...

Test without breaking the process loop

Fluke Corporation introduces two milliamp (mA) clamp meters designed to help technicians in process and industrial plants test critical automatio...

Turning to the Sun

Truly a sunrise industry, the solar energy sector is a source of abundant opportunities for automation suppliers. G Venkatesh reports.

In cricket, there is a cliché that goes, when in doubt, get back to the basics. In the energy and climate scenario that now prevails, mankind certainly needs to get back to basics. Learning from n...