HONEYWELL EXPANDS ANNUAL STUDENT COMPETITION ACROSS ASIA PACIFIC 2012 Student Competition To Include Entries From Korea, India, Japan, China, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand SYDNEY, Australia, January 18, 2012 – Honeywell (NYSE:HON) has expanded its annual Asia Pacific Honeywell Users’ Group (HUG) Student Competition. The student competition, which was launched in 2008 in […]
From ControlGlobal.com ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands – Honeywell has announced that it has signed an agreement with Magnetrol International Incorporated, a supplier of level and flow measurement equipment, to enhance its existing terminal market product portfolio with Magnetrol’s expertise in safety and compliance. To ensure Honeywell customers are able to operate terminals safely and comply with […]
Should be able to handle APM/ HPM programming as well as CL (CL batch is not necessary).
We currently have a need for a very long term contract process control specialist with Siemens PCS7 experience. Knowledge of the software architecture, and the ability to write programming code to the controllers is a must. If you have experience with this, please contact me at 713-932-8619.
The Chemical Industry Is Divided in 2 Parts, Low-Cost Commodity Providers and Providers of “Capability” From ControlGlobal.com By Aaron Hand If there were an award for most compelling session title at this week’s Emerson Exchange, it would probably go to Jos Berkien and Chris Hamlin, who put forth, “The Death of Quality and the […]
Overview: Mean time between failure is a reliable term used loosely throughout many industries and has become widely abused in some. Over the years the original meaning of this term has been altered which has led to confusion and cynicism. MTBF is largely based on assumptions and definition of failure and attention to these details […]
Herding Cats: Successfully Manage All Those Process Variables With a Systematic Approach to Plant-Wide Control From ControlGlobal.com By Sigurd Skogestad A chemical plant may have thousands of measurements and control loops. By the term “plant-wide control,” I do not mean the tuning and behavior of each of these loops, but rather the control philosophy of […]
ISA Automation Week will be held this year on 17-20th October 2011 at the Arthur R. Outlaw Convention Center, Mobile, AL. Many of the ISA committees that work on the creation of standards for the process industry will be meeting in conjunction with ISA Automation Week. To avoid any schedule conflict the technical sessions, many […]
Digital Insights: The iPad Hits the Plant Floor Companies like Pfizer have reduced time and increased efficiency by putting Apple’s most recent showstopper, the iPad, to use in manufacturing. From PharmaManufacturing.com
by Greg McMillan Batch and fed-batch reactors are designed so that the product concentration is always increasing in the reaction phase of the cycle whereas continuous reactors are designed to hold a constant product concentration. These fundamental differences have enormous implications in terms of composition control. From Modeling and Control