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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Today, pharmaceutical production plants must embrace more flexible production and faster process implementation to reduce time to market for new product developments. So, there are some practical steps that plant owners and operators should take when considering future process control strategies.

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Case study: Redesign the process, then the control system

Control Engineering

A system integrator was tasked with fixing a control system flaw for a pilot plant at a large pharmaceutical company. The integrator had to make several changes to the temperature control unit (TCU) to compensate for different variables with the liquid nitrogen flow. The original process design: Temperature control loops.

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SCADA upgrade without downtime: Golden project results

Control Engineering

Hall, discusses gold mine SCADA modernization and COVID-19 vaccination process controls. In addition, a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer sought to quickly develop the process controls for automating its production system. Pharmaceutical manufacturing: COVID-19 vaccine process controls. CONSIDER THIS.

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Odor measurement, control at industrial plants

Control Engineering

Odor control insights There is hardly a process industry the effects of malodors do not touch, including chemical, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, oil and gas, asphalt, metalcasting, food processing, water and wastewater, cannabis cultivation and composting.

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Leveraging real-time data across the enterprise

Control Engineering

It may seem like a tall order, but a system integrator accomplished this by conducting a needs analysis and executing a plan for a packaging company that serves end users in the pharmaceutical industry. This also enabled the quick implementation of a statistical process control (SPC) system. .

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How a collaborative approach is driving Ireland from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0

Control Engineering

Initially focused on traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing, the consortium seeks to accelerate manufacturing transformation in Ireland through ecosystem collaboration. One example of this is the industry-led, government-supported consortium called the Lighthouse Partnership in Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies.

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Modular automation standard benefits FPSO operations

Control Engineering

With MTP, the human-machine interface (HMI) of the module – which contains all static and dynamic information for operator visualization – generate automatically within the master process control system. What is the MTP standard? Modular automation as a concept has been around for decades.