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

Control Engineering

project is different, and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, such projects can be difficult to plan and implement. Initially focused on traditional pharmaceutical manufacturing, the consortium seeks to accelerate manufacturing transformation in Ireland through ecosystem collaboration. At the same time, because every Industry 5.0

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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. Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.

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11 Types of Condition Monitoring Techniques

ATS

Today, manufacturing machinery and other industrial equipment can be fitted with one or more types of condition monitoring sensors to achieve the same result. Almost all fit into one or more of the following 11 types of condition monitoring techniques. It also has the potential to harm valuable equipment through corrosion and rust.

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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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Why Use HMI/SCADA, Six Examples

Gary Mintchell

billion turnover in 2022, 168,000 employees, present in 75 countries), Saint-Gobain PAM has been the leading expert in water supply pipelines for more than 150 years and equips more than 100 capitals and 1,000 towns worldwide each year with its range of ductile iron pipes, fittings, joints and accessories. As part of this vast group (€51.2

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Collaboration Boosts Process Automation Device Information Model

Gary Mintchell

The PA-DIM specification fits into our mission and we have adopted it as the foundation for standardized data exchange in our ISA100 Wireless ecosystem.”. NAMUR represents several thousand process control technology specialists, with around 300 participating in almost 40 working groups involved in all areas regarding the process industry.

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Back In Action: An MCMT Special

Dinesh Mishra

Eventually, these hairpins need to fit into the exact grooves punched or cut into the stator stack sheets. Medical plastics deliver a pharmaceutical compound to its target site. Such high-precision assemblies require down-to-the-micrometer accuracy – and this is where ZEISS excels.