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Five tips for prioritizing process valve safety in manufacturing facilities

Control Engineering

Process valve insights Proper process valve maintenance in a manufacturing facility can help companies prevent serious damage and injury. Valves contribute to the safety of industrial processes by controlling fluid flow through pipelines and improving the precision of different operations. Torque requirements.

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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

Embracing concepts and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and smart manufacturing can help. In the past, upgrading a distributed control system (DCS) typically involved ripping out the old system and replacing it with a new one from a different vendor, or undergoing a hardware or software upgrade.

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Smart instrumentation helps with green hydrogen production, sustainability

Control Engineering

Global efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions from industry are gathering pace as a variety of environmental, economic and geopolitical factors are driving the development of sustainable energy sources such as green hydrogen. The growing viability of hydrogen as an energy source is changing this.

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Smarter, safer working with control of work

Control Engineering

Among the critical aspects of safety is the evaluation, management, and monitoring of functional safety systems, which encompass alarm management, process control, and safety instrumented systems (SIS). Monitoring safety critical asset items and linking them to permitted activities will provide significant benefits to plants.

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3 ways visualization software can align operations across enterprise layers

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives Understand how a 360-degree visualization overview is possible for manufacturing and processing companies to derive intelligence from software integrating multiple enterprise levels. Understand that integrated visualization software can deliver data-derived intelligence.

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Improving sustainability with advanced analytics applications

Control Engineering

Analytics insights Sustainability has been recognized as an area of significant importance in the process industries, but many organizations face challenges accessing and connecting data from siloed systems. Reducing carbon emissions A global chemical manufacturer recently pledged to reduce its carbon intensity in half by 2030.

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Four practical steps to improved sustainability

Control Engineering

Digital transformation can help process manufacturers improve sustainability. Process manufacturers can use key performance indicators (KPIs) to reduce inefficiencies caused by steam traps, pressure relief valves (PRVs) and more. Learning Objectives. Working: Effectively removing condensate.