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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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IMTS / Hannover Messe Chicago Recap

Gary Mintchell

Deacom (ECI Software)—With a deep awareness of the challenges faced by process manufacturers and distributors, Deacom has been developed as an ERP solution tailored to the needs of medium-sized enterprises within industries such as Food & Beverage, Chemical and Coatings, Cosmetics, Pharmaceuticals, and Nutraceuticals to name a few.

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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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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.