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Leveraging the OT edge to navigate process manufacturing

Control Engineering

Process manufacturing, DCS, cloud insights. The cost and complexity of accessing the critical data connected to the distributed control system (DCS) is a challenge for process manufacturers. Keywords: process manufacturing, edge computing.

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Digital transformation and IIoT impact on process manufacturing

Control Engineering

Digital transformation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) allow manufacturers to work smarter and faster by giving them access to a lot of information all at once. The ability to harness this information and act on it quickly is a staple of today’s manufacturing world.

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Digital transformation shift for process manufacturers

Control Engineering

Transferring knowledge is a key component for manufacturing jobs and it is often incomplete, leaving new workers at a disadvantage. The knowledge transfer problem in process manufacturing. Consider day shift technicians in a chemical manufacturing plant.

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Digital twin benefits for process manufacturers

Control Engineering

A digital twin is a representation of a human, device, system, or process that replicates an actual process and has full knowledge of its historical performance. The process and asset digital twins will be closely connected in an integrated solution. Process digital twin.

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How “human-led” process optimization hurts process manufacturers

Seebo Manufacturing

Traditional approaches to manufacturing process optimization rely entirely on human-led analysis and decision-making. This limits manufacturers and ultimately harms their […]. The post How “human-led” process optimization hurts process manufacturers appeared first on Seebo Blog

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How Galaxy Sivtek Customized solution help India’s biggest food and beverage processing manufacturer to achieve the desired output.

Galaxy Sivtek

The company is the biggest producer and supplier of organic farming, processing, and distributing. The post How Galaxy Sivtek Customized solution help India’s biggest food and beverage processing manufacturer to achieve the desired output. Client Profile.

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Technique developed to help 2D materials expand

Control Engineering

Two-dimensional materials, which consist of just a single layer of atoms, can be packed together more densely than conventional materials, so they could be used to make transistors, solar cells, LEDs, and other devices that run faster and perform better.

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Doing the right things: New year’s resolutions for Aussie manufacturers

AU Manufacturing

Challenges that plagued the manufacturing industry in 2022 are not showing any signs of slowing down, leaving business leaders with the monumental task of dealing with these issues—or at least their remnants— all while pushing innovation, meeting customer demand, and driving operational growth. .

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Taking control of your control system

Control Engineering

Understand the costs and challenges process manufacturing plants face due to running legacy control systems. Today’s process manufacturing plants are under a lot of pressure. Learning Objectives.

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Using advanced analytics applications to improve sustainability

Control Engineering

Advanced analytics help manufacturers learn how everything operates and how efficient they can be. Advanced analytics applications help subject matter experts (SMEs) build models so they can better understand how process changes will improve environmental performance.

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Process diagnostics benefits for manufacturers

Control Engineering

Process control diagnostics often use programmable logic controllers (PLCs) as the main hub. Process control infrastructures will predominantly use programmable logic controllers (PLCs) as the main hub for instructions, process monitoring and diagnostics.

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Case study: Redesign the process, then the control system

Control Engineering

A workable process design is the foundation for successful control system design. However, what happens when the system integrator encounters a conflict between the process design left to them and the practical operation of the control system? Learning Objectives.

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Increased flexibility for safety-critical alarm annunciators

Control Engineering

Alarm annunciators are panel-based alarms that are hardwired directly into relevant safety-critical processes, where each window relates to a fixed alarm point from the sensor.

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Plant instrumentation and controls: Issues and drivers

Control Engineering

Poorly configured systems or instruments can have trouble controlling the process. Operating a plant with aging instrumentation and controls creates several potential problems for operators and the production process. Improved process stability.

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Silk developed as alternative to some microplastics

Control Engineering

Now, a team of scientists at MIT and elsewhere has developed a system based on silk that could provide an inexpensive and easily manufactured substitute. System Integration Insights.

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Top 5 Control Engineering content: October 3-9, 2022

Control Engineering

The future of automation, engineering and manufacturing relies on the younger workforce, and these 36 individuals are here to advance their industries now and for years to come.

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Smarter energy measurements, faster, using AI

Control Engineering

Using machine learning (ML) creates accurate results much earlier in the product development process for problems suited to AI. So even though the trend goes towards using CFD more often, testing very early in the product development process is critical. Learning Objectives.

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Enhancing chemical company control system reliability, performance

Control Engineering

A chemical manufacturer wanted to upgrade their burner management system (BMS) and combustion control system. In 2021, a global chemical company approached Wood’s Industrial Process Automation Team to deal with a dual-cell balance draft hot oil heater, which was disrupting production targets.

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A new future for process control systems

Control Engineering

Process control insights. Distributed control systems (DCSs) are at the heart of process manufacturing operations and have evolved to focus on digitalization. Separating hardware and software in the digital DCS can help avoid this process.

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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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Advanced process control market showing strong growth

Control Engineering

Advanced Process Control Insights. The industrial automation industry, which includes advanced process control (APC), is expected to have a positive outlook through 2022 and beyond. The post Advanced process control market showing strong growth appeared first on Control Engineering.

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Scalable surface that mimics nature developed

Control Engineering

This is the first artificial soft surface that is fast enough to accurately mimic a continuous shape-shifting process in nature,” Ni said. Duke University engineers have developed a scalable soft surface that can continuously reshape itself to mimic objects in nature.

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Synthetic polymer can remove dyes from wastewater

Control Engineering

Equated to oil and water, researchers performed visual tests to study the synthetic polymer, and discovered that it grabs onto the dyes and then is later able to be separated through a draining process. Water and Wastewater Insights.

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Petrochemical projects to dominate oil and gas industry

Control Engineering

Petrochemical projects will constitute the majority of the upcoming oil and gas projects that are expected to commence operations in Saudi Arabia during the period 2023 to 2027, accounting for around 61% of the total projects, according to GlobalData.

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Engineers develop shape-memory material for actuators

Control Engineering

Shape-memory metals, which can revert from one shape to a different one simply by being warmed or otherwise triggered, have been useful in a variety of applications, as actuators that can control the movement of various devices.

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Top 5 Control Engineering content: January 2-8, 2023

Control Engineering

Control Engineering’s top 5 content over the past week covered control system management, December hot topics, nanoelectrics and more. Links to each article below. Taking control of your control system.

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Digital manufacturing, smart manufacturing, enable sustainability efforts

Control Engineering

Learning Objectives ZF Group, an automotive manufacturer, provides motion controls for automotive, industrial, wind power. 2023 ARC Industry Forum keynote insights Automotive, industrial and energy manufacturer ZF Group provides motion controls for automotive, industrial and wind power.

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Welcoming safety over Ethernet to the field

Control Engineering

Process control and safety connection of file devices in the process industry has long relied on analogue 4-20mA technology. Today, the safety infrastructure from the field device to the controller is built separately from the infrastructure required for process control.

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5G communications drive process industry digitalization

Control Engineering

5G wireless communication can help process manufacturers realize digital transformation. A proof-of-concept was performed with remote control technology to prove 5G could be successfully used in a process manufacturing facility. and advanced process control (APC)?control

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Delivering Analytics to the Workforce

Automation World

The new Process Health component of Seeq Workbench applies analytics and machine learning to complex production, quality and optimization procedures in process manufacturing. Process / Analytics

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Switching on to pneumatic innovations

Control Engineering

Clever design and CAE simulations enable the flux strength and shape to be optimized to match a manufacturer’s cylinders and sensors for reliable operation.

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Top 5 Control Engineering content: November 7-13, 2022

Control Engineering

Leveraging the OT edge to navigate process manufacturing. Systems integration is a complex process that requires time, dedication, and the ability to take an objective look at the bigger picture.

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Top 5 Control Engineering content: October 31 to November 6, 2022

Control Engineering

Control Engineering’s top 5 content over the past week covered advanced process control, PLC programming, device lifecycle management and more. Six questions that can help remove advanced process control roadblocks.

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Providing Industry 4.0, STEM opportunities to students

Control Engineering

The studio offers tutorials on many manufacturing topics such as robotics, coding and additive manufacturing, which have a growing role in manufacturing. There had been a few of them already in the state with automotive manufacturers,” she said. STEM insights.

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Process sensors and advanced analytics efficacy

Control Engineering

Process sensors are evolving to provide predictive analytics for process and equipment monitoring. Two examples show how process sensors were able to help users predict failure before they occurred. Process sensors insights. Process manufacturing, sensors are intersecting.

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Eight ways to tackle rising wastewater treatment energy costs

Control Engineering

Within the water treatment industry, aeration processes consume the most energy. With the cost of electricity continuing to rise, many operations are reviewing their current processes and looking at technologies that can help reduce running costs. Develop a step-by-step process.

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Reducing scrap and risk at plastic facility

Control Engineering

A plastic manufacturer wanted to overhaul their legacy control system to reduce inefficiencies and waste. The system integrator chosen for the project improved process control and information flow to provide real-time data through the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

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Using smart glasses for remote testing and inspections

Control Engineering

The integrated architecture builder (IAB) is a process system configurator and estimator. This was the case for a Chinese valve manufacturer. VR-Glasses VR-Glasses from manufacturer RealWear has earphones for noisy environments. Remote inspection at a Chinese valve manufacturer.

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Cooperation to develop an instrumentation device profile

Control Engineering

Many well-known manufacturers in the process and factory automation industries are represented within this working group to ensure a uniform, worldwide, and coordinated standard for OPC UA-based instrumentation devices.

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Sustaining SI support for water/wastewater facilities

Control Engineering

Integrators also can help with automation and process instrumentation support for end users. These challenges include new regulatory standards, complex treatment processes, environmental scarcity and population-driven increases in system demand. Learning Objectives.

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Achieving on-stream control room relocations

Control Engineering

Advantages included standardization and modernization including digitalization of automation and process control communications with new programmable logic controllers (PLCs); migrating hardwired emergency stop (E-stop) circuits to the new control room was a particular challenge.

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OT threat detection and research benefits for manufacturers

Control Engineering

With the opportunity to improve manufacturing operational efficiencies through digital transformation, businesses are facing increasing cyber threats in their environments, now more than ever. OT security insights.

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Manufacturing digitalization: Think differently, working smarter

Control Engineering

Each site is distinct, which can make it difficult to manage people, processes and assets,” he said in his presentation “CEO Perspectives: A Vision for Intelligent Operations.”. These processes are inefficient and ineffective to run these facilities.