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Flowing with the Times

G Venkatesh

Scarcity fears, greater environmental awareness, and tighter legislation are some of the reasons behind the increasing sophitication of water and wastewater processes

Water has always been a basic human need. As knowledge of how impurities and contaminants in water affect human health grew, the need for treating the water before supply for consumption, assumed p...

Blue gold

Bob Gill

It is probably unlikely that you’ll ever find yourself lost in the desert but if you are, one thing worth remembering is the “rule of threes”, which states that you can live three...

Profit from the Loop

Vance VanDoren

How control systems engineers are using loop monitoring and performance supervision software to generate measurable economic benefits for the plant

There was a time when “control loop optimization” meant selecting the proportional, integral, and derivative tuning parameters for all of the PID controllers in a plant so as to optimiz...

Frost & Sullivan Industrial Technologies Awards

Regional process automation players were among those vying for prizes at the recent 2008 Frost & Sullivan Industrial Technologies Awards ceremony, which recognized technology leaders in South E...

Emerson executive named Indian industry association head

The Automation Industry Association of India (AIA), the forum representing industrial automation companies in India, has announced the appointment of Sunil Khanna, Managing Director, Emerson Process M...

Moore Industries introduces customization service

Moore Industries-International has announced a “revolutionary” new service called SNAP, or Special Needs And Products, which provides customers with customized solutions to meet unusual...

Time for Solution Day

With the tagline, “Advanced ePlatform Services Make Your Solutions Competitive”, Advantech is all ...

ABB provides winning building technology

ABB marked the eve of World Environment Day (...

ODVA announces new CIP specs

The ODVA has announced that it will publish new editions of the specifications for the family of Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) networks, including the EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet, ControlNe...

Belden networks across Southeast Asia

Belden has announced the successful completion of Belden Technology Seminar 2008, which took in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand and drew close to 800 registered delegates.<...

Citect recognized for customer support

Automation software supplier Citect has announced that its Global Customer Support Center has achieved recertification under the Service Capability & Performance (SCP), for the third consecutiv...

Market moves in data acquisition

The latest market study from Venture Development Corporation (VDC), “Data Acquisition Products: Global Mark...

First certified ZigBee smart energy products

The ZigBee Alliance, a non-profit association of more than 260 member companies driving development of ZigBee wireless technology, has announced the official certification of 19 products using the ...

P+F: Redefining intrinsic safety

The chance to hear about some of the latest connectivity solutions for process automation attracted a 150 plus c...

Defense in Depth

Eric Byres

Why a single firewall security strategy can expose the plant control system to cyber attack

One afternoon in the summer of 2005 the management of a major car company was shocked to discover that over a dozen of their auto manufacturing plants had been shut down by a simple Internet worm. ...

Entrepreneurial Spirit

Bob Gill

I thrive on the challenge of building a successful business from scratch, says Henk Schaake, Managing Director, Turck Singapore. And he has done just that with the regional division of the German sensor and connectivity products supplier

BG: How long has Turck been active in Southeast Asia?HS: We put the regional office in Singapor...

High on Hannover

Bob Gill

Not just another exhibition, Hannover Messe is a herald of future trends, a barometer for the economy, a technology transfer platform, a forum for innovation, a knowledge hub, a driver of new cooperative ventures, and much, much more

While automation-related...

Clean and Dry

Bob Gill

Water has always been a basic human need. As knowledge of how impurities and contaminants in water affect human health grew, the need for treating the water before supply for consumption, assumed p...