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HP Control: Process control practice renewal 2010—performance
In August 2010, I followed Allan Kern’s “Continuous Improvement or Core-Competency editorial”1 with a review of the purposes of process control and IT in the HPI. After 50 years, it is ..
Management Controls signs North American licensing agreement
Management Controls, Inc., says that one of the world’s largest refining, chemicals, and oil sands companies has purchased a license for Track, Management Controls’ flagship solution.
Invensys signs long-term technology deal with Thai Oil
Invensys Operations Management has signed a five-year, multi-million dollar contract to deliver a comprehensive refinery-wide optimization solution for Bangkok-based Thai Oil Public Co. Ltd.
AVEVA responds to customer demand for migration-ready instrumentation solution
This capability enables process plant businesses to more easily upgrade entire instrumentation and control design systems from smart plant instrumentation (SPI/INtools) to AVEVA instrumentation technology.
HP Control: APC application ownership
Advancec process control (APC) requires skilled control engineers, and where such engineers are not available, even well-implemented APC applications quickly become ineffective. That much is known and..
Second edition of Alarm Management Handbook now available
PAS recently published the second edition of The Alarm Management Handbook. It is the most comprehensive best-practices book available for designing and maintaining an effective alarm management system.
Lightning expertise helps protect pipeline instrumentation
Abriox has upgraded the lightning protection on its remote corrosion monitoring solutions for pipelines, with the help of the lightning test consultancy services of Cobham Technical Services.

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