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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. Benchmarking is invaluable when identifying performance targets, which are often derived from plant models, simulators and optimizers.

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Universal automation lays the foundation for smart factories

Control Engineering

Understand the shift toward the smart factory and the challenges process manufacturers face. Distributed control system (DCS) users are working toward eliminating the proprietary nature of automation and working toward a universal standard for process control industries. Learning Objectives.

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Taking a different approach to DCS upgrades

Control Engineering

The traditional DCS has reached a point of diminishing returns as a source of unlocking major incremental value (flexibility and agility) for transitioning to digital and autonomous operations. So, there are some practical steps that plant owners and operators should take when considering future process control strategies.

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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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Epicor: Solutions that are Made With You, For You

Fabricating & Metal Work

The Connected Process Control platform delivers a powerful, web-based solution enabling process control, operator guidance, traceability and data collection down to the task level. The software is specialized for make-to-order manufacturing, discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing.

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3 ways visualization software can align operations across enterprise layers

Control Engineering

Obtain a 360-degree overview for manufacturing, processing companies 360 views: Relevant data takes many forms and originates from an exceptionally wide range of sources and systems across all levels of a business, sometimes even external to the business. Process data is needed to inform analytics efforts.

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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.