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The odds are about two chances in 100 that your Lean Manufacturing efforts will result in a sustained improvement to your bottom line.
For the chemical process industry (CPI), 2009 started tough but grew softer as it ended.
Not having the right connection devices or technologies can cripple the potential of an automation network.
“An automation system at the level of the process controller should have three things,” says Casey Weltzin, product manager for LabView Real‑Time at automation and test vendor National Instruments Corp. (www.ni.com), in Austin, Texas. As threats multiply, network security technologists rush to neutralize them.
“OEE is the missing piece in benchmarking,” says Ulf Stern, senior advisor for asset management solutions with enterprise software supplier IFS AB (www.ifsworld.com), Linköping, Sweden.
“Doing nothing is a strategy for going out of business,” insists Ron Helson, executive director of Austin, Texas-based Hart Communication Foundation (HCF, www.hartcomm.org).
Exploration-and-production (E&P) uncertainties, on-the-books/on-the-horizon government actions concerning so-called man-made global warming and recession-fueled sluggish demand—all continue to create anxiety in the oil-and-gas industry.
The news is not that parallel programming is here—it has been here for a long time.
Large-scale automation projects are high-stakes affairs, and project management largely determines their success or failure.
A slight glimmer of recovery for the U.S. metals industry has appeared.
In finance, industry and government, batch information processing was the first widely adopted strategy for applying the computer to problems of general interest.
The main goals of water or wastewater treatment—providing reliable, affordable service to customers and delivering high-quality water—haven’t changed, declares Eduardo Ballina, water-and-wastewater-industry manager with automation supplier Invensys Operations Management (www.ips.invensys.com), Lake Forest, Calif.
OPC is changing.
Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing represent the core of modern thinking on improving performance in industry.
“What we’re starting to see is a little bit of brain drain at our clients. They’re collecting all this data, but are not necessarily able to manage it or make sense of it,” comments Andrew Brodie, product manager with the network-solutions-products group of automation supplier Yokogawa Corp. of America (www.us.yokogawa.com), Newnan, Ga.
Business and plant managers actively seek a well-thought-out, intelligent safety strategy that not only protects humans, machines and the environment—but also supports increased productivity, improved machine efficiency and increased uptime, believes Sal Spada, research director for discrete automation at ARC Advisory Group Inc. (www.arcweb.com), Dedham, Mass.
There are two sets of standard tools commonly used for reading, interpreting and displaying digital information from field devices—EDDL and FDT.
As manufacturers install more intelligent sensing and computing devices around their plants and factories, questions arise about what to do with all the data.
The Willow Creek Association (www.willowcreek.com), of South Barrington, Ill., assembled an impressive panel of speakers at its annual Leadership Summit Aug. 6-7.
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