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News
 | May 10, 2012

Optimize Power Plant Boiler Performance

Inspired by "GE ecomagination," advanced combustion control programs can reduce fuel usage by 3 to 5 percent and extend lifecycles of boiler and turbine assets.
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News
 | May 9, 2012

Emerson Acquires Level Measurement Maker ISE Magtech

Emerson announced it has acquired ISE Magtech, enabling Emerson Process Management to strengthen its level measurement solutions in the oil and gas, refining, chemical, and power generation industries
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ABB Invests in India
News
 | April 24, 2012

ABB Invests $50 million in Indian Power Products Plant

ABB, a power and automation technology group based in Zurich, plans to invest about $50 million to build new facilities in India for the manufacture of high-voltage products and transformers.
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Events
 | April 12, 2012

The 55th Annual Power Industry Division Symposium (ISA)

The 55th Annual Power Industry Division Symposium (ISA), held in Austin, Tex., offers power industry professionals a place to gather and discuss the latest innovations in controls, instrumentation, cy
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News
 | April 6, 2012

Westinghouse Nuclear Plant Chooses Emerson Safety Control Valves

Westinghouse Electric Company has awarded Emerson Process Management a contract to provide critical control valves to be used in two AP1000 pressurized water reactors at the Alvin W.
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White Paper | March 9, 2012

Resilient Wireless Data Communication for Critical Infrastructure

This 13-page white paper provides an introduction on wireless data communication systems, security issues and strategies to thwart breaches to devices and networks.
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Perspective
 | March 8, 2012

18 Gigawatts of Wind Power

Electric Transmission Texas LLC (ETT) is spending more than $50 million on electrical equipment to improve reliability, strengthen the existing transmission grid and facilitate the integration of wind
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Case Application
 | February 24, 2012

Breaking the Barrier to Alternative Energy Sources

From chemically storing wind power’s kinetic energy to generating steam from biomass, developments in automation and supporting technologies are overcoming the obstacles to green power generation.
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Enhanced Safety Solution
News
 | February 22, 2012

Safe and Secure Partitioning for Industrial and Automotive Applications

Wind River’s VxWorks safety solutions will be enhanced with safe and secure partitioning via the release of the upcoming version of Wind River Hypervisor.
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Optimism for Wireless M2M
News
 | February 20, 2012

Freewave Technologies Exec Optimistic On Wireless M2M in 2012

Wireless data radio communications is gaining traction for many applications in oil, gas, military and smart grid markets, among others.
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New Qualification for Controller
Blog entry | February 15, 2012

Single-Loop Controller Qualifies for "Seismic" Applications

The company announces the YS1700 single-loop controller, which currently provides control for the petrochemical, water and pulp/paper industries, is now qualified for nuclear safety and seismic applications.
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Feature Article
 | February 9, 2012

Simulating Complex Processes for Alternative Energy Production

Complexity is a challenge when it comes to tapping into alternative energy sources, especially for those processes that gasify biomasses as fuel.
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Feature Article
 | February 8, 2012

Alarm Management Best Practices: Are You Following Them?

Automation World subscribers participated in a survey focused on basic best practices of alarm management across seven areas.
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Feature Article
 | February 8, 2012

Why Nuisance Alarms Just Won't Go Away

Good alarm management is an inexpensive and relatively easy process to implement.
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Column
 | February 7, 2012

Automation Lessons Learned from March 11 Disasters in Japan

On July 22, four months after the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami struck the Pacific Coast side of eastern Japan, Japanese engineers from various process and other industries gathered in Tokyo to
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