October 2, 2008

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Managing Risks in Risky Situations

Imagine being adrift in the sea during a storm and looking down 60 feet at your rescue ship. That was the experience of one of the people rescued by the crew of the USCGC Tamora during the storm known as "The Perfect Storm." Coast Guard Captain (Ret.) Larry Brudnicki was commanding officer of the ship involved in two dramatic rescues performed during that storm that inspired a best-selling book and a blockbuster movie. Brudnicki spoke at the Wednesday lunch keynote relating the stories of the various people rescued from a foundering sailboat and an Air National Guard search and rescue crew that was forced to ditch its helicopter in the storm. After a harrowing rescue of people from a sailboat caught in the storm, his ship pursued the crew of a downed helicopter. Waves were reputed to be 100 feet high—some 60 feet above the... Read more

A Growing Hunger for Efficiency

Food and beverage is an industry with dramatic contrasts, from global, highly automated giants to artisan shops on street corners, proud of hand labor. It is fragmented: a $100 billion Nestle represents less than 1.5 percent of the total. The automation-friendly portion of the industry acquires around $3 billion in equipment per year, applying it in large and small facilities globally. The range and level of automation is, of course, just as diverse as the industry, varying from extremely basic to highly sophisticated. Critical challenges include the price of raw materials and the energy to convert them into products, complicated by loss of intellectual capital as the aging workforce retires. The result is increasing scrutiny of every pound (or kilogram) of material and every calorie (or joule) of heat... Read more


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New Micro Motion 2400S Transmitter with Stainless Steel Body

Emerson Process Management has expanded the range of compact Micro Motion® 2400S transmitters in the ELITE Coriolis family with the introduction of a 316L stainless steel housing. It is an alternate choice to the standard polyurethane-painted aluminium housing. The integral mounted transmitters, in either style of housing, can also now also be ordered with DeviceNet or PROFIBUS DP communication protocols... Read more

 

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