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Batch Processing

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Alarm Management

News

| April 30, 2013

Barriers to Human Reliability

The idea of placing greater emphasis on operator interaction with automated systems has been gaining traction.

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News

| April 25, 2013

The Human-Automation Intersection

A developing trend among a number of automation interface hardware and software suppliers is to focus more on the operator experience.

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Batch Processing

Renee Robbins Bassett

Deputy Editor

It’s important to remember user experience is defined by a product and its design, not by a standard.

ISA100 Wireless Standard and Flexibility

Feature Article

| February 12, 2013

Mobile HMIs Aid a Workforce on the Move

Because phones, tablets and other mobile devices can squeeze latency and other waste from processes, they are rapidly becoming serious tools for manufacturing.

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Feature Article

| December 7, 2012

Operator Interfaces: Moving from Comfortable to Most Effective

Continuous process industries have spent almost 20 years analyzing how control system interfaces and alarm management policies help or hinder plant performance.

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Calibrator combines ease of use with accuracy and advanced functionality

Beamex

Ultra Compact Area and Machine Safeguarding Solution - 3m Range

SICK Inc.

High-power PoE injector

Moxa Americas, Inc.

Case Application

| December 7, 2012

Better Alarm Management at an Ethanol Plant

Don Jolly and Jason D. Hurst, both principals and senior controls engineers for system integrator Trident Automation (www.tridentautomation.com) in Kaukauna, Wis.

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Case Application

| December 7, 2012

35 Percent Reduction in Alarms at an Oil Refinery

Honeywell Process Solutions (www.honeywellprocess.com) shared this early success story on alarm management at the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, a 280,000 barrel per day refinery.

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Ralph Whitney, Instrument/Electrical Reliability, Nova Chemicals

News

| October 12, 2012

Nova Chemicals Tackles Alarm and Turnaround Management

As the device-management tag counts rose, Nova Chemicals saw alerts rise too.

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Blog Post | August 13, 2012

Air France Flight 447 Automation Lessons for Manufacturers

Primary contributors to the deadly Air France Flight 447 crash were inappropriate pilot reactions to alarms. Which begs the question: Are operators at your plant better trained to react to alarms than the Air France pilots?

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Blog Post | May 1, 2012