Automation Applied: Refinery Optimization

In this example, we'll see how software can be used to automate the analysis of operations data to optimize setpoints on controllers in a refinery when switching from production of a light crude blend to heavy crude.

David GreenfieldDirector of Content, Automaiton World

Nov 11th, 2011

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TMRW is a plant-based innovation company working to reimagine how plant protein can feed people.

ERP System Helps Startup TMRW Foods Grow in the Right Direction

Icicle Technologies’ enterprise resource planning system is helping the plant-based protein producer make sure it has the data it needs—for traceability, HACCP, costing, and more—to optimize its growth.

LAP is a Blue Ridge Automation sequencing system for the food and beverage industry, packaging equipment, and continuous processes.

Sequencing System Creates Low-code and No-code Solution for PLC Coding

The LAP system from Blue Ridge Automation is featured on the PACK EXPO Las Vegas show floor for easier, user-friendly PLC coding.

Ruprecht provides proteins cooked sous vide, a safe cooking process that vacuum seals the food and places it in temperature-controlled water.

Enterprise Resource Planning Essential Amid Strong Market Growth

Ruprecht, a sous vide cooked protein maker, integrates an ERP system purpose-built for food processing to build its Industry 4.0 foundation, helping operations better align with—and gain insights into—finance matters.

The out-of-box functionality of the TrakSYS MES platform provides monitoring, measuring, reporting, and analytics to run manufacturing operations more effectively.

MES Provides Insight Needed in Competitive Distillery Sector

The Bourbon Trail is facing tight margins and market erosion, making the insights from Parsec’s TrakSYS software particularly helpful. But the food and beverage industry overall could benefit from capabilities in OEE, track and trace, and more.

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Error Detection Automation Simplified: Introducing the In-Sight 2800

See how easily the Cognex In-Sight 2800 can automate error detection. Powered by deep learning, it can solve a wide range of inspection applications quickly and easily — no programming experience required.

ParityFactory software gives GoldRiver Orchards real-time insights on its walnut inventory, providing a much better idea of what is available to sell.

Automated Control Gives Walnut Processor Real-Time Insight Into Inventory

Switching over from manual recordkeeping to digital tracking has provided the producer with a more accurate view of walnut quantities, qualities, and a host of other attributes that were previously difficult to monitor.

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ABB Upgrades RobotStudio to Include Robot Braking Distance Simulator

ABB's RobotStudio offline programming and simulation software has been upgraded with a new virtual robot braking distance function designed to create an exact simulation of the real-world stopping distance of a robot.

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Enterprise-Wide Metering Software

Find out how Honeywell's Measurement IQ Optimize enterprise software can help operators prioritize and address meter issues having the biggest impact on their business, as well as avoid failures and downtime in the first place.

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Quantum Automation Releases QCS IIoT Remote Monitoring and Control Software Solution

Quantum Automation has created a cloud-based IIoT solution which can be easily deployed to access valuable edge-sourced data and make it accessible for remote viewing, analysis, and control.

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Softing Enhances EdgeConnector Siemens

Softing Industrial releases version v1.20 of edgeConnector Siemens. The software module is based on container technology and connects Siemens controllers with industrial IoT applications.

Error Detection Automation Simplified: Introducing the In-Sight 2800

Error Detection Automation Simplified: Introducing the In-Sight 2800

See how easily the Cognex In-Sight 2800 can automate error detection. Powered by deep learning, it can solve a wide range of inspection applications quickly and easily — no programming experience required.

Denison Technologies Integrates HMS Networks’ Edge Gateways Into Their Power Quality Monitoring System

Denison Technologies and HMS Networks partner to bring a product that delivers industrial reliability and reduced unplanned downtime through continuous power monitoring.

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EPLAN Announces Subscription Model for New Licenses

The industrial transformation is in full swing. As a result, the market conditions are changing and EPLAN is adapting to these changes. New software licenses will be offered on a subscription basis which will allow more flexibility for companies.

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Omron Expands Safety Offering With Visual Lockout/Tagout and Arc Flash Labeling Services

Automation solutions provider Omron Automation Americas has incorporated assessment and labeling services focused on best practices for lockout/tagout and arc flash avoidance into its safety offering.

HMI Software Platform for Machine Builder OEMs and Discrete Part Manufacturers

Adrisa's SmartView Service Pack 1 allows for multiple database connections are now possible, allowing tags and alarms to be logged to multiple databases simultaneously in a simple and intuitive manner, without the need for SQL or other custom code.

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Matrox Imaging Announces Major Software Update To Flowchart-Based Machine Vision Software

Matrox Design Assistant X now offers additional 3D camera interfaces, expanded image classification using deep learning, acquisition from CoaXPress cameras, and more.

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Omron Releases Soft NA HMI System for its NY IPC Series to Optimize Control and Visualization

Omron Automation Americas recently launched a software version of its NA5 human-machine interface that will run on the Omron industrial PC series to give end users more control over their machines.

Yaskawa America Introduces Yaskawa Compass Software

Intuitive software tool for advanced manufacturing.

ACC Announces Smart Start Program

Automated Control Concepts (ACC) announces a new initiative—Smart Start—designed to help manufacturers begin the journey to digital transformation and information-based decision-making.

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Thermal IQ Optimize provides real-time analytics and fault modeling with early event detection at the plant, equipment, and process levels to keep thermal process equipment running safely, efficiently, and effectively.

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ADISRA SmartView 4.0 allows users to develop effective interfaces displaying the critical information they need to deploy, monitor, and analyze a machine’s operation and overall status.

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Omron Boosts Capabilities of its Mobile Robot Family With Next-Generation Software

Omron Automation Americas, a provider of industrial automation products, has released of a brand-new software package designed to simplify integration, maximize reliability and support flexibility in mobile robot applications.

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Additive Manufacturing (AM) Path Optimizer from Siemens combines physics-based simulation with machine learning to analyze a full job file before execution on the machine.

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Subscription-Based AI Products Enable Users to Scale

Falkonry Workbench enables users to rapidly analyze large amounts of data and cost effectively build predictive models, while Falkonry Analyzer lets them economically scale the deployment of these models either on-premises, at the edge or in the cloud.