Pulp Plant Slashes Valve Maintenance Costs

November 11, 2015

In This Issue:

  • Major Pulp Plant Slashes Maintenance Costs and Downtime,
  • To Repair or Replace the Device – That’s the Question,
  • Gateway Provides a Bridge Between Measurement and Maintenance,
  • Configuring, Calibrating HART Devices Made Easy,
  • One Software Environment, Myriad Functions,
  • FDT Offers Device Setpoint Confidence,
  • Seamless Data Exchange Across All Network Layers and Protocols
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Motor Monitoring Improves Coal Washing

August 12, 2015

In this Issue:

  • FDT2 Emerges While FDT is Tapped in Consortium’s RAMI 4.0,
  • Motor Monitoring and Diagnostics at Techno-Agrar’s Coal Wash Plant,
  • Changing Plant Operations and Maintenance Cultures Improves Plant Reliability,
  • Standardized Software Interfaces Enable Open and Flexible Automation Systems
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Plant Life Cycle Management Sees Increased Value When a Project Starts with the End in Mind

May 27, 2015

Making automation decisions for new construction, upgrades or even small retrofit projects takes careful planning and a short / long term strategy that combines what is effective for the operation of the plant today and in the future. These decisions impact all phases of the plant’s life cycle or specifically the industrial automation life cycle which, in many cases has a shorter life cycle horizon than the other more physical infrastructure elements of the plant.

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Simplifying Robot Operations at Kuka

May 10, 2015

In This Issue:

  • FDT will Play a Big Role in Global Manufacturing Efficiency,
  • Simplifying Robot Configuration from Production Through Diagnostics at KUKA,
  • Plant Life Cycle Management Sees Increased Value When a Project Starts with the End in Mind,
  • Device Interoperability: The Hidden Layer
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