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Re: What is the point of Closed Loop Steptesting and modelID for MVC's?
First, I agree with Zak. I offer one refinement on the “commissioning in stages” part. The stages should be levels of cascade. So, you do the step tests for the lowest-level MPC with the DCS control loops closed, the step tests for a higher level MPC with the lowest-level MPC control loops closed ...
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Invensys Signs Technology Agreement with Shell
DECEMBER 19, 2011 / PLANO, TEXAS - Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology systems, software solutions and consulting services to the manufacturing and infrastructure operations industries, today announced that it has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to deliver comprehensive
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New Calculator Tool Provides Return-on-Investment Estimates for Safety Automation
Free Safety ROI Tool from Rockwell Automation quantifies savings and productivity gains to help cost-justify safety investments
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 19, 2011 — Engineers, plant managers and environmental health and safety (EH&S) professionals now have a tool to calculate the potential annual return they’ll receive if they invest in an integrated safety automation system
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PA Consulting Group acquires 7Safe Ltd to enhance its cyber security service
12 January 2012: PA Consulting Group is pleased to announce that it has acquired 7Safe Ltd, a leading cyber security consultancy head-quartered in Cambridge. 7Safe’s expertise in security risk assessment, computer forensics, eDiscovery and education complements PA’s own long-established cyber security, risk and resilience
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Aspen Technology Announces Entry of Judgment in Litigation with Former Employee
BURLINGTON, MA — January 12, 2012 — Aspen Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, announced that on January 9, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas,
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Refineries hit by eight failures in the past 30 days
January 11, 2012 02:42 PM: Venezuela's refining circuit has reported several incidents in the past month that have affected the production capacity of oil byproducts.
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Fire reignites at Orica plant
Updated January 11, 2012 10:08:27: A vent stack at Orica's Kooragang Island plant which was set alight by a lightning strike on January 8, 2011.
Chemical giant Orica says static electricity is the most likely cause of another fire from a stack at its Newcastle plant overnight
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ASM® Consortium Discusses Best Practices For Safe And Effective Plant Operation
PHOENIX, January 11th, 2012 – The ASM® Consortium, a group of leading companies and universities dedicated to the research and development of solutions optimizing the industrial control environment, recently conducted an Operations Outreach Seminar demonstrating how to keep
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Top 10 Process Safety Management Tidbits
At the end of November 2011, OSHA announced that it was extended nationwide what had been a limited pilot enforcement program targeting chemical facilities' compliance with OSHA's Process Safety Management standard in only a few regions of the country.
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Warwick Chemicals Ltd Awards $1.9M Order to Rockwell Automation
MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2011-- Warwick Chemicals Ltd, a division of Warwick International Group Ltd, has awarded a $1.9 million order to Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) and its Global Solutions team. The multi-phase project will replace Warwick Chemical Ltd’s distributed control system (DCS) solution with the Rockwell Automation PlantPAx process automation
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Wood Group’s Mustang Acquires Latin American Automation Engineering and Consultancy Company
For Immediate Release: HOUSTON, December 16, 2011 — Mustang, a Wood Group company, has acquired a majority stake in ISI Solutions for an initial consideration of US$5.2 million. ISI Solutions is a Latin American provider of automation and control engineering and consulting services to the oil & gas, power and pipeline industries in Latin America. The gross assets of ISI were $8.5m as at 31 December 2010.
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Yokogawa Receives FEED Contract from CJV for Arrow LNG Project
okyo, Japan - December 15, 2011: Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte. Ltd. has been awarded a contract by CJV, a joint venture comprised of Chiyoda Corporation as JV leader, CB&I, and Saipem S.p.A., to perform the front end engineering design (FEED) for an integrated control and safety s
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Werner von Siemens' memoirs now as an iPad app
Munich, Germany, 2011-Dec-13:
To mark the 195th birthday of Werner von Siemens, the Siemens Historical Institute (SHI) is now offering his autobiography in German and English as a so-called iPad app. Eight short stories recreate the adventures of Werner von Siemens, for example in Egypt or the Red Sea, where he was shipwrecked. The individual episodes focus on the inventions and entrepreneurial achievements as well as the exciting life of the electricity pioneer. These entertainingly written memoirs can now be read free of charge on an iPad or at www.siemens.com/recollections
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