CaseStudies

Helping Veolia Water save 1.5 million litres of water a day 24/01/2012
Veolia Water has made savings in excess of 1.5 million litres of water a day - nearly £100,000 a year - following the roll out of i2O Water’s integrated network monitoring system across 31 Veolia Water sites in the UK. Full Story...

Making the move to a plantwide control solution 24/01/2012
According to research performed by the ARC Advisory Group, the global process industry loses approximately $20 billion annually, or about 5% of annual production, due to unscheduled downtime from aging DCS systems. Full Story...

Legacy system upgraded to support future manufacture 17/01/2012
A batch control system at the Alloa glassworks in Scotland, owned by Owens of Illinois has been upgraded by Boulting Electrical Systems. Full Story...

Systems, measurement products and valves for new Stora Enso project 17/01/2012
Metso has received an order from the new Stora Enso containerboard production line at Ostroleka in Poland which, when completed, is expected to produce 455,000 tonnes of light-weighted testliner per year. Full Story...

Remote control and safety monitoring for offshore platform 17/01/2012
Statoil has announced that it is to deploy Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and Honeywell Distributed System Architecture (DSA) at its Valemon platform in the North Sea, where production is due to start in 2014. Full Story...

Achieving 100% error-free quality control 10/01/2012
Pharmaceutical company, Boehringer Ingelheim currently produces around 120 million blister packs of prescription-only drugs every year. Its products are designed to reduce blood pressure, treat patients experiencing shortness of breath, and treat thrombosis. Full Story...

SIS replacement project at refinery 10/01/2012
An order for the end-of-life replacement of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) within two processing units at Petroplus’ Coryton Refinery in England has been received by Hima-Sella. The facility is a fluid catalytic cracking refinery with a throughput of 220,000 barrels every day. Full Story...

Wireless level gauging solution for refinery 03/01/2012
The state-owned Tüpras refinery in Izmir, Turkey, has placed an order with Emerson Process Management for a tank gauging system that includes 85 wireless TankRadar Rex radar level gauges. Full Story...

IE3 motors promise impressive energy savings for odour control facility 20/12/2011
High-efficiency, IE3 class motors look set to save a UK-based pet food manufacturer around £26,000 per year on energy costs for a new odour control facility. Full Story...

Standardised drive solutions across entire tyre plant 20/12/2011
A collaboration between Italian engineering company Stema Service Srl and Control Techniques Italy resulted in a contract win to upgrade systems at the plant of a leading Italian tyre manufacturer. Full Story...

Boosting production efficiency and reducing errors in ammonia production 12/12/2011
Five of EuroChem’s ammonia production units in Russia are to be fitted with Honeywell Process Solutions’ UniSim Operator Training Simulation (OTS) solution. Full Story...

AC drives supplied to aluminium refinery 07/12/2011
Vacon has delivered over 300 variable-speed AC drives with a total power of 58 megawatts to Indian-based AnRak Aluminium for use in a new aluminium refinery that is being built near the City of Visakhapatnam in India's southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh. Full Story...

Coriolis benefits for oil and gas industry 06/12/2011
Andre Verdone, KROHNE business manager in Canada, discusses the advantages of Coriolis flowmeter technology in oil and gas measurement applications. Full Story...

Potential of PROFIenergy 06/12/2011
A new white paper describes how to save 30% energy in production applications. Full Story...

Overcoming obsolescence issues with minimal disruption 29/11/2011
CEE reports on how TOTAL E&P UK has succeeded in safely upgrading a number of vital systems on two of its Alywyn Area fields platforms. Full Story...

Upgraded control systems help cut the cost of iron production 28/11/2011
Tata Steel’s Scunthorpe steel plant produces carbon steel by the basic oxygen method. The existing pressurised oxygen plant produced high pressure oxygen at 42 Bar for steel production, but the three operating blast furnaces only require an 11 Bar supply. Producing oxygen at 42 Bar and then reducing it to 11 Bar was not cost-effective which led the company to look for a more efficient solution. Full Story...

Enhancing the effectiveness of offshore cranes 28/11/2011
Construction costs are an important consideration in offshore wind farms and drilling platforms. However, traditional crane technology has proved to be a safety issue during the construction phase with standard floating cranes often encountering difficulties if the waves crest at 30cm or greater. Even minor swaying, of just 2 or 3°, can move the tip of the crane by up to 5m which can result in an unstable load which poses a safety issue. Full Story...

Robotic upgrade for automotive fitting line 28/11/2011
As part of a major investment by Norgren at its Lichfield manufacturing site in the UK, Kawasaki Robotics has replaced two aging robots with Kawasaki RS06L robots. The new robots will allow faster cell tool change times and are able to work more comfortably within target cycle times. Full Story...

Emerson announces Smart Energy Initiative 21/11/2011
Emerson Process Management has announced the ‘Smart Energy Initiative’, a global programme designed to combine its industrial energy expertise with advanced energy management technologies. Full Story...

Mobile SCADA increases staff efficiency in logistics operation by 15% and cuts support call costs by 60% 21/11/2011
SCHAD, the developer of the EXTEND7000 mobile SCADA system has implemented a mobile solution for BAUR, a German multichannel retailer. Full Story...