Kane, L.
HP Control: Essential process control
The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) held their 40th Annual Computer Conference, November 15–18 in San Antonio, Texas. Although several good papers were presented on past and ..
HP Control: ISA Expo '98: Fieldbus finally arrives
The ISA Expo '98 conference and exhibit was held Oct. 19–23 in Houston. Each year, some technology seems to dominate the event. In '97 the buzz words were "asset management." Although many new as..
HP Control: Control from the machinery perspective
We have reported several times on the trend toward integrating process and machinery controls to improve asset management from the process control system perspective. Real-time machinery data can be u..
Consider dynamic simulation
Dynamic simulation is so powerful, why aren't more people using it? So asked Greg McMillan, with Solutia, Inc., during his presentation at Hyprotech's recent Dynamic Simulation Solutions Seminar.1 It ..
Business optimization
Billions of dollars are spent on control system upgrades that often have short payout times. Never the less, just a few days of process unit downtime due to reliability or safety problems can negate t..
HP Control: Progress in fieldbus
Several encouraging announcements were made at the Fieldbus Foundation's (Austin, Texas) '98 General Assembly, March 5, in Houston. These included acceptance of the Foundation Fieldbus interoperabilit..
HP Control: Controversy in control
I am requesting more input from you to include in this column or to publish as "Letters to the editor". Due to the rapid changes occurring in process control, primarily because of dramatic increases i..
HP Control: The quest for six sigma
After a century of 10% operating margins, they have risen to 15% in the past five years. Inventory turns — a key measure of asset utilization — have nearly doubled, freeing up $6 billion in ..
Process optimization
We will hold our second annual Process Optimization Conference and Exhibit, March 23 – 27, at the Marriott Westside Hotel in Houston. This conference is unique in that it brings together many asp..
HP Control: Does CLRTO work?
The National Petroleum Refiners Association (Washington, D.C.) held their annual Computer Conference and Showcase Nov. 16–19 in New Orleans. The event included papers and breakout sessions on pro..
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