Management
Digital
Today’s digital innovation is reshaping industries, disrupting business models and operating practices, and transforming business ecosystems.
Develop competence in the process industry with a digitalized operator learning path
Industrial digitalization is changing the standards for operator training in the global process industry.
What are the financial savings from a refinery cybersecurity program?
Recently, the authors developed a first-pass financial estimate of the savings resulting from the implementation of a cybersecurity program for a 100-Mbpd refinery.
Digitalization for the refinery and plant of the future
Hydrocarbon Processing Industry (HPI) companies are using digitalization in concert with improved processes and skills to squeeze more productivity from existing assets.
Digital: Looking to boost safety? Reliable operations are the key
Equipment failures are the thorn in every industrial plant’s side.
Editorial Comment: What is the future role of the process engineer?
During the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE’s) Spring Meeting, held in Orlando, Florida in April, I was honored to sit on a panel discussion with Paul Durand from ExxonMobil and Sanjeev Kapur from Apex PetroConsultants.
People
The BASF board of executive directors has made several personnel changes.
Creating a ‘win-win’ between construction contractor and project owner—Part 2
For large projects, construction represents the biggest cost component and the greatest risk.
Simplification reduces risks and cuts costs
A facility’s ability to operate safely is the determining factor in its success or failure.
Reliability: Preserve what worked well in 1980
The second CCC implementation strategy involved so-called “shirt sleeve seminars.”
- Clariant's FAMAX™ catalysts deliver outstanding performance at two Yihua formaldehyde plants in China 5/27
- Aramco and Emerson collaborate on strategic corrosion R&D 5/27
- TotalEnergies extends fuel price cap in France through June 5/27
- MOL says repairing petrochemical plant damaged in explosion could take several months 5/27
- China allows fresh urea exports amid Iran war-fueled fertilizer crisis 5/27
- India ethanol push drives big rise in land farmed to make fuel 5/27
