Process Optimization
Project Management: Performance excellence culture improves processes, giving lasting results
In the downstream industry, where production is at an all-time high and uncompromised safety is imperative, plant owners and operators are responding by implementing the latest time-saving technologies and systems to automate and improve human processes.
Schneider Electric acquires MaxEAM, strengthens asset performance management portfolio
Schneider Electric has acquired MaxEAM, a software company with complementary applications that extend Avantis.PRO Enterprise Asset Management.
GE and Baker Hughes to create fullstream digital industrial service company
GE and Baker Hughes have entered into an agreement to combine GE’s oil and gas business and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology provider with a unique mix of service and equipment capabilities.
Rockwell Automation expands information solutions offerings
By the year 2020, more than 50 B devices are expected to be connected to the internet. These devices are getting smarter and consequently, will help make manufacturing smarter.
Honeywell and Flowserve collaborate on IIoT solutions
Honeywell and Flowserve will collaborate to provide Industrial Internet of Things solutions to help industrial customers make their operations, safer, more efficient and more reliable.
Siemens temperature measuring system lengthens plant life, improves product quality
Siemens’ Sitrans TO500 enables complex temperature measurements and detection of the precise position of critical overtemperatures.
Emerson targets $1 T in industry losses with Operational Certainty program
Emerson has launched its Operational Certainty program to help industrial companies achieve top performance and recover more than $1 T in operational losses globally.
Schneider Electric acquires Applied Instrument Technologies
Schneider Electric has acquired Applied Instrument Technologies, a provider of online process analyzers for the hydrocarbon, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical and steel-making industries.
Honeywell’s Assurance 360 service program protects industrial plants
Honeywell Process Solutions is helping industrial manufacturing plants around the world maximize uptime and reduce operating costs through its innovative Assurance 360 services program.
Rockwell Automation acquires Maverick Technologies
Rockwell Automation, Inc. has acquired leading systems integrator Maverick Technologies to expand domain knowledge and help deliver innovative control and information solutions to customers in industries such as oil and gas, chemical and food and beverage.
- Exploring ethanol: Maersk to test 50/50 ethanol-methanol bunker fuel 12/8
- BASF introduces low-VOC polyurethane catalyst Lupragen® N 208 12/8
- Idemitsu Kosan to be first Japanese refiner to supply biofuels to shipping industry 12/8
- China refiner moves forward with expansion despite sanctions 12/8
- Air Products and Yara to partner on low-emission ammonia projects 12/8
- Opinion: G7’s Russian oil tanker ban shows teeth, but bite is in doubt 12/8

