The plant control system knows more about inventory consumption than any other enterprise intelligence system. After all, it’s the plant that consumes the inventory. At Eastman Chemical Co., in ...

With the drive to reshore manufacturing operations back to the United States, automation is increasingly viewed as a crucial enabler to make domestic production economically viable versus offshore ...

Not too long ago, a fully automated production environment was designed for an Agilent facility. It permits so-called 24/7 (24 h/d, seven d/wk) testing—without human intervention. The goal was to ...

While automation is definitely part of the goals of artificial intelligence, and in particular automating things that require human cognitive capabilities, simply automating things doesn't make them ...

Robot technology is often associated with dangerous, dirty or dull work. Robotic process automation (RPA) takes that concept into the digital world. As a software tool, RPA sets out to free human ...

The automated process control system for unit 1 has been delivered to the construction site of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey. The system monitors and controls all key reactor parameters, as ...

ANSI/ISA-106.00.01, Procedure Automation for Continuous Process Operations, has been published by ISA. The standard sets forth mod­els, styles, strategies, philosophies, and life cycle for the ...

In today’s business climate, things are moving faster than ever. Organizations are now tasked with managing and protecting more information, and speed and efficiency have taken over as two of the top ...

Product Briefing Outline: Applied Materials has introduced the ‘Applied E3’ advanced equipment and process control solution, intended to be a comprehensive factory automation (FA) software package for ...

In this presentation we presented an innovative integrated system designed to automate the tangential flow filtration (TFF) process based on inline concentration measurement. This system employs ...