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HP Automation Strategies: ISO 55000 will up the ante for asset performance management
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few years, you should have heard about the upcoming ISO 55000 Asset Management Systems standard. How will this impact the hydrocarbon processing i..
HP Automation Strategies: ISA108 Intelligent Device Management focuses on work processes
Over the last decade, field instrumentation and analytical chemistry device suppliers have made tremendous progress incorporating value-added functionality into intelligent devices. This includes enha..
HP Integration Strategies: Reliability solutions offer unique value propositions
Globally, the process industries lose the equivalent of 5% of production annually because of unscheduled downtime and poor product quality. ARC Advisory Group estimates that almost 80% of these losses..
HP Integration Strategies: Making the business case for reliability
The global process industries lose $20 billion, or 5% annual production, due to unscheduled downtime and poor quality. ARC estimates that almost 80% of these losses are preventable. In fact, 40% of th..
HP Integration Strategies: Standards needed for laboratory system integration
Industries across the board are coping with relentless pressure to reduce costs while simultaneously improving product quality. The hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) has an additional challenge in..
HP Integration Strategies: Standards needed for laboratory system integration
Organizations in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) and elsewhere frequently underestimate the value of the analytical laboratory to the enterprise. The perception is that the lab is a cost cen..
HP Integration Strategies: Applying tuneable diode laser spectroscopy to help reduce energy consumption
According to the US Department of Energy, industry accounts for about a third of all energy used in the US. Despite the recent drop in energy prices, energy remains the second leading cost pressure (b..
HP Integration Strategies: Laboratory informatics' evolving role in the enterprise
Each day hydrocarbon processors perform hundreds of chemical analyses to ensure product quality, meet regulatory and safety standards, and, most importantly, minimize product quality giveaway. To keep..
HP Integration Strategies: Improve pump performance and cut energy costs
Pumps are the second most utilized machines in the world. According to the Hydraulics Institute (HI), industry's primary forum for exchange of pump information, industrial pumping systems account for ..
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- Lummus expands R&D capabilities to enhance innovation and water and wastewater technologies 4/17
- Niger plans to build diesel refinery and increase supplies to Mali 4/17
- BASF, SABIC, and Linde celebrate the start-up of the world's first large-scale electrically heated steam cracking furnace 4/17
- U.S. crude stocks rise, gasoline, distillate inventories fall 4/17
- Russia's offline primary oil refining capacity revised up for April 4/17
