Automation
Control Station launches System Health Monitoring offering, delivers industry-spanning operational insights
Control Station has launched System Health Monitoring (SHM), a tiered service offering that leverages intelligence captured by the company’s PlantESP Loop Performance Monitoring solution.
Imubit launches closed-loop AI optimization solution powered by reinforcement learning
Imubit, a global leader in closed-loop artificial intelligence (AI) optimization, has launched its Optimizing Brain™ Solution and Industrial AI Platform.
Emerson to join the Margo initiative, an open-standard pathway to optimize edge applications
Emerson is joining the Linux Foundation’s Margo, a new open-standard initiative designed to make edge applications, devices and orchestration software work together seamlessly across multi-vendor industrial automation environments.
Schneider Electric and GR3N to tackle plastic recycling challenges and drive circularity in chemical sector
Schneider Electric, one of the world's most sustainable companies and a leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has partnered with GR3N, the Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) chemical recycler, to create the first open automation system for the advanced plastic recycling industry.
Yokogawa releases OpreX Intelligent Manufacturing Hub
Yokogawa Electric Corp. has announced the global release in all markets other than Japan of its OpreX™ Intelligent Manufacturing Hub, a data integration and visualization solution incorporating robotic process automation (RPA).
Shell to leverage proprietary structural performance management software for various facilities
Under this agreement, Shell will leverage Akselos’ Structural Performance Management (SPM) software to monitor the structural health of critical assets across the Shell portfolio in near real-time. Akselos’ SPM software will help enable Shell to optimize the lifecycle of critical assets safely and sustainably.
Process technology: SICK and Endress+Hauser sign strategic partnership
German sensor company SICK and the Swiss measurement and automation technology specialist Endress+Hauser have agreed on a strategic partnership. Endress+Hauser will take over worldwide sales and service of SICK’s process analyzers and gas flowmeters, with a JV to be established for their production and further development.
Yokogawa launches OpreX Open Automation SI Kit and OpreX OPC UA Management package for open process automation systems
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has developed the OpreX™ Open Automation SI Kit and the OpreX OPC UA Management Package, both of which will play important roles in the implementation of Open Process Automation™ (OPA) systems.
AVEVA’s integrated EPC 4.0 solutions to drive digital twin for Meridian's new greenfield refinery
AVEVA announced a strategic partnership with Meridian Energy Group to develop a digital twin for the first full-conversion refinery built in the U.S. since 1976, and the first modern "greenfield" advanced technology refinery constructed in the U.S. ever.
Hexagon’s HxGN SDx2 helps industrial enterprises engineer, monitor and optimize global assets, operations
Hexagon, a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies, has launched HxGN SDx2, a cloud-native, multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) solution designed to deliver a connected, insightful digital backbone for industrial facilities.
- Indonesia to remove import duties on some plastic products and LPG for petrochemical industry 4/28
- Europe's jet fuel imports from Middle East stop, raising supply crunch fears 4/28
- Nigeria's Dangote oil refinery running gasoline unit at 75% capacity 4/28
- Chevron likely to close deal for Singapore refinery stake sale to Eneos in May 4/28
- Geolander pioneers high-density nodal seismic in Angola with first STRYDE deployment 4/28
- Clariant launches new CATOFIN™ 1000 propane dehydrogenation catalyst 4/28

