The chemical industry faces two ongoing challenges—dramatically rising costs of raw material and energy, and plant safety.
On the rebound after a difficult period in the late 1990s, the industry is experiencing rising demand. Globally, incomes are rising and consumers are purchasing more goods, most of which depend on chemicals and intermediates.
Because petroleum price escalation is a source of concern both for feedstocks and energy for production, efficiency now shares center stage with safety, which has been part of the chemical scene since day one.
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George Reed, with the help of Factory Technologies, was looking to further automate the processes at its quarries and make Ignition an organization-wide standard.
Goodnight Midstream chose Ignition because it could fulfill several requirements: data mining and business intelligence work on the system backend; powerful Linux-based edge deployments...
In the automation world, the Purdue Model (also known as the Purdue reference model, Purdue network model, ISA 95, or the Automation Pyramid) is a well-known architectural framework...
