Control System World

As an ongoing effort to strengthen global customer support, Emerson Process Management has created a new Flow Lifecycle Care organization. Flow Lifecycle Care provides an extensive range of flow service capabilities for the entire range of Emerson flow technology to better respond to global customer requirements.

“The creation of Flow Lifecycle Care is a natural extension of Emerson’s commitment to expand global support and provide the highest level of flow measurement expertise expected from Emerson by our customers,” said Larry Flatt, group vice president of Emerson Process Management. “The importance of flow measurement, in virtually every industry and application around the world, warrants specific focus from Emerson to ensure we are actively helping customers maximize their investment.”

Customers must keep operations up and running reliably and many are under additional pressure to improve overall process efficiency and increase output. These demands are challenging to meet given staff downsizing, changing workforce demographics, budgetary constraints, and retiring technical expertise. With Flow Lifecycle Care, Emerson strives to bridge this gap with expert services and solutions that can aid customers in meeting their operational goals by maximizing the effectiveness of their flow technologies.

“By combining the service capabilities of Emerson’s flow technologies into one group, we intend to strengthen customer confidence in the form of less risk, increased reliability, and improved certainty in their flow applications,” said Scott Anderson, president of Emerson’s Flow Lifecycle Care.

Flow Lifecycle Care services are available around the world with 42 regional service centers and over 650 personnel. Plans are well underway to expand this network of support. The new organization will focus on flow service and support for Emerson’s Daniel Measurement and Control, METCO, Micro Motion, Regulator Technologies, Rosemount Flow, and Roxar technologies. By partnering with Emerson, customers can expect a comprehensive offering of flow services to include; installation, start up, repair, calibration, meter auditing, consulting, and education.

With incoming orders up by 35% and a 4% growth in sales, HIMA has in the last year further expanded its position as a global safety solution provider. The above-average number of orders received during the first quarter suggests that a double-digit growth in sales can be expected for the current year.

In financial year 2012, incoming orders were up 35% over the previous year. Most of the growth came from Europe, the United States and Asia Pacific, with substantial increases in large-scale projects. Sales rose 4% to 90 million euro. Of this increase, 28% were generated in Germany, 30% in the rest of Europe and 42% in non-European countries. Double-digit sales growth is planned for 2013. During the first quarter of 2013, HIMA achieved a record level of incoming orders, up 60% over the previous year.

With close to 100 new jobs being created worldwide in 2012, HIMA today has over 800 employees. Further new appointments are planned for the current financial year. Global expansion continues to progress. A further expansion of sales and engineering services, primarily in the Asia Pacific, Middle East and South America regions, is planned for the current financial year.

Contributing to HIMA`s growth are diverse development activities and product innovations for the process industry, rail industry and machine safety. Today, over 33,000 HIMA systems are installed in the process industry alone. Integrated application solutions for turbo machines and compressors, burner control and boiler protection systems, and for the management of gas and liquid fuel pipelines are successfully established on the market.

HIMA`s broad sector approach, worldwide presence with group companies and representatives in over 50 countries, and the economic and entrepreneurial independence of this fourth-generation family business all contribute to the company`s success.

Emerson’s Fisher FIELDVUE DVC6200 digital valve controller series now incorporates a 4-20mA position transmitter that can also be configured as a discrete switch. Having the valve position transmitter function integrated within the valve controller means that the expense, bracketry, and maintenance requirements of an add-on, accessory transmitter are eliminated.

The discrete switch is a solid state circuit (1-amp maximum) that opens and closes based on a user configurable trip point. The trip point can be based on valve travel anywhere within the calibrated travel range or on a device alert.  The position transmitter is independent from the digital valve controller with the power coming from the control system analog input channel in the same manner as a standard 2-wire transmitter.

The DVC6200 communicates with the latest HART 7 standard. It may also be field configured to the earlier HART 5 standard to match any control system requirement.  With over one million units installed worldwide, FIELDVUE digital valve controllers prove highly suited to a wide variety of industries and applications where they provide unmatched valve operation. The DVC6200 series is offered with CSA, IECEx, and FM hazardous area approvals as well as other certifications/approvals. It is also listed in the Lloyd’s Register for industrial, marine and offshore use.

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Technip was awarded by ADMA-OPCO(1) a lump-sum turnkey contract for the engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning, commissioning and start-up assistance for flares modification and revamp project on Das Island. Das Island is located 290 kilometers offshore Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in the Gulf.

The project aims to mitigate the hazards due to the existing atmospheric flares on offshore associated gas and upcoming integrated gas development facilities, and the risk of gas exposure for personnel during operation and maintenance of these facilities in case of flame out.

The scope of work includes the:

• relocation of the South Relief flare to the east of the existing flare F-14,
• installation of two new ground flares at the existing South Relief flare location,
• demolition of the F-11 and F-14 flares,
• replacement of a tip for flare,
• new electrical substation.

Technip's operating center in Abu Dhabi will execute the project which is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2015.

JGC Corporation recently announced that in partnership with KBR (USA), it has received a contract calling for FEED (Front End Engineering and Design) and early detailed engineering work for a large-scale LNG plant to be built in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The contract was awarded by Pacific Northwest LNG Ltd., a joint venture consisting of Malaysia's state-owned oil company Petronas (90%), and Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. (JAPEX) (10%).

The lump-sum contract calls for FEED and early detailed engineering work for a two-train LNG plant with a yearly capacity of 12 million tons (6 million tons per train), and associated shipping facilities. The plant will be constructed on Lelu Island, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and the FEED work is scheduled for completion by the end of 2014.

The purpose of this project is to process shale gas produced from British Columbia's North Montney region into LNG suitable for export. In addition to the two 6-million ton trains, the plant is scheduled to include associated utilities, storage, loading, ship berthing and personnel accommodation facilities. JGC will be undertaking the project as part of a joint venture led by American engineering company KBR.

Client Pacific Northwest LNG has awarded FEED contracts to several other groups besides the JGC/KBR join venture. When FEED work is complete at the end of 2014, the client will select the contractor of its preferred FEED package for receipt of the EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) portion of the project. The start of LNG production is schedule for the end of 2018.

MatrikonOPC™ announced today that it has acquired OPC Unified Architecture (UA) Embedded Server Software Development Kit (SDK) technology from Embedded Labs Ltd., the world’s leading provider of the technology, and positions MatrikonOPC at the forefront of the emerging device-to-enterprise open data connectivity segment.

As the next generation of OPC, the powerful and flexible features of OPC UA provide control automation systems with open standard connectivity regardless of the operating system (OS) being used and for the first time, for low-level devices that do not even use an OS.

“This technology complements MatrikonOPC’s existing portfolio,” said Jeff Gould, general manager-MatrikonOPC. “Unified Architecture technology extends our data connectivity offerings from the desktop down to the micro-controller level.”

The EDS-210A series 10-port industrial Ethernet unmanaged switches provide up to 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and are ideal for applications that require high-bandwidth data convergence. In particular, the EDS-210A-1GSFP-1SFP is equipped with 1 Gigabit fiber SFP slot, whereas the EDS-210A-1GTX-1GSFP-4SFP is equipped with 1 Gigabit fiber SFP slot and 1 Gigabit copper port.

The EDS-210A unmanaged switches are also equipped with multiple 100M ports, up to 4 100BaseSFP slots, and 8 100BaseTX copper ports for maximum flexibility in port combinations and long-distance communications.  The EDS-210A series provides 12/24/48 VDC redundant power inputs, rugged IP30-rated metal housing, DIN rail mounting, and high level EMI/EMC capability. In addition to its compact size for space-saving installation, each EDS-210A has passed a 100% burn-in test to ensure its quality. Moreover, the EDS-210A series has an operating temperature range of -10 to the 60°C with wide temperature (-40 to 75°C) models also available.

All of these features make the EDS-210A ideal for applications that require high-bandwidth transmission and data converge for uplink, such as video surveillance, tolling systems, ITS, and factory automation..

The International Society of Automation (ISA) announces today that early-bird registration is open for its 8th Marketing and Sales Summit, which will be held 11-13 September 2013 at the W New Orleans hotel, just steps from the famed French Quarter.

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The theme of this year’s summit, “Innovation in Automation: Navigating the Maze of Customer Connections,” focuses on giving marketing and sales professionals the tools, strategies and insights needed to successfully negotiate their way through today’s fast-changing automation and control marketplace.

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