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Sensit’s (USA) P100 is a single gas personal monitor designed to warn the user of hazardous gases in their working environment. This unit is easy to use and offers low maintenance and lost co...

New regulations for the coal industry in the Midwest of the US aiming to reduce emissions could reshape the energy industry. A combination of Environmental Protection Agency rules set to come into fo...

Natural gas power is just as effective and produces fewer emissions that coal, it has been claimed. Analysis from the Worldwatch Institute and the Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors suggested that...

Oldham (France), an Industrial Scientific recently introduced the Mobile Perimeter System (MPS) IV. The MPS IV is a mobile gas monitoring platform that can be rapidly deployed for temporary or remot...

There is much talk about process automation experience being lost as the wave of baby boomers retire. One man of action, ModelingAndControl.com’s Greg McMillan, has moved beyond talk into action. A few weeks ago, he announced on the ISA Automation Week website in a post, ISA Mentor Program: A Guide to Success, that he: …will [...]

Process manufacturers across many world areas continually look for ways to improve energy usage, operational efficiency, and quality with the limited resources they have to execute these improvement projects. In a recent Hydrocarbon Processing magazine article, Pre-engineered solutions drive down advanced control costs, Emerson’s Pete Sharpe and Gary Hawkins describe how these improvement projects can [...]

ControlGlobal.com had an interesting article, Firewall Needed Between AT and IT? Should the Business IT Group or the Controls Group Load the DeltaV Machines? AT is the automation technology team and IT is the information technology team. The question posed was: Q: We are having an internal argument as to who loads the DeltaV machines [...]

Emerson’s Alan Novak, leader of the Alternative Energy team offers his thoughts on the use of coal as a source of energy: The current economic climate has slowed, but not stopped, the growth in global energy demand. “Slowed” is relative, as countries such as China will see their GDP growth “cool” in 2011 to an [...]

BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) held a BOF (birds of a feather) session on usability engineering. This session featured a presentation, Human-Centered Design in Action, by LUMA Institute’s Pete Maher and Emerson’s Jay Elkerton. Pete is the chief operating [...]

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