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  • HIMA Group Acquires Sella Controls
    HIMA Group Acquires Sella Controls Feb 11, 2023
    The HIMA Group headquartered in Brühl, Germany, which specializes in safety-related automation solutions, has acquired the UK system integrator Sella Controls with effect from Feb. 1, 2023. Representatives of both companies signed an agreement to this effect in Manchester, UK, on Jan. 31.   With this transaction, both companies intend to continue their growth strategies and expand their range of solutions for railway technology and the process industry. "HIMA has had a long-standing and close relationship with Sella Controls and shares the same vision and values. With Sella Controls the HIMA Group will accelerate its international expansion and strengthen its global competitiveness," said Steffen Philipp, Shareholder HIMA Group.   HIMA and Sella Controls will maintain their focus on safety-related automation, control solutions and the digitalisation of functional safety. "The acquisition of Sella Controls is an important milestone in our HIMA growth strategy. By joining our forces we will enhance our global position as a leading supplier for safety-related automation solutions for the process and rail industries", stated Jörg de la Motte, CEO HIMA Group.   Sella Controls is in a leading market position in the UK and Ireland. In particular, Sella Controls' expertise and portfolio of solutions in the rail sector is an excellent addition for HIMA, which intends to push ahead and market internationally. Business in the process industry is also to be further expanded in the UK and Ireland. One focus here is the digitalisation of functional safety, which HIMA is pushing under the motto "Safety goes digital." HIMA's existing customers will benefit from even more intensive support as a result of the acquisition, while Sella Controls' customers will benefit from a larger service portfolio.   HIMA will ensure continuity of the management: John Blackwell (CFO) and Eddy Turnock (CSO), both previous owners, will continue to lead Sella Controls. In addition, Chris Parr, who previously led the Process Division at Sella Controls, will join the Management Board as CTO.   Sella Controls' 118 employees will be retained and additional hires are planned. The three locations will also be retained. Sella Controls has two divisions: the "Centre of Excellence Rail Solutions" with locations in Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Coalville, near Leicester, and the "Process Solutions" division, which is based in Stockport near Manchester. The company will continue to trade under the name "Sella Controls" with the addition of "A HIMA Company".   "It’s a Win-Win-Situation for HIMA and Sella Controls, with multiple synergies: HIMA will benefit from the long-term experience of Sella Controls in the development of solutions for the rail industry and we at Sella Controls will be able to utilize HIMA’s global sales and service to boost our international business," said Eddy Turnock, CSO Sella Controls.   "As a family-owned company, the HIMA Group is ...
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  • ABB and Hynamics Collaborate to Reduce Hydrogen Production Cost
    ABB and Hynamics Collaborate to Reduce Hydrogen Production Cost Feb 04, 2023
    Hynamics has signed an agreement to collaborate with ABB and test the ABB Ability OPTIMAX for Green Hydrogen energy management system (EMS), which was launchedto market in November 2022, across Hynamics’ plants to help optimize electrical costs of hydrogen production by up to 16 percent, according to ABB modelling. In order to optimize production costs for low carbon and renewable hydrogen, the performance of the electrolyser process–which uses electricity from renewable sources to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen–can be improved. ABB Ability OPTIMAX supports this by serving every aspect of a hydrogen plant lifecycle, from simulation at design and engineering phases to real-time monitoring of energy consumption when in operation. ABB Ability OPTIMAX is already available for five other industrial applications. The system provides data which can help determine optimal energy consumption levels required to produce hydrogen and minimize waste. The tool considers, among other things, the variability of electricity prices, asset availability and other associated factors. The companies have agreed to share respective resources to determine the compatibility of their solutions. ABB Ability OPTIMAX® for Green Hydrogen EMS will be deployed at Auxerre, Hynamics’ first production and distribution site in Northern Burgundy, approximately 170 km southeast of Paris. The 1 MW hydrogen station for the urban community will supply five buses of the Leo network (Transdev), as well as light commercial vehicles and trucks, removing 2,200 tons of CO2 emissions from the road each year. “With complementary areas of expertise, the cooperation between ABB and Hynamics will enable us to accelerate the deployment of hydrogen projects on an industrial scale,” said Christelle Rouillé, general manager of Hynamics. “The integration of ABB's world-class power management system is a necessary step to improve the performance of the water electrolysis process and thus optimize the cost of hydrogen production.” “We have recently pioneered our ABB Ability OPTIMAX system specifically for green hydrogen to help production companies overcome the challenges of electrolysis in the way of high costs and energy intensive processes,” said Bruno Roche, Global Head of Energy Transition at ABB. “This first deployment of our EMS for green hydrogen is significant and hopefully the first of many if we are to achieve our collective goal of building a resilient global hydrogen ecosystem for a clean energy future.” The scope of the agreement also includes the deployment of the cloud for the EMS at the Hynamics operation control center, potential performance and reliability tests carried out by EDF and deployment on further Hynamics production sites in 2023.
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  •  Automation Platinum Partnership Enables First-rate Solutions for Business Challenges
    Automation Platinum Partnership Enables First-rate Solutions for Business Challenges Jan 14, 2023
    Nov. 10, 2022 -  Automation, Inc., the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today announced that RoviSys has been designated a Platinum System Integrator Partner as part of the PartnerNetwork Program. RoviSys is an independent automation and information solutions integrator, delivering process and building automation design, delivery and support globally. The program offers opportunities to expand and maximize integration skills, recognize and reward performance, and connect businesses with system integrators that meet project needs and enable mutual success. As a Platinum System Integrator Partner, RoviSys will receive enhanced recognition with customers and leading-edge access to Automation product and technical support. “Platinum status is achieved by invite only and is the highest level of partnership within the Automation System Integrator Partner Program. It is an exclusive recognition reserved for less than 1% of our partners and we are proud to welcome RoviSys into this designation,” said Don Shoemaker, Regional Vice President, North America Market Access, Automation. With a customer-first mentality, RoviSys has extensive project experience delivering thousands of projects over the last five years with a diverse range of capabilities across 12 locations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. “The partnership between Automation and RoviSys is one that we have truly valued over the years, and we look forward to continuing to grow together,” said Shoemaker. “Our long-standing partnership has allowed RoviSys to collaborate with , and bring industry-leading solutions to customers for over 30 years,” said Dick Ciammaichella, Director of Growth. “This next step into Platinum Partnership positions RoviSys to strategically align customer needs with product life cycles. RoviSys delivers 500K+ hours of solutions annually, and empowers end users to effectively implement solutions that drive automation and digital transformation today and into the future.” For more information on Automation’s System Integrator Program or to request more information from your local sales office, please click here. About RoviSys RoviSys is an independent systems integrator that provides process automation, building automation and discrete manufacturing automation solutions. We support digital transformation, industrial network solutions, and artificial intelligence, bringing information from plant floor to top floor. Industries include: Chemical, Petrochemical, Life Science, Mission Critical Data Center, Distribution & Fulfillment, Transportation, Consumer Packaged Goods, Glass, Metals, Power & Energy, Water & Wastewater, Paper & Wood, Oil & Gas, and Semiconductor. About Automation Automation, Inc., is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, ma...
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  • Emerson Chosen as Automation Partner for World’s Largest Hydrogen Refueling Station for Commercial Vehicles
    Emerson Chosen as Automation Partner for World’s Largest Hydrogen Refueling Station for Commercial Vehicles Dec 24, 2022
    Korea Hydrogen Green Energy Network (KOHYGEN) has chosen global technology company Emerson’s advanced automation solutions to help ensure the safety and reliability of its pioneering hydrogen infrastructure initiative, which recently marked the completion of the world’s largest hydrogen refueling station for commercial vehicles. The project is an important step toward the two organizations’ goals of reducing emissions, driving investment in hydrogen and accelerating the transition to a net-zero global economy.   “We’re committed to building smart, safe hydrogen refueling infrastructure by leveraging IT-based integrated operations, using large capacity, high-efficiency charging systems and, most importantly, strengthening design safety standards,” said KyungSil Lee, KOHYGEN’s chief executive officer. “Emerson is helping us secure abundant clean energy for Korea and the world.”   The JeonjuPyeonghwa Hydrogen Refueling Station is the first of 35 high-capacity gas and liquid hydrogen refueling stations KOHYGEN plans to construct across Korea by 2025. The first station has a charging capacity of 300 kilograms per hour, which can fuel up to 15 buses and trucks per hour, or over 100 per day–12 times more than an average capacity hydrogen station.   To further lay the foundation for a stable hydrogen supply chain, Emerson and KOHYGEN are collaborating on technical standards for future high-capacity commercial refueling stations and similar projects. KOHYGEN plans to expand its hydrogen supply platform to service hydrogen-powered aircraft, ships and other diverse forms of transportation.   “In line with Emerson’s ‘Greening By’ sustainability strategy, we’ve worked on a range of hydrogen projects globally, applying our expertise and innovative technologies to scale hydrogen consumption and make renewable energy a reality,” said Mike Train, Emerson’s chief sustainability officer. “Partnering with KOHYGEN is another critical step forward in diversifying our global energy mix.”   In addition to deep domain experience across the hydrogen value chain, Emerson is providing core technologies, including temperature transmitters, flowmeters, pressure transmitters, programmable logic controllers (PLC) and valves, to deliver the high level of performance necessary for developing a commercially viable hydrogen charging model that can expand Korea’s domestic hydrogen market and serve as a template in other countries. KOHYGEN is a special purpose company held jointly by nine energy industry leaders: Korea District Heating Corporation, Hyundai Motors, GS Caltex, S-Oil, Hyundai Oilbank, SK Energy, SK Gas, E1 and Air Liquide Korea. About Emerson Emerson is a global technology and software company providing innovative solutions for the world’s essential industries. Through its leading automation portfolio, including its majority stake in AspenTech, Emerson helps hybrid, process and discrete manufacturers optimize operations, protect personnel, reduc...
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  • ABB Partners with Boliden to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Its Industrial Products
    ABB Partners with Boliden to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Its Industrial Products Dec 17, 2022
    ABB is working with Boliden, the Swedish mining and smelting company, to build a strategic co-operation to use low carbon footprint copper in its electromagnetic stirring (EMS) equipment and high-efficiency electric motors. The aim is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while driving the transition to a more circular economy. The partnership with Boliden forms an integral part of ABB’s strategic ambition to reduce the environmental impact of raw materials used in its products by replacing them with lower carbon alternatives. Apart from using recycled copper, ABB has committed to increase the use of recycled electric steel (e-steel) and recycled aluminum. The move is also an important step in closing the circularity loop that has already seen ABB designing its motors to be up to 98% recyclable, with the remaining 2% of materials available to be incinerated for heat recovery. Recycling copper, aluminum and steel offers energy savings of between 75 and 95% compared to virgin production. “As a part of ABB's 2030 sustainability strategy, our target is for 80% of our products and solutions to be covered by a circularity approach. The work with Boliden is an important step towards this goal,” said Ola Norén, head of Metallurgy Products, Process Industries, ABB. “By taking stock of the delivery by the end of this year we’ll ensure that all our metallurgy products use recycled hollow copper conductors from 2023.” “We want to enable a more sustainable and resource-efficient future, and with this collaboration our customers can not only decarbonize by upgrading to energy efficient motors but will also be able to install ABB technology that has an improved environmental footprint thanks to Boliden’s copper,” said Ulf Hellstrom, managing director at ABB Motion, Sweden. “This is an excellent example of the circular economy in practice.” The co-operation includes ABB placing the first order for Boliden’s certified recycled copper through Finnish metals manufacturing specialist Luvata. Hollow conductor wire made from the material will be used in ABB’s EMS products for both steel and aluminum manufacturing. Furthermore, as of 2023, ABB will purchase Boliden’s low-carbon and recycled copper to cover the demand for its IE5 Ultra-Premium Efficiency SynRM and e-mobility motors produced in Europe. The two companies have also signed a memorandum of understanding that will see ABB supporting Boliden in identifying inefficient low-voltage motors across its operating units. These motors can then be replaced with high efficiency motors within ABB’s take back upcycling framework, with the old motors recycled to provide raw material for Boliden’s recycled copper. Copper is a vital material for manufacturing industrial electrical equipment, but its production is energy intensive. To address this, Boliden has developed low-carbon copper that is mined using fossil-free energy and also produces copper using secondary raw material from recycled products. The carbon footprint...
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  • AI-Based Autonomous Control
    AI-Based Autonomous Control Dec 10, 2022
    As process control technologies advance, one concept gaining prominence is autonomy. When contrasted with conventional automation, one of the main differentiators of autonomy is applying artificial intelligence (AI) so an automation system can learn about the process and make its own operational improvements. Although many companies find this idea intriguing, there is understandable skepticism. The system’s capability is only as good as its foundational algorithms, and many potential users want to see AI in operation somewhere else before buying into the idea wholeheartedly. Those real-world examples are beginning to emerge. Yokogawa’s autonomous control systems are built around factorial kernel dynamic policy programming (FKDPP), which is an AI reinforcement learning algorithm first developed as a joint project of Yokogawa and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in 2018. Reinforcement learning techniques have been used successfully in computer games, but extending this methodology to process control has been challenging. It can take millions, or even billions, of trial-and-error cycles for a software program to fully learn a new task. Since its introduction, FKDPP has been refined and improved for industrial automation systems, typically by working with plant simulation platforms used for operator training and other purposes. Yokogawa and two other companies created a simulation of a vinyl acetate manufacturing plant. The process called for modulating four valves based on input from nine sensors to maximize the volume of products produced, while conforming to quality and safety standards. FKDPP achieved optimized operation with only about 30 trial-and-error cycles—a significant achievement. This project was presented at the IEEE International Conference in August 2018. By 2020, this technology was capable of controlling entire process manufacturing facilities, albeit on highly sophisticated simulators. So, the next question became, is FKDPP ready for the real world? From simulation to reality Yokogawa answered that question at its Komagane semiconductor plant in Miyada-mura, Japan (Figure 1). Here, much of the production takes place in clean room environments under the tightly controlled temperature and humidity conditions necessary to produce defect-free products. The task of the AI system is to operate the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems optimally by maintaining required environmental conditions while minimizing energy use. It is understandable that an actual application selected for this type of experiment would be of modest scale with minimal potential for safety risks. This conservative approach may be less dramatic than one at an oil refinery, but this does not reduce its validity as a proof of concept. At first glance, operating an HVAC system autonomously might not seem complex. But the HVAC systems supporting the tightly controlled clean room environment account for 30 percent of the total ener...
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  • Exploring Local, Remote and Distributed I/O
    Exploring Local, Remote and Distributed I/O Dec 03, 2022
    Process and factory automation controllers connect to sensors, instruments, valves and other equipment through input/output (I/O) cards or racks that are either collocated within the same cabinet (local) at the controller/CPU or installed farther away (remote). Defining the difference between local and remote I/O is straightforward, but the defining differences between remote I/O and distributed I/O can have their nuances and are further confounded by each vendor’s definitions or marketing collateral, just as many automation vendors prefer a name like process automation controller (PAC) over programmable logic controller (PLC). The most used I/O type is local I/O. It is most often from the same vendor as the controller/CPU, since it is ordinarily directly connected to the controller/CPU by integrated racks or cages that hold 4-, 8-, 16- or 32-point I/O cards. Some local I/O expansion racks, or bricks, as they are often referred to, can be separate from the main CPU and connected over a digital bus or highway via twisted pair wires or Ethernet cables, albeit installed within the same physical cabinet. Since local I/O is typically intended to be installed within the same enclosure as the controller/CPU, environmental operational characteristics and hazardous area approvals are not as robust as remotely installed I/O. Remote I/O characteristics Next comes the challenge of outlining the different characteristics between remote I/O and distributed I/O, especially since many vendors refer to them interchangeably. If we use history and release to market timelines as a basis, remote I/O was first and thus less flexible, capable and smart as compared to later released distributed I/O. Initially, remote I/O was nothing more than local I/O reconfigured and housed to be remotely installed from its corresponding controller/CPU Communication was no longer along a backplane but now designed to convert its connected analog I/O signals to a digital format that was transmitted back to the host controller over proprietary buses or highways. Remote I/O is limited in scope and does not contain a complex or advanced CPU or processor to handle math, complex control, and peer-to-peer communication with other remote I/O modules, or allow the connection of additional I/O modules. While operational characteristics and hazardous approvals exceed that of most Local I/O products, it is still somewhat more limited than its advanced cousin, distributed I/O. Distributed I/O characteristics Distributed I/O harnesses all the capabilities of remote I/O and more. It is likely, but impossible to determine, that distributed I/O derived its name from “distributed control.” As the name suggests, distributed I/O is a more complex piece of equipment that can be distributed throughout a process plant or automation facility without the concern of continuous communication with its host controller/CPU. This is because most distributed I/O products contain an advanced CPU and often real-time o...
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  • New Emerson Compact Controllers Increase ROI for Machine Builders
    New Emerson Compact Controllers Increase ROI for Machine Builders Nov 26, 2022
    PACSystems RSTi-EP CPE200 family saves money and time with built-in security, open protocols and high performance out of the box. Emerson, a global software, technology and engineering leader, today announced the release of its PACSystems™ RSTi-EP CPE 200 programmable automation controllers (PAC). This new family of compact PACs helps original equipment manufacturers (OEM) successfully meet customer requirements by minimizing the need for specialized software engineering talent. CPE 200 controllers will deliver large programmable logic controller (PLC) capability in a small, cost-effective, IIoT-ready form factor so machine manufacturers do not need to sacrifice performance for price. The controllers offer open communications through native, pre-licensed support for OPC UA Secure and other common industrial protocols for flexible connectivity over high-speed Gigabit Ethernet. IEC 61131 programming languages and C, the world’s most popular and easiest-to-use programming language, help engineers write and run the high-performance algorithms that enable proprietary production strategies and advanced automation technologies.
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