Many recent utility greenfield and rehabilitation power projects have incorporated plant automation, with the goal of reducing the number of operators needed. The essential design principle is to ...

An Electric Power Research Institute study has developed a systematic process for introducing sequence automation to fossil power plants. Researchers are now exploring its implementation in case ...

That distinction matters because automation can hide personnel risk behind stable production. When equipment runs normally, a ...

To stay competitive in today’s fast-paced and sometimes volatile market, businesses must do more with less. While each industry has its particular drivers and solutions, manufacturing plants are ...

4 May 2006 – Invensys Process Systems has been chosen by China Power International (CPI) to implement I/A Series digital control systems from Foxboro for seven generating units at four new coal fired ...

Manufacturers are dependent on automated assets such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), PC control systems and computer numerical controllers (CNC). As vital as these devices are to the ...

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The greatest threat to a potted plant stems from its owner’s forgetfulness, but [Sasa Karanovic] has created an automation system that will keep his plants from getting too thirsty. Over the past year ...

Dynegy’s two-unit Hennepin Power Station recently completed a coal handling automation project to upgrade the 50-year old tripper system feeding coal to its bunkers. The project, which included ...

Vale (VALE) said Wednesday it signed an agreement with ABB (ABBNY) to expand the use of automation and artificial intelligence technologies to the miner's iron ore processing plants, aiming to ...