As process manufacturing scope and capabilities have grown over the decades, so, too, has the need to carefully deploy and monitor dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of automation assets. Plant personnel rely on measurement and analytical instrumentation, digital...
A plant’s performance can be optimized at the intersection of capital equipment, production processes, and people. Done correctly from the start through the selection of technologies and how they are deployed can lead to higher levels of productivity, reliability, safety, and sustainability.
Most people have heard the adage that, “COVID changed everything.” However, few people, when presented with that idea, think that any of those changes were positive. But we often forget that in the span of eight short months, the world saw a wide array of innovators...
Connecting highly disparate machines that exist in separate operating entities in a manufacturing plant could save many companies substantial time and money, but pressing production schedules and the status quo of existing procedures often hold them back. A large food...
To know where you’re going, you have to know where you are, and operating a life sciences manufacturing facility is no exception. Pharmaceutical processors regularly have to take stock of their technological capacity to keep a finger on the pulse of the four main...
The rapid shift to more sustainable industrial operations has dramatically impacted the hydrocarbon processing industry. It seems like almost overnight, operations teams are looking at entirely new processes focused on manufacturing new, greener alternative products...
On June 4-7, experts in process analytical technology (PAT) gathered for the 2023 IFPAC conference. While there, they discussed the latest developments in PAT, quality by design, and overall process monitoring and control within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology,...
As power producers begin the shift to more renewable sources of energy, one primary concern resurfaces over and over: availability. Utilities are adding solar, wind, battery, and other renewable assets to their already wide array of power generation tools, and as they...
Modernization projects are something of a catch-22. As more plants reach two, three, or even four decades of operation, they need to update their automation to increase efficiency and drive the most value out of every second of operation. That efficiency directly...
Driven by the need to both cut resource costs and minimize their environmental impact, companies across all industries are targeting net-zero strategies and sustainability goals. Monitoring utilities such as compressed air, water, electricity, steam and other gases...
It didn’t take long for the rise of the internet to upend the way process manufacturers do business. Over the span of just a few years, plants went from prioritizing a rigid, isolated control system structure to needing ways to integrate across the enterprise to...
Recently, as cell and gene therapies have begun to emerge in the life sciences manufacturing landscape, an important concept has begun to draw attention: traceability. However, it is important to remember that traceability was critical long before today’s most...
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