Let's close this work week with a look at tools to manage health, safety, and environmental (HSE) compliance in terminal facilities—also known as oil depots, tank farms, storage terminals, etc. Given the hazardous oil and/or petrochemical products they store, HSE...
Highly regulated industries, such as pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing, face a myriad of compliance issues, which vary by region of the world and continuously involve. Emerson's Heather Schwalje presented Regulatory Drivers- GMPs 21st Century to Life Science...
The European Measuring Instruments Directive (MID) for Custody Transfer Measuring Instruments applies in all 27 EU-countries (plus Norway and Switzerland). This directive becomes mandatory by October of 2016 for new installations and includes 10 different types of...
I wanted to share my guest post published at the CPhI Pharma Evolution website. There are some great comments, so join in if the post sparks some ideas. Stringent inspection-readiness policies are common with pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. From a...
Emerson's Douglas Morris of the alternative energy industry team provides an update on the political battles in the United States over the future of ethanol and other biofuel production. The biofuels headwinds remain strong. Last month I wrote about how natural gas in...
Back in 1974, the ASME (founded as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) published a performance technology standard for thermowell calculations as well as overall temperature measurement best practices, PTC 19.3. Based on decades of industry and research...
Federal, state, and local regulations keep changing and impact process manufacturers' operations. Emerson's Patrick Truesdale provided an update on the US Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) at a past American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers conference (formerly...
For pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, the process of drug compound experimentation requires robust and reproducible results before the scale up process can begin. Emerson's Chris Amstutz pointed me to a great whitepaper by Broadley James, Automating Industrial...
Emerson's Douglas Morris of the alternative energy industry team highlights his impressions from this week's U.S. State of the Union address as it applies to alternative energy: Being that it's State of the Union time, I thought it would be curious to reflect on the...
Last week, I highlighted Emerson's Heather Schwalje thoughts on Continuous Process Verification per U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines. In a comment, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine senior editor, Paul Thomas, highlighted a great article, A...
Emerson's Eric Kuebler, a metals & mining industry manager for the Fisher Valve team, shares his thoughts on how mining can boost a country's economic growth. Northern Quebec is a largely untouched wilderness mainly consisting of the northern arctic regions of...
U.S. refiners have been changing the way they make the fuels we use every day as a result of federal regulations. Emerson's Patrick Truesdale and Chris Connor will present at the 2011 Emerson Exchange on the Renewable Fuel Standards 2 (RFS2). These regulations became...
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