In order to improve order picking for the large base of small warehouses and assemblies, SSI Schäfer developed an affordable pick-by-light (PbL) system that helps workers to fill customer orders quickly and efficiently, improving pick and cycle times and increasing pick accuracy.

Chinese company Dongfang Steam Turbine Works (DSTW) was working on a wind farm project involving 66 1.5 MW wind turbines in Heilongjiang, China, and needed to establish a reliable SCADA system to help the staff remotely monitor on-site equipment and operations.

KSB Group has supplied Scandinavian Tank Storage Sweden with pumps intended for discharging crude oil from an underground rock cavern.

Motors used in food production areas are primarily selected for either ‘dry’ areas or ‘wet’ areas. These are entirely different situations with very different demands. We assume we are looking at safe areas, where there is no hazard from combustible gas or liquids.

ABB’s high-efficiency motors and variable speed drives have provided an energy-efficient solution for transporting large volumes of desalinated water from Sydney’s newest water supply to over 1.5 million Australian residents living in New South Wales.

The Tasman Tank Company, which produces more than 200 large industrial and municipal tanks a year, says advances in specifying, design, protective coatings, manufacture and installation need to be understood to get the best for particular industries and applications.

The conditions under which oil and gas are brought from their reservoirs to the surface can be outright hostile to many common materials used in fluid system components employed in industry. Potentially dangerous mechanisms include localised corrosion, stress corrosion cracking (SCC) and sulphide stress cracking (SSC).

A recent energy audit at its manufacturing facility paved the way for Geofabrics to optimise its on-site compressed air system, and derive staggering ongoing energy savings.

Minimising the power consumption of industrial and commercial processes is gaining increased focus with rising oil and coal prices, as well as impending emission trading systems in Australia and elsewhere. The power consumed by large industrial refrigeration plant often makes up the major portion of site power used on refrigeration-intensive sites, such as food processing plants.

Historically, there has been a clear divide between control strategies for process and discrete applications. However, with the recent development of a new generation of DCS systems, the distinctions are now not so clear-cut.

LGL is undertaking a major upgrade of its Lihir Island gold operation in New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea. The upgrade will increase the total annual gold production by about 240,000 ounces to approximately 1 million ounces per annum from 2011.

This article discusses two powerful distance measurement photoelectric sensor technologies: triangulation and time-of-flight.

Researchers have created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon, bypassing traditional designs based on the human hand and fingers.

Offline analysis of historical process data is an integral part of process optimisation and production tracking. OPC helps maximise the return on process history investments by providing a standardised mechanism for collection of real-time process data and by enabling scalable multivendor and distributed historical analysis solutions.

The undulations of the jellyfish hold secrets that may make possible a new generation of tiny pumps for medical applications and soft robotics.