Industry News
Honeywell helps BASF turn hazardous waste into clean energy
New control room at BASF's Ludwigshafen waste incineration plant uses Honeywell's Experion technology to support the company's strategic Industry 4.0 initiative. [ + ]
AOG 2018 Collaboration Forum presenters announced
The AOG 2018 Collaboration Forum will feature key industry decision-makers. [ + ]
ABB to help strengthen Indonesia's power grid
Power plant upgrade and expansion boosts clean energy supply to the greater Jakarta area. [ + ]
Rio Tinto to sell French aluminium smelter
Rio Tinto has received a binding offer from Liberty House to acquire Rio Tinto's Aluminium Dunkerque smelter in northern France for $500 million. [ + ]
Explosives manufacturing plant invests in latest motor control technology
Systems integrator Auto Control Systems is the first in the world to implement a complete motor control centre solution using an Allen-Bradley CENTERLINE 2500 MCC, to be shipped as a complete containerised unit for an explosives manufacturer in Eastern Europe. [ + ]
Global Water Summit 2018: Transcending the boundaries of the water sector
Global Water Intelligence (GWI) has announced the theme for the 12th Global Water Summit, taking place in Paris on 15–17 April 2018. The conference will focus on 'Transcending Boundaries'. [ + ]
China adopts FDT technology as national standard
A cooperative initiative undertaken between FDT Group and Chinese standards organisations has resulted in a Chinese national standard for device integration based on FDT 2.0 technology. [ + ]
HIMA supports safe and secure operations at Ichthys LNG
HIMA has been awarded a long-term service contract to support the safety systems at the Ichthys LNG project, now that it is moving into its operational phase. [ + ]
Emerson named 'Industrial IoT Company of the Year'
Emerson receives IoT Breakthrough Award for leadership in IoT solutions. [ + ]
ABB to pioneer microgrid solution for offshore platform
ABB will provide Woodside, Australia's largest independent oil and gas company, with a PowerStore battery storage system that will be installed on Woodside's Goodwyn A platform off the coast of Western Australia. [ + ]
Honeywell Experion virtualisation platform recognised for innovation and sales success
Awards from VMware for Honeywell's industrial application of hyperconverged server infrastructure. [ + ]
Rockwell Automation acquires Odos Imaging
Imaging technology to enable further leveraging of 3D and time-of-flight for sensing and safety applications. [ + ]
AspenTech acquires IIoT cloud and edge connectivity assets of RtTech Software Inc.
Acquisition strengthens AspenTech's asset optimisation strategy with cloud and edge processing technology for data aggregation. [ + ]
Emerson in Australia passes pressure management sales and support to partner network
Effective 1 December 2017, Emerson's Australian Local Business Partner (LBP) network will lead and facilitate all sales and support in Australia for all of Emerson's pressure management products. [ + ]
Honeywell survey shows low adoption of industrial cybersecurity measures
Almost two-thirds of surveyed industrial companies don't monitor for suspicious behaviour. [ + ]
