‘Workstations’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release Emerson installs controls at Korean plants from Emerson Process Management, which we summarised at the time by saying "Emerson Process Management has been selected by Korea Southern East Power Company (KOSEP) to install its Ovation expert control system at two power generation facilities in Korea. ". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Rockwell offers range of servers and workstations from Rockwell Automation: "Rockwell Automation has introduced a series of servers and workstations intended to help engineers to more efficiently build a process automation system.".

In October 2009, we covered the news from Emerson Process Management - take a look at Emerson conducts WDPF-to-Ovation migration project which says: "Emerson Process Management has completed a WDPF-to-Ovation control system migration project at the West Basin Municipal Water District's Edward C Little Water Recycling Facility (ECLWRF).".

Take a look also at the news release from Emerson Process Management, Ovation Security Center helps water facilities, as well as Emerson supplies Ovation expert control system from Emerson Process Management, and Ansys announces high-performance computing package from Ansys.

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Emerson completes online control room upgrade (August 2009)

Emerson's migration engineering services and DeltaV Connect technology have enabled Groupement Berkine to upgrade an aging oil-field site control room without any downtime or lost production.

REO system intended for 'on-load' testing (April 2009)

REO has developed an energy-optimising, modular test system that reduces the energy required for proving trials of industrial electrical equipment.

EMKA enhances quarter-turn insert locks (April 2009)

EMKA's 1000 series of quarter-turn insert locks now includes many long-term technical developments and a large number of variant types.

Canary provides real-time insight into processes (March 2009)

Canary is offering Infolink Process Historian, which combines Canary's Trend Historian and Trend Link and Software Toolbox's symbol library, to provide real-time and historical process insights.

Minitec issues Workplace Systems catalogue (March 2009)

Minitec has launched its Workplace Systems catalogue, illustrating a range of components and assemblies.

Fieldconnex ADM integrated into Plantweb AMS suite (February 2009)

Pepperl and Fuchs has announced that its Fieldconnex advanced diagnostic module (ADM) has been fully integrated into Emerson Process Management's Plantweb AMS suite.

IAC installs noise reduction at Logstor (January 2009)

Logstor, a European manufacturer of pre-insulated pipes, has improved the working environment for its factory operatives using a noise reduction system from IAC Nordic.

Ircon releases the Torpedo Car Inspection System (December 2008)

Ircon's Torpedo Car Inspection System allows steel mills to carry out continuous thermal inspections to help minimise hot breakouts in refractory-lined rail cars.

Rockwell offers range of servers and workstations

Rockwell Automation has introduced a series of servers and workstations intended to help engineers to more efficiently build a process automation system.
Workstations remove unnecessary handling

With Lean Tek, workstations and storage areas can be designed ergonomically so that items are in the correct position, close to hand whenever they are needed.