Valero Energy Corp., the largest U.S. refining company, utilized synchronization to get credible, timely information during a refinery shutdown.
The methods used to collect, present and analyze information determine whether maintenance operations are viewed as an asset or a liability.
Plant Services' 2006 CMMS/EAM Software Review allows you to define, refine and source your requirements in your search for the software vendor that best fits your needs.
Visual systems that allow technicians, engineers and managers to quickly ascertain the status of industrial equipment are very real, and on their way to a plant near you.
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Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems Inc., has announced the release of new enterprise application integration capabilities leveraging the ISA S95 XML standard.
The foundation’s latest interoperability solution wraps legacy apps with Web Services.
Several hundred plant professionals answered Plant Services' inaugural awards survey, a 63-category, unprompted, fill-in-the-blank electronic ballot.
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These villains break down into a number of areas where major wasted energy dollars usually lurk.
The SAP Knowledge Center provides best practices on managing plant assets for higher performance.