Open WirelessHart products start shipping (31 October 2008)
Emerson Process Management is the first of many suppliers to begin shipping open interoperable WirelessHart standard products. Just as its wireless technology has opened a new era for industrial process automation, standardisation will support broad adoption.
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If you think safety is expensive, try an explosion (31 October 2008)
Could you afford a disaster? The cost of dealing with the aftermath of an explosion is unthinkable, both financially, legally and in terms of human life. So why aren’t more companies switching to compliant vehicles and equipment instead of taking such huge and unnecessary risks?
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Iceland’s telecomms gets Ethernet upgrade (31 October 2008)
Icelandic telecommunications infrastructure provider Mila has embarked on a project to establish an Ethernet network for control and management of the various transmission systems that it operates and maintains around Iceland.
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Lighting upgrade cuts offshore maintenance and installation costs (31 October 2008)
Shell UK has completed an extensive lighting upgrade programme across 12 of its North Sea oil platforms, which in-volved the removal and installation of several thousand explosion-proof fluorescent lighting units, supplied by Cooper Crouse-Hinds (UK).
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Sipos variable speed actuation aids chlor-alkali industry (31 October 2008)
Variable speed actuators from Sipos support a range of challenging valve control applications, including brine production for INEOS Enterprises in Mid Cheshire. INEOS’ brine and water business plays a pivotal role supporting the chemical industry in the North West of England providing brine for production of chlor-alkali products.
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Turbine monitoring offers energy cost savings (31 October 2008)
The UK’s largest producer of electricity is making considerable savings on scaffolding costs when maintaining its nuclear power stations from a revolutionary British designed and made access system. British Energy purchased the Lobo for maintenance of its turbines during periods of outage at its nuclear power plant at Sizewell B in Suffolk.
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Recipe for a dust explosion (01 November 2008)
Industrial explosions caused by seemingly unknown reasons have been a hazard that manufacturers and risk managers have dealt with for countless years. Stefano Tranquillo looks at the mechanism of dust cloud explosions
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Was Port Wentworth an accident waiting to happen? (01 November 2008)
The catastrophic explosion at the Imperial Sugar Refinery at Port Wentworth in Georgia, US last February demonstrates that there are important lessons to be learned with regard to dust explosion hazards. David Brearley asks whether a major dust explosion was inevitable and looks at the lessons to be learned from the disastrous sugar refinery explosion in Georgia earlier this year
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European harmony at last (01 November 2008)
After an inordinate delay, a correct and up-to-date list of harmonised standards for the ATEX Directive have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. A delighted Ron Sinclair celebrates the consolidation of various hazardous area standards
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Why ditch the experienced managers? (01 November 2008)
As Oliver Hardy was often heard to say: “Another nice mess!” Commentators could be forgiven for using the phrase to describe the current economic conditions with stock markets tumbling, the Banking World in near collapse and governments around the Globe wading in with tax-payer funded rescue plans. And not wishing to understate the seriousness of the current financial situation, heads will surely roll.
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