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Fluid Components International (FCI) Opens Saudi Arabia Joint Venture
ASTM International Committee on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants Gives Top Annual Award
to C. Patrick Maggi ASTM International’s Committee on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants (D02) has presented its top annual award – the Award of Merit – to C. Patrick Maggi of CANNON Instrument Company in State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. The prestigious award, which includes the accompanying title of fellow, is ASTM’s highest recognition for individual contributions to developing standards.
The committee honored Maggi for his dedicated work to develop standards in the petroleum products, liquid fuels, and lubricants fi eld and for tireless contributions to improving the standards development process. He has been a member of ASTM since 1996. Committee D02 previously awarded Maggi the Award of Appreciation in 2006 and the Award of Excellence in 2010.
Maggi is the president and chief executive offi cer of CANNON Instrument Company. He has been with the organisation since 1988, serving in a variety of capacities including engineering intern, director of engineering, and vice president and general manager.
In addition to ASTM, Maggi has been a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) since 1992.
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Fluid Components International announces the establishment of Fluid Components Saudi Arabia Ltd., a joint venture with GAS Arabian Services Co., Ltd (GAS). FCI is a global manufacturer of gas fl ow meters, gas and liquid fl ow switches and liquid level switches for application in industrial processes and plants.
“This new operation provides localised, full-service capability to all of FCI’s customers in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East,” said Dan McQueen, President of FCI. “Our goal is to offer world class service and product support to our growing installed customer base in the region.”
FCI’s new joint venture in Saudi Arabia offers high quality service and support for all local and regional users of FCI instrumentation. The facility provides immediate access to FCI engineering and technical support, local spare parts inventory and supply, repair and re-calibration services, factory certifi ed fi eld service personnel, client product and service training, site dispatching and on-site installation and start-up assistance. In addition to employing local Saudi staff highly experienced in process instrumentation, measurement and control, the facility will accommodate expansion to add fl ow stands with internationally traceable reference equipment for local calibration services.
“Our new partnership with FCI will provide enhanced fl ow instrumentation capabilities and the highest level of customer care to our customers in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East. Our team is well trained and offers expertise in a wide range of application engineering and service support for diverse industries,” said Faisal Al Sunaid, GAS General Manager.
FCI’s award winning products are requested by name in many of the world’s most demanding environments for fl ow, level and temperature instrumentation. The company manufactures standard off-the-shelf and custom-engineered instruments, sensors and assemblies. Its products are recognised for their accuracy, repeatability and reliability in harsh operating conditions. They are easy to install, require virtually no maintenance, offer long-life and low life-cycle costs.
With their precision thermal dispersion technology and rugged packaging, FCI’s instruments are installed in thousands of applications worldwide. They are certifi ed to meet many of the world’s most demanding performance, reliability and quality standards, including: IECEx, ATEX, FM, FMc/CSA, EAC/TR CU, NEPSI, CPA, CRN, CE Mark, ISO9001, AS9100, NQA-1, QAL1, SIL, and more. Industries served include oil/ gas, petroleum refi ning, chemical manufacturing, electric power generation including nuclear and coal-fi red production, municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, mining and more.
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Ion Science on Schedule for Move into New Purpose-Built Facility May 2017
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Yokogawa Receives SICE Award
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that it has received a Technology Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) for its achievements in the development of industrial wireless technology. The award was presented on September 22. Encouraged by this, Yokogawa will continue working to develop and popularize industrial wireless technology.
The Technology Award is in the highest rank of awards conferred by SICE. It is given in recognition of the development of a technology or methodology within the past fi ve calendar years that represents a signifi cant advance in any one of the science & technology fi elds or industries in which SICE is involved. Yokogawa received this award for the development of the following category:
Ion Science MD, Duncan Johns, in front of the new building
Ion Science has confi rmed it is on schedule to move into its new state-of-the-art plant in May 2017.
Representing a £4.5 million investment by Ion Science, construction of the purpose-built facility, which is located off Butts Lane in Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, is well underway, with external walls completed and work about to start on the roof.
Duncan Johns, Managing Director at Ion Science comments: “We are delighted to be able to confi rm that we are on target to move into our much larger, highly specifi ed head offi ce and plant next spring. We are hugely grateful to the project management company, contractors and Ion Science staff for their support and assistance in meeting critical deadlines.”
In addition to meeting all Ion Science’s current and short/medium term needs, the space and fl exible design of the new building also allows for future expansion.
There will be no change of commute over the existing location for employees and it provides visitors with a site that is fi tting of the technologically advanced gas detection products supplied by Ion Science.
Duncan continues: “With record sales over the past three months and an annual growth rate of 30%, we have more than outgrown our current facility which can no longer accommodate our needs. The design, manufacturing, sales and administrative capabilities we will be able to access at the new building will allow Ion Science to progress to the next stage of its development.
“It means we can expand our production and sales operations and gives us the necessary space to meet our ambitious growth targets,” he concludes.
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Highly reliable industrial wireless communications infrastructure. As interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow, industrial wireless networks are being introduced for industrial automation applications where there is a need to improve the monitoring of production facilities. Yokogawa has greatly expanded the possibilities for wireless instrumentation by releasing the industry’s fi rst fully duplex wireless system based on the ISA100 Wireless international standard (IEC 62734), which was developed for plant applications requiring highly reliable wireless technology. With its ability to update data every second, capability to collectively manage up to 500 devices, and dual redundant communication paths and system devices that prevent the loss of data, this wireless system achieves the high reliability required in process automation.
Yokogawa has won this Technical Award for a paper that was presented on this subject at the SICE Annual Conference 2015, which was held last July in Hangzhou, China.
The SICE was founded in 1961 to promote collaboration among scientists and engineers from various fi elds. In such areas as measurement, control, and information systems, SICE is working hard to address issues faced by the oil, petrochemicals, iron and steel, chemicals, telecommunications, and other industries. Since its establishment, SICE has supported advanced academic research in Japan.
The technologies and applications covered by the IEC 62734 standard, whose formal designation is ‘Wireless systems for industrial automation: Process control and related applications,’ were specifi ed by IEC/TC65/SC65C/WG16 based on ISA100.11a, an international wireless communications standard for industrial automation.
ISA100 Wireless covers wireless network technologies with various functions that control and monitoring systems rely on for the transmission of data to and from fi eld instruments such as sensors and actuators. Its specifi cations apply not only to monitoring but also to control.
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