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New Advanced Solutions for Honeywell
Honeywell (USA) today announced that it has formed a new business focused on providing advanced open software and services to the process industries. By integrating the leading open connectivity and broad platform capability of its Matrikon acquisition with its fast-growing applications and solutions business, Honeywell’s new Advanced Solutions business can deliver a breadth of solutions, domain expertise, consultants and technology unmatched by any other vendor.
Honeywell’s solutions enable customers in the chemical, petrochemical, refining, oil & gas and power sectors to deploy enterprise-wide solutions across their process infrastructure to better control and optimise their manufacturing footprint, better extract information and to make faster and smarter decisions that can transform their business.
“Process companies are increasingly demanding solutions that can work with any control system or application seamlessly across the enterprise,” said Ian Brown, vice president, Advanced Solutions. “With Matrikon’s track record for open connectivity, agility and innovation and Honeywell’s unparalleled lifecycle protection and reputation for project execution and products, customers can now get best-in-class solutions available, matched by industry-beating delivery, consulting and support. We are dedicated to helping our customers get the right information, in the right place, and at the right time whether in the plant, across the enterprise, from the cloud or as smart mobile applications.”
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National Grid Selects New Calibrator / Communicator
National Grid has decided to select the DPI620IS from GE’s Sensing business (UK) as the portable instrument calibration and communication device to provide a complete solution to manage its field calibration requirements. The calibration instruments will be used primarily in compressor stations and gas terminals of the company’s gas transmission network to calibrate a wide range of instrumentation.
National Grid owns and operates the National Transmission System throughout Great Britain and
transporting gas in the safest, most secure and most reliable way. The National Transmission System (NTS) is the high pressure part of the transmission system and consists of more than 6,600 kilometres of top quality welded steel pipeline, operating at up to 85 bar (1250 psi), with strategically located compressor stations. The gas is then supplied to 40 power stations, a small number of industrial consumers and twelve Local Distribution Zones (LDZs) and finally through pipes at lower pressure to domestic and commercial consumers.
Reliable and accurate instrumentation in compressor stations, gas terminals and on pipelines is an essential element of National Grid’s operating regime. It is also vital that all instrumentation is calibrated at regular intervals to ensure that reliability and accuracy is maintained. This in-service calibration is carried out by a dedicated team of field engineers and the decision to equip them with the DPI620IS will bring a wide range of new capabilities and benefits.
As Keith McCombe, Control and Instrumentation senior engineer at Gas Network Investment of
National Grid, explains, “The DPI620IS will provide National Grid with a standard system to be used on UK Gas Transmission sites and will replace many of the different calibration devices currently in use. Its modular design provides a flexible “future-proof” one stop shop for field calibrations, especially through its HART compatibility, which allows communication with today’s field devices, as well as those of tomorrow. It also puts a PDA in the hands of our service engineers, allowing field access to important support documents and saving us the cost of buying separate PDA’s. Another very important feature is the on-board field calibration management software,” continues McCombe, “which permits a complete specific sensing device database, in addition to the calibration procedure, to be downloaded onto the calibrator. This allows our field engineers total independence, as they can now up-date all calibration information, including certification, remotely into the central database.”
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Baumer Acquires Majority of Waaree Instruments Ltd. in India
The Swiss Baumer Group announces that it has acquired the majority of Waaree Instruments Ltd., one of India’s leading suppliers of process control instruments. The company is part of the Indian Waaree Group, a family enterprise based in Mumbai. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“The acquisition will boost our activities on the Indian subcontinent. It complements the international expansion strategy of Baumer and is an excellent opportunity to strengthen our process instruments business,” states Dr. Oliver Vietze, Chairman and CEO of the Baumer Group.
“Waaree Instruments is an established player in India with a widespread Indian distribution network and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. This will improve our ability to meet local customer requirements, speed up our local delivery and to timely react to the dynamic and growing Indian market.” With the acquisition, Baumer will achieve a leading position in the Indian market.
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Magnetrol Opens Representative Office in Russia
Magnetrol is pleased to announce the opening of a new Representative Office in St Petersburg to support its distributors in the CIS.
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PANalytical Acquires XRF Laboratories from British Geological Survey
Leading analytical X-ray company PANalytical (the Netherlands) has acquired the XRF laboratories from the British Geological Survey – BGSbased in Keyworth, United Kingdom. The acquisition further strengthens PANalytical’s leading position in delivering full application solutions. The laboratories will continue to deliver highly advanced X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis to BGS and work closely together on research projects in the field of geochemical analysis.
Dr. Simon Milner, Product Marketing Manager XRF, PANalytical, said: “Adding BGS’s expertise on standards preparation and XRF application development to PANalytical’s broad range of XRF products and services
will allow us to further expand our range of high-quality application solutions assisting our customer in industry in maximising the benefits of our XRF spectrometers.” Professor John Ludden, Executive Director, BGS, said: “BGS use XRF for elemental analysis and chemical analysis, for research in geochemistry, forensic science and archaeology.” He continued: “The establishment
of the PANalytical XRF labs at the BGS head office in Keyworth, near Nottingham, provides us with another tool to enhance external partnerships to improve the quality, reach and impact of our science.” Leading analytical X-ray company PANalytical (the Netherlands) has acquired the XRF laboratories from the British Geological Survey – BGSbased in Keyworth, United Kingdom. The acquisition further strengthens
PANalytical’s leading position in delivering full application solutions. The laboratories will continue to deliver highly advanced X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis to BGS and work closely together on research projects in the field of geochemical analysis.
Dr. Simon Milner, Product Marketing Manager XRF, PANalytical, said: “Adding BGS’s expertise on standards preparation and XRF application development to PANalytical’s broad range of XRF products and services
will allow us to further expand our range of high-quality application solutions assisting our customer in industry in maximising the benefits of our XRF spectrometers.” Professor John Ludden, Executive Director, BGS, said: “BGS use XRF for elemental analysis and chemical analysis, for research in geochemistry, forensic science and archaeology.” He continued: “The establishment
of the PANalytical XRF labs at the BGS head office in Keyworth, near Nottingham, provides us with another tool to enhance external partnerships to improve the quality, reach and impact of our science.” Reply Card no 11 Magnetrol is a multinational, producing level
and flow instrumentation. Magnetrol’s European head-office in Belgium is responsible for the markets in Europe, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle-East. Due to its continuous product innovation and ISO 9000 quality standards Magnetrol is market leader in the oil & gas, petrochemical, chemical and power industry.
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