Dow, Inc., one of the largest material science companies in the world, has been at the front of a digital transformation before the term was in common usage. The company had a RFID center of ...

Chemical research environments are undergoing a profound transformation as modern laboratories confront rising demands for greater data throughput, more seamless integration of analytical and ...

Certainly, lots of technologies are available, observes Thomas J. Fiske, a senior analyst with ARC Advisory Group Inc. (www.arcweb.com), Dedham, Mass. A “game-changer” Fiske mentions is advanced ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExxonMobil said today it has signed collaboration agreements with six other companies to accelerate the development of Open Process Automation (OPA) systems. The companies ...

A big step toward achieving multivendor interoperability with open systems was demonstrated by CPLANE.ai and collaborator ExxonMobil this year: It proved that deploying and integrating general ...

In recent times, process industries such as chemical manufacturing are facing many of the same challenges as those in the discrete manufacturing space. Increasingly stringent competitive pressures ...

Developed by the International Society of Automation (ISA), the ISA-5 series of standards are essential for industries that rely on complex instrumentation and control systems, including chemical ...

Rockwell Automation Inc. is one of the latest process automation providers to receive a significant order for expanding unconventional oil and gas development. On Aug. 16, the Milwaukee-based company ...

While automation is definitely part of the goals of artificial intelligence, and in particular automating things that require human cognitive capabilities, simply automating things doesn't make them ...

If you think your process automation system has run its course, you’re not alone. It was recently forecast that $65 billion worth of process automation systems are nearing the end of their useful life ...