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- Azima DLI OnWatch Selected as Finalist for Plant Engineering’s …
- Plant explosion galvanizes neighbors
- Shaw to Provide Furnace Technology Engineering and Procurement …
- TriQuint Growth Expands North Carolina Design Center
- BG Group implements Skire Unifier solution for Queensland LNG plant
Azima DLI OnWatch Selected as Finalist for Plant Engineering’s …
MarketWatch
Dec 10 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Azima DLI the innovation leader in the delivery of condition monitoring services today announced that OnWatch(TM) its remote machine monitoring and alert system has been selected as a 2008 Product of the Year finalist by Plant Engineering. OnWatch is one of only four products in the program’s Maintenance Software category and is featured along with the other award finalists in the November 2008 issue of the leading manufacturing industry publication. Plant Engineering will select Product of the Year winners based on votes by eligible readers who have direct buying authority and purchasing responsibility in America’s manufacturing plants. According to Plant Engineering at a time when improving efficiency in manufacturing plants has never been more important its list of Product of the Year finalists represents the best new ideas to help manufacturers operate safer smarter and faster. Entries were received from all over the world and were narrowed down by a panel of experts who selected finalists based on their ability to deliver the greatest value to manufacturing. OnWatch is a complete machine monitoring and alert system that is comprised of intelligent monitoring hardware telecommunications and a team of highly experienced technical and engineering personnel dedicated to customers’ uptime objectives using proven monitoring techniques. With OnWatch industrial plants can outsource their entire condition-based monitoring initiatives – from data collection and analysis to distributing results to key stakeholders – while benefiting from the superior service and operational improvements that only Azima DLI can deliver.
Plant explosion galvanizes neighbors
Houston Chronicle United States
“I’m afraid to go to sleep at night” said Judy Jones who shares a chain-link fence with the facility “because I don’t know what will happen next. No one was injured in Saturday’s explosion but it was the latest in a series of incidents involving the treatment facility which is permitted to handle non-hazardous industrial waste such as used oil. The city has received more than 135 complaints about the plant this year mostly related to the odors. After the explosion City Attorney Arturo Michel expressed rising frustration with the plant’s operators saying he intends to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks for violations of the city’s nuisance ordinance with hope of forcing the plant to be a better neighbor. Michel said the city has fined the plant several times but “it’s an ineffective remedy. It’s apparently the cost of doing business. Greg Bowman vice president of finance and administration for CES said the company has taken steps to address the neighbors’ concerns including the addition of the pollution-control equipment in October.
Shaw to Provide Furnace Technology Engineering and Procurement …
MarketWatch
The plant for PetroChina Daqing Petrochemical Company will be located in Daqing Heilongjiang Province. The scope of work will cover furnace technology licensing basic engineering procurement of key equipment and materials technical training commissioning and start-up services. “Shaw continues to work closely with China’s olefins producers to license its technology and has helped source more than three million tons of ethylene production capacity in China during the past 30 years” said Lou Pucher president of Shaw’s Energy & Chemicals Group. The value of Shaw’s contract which was included in the company’s previously announced backlog of unfilled orders was not disclosed. Shaw’s ethylene plants have a global reputation for high operational reliability rapid start-up and superior performance.
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TriQuint Growth Expands North Carolina Design Center
MarketWatch
TriQuint is also lead researcher in a 3-year DARPA programto develop advanced gallium nitride (GaN) amplifiers. TriQuint asnamed by Strategy Analytics in August 2008 is the number-threeworldwide leader in GaAs devices and the world’s largest commercialGaAs foundry. TriQuint has ISO9001 certified manufacturing facilitiesin Oregon Texas and Florida and a production plant in Costa Rica;design centers are located in North America and Germany.
BG Group implements Skire Unifier solution for Queensland LNG plant
Trading Markets (press release) CA
The team chose Skire Unifier for its flexibility and configurability as well as for its SAP NetWeaver certification and its integration capabilities. The BG Group intends to use extensive Unifier functionality including cost engineering performance-based cost forecasting schedule management earned value management document management and collaboration. The initial phase of the implementation is providing cost performance management and forecasting capabilities together with collaborative document management including all engineering drawings during the plant engineering design and construction phases. The next phase of the Unifier implementation will focus on bi-directional integration of Unifier with the BG Group’s SAP system and project planning tools. comRepublication or redistribution including by framing or similar meansis expressly prohibited without prior written consent.