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| 1998 APFICS Meeting | My thoughts on the 1998 APFICS Meeting The second APFICS General Assembly was held in Singapore in September, during the ICAM 98 Exhibition. This was the first official APFICS co-sponsored exhibition. Delegates from all but one of the 10 Asia Pacific countries now in APFICS were present. Even before the event, the adverse effects of the Asian economic situation were very evident. Contrary to |
| A Case History of Installing a Scada System in a 70 year old Plant | INTRODUCTION Although the Client’s plant has been in operation for many years, the management is always striving to improve operations. As the manufacturing sector has come under increasing pressure from offshore competition, the Client expressed the desire to fine-tune their operation. This led to evaluating methods of collecting information about the operation in order to formulate various b |
| A guide to the internet for process and control engineers | A guide to the internet for process and control engineers By Tim Kannegieter Presented at ICEX 97 4 June 1997 Sydney Australia Editor - Process and Control Engineering Reed Business Publishing Abstract: This paper introduces the internet to process and control engineers. It examines the information resources available including the World Wide Web, newsgroups and emailing lists. The paper t |
| A Practical Approach to Managing Safety & Environmental Critical Equipment & Systems | A Practical Approach to A Practical Approach to Managing Safety and Managing Safety and Environmental Critical Environmental Critical Equipment and Equipment and Systems Systems OVERVIEW This is a discussion about the practical management of Safety & Environment management of Safety & Environment Critical Systems at a petrochemical complex Based on our experiences Procedures base |
| A Practical Approach to Managing Safety Critical Equipment and Systems in Process Plants | Tahir Rafique - Lead Electrical and Instruments Engineer, Qenos Botany Site Contributions: Douglas L Lloyd - Senior Electrical and Instruments Engineer – Qenos Alkatuff Plant Ken Evans - Senior Electrical and Instruments Engineer – Qenos Altona Site Summary This paper presents a model to manage safety critical equipment and systems. It also discusses some practical ways to comply with o |
| A President's Message | A President's Message My first message to members since becoming President in June signals a busy period of activity for the Institute. Our very successful ICEX'98 held at the Melbourne Showgrounds Exhibition Centre from 2nd to 4th June featured a full house of Exhibitors, a well attended Symposium and Workshops Programme and an impressive listing of instrumentation and control industry visi |
| A search for Australian scientific instruments and their makers | A search for Australian scientific instruments and their makers ASSISTANCE WOULD BE APPRECIATED In the course of historical studies on scientific instrument makers in Victoria since 1840 several lines have been followed. One has been the Felton Grimwade Scientific Instrument Company, run by W. Russell Grimwade, which from 1920 to 1922 was part of the Felton Grimwade & Co. pharmaceutical firm |
| A USER'S PERSPECTIVE ON MANAGING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SAFETY SYSTEMS | A USER'S PERSPECTIVE ON MANAGING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SAFETY SYSTEMS by: Carlos Oria Process Control Systems Engineer - Queensland Alumina Limited. Abstract This paper aims to emphasize that safety systems are comprised not only of hardware and software, but also management procedures and practices. Safety, interlock, emergency or shutdown systems are concepts and definitions of frequent u |
| ABSTRACT | ABSTRACT Now More than ever it is critical that your safety system strikes a balance between the need to provide the best possible protection for equipment and personnel and the practical realities of your budget. With processes becoming more complex and dynamic, safety systems need to keep pace. Even more pressing however is the impact of various agencies and organizations. With this increas |
| Advances in Power Plant Control | Advances in Power Plant Control By Rakesh,Narang Siemens Ltd., Power Plant Automation Abstract The need for power plants to be ever more responsive to the requirements of the load demand of the system grid and at the same time contribute to the economies of generation has resulted in the development of advanced control strategies. These strategies include the New Unit Co-ordinated Control |