Investment in process control can achieve sustainability goals
Investment in process control and smart digital technologies can help brownfield sites achieve production efficiencies and achieve sustainability goals, says Steve Leech, Business Manager, Process Control Systems UK & Ireland, Siemens Digital Industries
In March...
The Lab-of-the-Future
Laboratory Digitalisation – “a paradigm shift in productivity or just another failed experiment?”
Open any scientific magazine or online resource and we are presented with articles about the Lab-of-the-Future, connected laboratories, the Internet of Things...
Cyber Security should not be ignored in the Chemical Industry
Ian Elsby, Siemens Digital Industries Head of Chemical Industry
Effects of the pandemic and Brexit are further driving digitalisation often without the much-needed protection against cyber attacks. Ian Elsby, Siemens Digital Industries Head of Chemical Industry...
Smart Instrumentation
Ian Elsby, Siemens Digital Industries, Head of Chemical Industry
Nearly 90 per cent of field device information remains unused; Chemical Industry must act now to benefit from Smart Instrumentation data for comprehensive diagnostics and monitoring says Ian...
Cyber Risks
Recent research and surveys indicate the threat to UK business from Cyber-crime continues to grow; not least because of the need for businesses to work to ever-tightening margins, do more with less and try...
Cyber Resilience – Readiness, Response & Recovery
A cyber attack is any attempt to expose, alter, disable, destroy, steal, gain unauthorised access to or make unauthorised use of an asset.
According to the UK Government’s ‘Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2019’1, 32% of...
Why Cyber Attack Threats Should not Hinder Digitalisation in the Chemical Industry?
Ian Elsby, Siemens Digital Industries, Head of Chemical Industry
The UK’s chemical industry has made rapid strides in using digitalization for enhancing the productivity of its physical assets, as part of efforts to keep pace with the...
Stepping Up To The Chemical Digitalisation Challenge
Ian Elsby, Siemens Digital Industries Head of Chemical Industry, explores new Siemens’ research into the challenges and opportunities facing the chemicals sector with the advent of Industry 4.0
The competitive environment for chemical manufacturing is...
An Unintended Consequence of Industry 4.0
Karl Jones of OAMPS Hazardous Industries looks at some of the Cyber security risks arising from the interconnectivity of networked ICS/SCADA management systems.
Industrial Control Systems incorporating Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (ICS/SCADA) as a...
Project explores Industry 4.0 opportunities
Chemical company BASF and software company SAP have announced the start of a project that will help businesses to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by Industry 4.0.
Based at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany,...