Plant Construction & Process Technology

Managing Complexity in Plant Maintenance

09.11.2011 - Uncontained Complexity - Plant maintenance within process industries is often complicated and managing several plants is even more difficult. The same tasks are often performed...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Fit For The Future

09.11.2011 -

Look To The Future - Decades of operation, modernisation and expansion have left many chemical plants with a somewhat haphazard automation mix of different controls...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Enjoying Automation

09.11.2011 - Success - At Loos, the acronym SUCcess stands for "Start-Up-Control combined with Shutdown and Standby," a control and equipment variant facilitating automatic steam boiler...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Climate Change

09.11.2011 - Flood Resilience - At first sight, climate change and plant safety seem to be separate issues, with the first one having much more public attention. However, we did not need...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Pharma’s Future with a Disaggregated Supply Chain

20.10.2011 - New Rules -The game has changed for the global pharmaceutical industry. Numerous forces are shaping this new pharmaceutical era: The rise of emerging markets, increasing price...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Non-compliance is on the Rise

19.10.2011 - Steady Increase - All who follow industry trends will have noticed an increase in regulatory actions related to non-compliance issues. We can see this in the increased issuance of...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

API Sourcing in China and India

19.10.2011 - Paradigm Shift - The number of API manufacturers in India and China focused on supplying active ingredients to regulated markets has grown considerably over the past few years...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

APIs in China

19.10.2011 - Pharma in China - The Chinese pharmaceutical market is one of the largest due to the large size of its population. As the basis of pharmaceutical industry, the API market offers...