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Kevin Parker
Kevin Parker, editorial director of Processing magazine, has been writing about process industry, automation and information-technology markets for more than 20 years. For nearly 10 years prior to this he was responsible for technical manuals and engineering services at a maker of heat-treat furnaces and equipment. His bachelor’s degree in philosophy includes coursework in the philosophy of science.
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"Intelligence" system that’s right for the plant floor, while delivering enterprise solutions
May 21, 2013
The Dow Chemical Co. is an early adopter of a “manufacturing intelligence” solution just introduced for general availability by Portland, Ore.-based Northwest Analytics. The system, already used in 14 Dow Chemical plants, makes it easier to accomplish data-source integration and real-time process analytics and visibility.
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All shale gas, all the time
May 20, 2013
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Not that many years ago, this editor worked in Houston on a magazine about technologies used in exploration and upstream production in the oil and gas industry.
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The ineffable glamour of stainless steel, explicated at Interphex
May 7, 2013
“I love all of it, to tell you the truth. Stainless just catches the eye,” said Craig Bell Jr., a representative with Alloy Products Corp. of Waukesha, Wis. That’s the kind of feeling for the utility and beauty of the materials sciences that was on location at Interphex, held in New York City’s Jacob Javits Center.
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What's holding up the revolution?
Mobility users reliant on VPN connections often struggle with limited capabilities
May 1, 2013
About 70% of maintenance personnel have at least some mobile access to maintenance data, according to a just-released survey of more than 200 executives in industrial companies. But only a minority is doing work in enterprise software from a mobile device.
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The romance of stainless steel explicated at Interphex
May 1, 2013
When this editor was stationed in the engineering department some years ago, the mechanical engineers, and especially the engineering director, used to get a bit dreamy-eyed when the subject turned to stainless steel.
The world of water is modeled in its software applications
Software systems that automate enterprise, operations and maintenance functions (and water the golf course)
May 1, 2013
Software suppliers have spent the last 20 years modeling — in various codes, arcane and otherwise — the doings of the water and process industries, including for the business enterprise and for operations, engineering and maintenance.
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Grinding industrial water-price increases lead to conservation
May 1, 2013
Where does an operations manager in a mid-sized industrial enterprise turn when water-treatment bills sky-rocket? Because make no doubt about it, that’s what they're doing.
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Rising water costs could cause major shifts in processing landscape
April 9, 2013
In the last 12 years, says a recently published survey,“water rates have at least doubled in more than a quarter of the locations and even tripled in a few.” Continuing rate increases are expected of 5% to 15% every few years.
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Search for single source of truth continues
Virtual strategies for asset management in oil & gas and other process industries
April 4, 2013
For most process-industry professionals, the upstream oil and gas industry is a horse of a different color.
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SCADA water station ‘honeypot’ attracts 39 attacks from 14 countries
April 4, 2013
SCADA hit the front pages about two years ago when it came out that the Stuxnet virus had attacked Iranian centrifuges for processing nuclear materials.
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