13.01.2012
- The pharmaceutical supply chain is increasingly globalized. It is estimated that 80% of the active ingredients used in generic medicines marketed in the U.S. are manufactured in...
08.12.2011
- Groundbreaking Project - When planning a new chemical plant, the engineers at Chemplast Sanmar had to consider many aspects such as safety, quality, efficiency, law and the...
08.12.2011
- Finding The Cause - Accidents can happen anytime and anywhere. Dr. Prof. Franz Schmalz at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich has indentified four categories as the...
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...
Look To The Future - Decades of operation, modernisation and expansion have left many chemical plants with a somewhat haphazard automation mix of different controls...
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...
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...
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...
