Overcompensation has been a standard practice in engineering to ensure a system can handle whatever the user or environment might throw at it. In a world where excessive energy use is both impractical and costly, this practice must be revisited.
Frugal plant upgrades lead to connecting multiple controllers to the same HMI, allowing for the addition of new functionality and solving obsolescence problems without busting the budget.
Custody transfer of fuel products demands sophisticated flow analysis beyond volume readings. Product characteristics can be dynamic, requiring monitoring at the same time.
Careful and clever analysis of fieldbus segments can yield fault tolerance where it's needed most without adding hardware costs over less effective strategies.
Plant-level networking systems need to interact with central process control and manufacturing execution systems. TIA-1005 to address new structured cabling concepts for industrial installations.
Integrating valves, systems, and processes can allow partial stroke testing (PST) of emergency shutdown valves, increasing safety and extend time between full stroke testing, thus saving money. But beware of the '7 misunderstood points’ of PST.