Update March 18, 2020 In order to protect our staff and customers and help to avoid further spreading of the COVID-19 virus, we have put various measures in place. These measures balance the safety of our customers and employees and sustaining our business. We are restricting any form of unnecessary... read more →
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18
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18
Major global operating companies are progressively adopting the human factors engineering (HFE) discipline to ensure quality, safety, and fit-for-purpose equipment and facilities. Human factors are all those considerations that enhance or improve human performance in the workplace and negate the possibility of human error. HFE is the design of work... read more →
Oct
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Our customer operates a butane plant, where individual canisters are loaded with butane. The butane spheres on site are located about 1 meter above the ground. Underneath these spheres there are 4 manual valves that must... read more →
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24
Operators performed line-ups by... read more →
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09
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07
Sofis is part of the 'Process Safety' division of Halma Plc, an FTSE 100 company, which is an organization with 50 companies and 5,000 employees worldwide. Sofis is based in Alphen aan den Rijn and has the two market-leading brands of Netherlocks interlocks and Smith interlocks, which contain a range... read more →
Mar
06
To meet increasingly strict customer requirements, terminals are upgrading their operations. However, most terminals rely on slow, error-prone manual valve operations. These days, manual operations can be significantly accelerated and secured, without complete automation of all valve operations. Many terminals have low automation grades About a third of the almost... read more →
Mar
06
A tank terminal’s revenue partially depends on its speed of transferring product from and to its storage tanks. The more efficient this transfer process, the more throughput the terminal realises, thus producing more revenue. But how do manually operated terminals speed up this process without heavy investments in automation? Connected... read more →
Oct
18
NordStream is reliant on its control room in Switzerland to monitor and control pig launching operations across their German and Russian pigging stations. To guarantee safe pigging procedures, the Swiss Control Room oversees and authorises local manual operations. Process data and MOV feedback are used as conditions to determine manual... read more →