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Automated Britain conference opens doors on 6 March 25/01/2012

Mark Prisk, Minister of State for Business and Enterprise, is set to launch the Automated Britain conference on 6 March at The Commonwealth Club in London.

Safety assured at Petroplus Coryton fuel processing refinery 10/01/2012

Safety systems specialist Hima-Sella has received an order for end-of-life replacement of SIS (safety instrumented systems) on two processing units at the Petroplus' Coryton Refinery in Stanford-le-Hope Essex.

Rockwell Automation to acquire ICS Triplex safety systems 30/05/2007

Rockwell Automation is buying high-integrity critical controls company Industrial Control Services Group, which trades as ICS Triplex, for £110 million cash.

Revolution in plant-to-business IT leads step change in business performance 21/04/2006

A unified real-time control, information and application environment across virtually all process plant and enterprise systems: that’s how Invensys describes its InFusion, which, it says, has been years in development and will dramatically reduce overall IT costs. Brian Tinham reports

Invensys to close UK HQ as it lays out improvements to I/A Series 30/10/2003

The adage that bad news is best disguised under good could have been better employed at troubled engineering conglomerate Invensys. Mike Nash reports

Siemens to extend manufacturing automation to process, again 29/01/2003

Siemens Automation & Drives has set its sights firmly on the process industries again for 2003, and this time has high hope of better success. Brian Tinham reports

IFS goes for process sector with Capula 16/09/2002

The process industries are set to be Swedish enterprise software vendor IFS’ next target. The firm is partnering with consultancy and IT implementation firm Capula to deliver what it terms ‘ERP II’ extended enterprise systems. Brian Tinham reports