Latest Processcontrol Podcast Episodes

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How analysis hardware allows process engineers to treat complex chemical parameters

PII Podcast - April 03, 2024 15:42 - 29 minutes
A regular series where our expert host Dave Howell discuses the latest technologies and future insights throughout the manufacturing process industries

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Pioneering the future of Process Analysis

PII Podcast - April 03, 2024 15:42 - 29 minutes
"Sensors are great, but they have their limitations" - that’s where analysers come in! In this episode, Paul Hamilton from Metrohm discusses simple and innovative ways for Process Engineers to perform complex chemical analysis. Metrohm is best known for producing analytical laboratory hardware...

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Radial Insert Ball Bearings technology

PII Podcast - March 28, 2024 09:22 - 26 minutes
For machines in the food industry, you need special solutions. Extreme temperatures, high mechanical loads, short cycle times, round-the-clock operation, and regular cleaning cycles require very robust components. Strict food safety regulations pose as much of a challenge here as efficiency and ...

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How interface measurement could transform your business

PII Podcast - March 19, 2024 09:20 - 33 minutes
In this episode of the PII Podcast, we delve into the world of interface level measurement, concentrating on those difficult multiphase applications with dynamic emulsion layers.   The key to optimising performance in these situations is solving the emulsion factor – a hurdle that has long st...

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3D level measuring technology

PII Podcast - January 11, 2024 14:36 - 28 minutes
A regular series where our expert host Dave Howell discuses the latest technologies and future insights throughout the manufacturing process industries

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Cote-Shield Technology

PII Podcast - November 28, 2023 15:45 - 28 minutes
AMETEK Drexelbrook's "Cote-Shield" technology revolutionises point level detection in tanks and vessels by effectively ignoring conductive coatings on the sensing element, ensuring a reliable, repeatable measurement and maintenance-free operation. This technology overcomes the common issue of fa...

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The importance of having an accurate and reliable calibration solution

PII Podcast - July 24, 2023 13:36 - 38 minutes
In this podcast from Beamex, we talk about the importance of providing accurate measurements, reliable data and traceability when performing instrument calibrations. We’ll explore how the digitalisation of data helps to improve operational efficiency for optimal asset performance, with examples ...

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Improving bulk material management through cloud inventory and continuous level sensors

PII Podcast - January 05, 2023 11:50 - 30 minutes
In this podcast, BinMaster’s Regional Vice President of Sales Mike Mossage shares how processing industries can benefit from cloud inventory, the use of continuous level sensors, and the application of Industry 4.0 in making bulk material management more efficient. For more than a decade, Mike h...

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The manufacturing industry's status and growth

PII Podcast - November 29, 2022 10:32 - 36 minutes
The importance of robust, integrated, and secure CQV services in all industries, emphasizing pharmaceuticals. In the past three years, the global manufacturing process scale-up to support the COVID-19 vaccine development led to a complete transformation of best manufacturing practices across a...

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Celebrating 20 years of great partnerships that deliver for ABB customers

PII Podcast - November 16, 2022 10:20 - 27 minutes
In this latest podcast Dave speaks with Scott Kirk, Industrial Sales Manager for ABB Measurement & Analytics UK & IE. Here Dave discusses with Scott the value of building strong relationships with channel partners and distributors and all of the benefits that partnership delivers for customers o...

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Smart recipe handling to transform manufacturing capabilities

PII Podcast - July 19, 2022 14:02 - 39 minutes
Recipe control is a very specialist field that applies to a wide range of industry sectors. The data collected by a well designed recipe handling process control system can give deep insights into all aspects of production. Recipe control can also function as a quality control method or more a...

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Seeing the future health of industrial manufacturing production assets

PII Podcast - May 04, 2022 17:11 - 36 minutes
Unplanned downtime in industrial manufacturing causes productivity loss, timeline delays and lost revenue – estimated at around $50 billion each year. To address this tremendous market problem, PARC, a Xerox Company, recently launched Novity, a new venture to commercialise predictive maintenance ...

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The impact of chemical shortages on water treatment

PII Podcast - April 27, 2022 08:39 - 28 minutes
In this episode Dave speak with Robert Stancombe, Business Development Manager of Veolia Mobile Water Services. Power plant operators are increasingly looking at ways to optimise the use of water in steam and cooling cycles in thermal power plants. However,  implementing new technologies can pre...

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How Digital Technology is Advancing Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance in the Process Industry

PII Podcast - October 26, 2021 07:22 - 38 minutes
Finding new ways to solve customer problems has always been at the core of ABB Measurement & Analytics’ approach to product development. With the global focus on emissions and sustainability, industries are under even more pressure to increase the agility and reliability of emissions monitoring ...

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Digital Transformation Strategy in BEUMER Group

PII Podcast - September 27, 2021 15:53 - 40 minutes
BEUMER Group has declared digitisation a top priority to secure its own future viability. But how can this be achieved? How can a company that has been operating mechanical engineering as its core business for around 80 years push digitisation to its full extent? To get fit for the future, BEUME...

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How breweries can become more digital

PII Podcast - July 22, 2021 10:15 - 38 minutes
In our latest Podcast Dave speaks with GEA’s Hassan Yaszdi, Senior Product Manager Digital Service, and Dr. Mark Schneeberger, Head of Development of GEA’s Beer and Alcoholic Beverage Business and brewmaster, about how GEA is paving the way for breweries (and possibly other industries, too) to b...

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Remote access and management systems for the chemical industries

PII Podcast - July 20, 2021 06:54 - 38 minutes
In this final episode of our 3-part series with Siemens, Dave speaks with Ian Poulett, Business Manager - Industrial Communication, RTLS & Identification, who discusses the types of systems used to manage networks and process systems. Topics include:​ - Management and control systems - Ho...

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What Industry 4.0 means to the chemical industry

PII Podcast - July 13, 2021 07:28 - 36 minutes
In this second of our 3 part series with Siemens, Dave speaks with Dave Adams, Team Leader - Process Specialists. Drawing on his 30+ years of experience working at Siemens, Dave provides an interesting insight into how the chemical industries are adopting industry 4.0 technologies. Topics in...

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Air Gap Systems and Cyber Security for the Chemical Industries

PII Podcast - June 30, 2021 13:09 - 38 minutes
In the first of a 3 part Podcast series with Siemens, Dave speaks with Paul Hingley the Product Solution & Security Officer GB&I at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Cyber security is a major concern throughout industry and in this podcast Paul discusses concerns over air gapped systems in ...

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Monitoring and control systems for the water sector

PII Podcast - May 20, 2021 12:39 - 37 minutes
In this episode, Dave speaks to data analytics software leaders from technology provider Ovarro, Alan Cunningham, subject matter expert, and Josh Britton, global product line manager. As a major supplier of monitoring and control systems to the water sector, Ovarro is fully versed in the chall...

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A true IIoT solution for automated valves

PII Podcast - February 16, 2021 11:37 - 30 minutes
In our latest Podcast, Dave speaks with Remco Bakker, Business Development Manager of Imtex Controls, who discusses the introduction a new pioneering product; the Valvescan Diagnostic Monitoring System. Remco explains how the VDMS provides a technological step-change in valve health monitoring...

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What is self-service advanced analytics?

PII Podcast - November 05, 2020 14:07 - 28 minutes
You may read about digitalisation, Industry 4.0, Analytics, IIoT, Data driven decision making, and other related topics almost daily. The more you see these topics pass by, the more diffused it may have become.  In this podcast Dave and Thomas explore the basics about these topics and how oper...

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Think Sealless Pumps

PII Podcast - October 15, 2020 06:33 - 35 minutes
Here Dave Howell speaks with David Clark, Senior Engineering Manager at HMD Kontro Sealless Pumps, who traces the evolution of magnetic drive sealless pumps, from their introduction 70 years ago to the very latest developments and materials that are driving the industry forward. A step-change ...

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Single Pair Ethernet

PII Podcast - September 07, 2020 13:08 - 35 minutes
Single Pair Ethernet is the technology that makes it possible to implement the Internet of Things consistently within industry, right through to field-based applications. Here, Dave speaks with Simon Seereiner, Head of Product Management for SAI and Industrial Ethernet at Weidmüller, who explain...

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Using Analytics to Accelerate the Digital Transformation of the Pharmaceuticals Industry

PII Podcast - August 17, 2020 12:17 - 49 minutes
In this latest podcast, Lawrence Clark, VP Regional Sales, EMEA and Richard Porter, Senior Manager of Area Sales for EMEA, both of AspenTech, talk about how the company’s predictive analytics and asset performance management solutions can drive the digital transformation of the industry by optim...

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Dave Howell talks with Alan Hunt, Electromagnetic Flow Product Manager at ABB

PII Podcast - August 06, 2020 10:47 - 43 minutes
In this latest podcast Dave speaks with Alan Hunt, ABB Product Manager UK & IE – Electromagnetic Flow. Here Alan discusses issues around water use and water conservancy and his passion about what he calls the “Holy Trinity” of water sustainability. Water companies themselves are saddled with t...

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Dave Howell talks with Patrick Deruytter Vice President Customer Care & Large PMO Emerson Automation Solutions

PII Podcast - July 06, 2020 09:44 - 32 minutes
In this latest podcast, Patrick Deruytter, Vice President of Customer Care and Large Projects at Emerson, talks about the acceleration of digital engagement and how it is changing the way we work. Patrick discusses the new reality where work is done anywhere – and how extreme collaboration, spee...

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Dave Howell talks with Glenn Schulz, FDT Group, Managing Director

PII Podcast - May 26, 2020 08:17 - 35 minutes
Here, Glenn discusses the exciting latest developments about how the FDT Group have launched their latest digital transformation for the industrial automation sector with its’ new FDT 3.0 (FITS) standard. The new FDT IIoT ecosystem empowers scalable, skid-to-cloud solutions and innovative busine...

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Dave Howell talks with Stephane Vanouche at Emerson

PII Podcast - May 22, 2020 13:04 - 36 minutes
Learn how digital transformation can start small and scale over time: By merging pneumatics with advanced software and data analytics you can generate actionable insights, optimise and improve your process control cost and efficiency, make informed decisions and drive operational improvement

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Dave Howell talks with Daryl Cowlan Sales Specialist at Weidmüller

PII Podcast - May 15, 2020 14:44 - 29 minutes
In this latest podcast, Daryl Cowlan, Printing Systems and Tools Specialist at Weidmuller UK talks about how Weidmuller’s Workplace Solutions take customers through the phases of panel building, from planning to installation to operation, with optimally coordinated solutions for their workshops....