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On 4th August a major new entrant to North Sea decommissioning was unveiled.Well-Safe Solutions, set up by a group of oil industry stalwarts - including Alasdair Locke, Mark Patterson, and Paul Warwick - will provide a new approach to the safe and cost-efficient decommissioning of subsea wells.The new start company, which aims to attract £200m in investment and create 400 new jobs, will offer a specialist well abandonment service that allow...

The Rail Forum East Midlands (RFEM) has gained another new member with power quality specialist REO UK being the latest addition to the organisation that operates as a source of knowledge and a voice for the rail industry.REO UK’s membership represents the company’s increased focus on helping businesses tackle electrical interference problems in the sector.

To develop its second generation luffing jib tower cranes, Recom Srl turns to ABB’s control and safety technology to rejuvenate its automation system.Efforts to maximise the performance, speed and safety of the next-gen of luffing jib tower cranes has resulted in the development of specific Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) features, along with the supply of variable speed drives with FSO safety modules from ABB.

The first home security system was born in 1969, consisting of four peepholes and a camera that could be moved to look through any of them, broadcasting the images to a monitor. Nowadays, we can now stream and view a feed of our home security cameras on our mobiles, giving homeowners greater piece of mind. Here, Markus Brettschneider, of ABB’s food and beverage programme, explains how food plant managers can add a similar level of connectiv...

CWIEME hosted its first Global Awards at CWIEME Berlin 2017.These awards aimed to represent a benchmark of industry quality and excellence, and encourage design engineers, operational decision-makers and technical project leaders to celebrate their achievements and promote their work.

The humble transformer is undergoing a digital evolution, having been introduced over 130 years ago, that will enable better analysis of power usage and unit lifespan.No matter how good a piece of technology is, there comes a time when it needs to evolve. The creation of the distribution transformer in the early 1880s was a technological marvel. For the first time, it allowed the high voltage flowing through the national grid to be safely and eff...

The EyeVision software now supports the Photonfocus 3D camera. Therefore new and various possibilities for the use of the EyeVision 3D software are now available. The laser line detection algorithm of the Photonfocus 3D camera is able to compute the peak position of a laser line with sub-pixel accuracy. Thus, the height profile of an object gets computed within the camera, making additional calculations in the PC needless.

Supporting more than 100 control room operators and 6,000 field crews to keep the lights on, ABB’s Network Manager SCADA and distribution management system at Eskom is based on a large scale.Being the seventh largest utility in the world, Eskom generates around 95% of the electricity used in South Africa and imports and exports power to countries in the SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) region.

ZephIR Lidar has confirmed that the UK Wind Lidar Production Centre will officially open by the end of 2017, in response to the increasing demand for more accurate wind measurements in the development, construction and operation of wind farms worldwide.The Centre is complete with electronics and optical assembly clean rooms for producing, testing and servicing laser-based lidar units.

After seeing a gap in the market, former ABB colleagues Eitan Frankental and Magnus Lindström, started GridZupport with ABB veteran Carl-Johan Linér.The company develops digital solutions that coordinate information for power stations. This gives the customer a better overall picture, safer operation and increased productivity – all which contribute to a sustainable environment.