Malvern Instruments

Time Temperature Superposition (TTS) analysis
Designed for Malvern Bohlin rheometers, version 6.40 of this control and analysis software incorporates new features, including more-flexible data analysis setup and automation, and a completely new test type. The new multi-wave test mode involves the application of multiple frequencies for faster testing and is useful for studying rapidly changing systems, such as thermosetting resins or the gelation of foodstuffs. Featuring a new template wizard, set-up and storage of analysis routines is easy, and operators can add multiple analyses to the menus for easy re-use. Fewer than five mouse clicks are needed to perform an analysis. Improved model-fitting facilities allow automation of fitting and result reporting on test completion, a function that can be enhanced by automated determination of the best fit from a user-defined list of rheological models. An advanced simplex algorithm is used to optimize convergence to the best model fit to the data. A complete implementation of Time Temperature Superposition (TTS) analysis is available for application to any selected variable. Calculation of WLF and Arrhenius constants is included in the TTS analysis package, as is calculation of extrapolated viscoelastic properties at any frequency and temperature.

Combustion Software Inc

Combustion Expert v4
In order to make real improvement to the fuel economy of your process, you need to know the efficiency. Combustion Expert v4 software calculates the fuel efficiency, as well as the furnace efficiency and the over-all-process heat efficiency. It shows you how to adjust fuel and airflow for changes in temperature, barometric pressure and humidity so that the heat dissipated in the furnace remains the same. Using OPC or DDE communication with a PLC, you can see the furnace efficiency in real time, while you receive set points for temperature, mass flowrates or volumetric flowrates based on measured flows, temperatures, gauge pressures, barometric pressure and relative humidity. This new version can determine heating of boxed-shaped objects with radiative heat transfer, calculation of heat transfer coefficients, viewing factors, radiosity , gas emissivity and temperature distribution in bars or slabs. A report generator gives five different reports for heating values, mass balances, furnace losses, heat losses and process summaries.

Combustion Expert 3.2
One of the key benefits of Combustion Expert 3.2 is its ability to perform technical and economic evaluations when converting from oil- to natural-gas-fired furnaces or vice versa. These changes affect the flame temperature, air/fuel ratio, gas emissivity and the radiative heat transfer in the furnace. At higher temperatures, the heat transfer is almost always driven by radiation. These calculations are very cumbersome and difficult to make. However, with this software, these calculations can be done with a click of a mouse in a few seconds. The key to saving fuel is not only keeping records of what was paid/used for energy, which vary with production, energy costs, operating hours and operating conditions, but also knowing the current efficiency of the system.

Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Service Corp.

IPRSM, a web-enabled software for intelligent pressure-reliefsystem management
IPRSM, a web-enabled software for intelligent pressure-reliefsystem management. has proven to be the cost-effective way to manage documentation for pressure-relief systems and assure compliance with regulatory codes and company standards over the lifecycle of a facility. It fulfills all OSHA CFR 29 1910.119 documentation requirements, and integrates and stores MOC, PHA, maintenance and equipment records. IPRSM provides instantaneous access to real-time, reliable data from any location, and is capable of evaluating any pressure relief device (e.g., valves, rupture disks, emergency vents, etc.). The software also includes hydraulic piping calculations, and engineering and catalog data for all major PRV manufacturers. Featuring platform-independent import/export capabilities, IPRSM utilizes a comprehensive thermo-physical property package and integrates with most other databases.

BHR Group Ltd.

MODES computer program
Developed as a cost-effective alternative to physical testing for the prediction of explosive decompression (ED) in elastomer systems, the MODES computer program is over 88% accurate at predicting the onset of ED damage in seals. It enables engineers to assess an extensive range of what-if scenarios and design components and operating procedures to avoid failure. The software, a result of BHR Group’s MODES project, is available to sponsoring organizations and contains extensive data on the selected materials. It permits users to calculate safe minimum decompression times and the number of subcritical “ emergency” decompressions the seal can survive without damage, as well as seal performance under user-specified conditions. This allows engineers to optimize seal and housing design, perform sensitivity studies and risk analyses based on material variability and material type, and assess the effect of different fluids, pressures and temperatures.

Fauske & Associates, Inc.

FATE 2.0 (Facility Flow, Aerosol, Thermal and Explosion Model)
FATE 2.0 (Facility Flow, Aerosol, Thermal and Explosion Model) software is designed to replace computer codes currently used for design and safety analyses for U.S. Dept. of Energy projects at the Hanford site and elsewhere. These include codes such as HADCRT for tank farms and waste treatment plants and WESF, PFP, HANSF MCO and HANSF for spent nuclear fuel, sludge and the site’s “T plant” chemical separation facility. New features include the flammability and combustion of gases, vapors and aerosols model, and entrainment of deposits to form aerosols modeling. Other models include thermal radiation networks, event-oriented simulation and a limited distribution fire model. General capabilities include multiple-compartment thermodynamics and general species analysis, facility nodalization and flow, aerosol behavior, heat transfer determination, sources and time-dependent conditions, and nuclear fuel and sludge models including chemical reactions.

Thermo Electron

Combining Thermo’s PlasmaLab software for the X Series ICPMS
Combining Thermo’s PlasmaLab software for the X Series ICPMS with the established Metals Analytical Review and Reporting System (MARRS) from EISC, a scientific software development company, has yielded a comprehensive reporting and electronic data deliverables (EDD) package for EPA methods. Environmental analysis for regulatory work using ICP-MS must be of a consistent, high quality, and the laboratory undertaking the analysis must work from approved documented methods. For ICP-MS, relevant EPA methods include 200.8 (Office of Water) 1991; 6020 (Office of Solid Waste) 1994; 6020A (Office of Solid Waste) 1998 and ILM05.3D (Superfund’s Contract Laboratory Program) 2004. The MARRS/PlasmaLab XML combination maximizes the Performance Report capability of PlasmaLab to fully comply with the EPA requirements for mass calibration and peak-width validation. It is also possible to use the extra features of MARRS to link data from the LIMS with data from the X Series into a single report.

Universal Technical Systems, Inc. (UTS)

TK Solver 5.0 Premium Edition
Free software for sharing Excel worksheets and mathematical models created in TK Solver 5.0 Premium Edition are now available, enabling users to dynamically link any number of mathematical models to an Excel spreadsheet and “package” the file without any programming. The new packaging feature automatically converts the file into a mini-application (e.g., .exe, .zip, .tkx) that can be shared with anyone, anywhere via the TK Solver Player for Excel. The Player is a collaborative math engine that can be downloaded from the UTS website free of charge. Once downloaded, it runs entirely behind the scenes and allows Excel users to take advantage of a wealth of TK Solver functionality. “Package recipients” can interact with the model by changing inputs and viewing the outputs, perform automatic unit conversions and iterative calculations, as well as take advantage of extensive NIST thermodynamic and transport property functions. Although totally interactive, the original formulas and models remain protected and the recipient is not able to view or modify them.

The Wercs, Ltd.

Chemical Approval Process Module
Designed to streamline formal chemical requests and approvals for manufacturers using and storing chemicals, the Chemical Approval Process module provides an electronic platform that enables secured feedback between the requester of the chemical and the different departments that are involved in the decision-making process. To ensure a comprehensive communication channel, automatic emails are sent to requesters and approvers. For example, a user can search for a chemical in the database; if it has not been used before, the user can generate a formal request via an electronic form. This request is routed to relevant departments, where a decision is made to accept, approve or reject the chemical. The Chemical Approval Process module also enables location-specific requests, helps to assign product attributes for MSDSs and ties into SARA inventory databases

Maplesoft

Maple 10
Maple 10 combines numeric and symbolic calculations, explorations, mathematical notation, documentation, buttons and sliders, and graphics and animations that can be shared and reused. For improved ease of use, it provides a sophisticated Math Equation Editor that lets users create textbook-quality equations in natural mathematical notation, interactively. Maple 10 features an extensible dictionary with over 5,000 engineering and mathematical terms, enhancing the ability to document, communicate and share detailed technical information. Enhanced code generation capability ensures that any math model can be automatically generated from C, Fortran, Java, MATLAB or Visual Basic software code for embedded applications. Maple 10 also comes with a new statistics package that includes a collection of functions and interactive tools for mathematical statistics and data analysis.

MapleNet Commercial
Powered by Maple 9.5 interactive mathematical software, MapleNet Commercial is a webbased platform for deploying technical knowledge within and across departments or organizations. It enables engineers and scientists to make information sharing, project auditing, compliance, design updates, technical documentation and risk analysis faster and easier. Users can embed dynamic formulas, models and diagrams as live knowledge inside web pages. Colleagues, clients and peers can run the computations live over the web, without any extra software or plug-ins on their machines, including Maple 9.5.

Quantapoint, Inc.

PRISM 3D 5.0
Now in the final beta-testing stage, PRISM 3D 5.0 is the next generation of software for sharing and extracting information from laser scan as-built documentation. By displaying as-built documentation as a fully interactive photo-realistic 3D image, it enables users to more easily and intuitively extract the desired information. The software increases design productivity and efficiency by more quickly and accurately generating 2D drawings. It also enhances design and constructability reviews by importing and displaying CAD models with the as-built data, and enables clash-free project design and execution using advanced built-in clash-detection algorithms

Comsol

Comsol Multiphysics Version 3.2
Version 3.2 of COMSOL Multiphysics is a scientific-modeling package whose new features boost productivity throughout the entire modeling and simulation process. The software now reads geometry files created with all major CAD packages (i.e., SolidWorks, Solid Edge, NX, CATIA). Importing an existing CAD or mesh file enables users to bypass the geometry-creation step, which makes the first step in the modeling process fast and convenient. The latest version also introduces COMSOL Script, a standalone product featuring a technical- computing language and command-line modeling. The graphical user interface encourages the use of a consistent system of engineering units. Furthermore, a moving-mesh feature allows a model to simulate moving parts and parametric geometries such as those in MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), piezoelectrics, and biology applications as well as free-surface flow and natural wave effects. Users define the desired type of motion such as for the deflection of a flexible barrier in a strong flow of liquid or gas, or even fluid sloshing in a tank. Coupled with the moving-mesh engine is geometric parameterization, where it is possible to describe a how a geometry changes without the need to set up a loop in a script file. Another key feature of the software is improved solvers handle models with millions of degrees of freedom and calculate the answers faster than ever before.

Multiphysics Modeling
Papers by users of multiphysics modeling that were presented at a series of international conferences are available on this CD. It contains 229 reviewed papers in PDF format, as well as many of the speakers’ presentation slides and ready-to-run model files that were discussed. Among the topics covered at the meetings, which were held in late-2005 in Boston, Stockholm, Oslo, Frankfurt, Birmingham (U.K.), Paris and Milan, were: bioengineering, chemical engineering and fluid dynamics, electrochemistry, electromagnetics, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and modeling in the classroom.

Acoustics module
Designed for those who work with devices that generate, measure and use acoustic waves, the COMSOL product line now features an Acoustics module that is ideal for examining mechanical wave phenomena in structures and fluids. Users can easily model wave propagation in solids and stationary fluids, as well as study aeroacoustics in moving fields. The module provides a variety of application modes that offer tailored user interfaces loaded with predefined settings. Users can create or import a geometry, fine-tune the physics settings, and solve the problem. To help users get a head start on developing their models, and to learn tips and tricks to make their modeling more effective, the module comes with a Model Library that contains more than a dozen entries. Each comes with a detailed theoretical discussion followed by step-by-step instructions, although users can instead simply load a supplied model file. One example examines the open-pipe problem, which is a classic benchmark dealing with resonances, while another studies reflection of forward-propagating modes in jet engine intake. Results are compared to published simulations and semi-analytical solutions. 

COMSOL Conference CD 2006
Illustrating the breadth and depth of the use of computer modeling in every area of science, research, engineering, and education, the COMSOL Conference CD 2006 contains a wealth of information. The CD contains the full proceedings from an international series of 15 technical meetings, along with presentation slides and even ready-to-run model files that were discussed. To make it easy for readers to find the information they need, the CD contains a search facility plus an author index. Distributed at no charge at www.comsol.com/conference2006/cd, the disc contains 272 papers, 153 sets of user-presentation slides, 32 sets of keynote-presentation slides, and 30 models.

TechEng Designs

Tank Capacity Calculations Software Upgrade
Tank Capacity Calculations version 6.0 features a significantly enhanced user interface, allowing for ease of use and increased productivity. The menu page has been redesigned to speed access to the desired calculation form and the number of forms have been consolidated and redesigned for ease of use. The program uses both English and metric units for all calculations. Two other new features include: direct printing of strapping tables or simple use of drag and drop to Excel. Volumes are automatically calculated for an increment of liquid depth to full tank for cylindrical tanks with most types of heads. Similarly volumes are automatically calculated for full or any liquid depth. The many features include help, detailed descriptions and diagrams of various tank heads. Tank Capacity Calculations version 6.0 is designed for use in Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and NT 3.51+.

COADE

CADWORX 2006 Enhanced Plant Design Suite
CADWorx 2006 is the latest edition of this company’s software suite for plant design that provides enhanced 2D and 3D plant design capabilities. New tools and features include: CADWorx Walkthrough, which allows real-time walkthroughs for plant designs; Collision Checking, which provides on-the-fly or point-in-time clash detection; and Parametric Routines for stairs, ladders and hand rails, which allows for easy production of stairs, ladders and hand rails. Also, the software’s parametric equipment package has been enhanced with more components for the creation of vessels, exchangers, tanks and pumps plus bi-directional links to the company’s PVElite pressure vessel analysis package.

CAESAR II Version 5.00 Pipe-Stress Analysis Software
CAESAR II Version 5.00 pipe-stress analysis software features a revised piping input processor that integrates graphics, spreadsheets and lists in a combined view, making the analysis process friendlier and faster. Sections of the model can be graphically edited, speeding the modeling time, while the integration of the input processor with the error checker function makes error identification and correction operate in an intuitive, iterative way. To simplify model creation and review, relevant sections of the spreadsheet can be “torn off” and arranged on the graphics pane, allowing the user to effectively customize the input spreadsheet layout. An enhanced static output processor in the new edition lets the user easily build custom, reusable report templates, using all CAESAR II output data in any combination or order. New in dynamic analysis is a consistent mass distribution technique that allows improved accuracy without the need to re-mesh the model.

Caesar II version 5.10
By streamlining existing program features and using Tech Soft 3D’s HOOPS graphic engine, the latest edition of Caesar II boasts a 40% gain in graphics performance. Version 5.10 of this pipe stress analysis package can better handle larger and more complex models. Caesar II incorporates a wide range of capabilities, including: numerous piping codes; expansion joint, valve and flange, and structural databases; structural buried pipe modeling; equipment and vessel nozzle evaluation; and spectrum and time history analysis. Later upgrades to this software are expected to further increase speed and performance.

Honeywell Process Solutions

UniSim Design Suite R350 for Plant Lifecycle Support
UniSim Design Suite R350 is based on the latest release of HYSYS software, marking Honeywell’s entry into the offline simulation market. It offers steady-state and dynamic simulation, design, performance monitoring, optimization and business planning for the oil and gas production, gas processing, petroleum refining and chemical industries. The new solution allows process manufacturers to design, test, and train employees on new processes offline before they are implemented. UniSim Design can also reduce engineering costs by eliminating the need for many error-prone manual processes, such as data-re-entry and data transfer, which account for up to 30% of engineering labor hours.

SimSci-Esscor

ROMeo Version 4.0 for Plant Modeling and Optimization
With version 4.0, the ROMeo software is now integrated within SimSci-Esscor’s SIM4ME common modeling environment. This environment provides a consistent user interface, common data model, consistent thermodynamics, and common software modules across different simulation applications to increase productivity while minimizing training requirements. Utilizing patented technology, version 4.0 of the ROMeo software enables users to employ a focused strategy of data re-use across the full range of simulation applications, from steady state process design to dynamic simulation and optimization. This includes the ability to open a PRO/II process model from within the ROMeo application, allowing users to take existing off-line models on-line for performance monitoring and optimization, while retaining equity in previously developed models. The version 4.0 release also features a true modular "subflowsheet" capability that allows users to manage multiple independent models as sub-flowsheets or import one flowsheet into another.

SimSci-Esscor’s PRO/II
This jointly developed interface enables SimSci-Esscor’s PRO/II process simulation users to easily integrate Haverly System’s H/CAMS crude-assay information into their process simulations to help further improve yields and profitability. Using the new interface, PRO/II users can: access H/CAMS complete crude libraries; add and/or modify libraries; predict yields and properties of user-defined blends; analyze and prepare data on single or mixed oils; group crudes; display detailed hydrocarbon information from chromatographic analyses; generate files that link reports with other models, programs, or spreadsheets; and select from English, metric or other units for entering and reporting data.

Material Balance Module (MBM)
The Material Balance Module (MBM) for this firm’s Advanced Real-time Performance Modeling (ARPM) suite, is an easy-to-use, flowsheet-based solution that uses advanced mass and volume reconciliation to reveal sources of random error, bias, and gross error that jeopardize the accuracy of real-time plant data. The software interfaces directly with a plant’s IT infrastructure to automate data reconciliation without additional routine data entry. It combines advanced reconciliation methodologies within a flowsheeting tool to automate creation of daily material balance reports for each major unit, identify bad flow instrumentation, and aid in pinpointing material loss locations. The module is highly scalable. A user can, for example, create a simple material balance representation of plant streams and units and then extend the platform later to achieve more rigorous heat and material balance, online performance monitoring, and operations decision support modeling that may be needed for advanced closed loop optimization or real-time enterprise control.

BioComp Systems, Inc.

Process Modeler
The Process Modeler was developed to create predictive models of product properties, production and process events. It enables users to identify and graphically visualize causes of product and/or process performance problems, through scatter plots, sensitivity analysis, ranked lists of key performance drivers and 3-D response surfaces. The models developed with Process Modeler can be put on-line using BioComp’s Process Intellect server software to write performance predictions to industrial control systems and data historians. Such virtual sensors are essential when physical sensors are too expensive, cannot be physically installed, are difficult to maintain due to corrosion or wear, or the environment is too hostile. The models are also used for sensor validation to alert operations and maintenance personnel to sensor problems.

ProSim

Simulis Thermodynamics
Simulis Thermodynamics provides engineering and research professionals with high-quality thermophysical properties calculations that can be plugged into any software of wider application range (i.e., equipment sizing, system modeling, etc.) using COM/DCOM technology. It is also available as an Excel add-in or a toolbox in MATLAB. The software provides access to over 300 functions, in particular for calculation of any type of transport properties (e.g., specific heat, viscosity), thermodynamic properties (e.g., enthalpy, compressibility factor) or phase equilibria (e.g., VLE, LLE, VLLE, salt formation) on multi-component mixtures. Simulis Thermodynamics offers an extensive set of services (e.g., flash, data regression, phase envelope), as well as comprehensive pure-component and binary-interaction databases. Visit the firm’s website for a free evaluation version of the software.

ProSimPlus
The steady-state process simulator ProSimPlus now comes with the software component Simulis Thermodynamics. Within the ProSimPlus environment, it is possible to graphically visualize the pure component properties and to calculate phase equilibria or any type of transport and thermodynamic properties on the components of the process. The latest release of ProSimPlus is also CAPE-OPEN compliant, allowing users to integrate third-party CAPE-OPEN unit operations and to create CAPE-OPEN property packages. These property packages gather all thermodynamic elements involved in the process and can be used in other CAPE-OPEN-compliant environments to ensure that consistent data are used throughout the company. The ability to use customized unit operation models was also extended with the addition of Windows Script, which allows users to code, in a simple language (e.g., VBS), calculation modules that will be executed during the simulation. These modules can access the parameters of all the modules and streams of the flowsheet and enable the user to, for example, run complementary calculations, call Excel macros or exchange data with a spreadsheet or a text file. Furthermore, Scriplets — “small” VBS programs — were introduced to provide the user with the ability to plot graphs, exchange simulation files with others users, call Simulis Thermodynamics calculation services, create equipment specification sheets, and more

Haverly Systems, Inc.

SimSci-Esscor’s PRO/II
This jointly developed interface enables SimSci-Esscor’s PRO/II process simulation users to easily integrate Haverly System’s H/CAMS crude-assay information into their process simulations to help further improve yields and profitability. Using the new interface, PRO/II users can: access H/CAMS complete crude libraries; add and/or modify libraries; predict yields and properties of user-defined blends; analyze and prepare data on single or mixed oils; group crudes; display detailed hydrocarbon information from chromatographic analyses; generate files that link reports with other models, programs, or spreadsheets; and select from English, metric or other units for entering and reporting data.

Leica Geosystems HDS Div.

CloudWorx laser-scanning
This new CloudWorx laser-scanning software enhances and extends the usefulness and value of rich laser scan data for plant design, construction, maintenance and operations. Real-world as-built data can now easily be visualized directly in Intergraph’s SmartPlant Review. This enhances the effectiveness of both the engineering task force and owner/operator review process for retrofit projects, resulting in smoother and lower-risk retrofit construction projects and improved plant operations and maintenance. This new application supplements existing commercial CloudWorx solutions that already allow Intergraph customers to take advantage of rich point cloud data directly within Intergraph’s PDS 3-D plant design and engineering application.

Intergraph Corp.

CloudWorx laser-scanning
This new CloudWorx laser-scanning software enhances and extends the usefulness and value of rich laser scan data for plant design, construction, maintenance and operations. Real-world as-built data can now easily be visualized directly in Intergraph’s SmartPlant Review. This enhances the effectiveness of both the engineering task force and owner/operator review process for retrofit projects, resulting in smoother and lower-risk retrofit construction projects and improved plant operations and maintenance. This new application supplements existing commercial CloudWorx solutions that already allow Intergraph customers to take advantage of rich point cloud data directly within Intergraph’s PDS 3-D plant design and engineering application.

Intergraph Standard Database (SDB) for SmartPlant Reference Data
The Intergraph Standard Database (SDB) for SmartPlant Reference Data is a centralized means of efficient managing of catalogs and specifications for multiple design systems and materials management. Its initial release is configured to support 90 metallic piping component definitions according to various U.S. standards, such as ASME/ANSI and API. The content for metallic piping includes more than 10,000 commodity codes and more than 1 million individual parts with full dimensional data for 3D modeling and weights. The SDB for Smart Plant Reference Data can reduce project implementation time by 3–12 months, and cut operating costs by minimizing training and eliminating the need for clients to re-enter the same standard reference data. It can also provide a common collaboration platform for all joint venture partners in a project supply chain spanning the entire project lifecycle.

SmartPlant Instrumentation
SmartPlant Instrumentation helps prevent failure by better managing and storing instrumentation and control data. It helps avoid unscheduled shutdowns by using the most up-to-date information for better planning and maintenance. SmartPlant Instrumentation brings all instrumentation information together so that it can be easily accessed and updated to ensure consistency across the different instrument tasks and deliverables. This latest version features SmartPlant Engineering Manager, which allows the user to copy the complete plant design package, including the hierarchy, item tags and the reference data of the best, proven plant designs, and use them as a baseline for the design of new plants, thus saving valuable design time.

Engineered Software, Inc.

PIPE-FLO Compressible 2005
Ideal for those who design, build, operate or maintain steam or gas piping systems, PIPE-FLO Compressible 2005 helps users to visualize their systems in a familiar format, calculate system operations, easily communicate the design with others and access supporting documents in electronic format. Functionality improvements in Compressible 2005 include improved zoom and pan features, the ability to create customized toolbars, the ability to easily split pipes and the ability to display and edit important design information in different locations as determined by the user.

Flow of Fluids Premium
The companion software to Crane’s Technical Paper 410, Flow of Fluids Premium simulates the operation of small piping systems. It calculates results for series, branched and looped systems — whether opened or closed — for up to 25 pipelines. The program boasts the ability to select pumps directly from over 85 electronic pump catalogs. Key enhancements include new visual features, such as the option of creating piping system models as 2-D or isometric drawings, and a new Shape Editor that enables users to create custom shapes for pumps, tanks, components and control valves. Other highlights include the ability to copy and paste between piping system models, size a flowmeter or balancing orifice and insert it into the piping system in a single step, and view results instantly using the new AutoCalc feature.

Pipe-Flo 2007
Pipe-Flo 2007 has many new features to streamline program operation and increase the presentation value of the piping system model. This version of the software offers the option to draw piping schematics in 2-D or isometric format. It allows users to create custom shapes for pumps, tanks, components and control valves, and to copy and paste between piping system models. Now, the end user can size a flowmeter or balancing orifice and insert it into the piping system in a single step. The software permits results to be viewed instantly using the new AutoCalc feature, and allows a two-way link between Pipe-Flo Professional and Microsoft Excel to be established.

Emerson Process Management

DeltaV Analyze
DeltaV Analyze software can improve operator effectiveness by assessing unusual alarm, event and operator activity. Unlike other limited alarm-management approaches, DeltaV Analyze identifies these unusual occurrences, trends in plant alarms, control modules responsible for those alarms, and delivers information on structured web pages for rapid, easy access. DeltaV Analyze examines data from the plant Event Chronicle or Plant-Wide Event historian. It highlights the most frequent alarms and the control modules responsible for those alarms. The Overview display of this software provides a quick display of how alarms, events and user actions are trending month to month. Viewing this screen may be enough to determine if the production facility is operating at acceptable limits. More detailed information can be gathered by focusing in on an area, time period or event type. Information can be incorporated into other common desktop applications like Excel and Outlook.

GE Fanuc Automation

Municipal Water Package
To ensure the efficient delivery of potable water and the safe disposal of wastewater, municipal water systems have to be monitored and controlled around the clock. The Municipal Water Package allows municipalities to use this operational data to reduce energy and chemical costs. Based on the Proficy products, the package includes HMI/SCADA-iFIX, which provides process visualization, data acquisition and supervisory control. The Historian collects, archives and distributes large volumes of realtime, plant floor information to provide a window into manufacturing operations across all key metrics. Portal provides a web-based overview of all key metrics so municipalities can operate more efficiently.

OEM Edge software
OEM Edge software is designed to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) fuel machine growth and maximize profits. Two solution categories are specifically designed to address these goals: The first, InsideEdge Solutions, uses cutting-edge technology, applications and solutions to help OEMs improve their internal productivity and efficiency, while EdgeEnabled Solutions provide them with differentiating technology solutions that, in turn, help their customers distinguish themselves from the competition. EdgeTools include proof-of-concept hardware, development software, training, marketing tools, conversion services, application support and third-party device integration. GlobalCare Support Development software kits provide a quick and easy path to this solution provider’s OEM-focused products.

Proficy Batch Version 5.0
Proficy Batch Version 5.0 software delivers complete data collection, robust batch management, clear process visualization and powerful supervisory control capabilities. Batch Version 5.0 has been optimized to boost production efficiency, increase return on investment (ROI) and improve batch manufacturers’ ability to meet regulatory demands. Part of the Proficy Automation and Production software family, Proficy Batch Version 5.0 introduces new features such as “Batch Direct” to speed implementation and reduce costs. In addition, the software features improved analysis capabilities to increase batch quality, OPC 2.0 support for quicker connectivity, and Local Regional Support (LRS) and Multi-Language Support (MLS) reinforcing its capability to deliver global solutions.

Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX 4.0
The latest release of the Proficy HMI/SCADA iFIX 4.0 — a solution for the comprehensive monitoring, control and distribution of plant-wide data — offers enhanced functionality, including third-party PLC integration and improved operator productivity. It features innovative device-discovery and automated-configuration capabilities supporting the Siemens S7 PLC, with support for Rockwell (Allen-Bradley) PLC networks. iFIX 4.0 delivers on operator productivity by offering canned functionality to drill into tag details, instantly trend variables, view enterprise data through hosted portal displays and deliver thin-client connectivity to SCADA nodes through terminal services. A variety of drawing productivity tools and advanced capabilities for 3D piping and connected object management are included.

Proficy Historian
Proficy Historian software provides access to all production and process data, thus building a foundation for users to transform their operations with accurate, timely production information. Suitable for use in operations ranging from individual facilities to global manufacturers, the software empowers users to direct plant initiatives, including programs related to: overall equipment effectiveness, to maximize the return on assets; product quality, to reduce costs of manufacturing while maintaining customer satisfaction; inventory visibility, to optimize inventory levels; genealogy/traceability, to contain quality issues and limit warranty/recall exposure; and real-time reporting, to get the right information to the right people. These capabilities ensure the reliable collection of mission-critical data. The software is easy to configure and administer, and features: sub-second data collection; ultra-efficient data compression; scalable server configurations; and best-in-class storage and retrieval performance with precise time-stamp resolution. The software accommodates a wide range of data collectors, ensuring connectivity to many plant-floor data sources.

iFIX 4.5
The human-machine-interface supervisory control and data- acquisition (HMI/SCADA) software iFIX 4.5 provides comprehensive monitoring, control and data management. This new version addresses a wide range of customer-identified needs, advanced reliability to improved ease of use, while adding more power and flexibility. In producing this update, designers focused on making infrastructure improvements and customer-requested usability updates. The iFIX 4.5 supports operation on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The software automatically adopts the latest operating system look and feel throughout all of its applications and dialogs. Another major enhancement is dynamo versioning, which assigns names, version numbers and descriptions, to dynamos. Double-precision math in the iFIX Process Database translates to an ability to deliver 15 digits of data precision for all internal calculations and data use. Backwards compatibility will be achieved with existing systems while enabling newer iFIX nodes to leverage the new data precision.

Ocean Optics

SpectraSuite
SpectraSuite, a modular, Java-based software platform that operates on Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems, can control multiple Ocean Optics USB spectrometers and devices, and any other manufacturer’s USB instrumentation using the appropriate drivers. Applications include upwelling/downwelling measurements, dual-beam referencing and process monitoring. All visual and functional aspects of SpectraSuite’s interface, including the interface language, can be changed to create a fully branded application. For example, users can add or delete modules to create a proprietary user interface or functionality, create modules to perform calculations, or automate experiment routines. SpectraSuite manages multiple USB spectrometers in multiple windows and provides graphical and numeric representation of spectra from each. It provides the user with advanced control of episodic data capture. The captured data is stored at speeds of up to one scan per millisecond.

Viscotek

OmniSEC 4.1 GPC/SEC integrated software package
The OmniSEC 4.1 GPC/SEC integrated software package for multiple detection analysis helps maximize the information and efficiency of size separation experiments. Version 4.1 has the ability to calculate molecular weight of a protein sample without knowing the differential index of refraction (dn/dc) or concentration, as well as flow-injection polymer-analysis style calculations. Other excellent features include variable dn/dc and the powerful report designer. It is 21CFR Part 11 compliant and increases the information available from GPC/SEC experiments through enhancements to calibration calculations, copolymer analysis, overlays, multiple peak detection and data acquisition. Users have the flexibility of fixed baseline or different baseline and limit settings for each channel, and several new options are available for constructing the baseline.

Process Systems Enterprise Ltd.

gPROMS Advanced Model Library for Gas-Liquid Contactors
gPROMS Advanced Model Library for Gas-Liquid Contactors (AML:GLC) is an “open-model” library of high-fidelity, non-equilibrium component models for gas-liquid separation. It is designed to cover a wide range of separation operations, including conventional packed columns for distillation, absorption and evaporation, and more complex units such as heat-integrated devices, partition columns, partial condensers, compact heat and mass exchangers (dephlegmators), and falling-film columns. The approach used in the AML:GLC results in accurate information for decision support in optimization of process, equipment and control design and operations. Accuracy is achieved by using a rate-based approach that employs dual-flow hydrodynamics for estimation of heat and mass transfer, making the assumption of equilibrium only at the infinitesimally thin interface between gas and liquid films. Non-condensibles are handled rigorously in both phases.

SMGlobal

FastMaint CMMS 4.5 Maintenance Software
Version 4.5 of the FastMaint computerized maintenance management solution (CMMS) is one of the few maintenance software packages to pass Microsoft’s certification tests. Easy to install and use, FastMaint can schedule, manage and track both planned and preventive maintenance tasks. An integrated inventory system allows one to track inventory use and when to reorder parts. Maintenance managers can plan ahead and budget work for the week, month, quarter, year or any defined period. One can easily create work orders and collect feedback on jobs done. The multi-user Professional edition provides a way for non-maintenance personnel to submit maintenance requests. Users’ rights to view or change information can be restricted to protect maintenance data. Many third-party tools, such as report writers, data extraction utilities, etc., can also be integrated with the FastMaint database.

FastMaint Web CMMS 5.0
The web-browser version of FastMaint, the newly released FastMaint Web CMMS 5.0 is a computerized maintenance management solution (CMMS) that is well-suited for manufacturing plants and other industrial/commercial facilities. Customers have a choice of using a built-in web server or Microsoft’s Internet Information Server. Both planned and preventive maintenance tasks can be scheduled, managed and tracked. An integrated inventory system allows one to track inventory use and schedule the reordering of parts. Maintenance managers can plan ahead and budget work for the week, month, quarter, year or any defined period. Work orders can be easily created, while feedback on completed jobs can be collected efficiently. FastMaint Web also integrates work request management. Users’ rights to view or change information can be restricted to protect maintenance data.

Thermo Electron Corp.

Chromatography Resource Center
The web-based Chromatography Resource Center focuses on high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC) and solid-phase extraction (SPE) consumables and their use in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, environmental, chemical, and food and beverage industries. It features a virtual library that offers technical guidelines, application notes and recent scientific posters. One value-added benefit is a compendium listing more than 400 applications categorized by industry. Numerous tips have been compiled into an FAQ section, which focuses on theory, product operation and equipment maintenance, as well as method development and improvement. Interactive troubleshooting tools, including an email connection to technical support scientists get high marks in providing assistance.

Watson laboratory information management system
The Watson laboratory information management system (LIMS) is the subject of this datasheet aimed at scientists in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs). The bulletin provides an overview of the data processing capabilities of the LIMS, describes the system’s benefits, and discusses the challenges facing pharmaceutical firms and CROs to decrease costs while optimizing efficiency.

Invensys Process Systems

I/A Series distributed control systems
I/A Series distributed control systems take advantage of both the latest Enhanced Electronic Device Description Language (Enhanced EDDL) and Field Device Tools (FDT) technologies. This combination provides comprehensive lifecycle support to configure, calibrate, commission, diagnose and optimize the performance of any vendors’ Foundation fieldbus device. In cases where the device vendor supplies only traditional device descriptions (EDDL), the Field Device Manager lets the users add in additional functions, such as organizing their own live data maintenance screens and watch windows for each model of field device. The Field Device Manager also lets users set up templates for the commissioning behavior and attach supporting manuals, repair procedures and any other Windows files they find useful in device maintenance. If the device vendor supplies Enhanced EDDL, then template setup work is reduced because the device vendor has already organized many of the configuration and maintenance displays.

InFusion enterprise control system (ECS)
A 16-page brochure describes the InFusion enterprise control system (ECS), said to be the world’s first industrial system thatprovides a true enterprise view. InFusion combines capabilities from across Invensys with advanced enterprise information and integration technologies from Microsoft and SAP to reduce integration costs.

Tyco Thermal Controls

DigiTrace NGC-30
DigiTrace NGC-30 is an electronic control, monitoring and power distribution system for industrial heat-tracing applications. The system monitors temperatures, ground fault currents, operating currents and other variables, and can communicates this information either locally, to a user interface terminal, or remotely, via DigiTrace Supervisor software.

Flowserve Flow Control, Limitorque Actuation Systems

ValveAnalysis
A software plug-in that enables certain diagnostic tests to be run on its products is now available.  ValveAnalysis works with Emerson Process Management’s AMS Suite to run the Ramp Signature test for the identification of leaks in tubing fittings, improperly  aligned plugs and seats, loose linkage, broken actuator spring sand sticky spool valves. For the HDL test, the plug-in calculates the four standard diagnostic signatures — hysteresis, deadband, repeatability and linearity — by opening and closing valves. ValveAnalysis does not bypass AMS, thereby ensuring that a complete device history is maintained.

Honeywell

Business FLEX200
Business FLEX200 is an updated version of this company’s manufacturing execution system (MES) software. Designed to help facilities link process automation and production schedules, the software supports international versions of Windows and provides tools to translate user interfaces into local languages. The supplier says the software can boost production by 3–6% and lower costs by 2–3%.

Ionics, Inc.

Meriam Process Technologies

DPC Manager
DPC Manager software is typically used to update this instrument maker’s handheld devices with new firmware and HART communication files. A new data management option adds documenting function to the utility. Users can now retrieve saved calibration results and HART configurations from the handhelds. The data can then be saved in  csv format to spreadsheet applications, such as MS Excel.

National Institute of Standards and Technology

ionic solvents data
Chemical engineers can go online for up-to-date information on more than 200 ions and 300 ionic liquids. Thermodynamic, thermochemical and transport properties of pure ionic liquids, as well as binary and ternary mixtures can be found. A particularly valuable feature is a set of uniformly calculated uncertainties for each data point, making it easier to compare the quality of different measurements

Parijat

HMI/SCADA system
This human machine interface/supervisory control and data acquisition (HMI/SCADA) system operates independently of third-party software. Instead, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net 2005 can be used to intuitively build HMI/SCADA applications that support an infinite number of tags or points. Net-managed applications can be deployed without a rental license. Programming is not required for display animations, because the system uses Microsoft native objects and allows users to create their own objects, as well. 

Sulzer Chemtech

Sulcol 1.0
The next generation of tower internals design software package, Sulcol 1.0 merges two previously independent design programs, Sulpak 3.3 for rings and packings and Sultray C 7.0 for trays, into a single, robust and user-friendly design package. The program is based on thousands of actual applications in industrial columns and experimental data obtained from the designer’s own test columns. Customers can apply for a one-time download of the entire package from the company’s website.

Iconics

Alarm Analytics Module
Customers using ReportWorX and AlarmWorX32 can now utilize standards-based alarm management, as well as reporting and analysis tools, within an Excel environment, the new alarm analytics module. The software meets OSHA specifications and provides 15 report templates for key performance indicators, including alarm distribution and cross correlations.

Honeywell International

Logic Beach

IntelliLogger
The IntelliLogger is a portable data-logging system with network-enabled data collection and retrieval for remote monitoring. HyperWare-II drop-and-drag programming enables the system to quickly creates program by connecting a series of program and process icons. With built-in Ethernet and web-serving capabilities, the new insrument allows the monitoring of equipment and the presentation of logger-acquired information via a web browser. IntelliLogger allows the automated dissemination of data through features such as web-presented data and control, data FTP actions, email of alarms and data, and web pages.

Experion C300 controllers
The Experion C300 controllers have been certified by Mu Security’s Mu-400 security analyzer as meeting industry-defined security standards. The Experion system prevents IP-based process controllers from being compromised, as well as and the problems normally associated with a security breach, including safety issues, regulatory requirement violations and loss of confidential information. The system integrates with safety measures dispersed throughout a manufacturing facility to reduce risk to employees and plant assets. It also increases process availability and improves regulatory compliance.

Yokogawa Electric Corp.

ProSafe-RS controllers
With an eye on the capital-intensive oil, natural gas, and petrochemical markets, this instrument maker has added optical remote control to its ProSafe-RS controllers. This new feature enables closer integration with the company’s Centum CS3000 R3 production control system. Typically, an instrument panel room and safety controller are installed in each process to monitor and operate safety field devices, such as emergency shutdown valves. ProSafe-RS’s optical remote-control function allows the instrument panel rooms and safety controller to be installed in a single location, for remote monitoring and operation. Safety field devices can be operated from the CS3000 R3 terminals. It is also possible to connect the ProSafe-RS system via HART communications with Yokogawa’s Plant Resource Manager software, an asset management system that integrates and manages maintenance information from field instruments.

Chemineer, Inc

Agitators
Top-entry and side-entry agitators, static mixers and other products designed to handle harsh flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) applications are available in stainless steel, high alloys or rubber-covered carbon steel. The corrosion- and erosion resistance found in these materials is an important benefit for abrasive FGD applications. This manufacturer also has the R&D capability to model any FGD mixing application.

GF Piping Systems

System Selection Tool
Design engineers can use this online, interactive, system selection tool and application library to choose the appropriate products and accessories from the Signet line of flow instrumentation, as well as measurement devices for pH, ORP, conductivity, resistivity, temperature and pressure. The tool narrows down the user’s choices through a series of questions and options for sensor type, pipe size, material type, fluid, and flow, temperature and pressure ranges, as well as a comparison chart. The application library features a searchable tutorial-style data bank that includes an introduction to system applications, detailed schematics, technical information and articles on specific industries. Once system selection is finalized, a complete list of products and their part numbers can be printed for reference or e-mailed to place an order. Additional details are available via links to product data sheets and operating manuals.

The Pipe Line Development Co.

Piping Repair and Maintenance Products
Available in CD ROM and via the company’s website, this 16-page catalog presents a full line of piping repair and maintenance products. It includes an updated overview of product features and benefits, which are illustrated in 4-color photos. The online version allows visitors to request a product quote by filling out a form, and has an option for submitting questions and comments. Users can also search the website for the nearest sales representative or distributor.

Whitehouse Scientific

Microspheres for Size Calibration
This CD-based catalog brings together information on a full range of standards for particle sizing, sieve calibration, filter testing and a variety of other specialized applications for precision glass microspheres. Included are detailed product specifications, technical reports, price lists and instructional video clips.

Compliance Assistance Center
 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is establishing a compliance assistance center to help colleges and universities understand and comply with environmental laws. Harnessing the power of the Internet, this center will provide tools and information for improving environmental management on campuses. It will also offer a virtual campus tour online that will enable users to quickly and easily target priority issues. Like many corporations and manufacturing plants, colleges and universities maintain many types of operations, including laboratories, utility generation and transmission plants, food-processing operations and water-distribution systems. Similarly, they face a range of environmental management challenges.

3E Company

Ariel Expert Rules
Working in conjunction with the substance database in the SAP EH&S application, Ariel Expert Rules streamlines the global chemical regulatory management process and reduces the amount of time spent researching, understanding and applying chemical and regulatory information. It can be run against both mixtures and components, and can make determinations using basic data, such as physical-chemical properties, toxicological test results and safety data, in the same way a material safety data sheet (MSDS) author would. The resulting information can automatically populate sections of various MSDSs and other critical documents to help eliminate variations in authoring and ensure that country-specific requirements are met consistently and efficiently. Ariel Expert Rules is based on Ariel Regulatory Content, which encompasses more than 700 searchable chemical lists and more than 60 countries.

Chemical Approval module
For use with the two latest versions of this company’s material safety data sheet (MSDS) management systems, the Chemical Approval module streamlines chemical requests and approvals for customers using and storing chemicals. Managers can perform a hazard assessment of their MSDSs and review main hazard information and fire code along with other environmental safety and health regulatory reports necessary to safely use and store hazardous materials onsite. The customer can also evaluate this data to determine if there is an opportunity to substitute a safer alternative or reduce the number of items in their chemical inventory. The module works with the company’s Online MSDS Standard Edition and Online-MSDS Expert Edition.

REACH module
Designed for use with the vendor’s online material safety data sheet (MSDS) management system, the online REACH module gives customers support in complying with Europe's Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) regulatory framework for chemical substances. It allows users to categorize products by REACH requirements, upload annual production-volume data, and calculate substance tonnage in order to determine a course of action for each requirement. After this information is compiled, the module helps users deformulate mixtures by volume and by REACH role, which helps in identifying products that require pre-registration. Customers can track inventories by downstream-user products and provide manufacturers with use information by substance. RegImpact, a companion module, facilitates REACH compliance by determining whether any products contain substances that are likely to appear on the candidate list or result in authorization requirements. It also provides access to the Ariel chemical regulatory database, and an expanded regulatory impact analysis feature that helps users to better understand the impact of regulatory changes on their raw materials, components and products.

Ansys, Inc.

Icewave Version 1.1
 Having acquired Fluent, a provider of computational fluid dynamics, and its Icewave and Icepack technologies, this company has released Version 1.1 of Icewave. For analysis of electromagnetic compatibility and interference (EMC/EMI) in electronic systems, the new version features a 64-bit solver that allows users to solve complex systems without being restricted by memory limitations of 32-bit operating systems. Through seamless sharing of the model geometry with Icepak thermal design software, EM-thermal co-simulation can be set up in several minutes, making engineering workflows that require thermal and EM analyses easier. This capability allows system designers of high-performance electronics systems to dramatically reduce time from concept to market by simulating electronic design in a single CAD environment. The shielding effectiveness of the investigated models may be calculated on demand. The introduction of surface impedance boundary conditions for coatings and resistive wires allows users to model finite-thickness conductor losses in high-frequency simulations.

FLUENT 6.3
Core solver improvements are the main focus of the recently released FLUENT 6.3 computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. A pressure-based coupled solver joins the existing solver options and improves solution efficiency, as well as convergence and robustness for many cases. Also new are polyhedral meshes, which allow the flexibility of an unstructured mesh to be applied to complex geometries without the overhead associated with a large tetrahedral mesh. The automatic nature of the techniques used to create polyhedral meshes saves the user time, and, since a polyhedral mesh contains many fewer cells than the corresponding tetrahedral mesh, convergence is faster. With FLUENT 6.3,  dynamic mesh capabilities for modeling moving objects, such as impellers in baffled mixing tanks, can now be applied to a series of related steady-state simulations, reducing the amount of time that a user spends on pre-processing. Additional new functionality adds flexibility for simulating complex object motion. Reacting flow simulations benefit from new models for slow chemistry and micromixing. Emissions modeling is more comprehensive through the addition of new SOx and NOx modeling capabilities. Multiphase modeling continues to be an area of focus. The software offers improvements to the accuracy of transient multiphase solutions, as well as enhancements that extend the regimes in which multiphase models can be applied.

Emerson Process Management

In-plant Smart Wireless solutions
 Carefully leading the way to a wireless manufacturing environment, this company has introduced In-plant Smart Wireless solutions. Extensions of the company’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture, these solutions combine wireless network technology and gateways with wireless-enabled measurement transmitters and wireless predictive maintenance software, and seamlessly integrate them with automation systems, or legacy hosts. Incremental information gained from the use of Smart Wireless solutions helps customers understand their processes and identify opportunities for improvement. The data can improve response time to safety incidents, minimize emissions, and help protect the environment. The company reports its trial wireless customers have experienced 99.9 % network reliability, industrial-strength security, long battery life, and as much as a 90% reduction in installed cost.

Delta V controller and firewall system
Having passed Achilles Level 1 Certification Testing, the DeltaV controller and firewall system meets the cyber-security needs of industrial automation controllers by protecting the implementation of common protocols such as Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP and UPD. Separating control systems from non-control systems, DeltaV operates as a private network and features both anti-virus protection and role-based user security. Installation of the system ensures that the controller can survive most security incidents, which  allows users to better plan security updates around process activities rather than the converse.

Environmental Data Resources, Inc.

Industrial Biotechnology Corp.

ALCHEM Production Platforms
 ALCHEM Production Platforms are proprietary processes for the design, development, scaleup and optimization of specific chemical compounds. The ALCHEM Biocatalysis production platform uses special proteins called designer enzymes to transform low-value materials into high-value compounds, while the ALCHEM Biosynthesis production platform harnesses cells to convert simple raw materials into complex high-value molecules. The platforms enable the design, development and manufacture of more than 40,000 biological chemical compounds used in a variety of applications including: flavors and fragrances, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, agricultural, biopesticides, bio-energy, biomaterials and biopolymers.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

OnDemand online subscription service
 When law firms and corporations have to conduct environmental research for due diligence in the acquisition of new assets, new construction projects, environmental audits, background research for litigation and, increasingly, for compliance purposes and environmental financial reporting, these firms would manually search relevant local databases, which has traditionally been a time-intensive, inexact and costly process. OnDemand is an online, subscription service that allows realtime aggregation and access to environmental information from more than 800 federal, state, local and tribal sources. Subscribers pay an annual fee to secure unlimited access to research. Through an easy-to-use, Web-based application, users can perform the research they need from any location with Internet access.

Incuity Software

Incuity EMI Batch Analysis Reports
Designed for use with Emerson Process Management’s DeltaV batch and continuous historians, these off-the-shelf Incuity EMI Batch Analysis Reports integrate plant-floor production data and enterprise business information from disparate sources and provide context for the data so that users can make better business decisions. This reporting solution enables users to analyze information using Microsoft Excel and the firm’s analytical tools, and to publish graphs, reports and dashboards via the firm’s portal for viewing using standard web browsers. The first elements available in this batch-reporting solution include: S88 equipment model import from DeltaV; S88 procedural model import from DeltaV; pre-configured batch-analysis reports, such as batch-end report (including process variables, alarms, and operator change events within the context of the batch); and cycle-time comparisons. Also available are analysis reports broken out by procedure, unit procedure, operation, phase and control module for alarms (warning and critical), occurrence of batch holds, time batches in held state, and operator change events.

Outokumpu Technology

HSC Chemistry 6.0
The recently released HSC Chemistry 6.0 process calculation software contains 21 calculation modules and 11 databases for reaction, equilibrium, heat balance, heat transfer, petrological and simulation applications. Most of the calculation modules automatically utilize the same extensive thermochemical database, which contains enthalpy (H), entropy (S) and heat capacity (C) data. This database has been expanded to include over 20,000 species. HSC Chemistry 6.0 also features the new HSC flowsheet simulation module that makes it possible to: optimize process output and minimize waste materials; identify metering errors; and improve the understanding of process interdependencies. The HSC flowsheet enables the pre-test simulation of the effect of recycling streams, raw materials and different operating conditions on process efficiency and emissions, all on a desktop computer without needing to disrupt the actual process.

InduSoft

InduSoft Web Studio
HMI/SCADA users and systems integrators can now take advantage of the latest Microsoft security improvements and graphical capabilities. Compatible with Vista and other Microsoft operating systems, InduSoft Web Studio is said to be the only HMI/SCADA solution that runs on virtually every type of hardware in the automation and control industry. Cell phones, PDAs, embedded computers and panel computers, industrial devices, and desktop workstations with dual-core processors and high-power graphic cards that take full advantage of new features in Vista, will all receive continued support from the software developer. New users can also design a solution on Vista from the outset. According the firm, because InduSoft Web Studio uses the same PC-based development system, users can configure anything from real-time, embedded controls to remote data acquisition systems and control room HMI/SCADA systems, as well as historians and database systems — all using the same development software.

ESS

ESS Crisis
ESS Crisis is a robust browser-based solution that provides fast, easy, reliable information management for real-time response operations. The system can be adapted to fit any incident management structure and its intuitive interface is so simple to use that new team members can be up and running in just a few minutes. Available as a secure hosted, on-demand or onsite system, ESS Crisis features automated remote notification, which uses text-to-speech technology to send urgent messages to regulators, responders or stakeholders. It also comes with Microsoft Virtual Earth, a tightly integrated spatial information module that provides online mapping with oblique (bird’s eye), satellite and aerial imagery of an incident site. The ESS Crisis’ Emergency Message Center provides a full record of routine and crisis-related activities, and facilitates easy access to data detailing: deployed resources; completed standard operating procedures (SOP); shelter openings; completed notifications; casualties/impacts; and evacuated facilities. Its Task Tracking feature stores, displays and dynamically tracks operational progress by creating checklists for multiple concurrent functional and hazard-specific tasks

Flomerics

Engineering Fluid Dynamics (EFD) version 7.3
Three new features are offered in version 7.3 of this firm’s Engineering Fluid Dynamics (EFD) analysis, which consists of EFD.Lab, EFD.V5 for CATIA V5 and EFD.Pro for Pro/ENGINEER. The first feature is 64-bit processor support. The EFD family can now be run on 64-bit machines. As a result, users will be able to analyze very large problems, those generally regarded as too large or too time consuming, directly on the desktop. With a scalable solution that can readily adapt to user needs, the EFD suite can now be deployed across the enterprise. The second feature is an integrated interface with MSC Patran. To help engineers solve design problems involving both fluid and structural issues, EFD results can now be applied as loads for structural analysis inside Patran, the popular MSC pre- and postprocessor. Fully integrated into Patran, the automated interface drastically reduces the amount of time necessary for updating analysis models. The third feature is support of CATIA V5 R17. To ensure full compatibility with the latest release of CATIA, EFD.V5 now offers full support of CATIA V5 R17 in both 32- and 64-bit formats. Therefore organizations who have standardized on CATIA V5 R17 can maintain an up-to-date development platform.

CD-adapco

STAR-CD V4.02
STAR-CD V4.02, the second major release of this simulation tool for computational continuum mechanics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), provides direct access to the latest automatic surface cleaning and mesh generation technology from within a single integrated environment. Pioneered in sister code STAR-CCM+, this technology can reduce the time-to-mesh from days to hours. According to the software developer, “the combination of high-quality automatic polyhedral mesh generation and efficient solver technology will result in improved ease-of-use, faster turnaround times and increased solution accuracy, for all classes of flow, in all application areas.” STAR-CD V4.02 allows users to simulate flow, thermal and stress problems in a single solver, using a single computational mesh, without the hassle of solution mapping or data transfer. The company notes that “these capabilities will rapidly mature and open the door to routine analysis of a range of applications, such as strongly coupled fluid/solid interaction problems and mold-filling, that were either very difficult or impossible to solve before

Metropolitan Computing Corp. (MCC)

Tableting and Granulation End-Point Calculator
Designed for optimizing and scaling-up tableting and granulation processes, this software tool is now available as a 30-day trial version that can be downloaded at www.mcc-online.com. The tool includes tableting and granulation end-point calculators, comprehensive help, and references. Among the many features of the tableting calculator, it can evaluate at what speed different production presses can offer the minimum satisfactory consolidation time, and what tablet output can be expected from different presses at that optimal speed. It can also calculate performance efficiency factors (e.g., feeding, consolidation and ejection efficiency numbers). One of the key features of the granulation end-point calculator is its ability to determine the net impeller power for various wet mass conditions (using density, viscosity, fill ratio, mixer speed, blade radius, or Newton (power), Froude or Reynolds dimensionless numbers).

Sparta Systems

TrackWise enterprise process-management software system
TrackWise is an enterprise process-management software system that enables companies to strategically ensure compliance, improve control, reduce risk, and lower costs by consolidating management of issues and actions, automating workflow, and facilitating trending and reporting. TrackWise is offered with pre-packaged, industry-specific solutions and is also fully configurable to meet specific business needs. TrackWise quality management software and its Training Manager functionality enables organizations to manage corporate-wide training policies and requirements using a centralized, fully automated, business-rules-driven electronic training system. It features a common user interface that provides a distinct advantage over other software solutions that provide a module-based approach. TrackWise training management features include: curriculum management; automated scheduling; integrated training workflow and tracking; escalation; integrated corrective and preventive action (CAPA) and change control; and reporting.

DigAnaRS

DARS V1.0
 The brainchild of Professor Fabian Mauss from the Univ. of Cottbus in Germany, DARS V1.0 is an easy-to-use tool for simulating complex chemistry with complicated kinetic mechanisms in engineering applications. DARS’s reaction reduction capabilities deliver significant times savings compared to computational models. Its Java graphical user interface (GUI) and object-oriented programming result in an intuitive and familiar working environment. Existing links to many of the leading 1D and 3D flow codes ensure that DARS is tailored to complement existing computer-aided-engineering (CAE) toolsets. DARS also provides users with a transparent workbench for developing reactor models, giving access to solver variables.

ExperTune

ProcessApex
Based on the expert advice of Greg Shinskey and others, ProcessApex provides real-time advice for process unit operations. It handles unit operations from simple to complex. Individual process objects include common operations, such as heat exchangers, dryers and distillation columns. Each “smart” unit operation provides real-time performance metrics that address throughput, quality, reliability and cost. A direct link with the company’s PlantTriage system allows users to drill down into specific performance issues. Benchmarking tools help users to squeeze additional value from process performance information. This includes tools for benchmarking within and between similar unit operations over time. When used at a corporate level, the tools can help drive capital spending decisions, resolving questions like “Where should I add more production capacity?”

PlantTriage
The new visual modeling tools of PlantTriage result in improved dynamic process models. Drag-and-drop modeling allows the user to take test data and drag the model curve to match the actual response curve. The program then finds a dynamic process model that reflects the visually designed response. This model gives optimal proportional-integral- derivative controller (PID) values, simulating responses to upsets and noise. Drag-and-drop modeling is fully compatible with PlantTriage’s Active Model Capture Technology, which automatically tracks operator setpoint moves and incorporates them into the model. The resulting model can then be fine-tuned using the drag-and-drop features.

LABTrack LLC

LABTrack Pro electronic laboratory notebook
The LABTrack Pro electronic laboratory notebook is a thin-client application that can be used with both PCs and Macintoshes running browsers such as Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari. LABTrack Pro’s new Smart-XForms allows users to create and apply fully searchable templates on LABTrack’s lab notebook pages. Created with the built-in word processor, Smart-XForms can contain text, spreadsheets, form elements, rules and calculations. These user-defined forms are automatically indexed and the form’s captions and values made available for users to search across notebooks. LABTrack Pro has built-in functionality for cGMP, GLP and 21 CFR Part 11 requirements. The integrity of the notebook data is addressed with automatic data validation routines that ensure that notebook pages can be used as electronic evidence in a U.S. court of law and with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Licenses are offered starting at 5 users and going up to 5,000 users.

SIS-TECH Solutions LP

SIL Solver
SIL Solver is an advisory software package intended for use in verifying the safety integrity level (SIL) of safety instrumented functions (SIF) and other protective instrumented functions (PIF). It uses globally recognized calculation methods defined in appropriate standards and methodologies including: ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004/IEC 61511; ISA TR84.00.02; and CCPS Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis (CPQRA). Using a Microsoft Windows graphical user interface (GUI), the software integrates an extensive device database with simplified fault-tree-analysis equations to form a SIL verification tool. In addition to calculating the probability to fail on demand average (PFDavg), SIL Solver also calculates the mean time to failure spurious (MTTFsp) thereby ensuring that the SIS/PIF design meets the desired reliability. The device database is password-protected and includes dangerous and spurious failure rates, common cause factors, diagnostic intervals, and diagnostic coverage for more than 150 devices. Each device datasheet lists the assumptions made relative to the device boundary, diagnostics, common cause factor, and data source. Default data cannot be changed or altered, ensuring user assessments are always performed with approved data.

Strucsoft Solutions Inc.

PVGEN Pro
 PVGEN Pro creates an intelligent 3D AutoCAD-based model of any pressure vessel by reading and preserving the geometry, specifications, and material properties from the equivalent Compress file. Once the 3D model is generated, users can refine it by directly editing components, such as nozzles, modifying clearances, and adding supporting and miscellaneous steel structures. When the design is complete, PVGEN Pro can generate a bill of materials, including vessel and structural steel components; nozzle schedules; 2D drawings, including layout, cross-sectional, and shop drawings; and manufacturing instructions via CNC output to various machines, including Vernon Tool pipe-cutting machines, industry beam lines such as Peddinghaus, and plate cutters.

PAS

ControlWizard
The ControlWizard Control-Loop Performance Monitoring (CLPM) technology is now equipped with full multivariable predictive control (MPC) capability. These new capabilities are compatible with all types of multivariable control applications, including DMCPlus and other similar MPC technologies to deliver clear and concise benchmarks of MPC performance. Multivariable control has long provided significant benefits to the process industries, but most MPC applications require dedicated maintenance by skilled professionals. ControlWizard changes that by providing comprehensive and automated monitoring of installed applications, allowing process plants to achieve higher application performance and uptime. ControlWizard-MV constantly monitors and analyzes MPC performance, highlighting areas requiring attention to MPC engineers. The key to its success and ease-of-use is the ability to condense the performance analysis of complicated MPC applications down to just two key performance indicators. Based on these indicators, engineers can drill down to obtain additional information, statistics, data trends, and reports to help diagnose and rectify any MPC performance problem.

Integrity 2.0
Integrity 2.0 is the latest release of a highly successful automation-configuration-management solution software that is already installed at over 500 sites worldwide. This new version provides a single web view to all real-time data flow and automation assets across the plant, making it especially well-suited to meeting the needs of operations, maintenance and safety personnel at process manufacturing facilities. The software logs all changes to real-time infrastructure so that authorized users can view the actual system and application interdependencies normally only available to the control system administrators. Integrity encompasses every major control system as well as instrument databases, distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, historians and multivariable controllers.

SAP AG

TechniData AG

SAP Module for Reach Compliance
This new software, a result of the partnership between SAP and TechniData, integrates all phases of the newly enacted European Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) legislation to help organizations protect their brand and reputation while driving higher growth and stakeholder trust. REACH legislation requires specific documentation and data from more than 6,000 chemical-related companies for the handling of 30,000+ substances entering the European markets. Initially addressing the pre-registration phase of the legislation, in which companies determine which chemicals need to be tracked, the new functionality for REACH enables substance volume tracking capability based on the SAP EH&S application. In parallel, the functionality provides project management capabilities to define registration projects and activities. Moreover, it supports the management, collaborative usage and access of documents related to the registration process, allowing internal and external groups to work together while enabling a transparent, streamlined and reliable business process.

Thermo Scientific

QuickQuan 2.0
QuickQuan 2.0 delivers rapid LC-MS/MS optimization through an automated online infusion mode and valve switching design, allowing precise auto-tuning with high sensitivity and maximizing successful automated quantification of chemically diverse compounds. The unique autosampler infusion feature enables automated compound optimization. All analytical information can be stored in Microsoft Access or Oracle databases, which facilitates rapid data exchange across global networks. QuickQuan 2.0 is available as a pre-packaged hardware solution that enables column switching without guess work or plumbing. With this solution, users are able to proceed from optimization to sample acquisition without interruptions. QuickQuan 2.0 includes templates for the automated generation of both instrument and processing methods, thereby eliminating the need to create methods manually when studying a large number of compounds. The software also allows users to automatically generate customizable Excel summaries and Xreports, minimizing time required for data processing and review.

AcquiData Inc.

Testream/CS 7.0
Designed for use in quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) applications, the recently released Testream/CS 7.0 features the data-reporting tool ReportWriter. Employing an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Report-Writer enables users to combine different data elements, such as spreadsheets, graphs, control charts, Word documents, into one report. ReportWriter, coupled with the firm’s Testream/CS Real Time Display Program, offers two ways to access test results — in real time as automatically updated web pages viewable over their company’s intranet, or as print, html or Excel spreadsheets. With instrument interface programs numbering in the hundreds, out-of-tolerance alarming capabilities, and new extensive reporting tools, Testream/CS can stand alone or easily integrate with other manufacturing execution systems (MES), process control or business information systems.

Applikon Biotechnology B.V.

i-ControlXL platform
Designed for the bioprocessing market, the i-ControlXL platform offers industrial power, reliability and expandability using standard programmable logic controllers (PLC) and distributed control systems (DCS). The platform addresses critical issues, such as high-throughput screening, scaling up and down, and the requirements of the FDA’s process analytical technology (PAT) initiative. Key features of the i-ControlXL include: intuitive navigation; a color touch-screen interface; optional bioreactor controls; optional pumps and sensors; the ability to use the same system to control autoclavable vessels; and single-use bioreactors or SIP/CIP systems. Users can choose among Siemens, Allen Bradley and Delta V controllers for their applications. Additionally, i-ControlXL uses fieldbus technology, adheres to S88 guidelines and features open system architecture.

Mettler Toledo

LabX direct Density and Refractometry
Designed to provide users with easy result and calibration data transfer to a PC, LabX direct Density and Refractometry gives operators a choice of parameters to transfer. Featuring simple installation and setup, its method of operations are intuitive and its performance is fast. This software interface supports the downloading of both the entire results data memory and partial downloads from Refracto and Densito portable meters. This way, the user can customize the output or choose a whole day’s worth of field data work to be downloaded when returned to home base. Using this software, the data can be transferred directly and automatically into Microsoft Excel or any other Windows-based PC application.

Dynaflow, Inc.

2DynaFS/3DynaFS
Designed to simulate unsteady incompressible fluid flows in the presence of free surfaces, such as those encountered in multiphase flows, the 2DynaFS/3DynaFS is a suite of boundary-element-method based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes. They are capable of handling the dynamics of single or multiple bubbles near solid boundaries or free surfaces. The codes can also process bubble dynamics near a submerged object and deformation in a non-union fluid flow, the dynamics of free surface waves, and the generation of surface waves by a floating or submerged body motion. 2DynaFS is an axisymmetric version of 3DynaFS with an easy-to-use graphical user interface.

DynaEIT
DynaEIT is a suite of algorithms designed to solve electrical impedance tomography (EIT) problems. In EIT, the distribution of conductivity inside a container is determined by applying currents (or voltages) at locations along the container surface and measuring the voltages (or currents) at other locations. Equations for the electric field then provide relationships between measured voltages and currents and the conductivity distribution inside the domain. Because different materials have different conductivities, EIT produces a conductivity map that provides an image of the material distribution in the container. The DynaEIT software makes use of both the dipole approximation method and a singular boundary-element method to rapidly solve the “forward” problem of determining voltage and current distributions for a known conductivity distribution in the imaged domain in two and three dimensions. The inverse problem of image reconstruction using the measured voltages and/or currents is solved by multi-dimensional minimization procedures, such as Powell’s direction set method, the downhill simplex method, genetic algorithms and multi-objective minimization based on Pareto sets. These algorithms are suitable for non-destructive evaluation of structures and materials, multi-phase flows in the oil and gas, chemical and energy industries, imaging of container leakage, and detection of chemical reactive flows.

DF_Contour
DF_Contour generates publication-ready graphs and contours from numerical and experimental data. It can also produce a screen animation of a succession of color maps or graphs. This simple and inexpensive tool can be used to represent and analyze up to 16 different data sets or graphs simultaneously. A user needs to input ASCII-formatted data with a one-word descriptor (e.g., #vector, #scalar) before each dataset for DF_Contour to identify the type of data and represent it properly. These types include vector and scalar fields, shapes, curves and markers. The intuitive software followsfamiliar Windows interface and commands.

ChemSW Inc.

CISPro Global and CISPro Live chemical inventory systems
New functionality enables users of CISPro Global and CISPro Live chemical inventory systems to perform real-time tracking of cylinder gas in inventory, providing complete continuous accountability for all cylinders any time and from any location and allowing all inventory to be managed in the same system. The software uses the existing bar-code identification on the manufacturer’s label or ID tag along with CISPro’s unique tracking number to organize data in a web-based database. Once in the CISPro database, users can check the status and location of any cylinder with absolute, validatable assurance that the cylinder data are correct, so cylinders will not get “lost” either at the organization’s site or in transit during shipping. This eliminates shipping and receiving disputes and the over-purchasing of gases, resulting in improved purchasing efficiency.

Wolfram Research, Inc.

Mathematica 6
Mathematica 6 is said to take computing to a new level thanks primarily to its “instant interactivity” feature, which takes models, simulations, computations and many other concepts, and turns them into fully interactive applications. Demonstrations of the quick transformation of ideas to results are available at demonstrations.wolfram.com. Mathematica 6 also features the integrated development environment (IDE). Together with the software’s advanced programming language, the IDE makes Mathematica 6 ideal for infrastructure development. Some additional key new features of the software include: high-impact adaptive visualization for the automated creation of high-fidelity function and data graphics; language for data integration, including automatic integration of hundreds of standard data formats; load-on-demand curated data for math, physics, chemistry, finance, geography, linguistics, and more; symbolic interface construction for the immediate creation of arbitrary interfaces from simple programs; automated computational aesthetics, with algorithmic optimization for visual presentation; and unification of active graphics and controls into flowing text and input. 

CyboSoft, General Cybernation Group, Inc.

Model-Free Adaptive (MFA) Control Toolbox for MATLAB
The Model-Free Adaptive (MFA) Control Toolbox for MATLAB solves very complex control problems in process-control, building-control and equipment-control applications. It enables users to simulate, test and evaluate MFA controllers on sophisticated process models built in the MATLAB/ Simulink environment. The MFA Control Toolbox includes a set of embedded MFA controller S-functions that work as control function blocks in the Simulink environment. The standard edition includes the following controllers: SISO MFA to replace PID, and control simple to complex processes; nonlinear MFA to control extremely nonlinear processes; anti-delay MFA to control processes with large time delays; robust MFA to force the process variable to stay within defined bounds; feedforward MFA to deal with measurable disturbances; and MFA pH controller to control pH processes. The professional edition of the software includes the six standard controllers plus the following seven: MIMO MFA controllers to control multivariable processes; MFA Sharp controller to achieve tight control for both step and varying setpoint changes; flex-phase MFA controller to control open-loop oscillating processes; anti-inverse MFA controller to control processes with large process time constant and delay time changes; anti-delay MFA pH controller to control pH processes with large time delays; and MFA XRT controller to control exothermalreaction runaway process with large time delays.

Industrial Defender, Inc.

Industrial Defender Version 3.0
Industrial Defender Version 3.0 is the latest release in this risk-mitigation technology software suite designed for the real-time process control and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) environments. Enhanced features include support for Cisco and Secure Computing firewalls, intrusion detection for power substations, and increased product scalability. The suite comes equipped with a remote host-intrusion detection system suitable for process-control host systems incapable of running third-party software.

Environmental Support Solutions

Essential Performance Manager
Essential Performance Manager enables organizations to measure and communicate about how their environmental, health and safety (EH&S) and crisis management programs are operating so decision-makers can manage the business more effectively. The software provides an intuitive and flexible data-collection framework with powerful reporting and analytic tools for tracking key performance indicators, incident data and other metrics in order to drive process improvements. As the business intelligence engine of Essential Suite, Essential Performance Manager includes a browser-based interface and optimized data mart that enables users to create or manage performance indicators using data from other Essential Suite modules, including those for air, water, waste, emergency response, compliance and tasking. Essential Performance Manager analyzes these results and generates easy-to-read dashboard displays and reports.

Essential Suite 7.1
Essential Suite 7.1 is scalable from plant-level to global deployments and includes a comprehensive, fully integrated set of environment, health and safety (EH&S) and crisis-management modules. It leverages critical data, information and best practices from a common database across business enterprises, focusing on five urgent business concerns: greenhouse gases and global climate change, worker health and safety, environmental compliance, emergency planning and response, and corporate social responsibility reporting. The software provides a tangible framework that aligns employees’ daily work activities and business processes with the organization’s strategic objectives and goals for sustainability. Global usability enhancements allow users to personalize each interface, simplifying and speeding up data entry with more-intuitive workflow and access to frequently used forms and data. The Essential Incident module makes it easy to collect and manage a wide range of incident information, and to analyze and prioritize workplace health and safety risks. The Essential Audit module ena