http://www.che.com Chemical Engineering en-us 2013 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 6:31:45 EDT A document linker has been added to this company’s Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System. The ERP software system offers a built-in electronic document management system... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/6610.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 0:00:00 EDT With the introduction of the manufacturing execution system (MES) InfoCarrier, this firm has bridged the gap between management and production, even for complex, continuous production processes... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/7238.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 0:00:00 EDT Version 7 of TrakSYS process management software has been updated to improve intelligence-based decision making and facilitate realtime data exchange... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/7446.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 0:00:00 EDT When it comes to managing regulatory documents such as product labels, bills of lading, and certificates of analysis (COA), virtually all manufacturers in the chemical process industries (CPI) face the same challenge — getting the right information into the right document formats for every shipment... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/5895.html Sun, 1 Aug 2010 0:00:00 EDT In recent years, a growing number of projects throughout the chemical process industries (CPI) have been carried out using Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) contracts. Because such contracts typically involve the work of numerous subcontractor parties, they tend to be complex. As such, specialized tools are required to manage their information- and project-management needs.... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/4771.html Fri, 1 May 2009 0:00:00 EDT Process engineers understand how to harness the power of closed-loop multi-variable control in their plants. The evolution of digital control in the chemical process industries (CPI) has provided that power. Yet digital control represents just one facet of optimization and improvement within operations. With increased digitization, the universes of process control and information technology (IT) are colliding. In most plants, the different systems and applications that have been deployed around process control systems largely remain isolated in their silos and from business processes. ... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/4170.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT As fuel prices continue to rise, energy management is everyone’s business Market trends suggest that the demand for energy resources will rise dramatically over the next 25 years with the global demand for all energy sources forecast to grow by 57% and the U.S. demand for all types of energy expected... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/4090.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Incuity Software, a supplier of Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) software, has been acquired by Rockwell Automation (Milton Keynes, U.K.; www.rockwellautomation.co.uk). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Rockwell Automation said that the acquisition will help it expand its FactoryTalk... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/3830.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 0:00:00 EDT Plant maintenance is one of the disciplines in a chemical process environment that uses gigabytes of technical and operational data on a daily basis. Of course, managing an industrial plant involves a large amount of data, which can be acquired, stored and represented in numerous formats for many different uses (such as financial, safety, sales and maintenance). How those data can be put to meaningful use for improved plant performance is a common concern in a majority of these settings.... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/3606.html Tue, 15 Jan 2008 0:00:00 EST The globalization of the economy is making the world a smaller place and leading businesses — the chemical process industries (CPI) included — to source, produce and sell material in foreign lands. Politics aside, the trend has the potential to wreak havoc on the supply chain, logistics and... http://www.che.com/software_automation_and_control/information_technology/enterprise_resource_planning/3493.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 0:00:00 EST