Plant Services - January 2008 - (Page 16) UP AND RUNNING INDUstRy bRIefs extensive testing, based on Foundation fieldbus communication, was performed by the Shell Global Solutions test laboratories in Amsterdam on behalf of WIB. StatoilHydro Ormen Lange is 2007 HART Plant of the Year The StatoilHydro Ormen Lange natural gas processing plant in Aukra, Norway, has been selected by HART Communication Foun- dation (HCF) as recipient of the 2007 HART Plant of the Year Award. The award is given annually to recognize the people, companies and plant sites around the globe that are using the advanced capabilities of HART communication in real-time applications to improve operations, lower costs and increase availability. The StatoilHydro Ormen Lange facility produces natural gas that will provide up to 20% of the natural gas for the United Kingdom. The natural gas is shipped via the Langled Pipeline, one of the world’s longest subsea gas pipelines—1,200 km from the coast of Norway to the U.K. The Ormen Lange project consists of 24 subsea wells in four seabed templates with an onshore processing facility to clean up the gas before pushing it into the pipeline to the U.K. Grainger rolls into Windy City What happened 17 weeks ago on Tuesday at 12:36 PM? Vaisala HUMICAP® Humidity Transmitter will tell you. The Chicago-area portion of Grainger’s market expansion initiative arrived a few weeks before the city’s first snowfall. With the construction and grand opening of the Bensenville, Ill., warehouse and store front, Grainger offers 23,000 SKUs to customers in the northwest suburbs. “We’re expecting to get a lot of customers,” says Branch Manager John McDermott. “With the added SKUs, customers no longer have to make the longer drive to the larger warehouses.” One of the primary goals of the five-year long market initiative is to make more product available at more locations. And, if a warehouse doesn’t have a particular product, it has the capability to make a sameday order so the item will be available later in the same business day. The 27,000-squarefoot warehouse hosted an open house with 25 vendors attending (including 3M, Westward, CRC, Fluke, Hubbell, Milwaukee, Dayton and Stanley). Former Chicago Bear Keith van Horne was available for autographs. In addition to establishing a larger brick-and-mortar presence, Grainger is exploring improvements on the Web. The company maintains a Web portal designed specifically for plant managers at www.grainger.com/plant. The Website offers easily downloadable PDFs such as a plant shutdown checklist, and scheduled Webinars on plant maintenance. Advanced Mechatronics Training Center opens Vaisala HUMICAP® Humidity and Temperature Transmitter Series HMT330 Call our experts or visit: www.vaisala.com/HMT330 www.vaisala.com Vaisala Inc. Tel. 1-888-VAISALA (824-7252) Fax 781-933-8029 instruments@vaisala.com Visit Vaisala at AHR2008 booth #564. www.PLANTSERVICES.com Suffolk County Community College (SCCC), Brentwood, N.Y., in partnership with Festo Corp., recently unveiled the Advanced Mechatronics Training Center. The new center sports advanced, high-tech manufacturing and process control equipment that reflects world-class training capabilities. The hope is to create greater awareness among students, school systems, industry leaders, workforce development agencies, economic development agencies and government officials about the variety of career paths that exist in the manufacturing field. As part of this mission to provide affordable higher education and workforce development opportunities, SCCC applied for and received a three-year $2.4 million federal grant through the U.S. Department of Labor Employment & Training Administration to train workers for advanced manufacturing. This resulted in a new curriculum – Mechatronics – that will give the manufacturing workforce more highly developed skills increasing their employment opportunities and salary levels. 16 January 2008 http://www.grainger.com/plant http://www.vaisala.com/HMT330 http://www.vaisala.com http://www.vaisala.com http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com
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