Latest Industry News – 08/04/22
News from the 1st - 8th April 2022
PickNik Robotics partners with Sierra Space to build robots for deep space missions and space habitats
PickNik Robotics and Sierra Space have agreed a collaboration which will explore the implementation of robotic autonomy and controllability for autonomous maintenance of space habitat environments.
PickNik Robotics is a robotics software and engineering services company, while Sierra Space is a commercial space company with 1,100 employees, more than 500 missions and over 30 years of space flight heritage.
The companies anticipate that the robotic autonomy solutions developed with this collaboration will significantly improve the ability to support low Earth orbit (LEO), lunar and deep space missions.
Hitachi Energy launches OceaniQ™ – innovative solutions for the offshore environment
Hitachi Energy has launched its OceaniQ™ portfolio for the offshore energy environment, which was showcased this week at the annual WindEurope event in Bilbao, Spain. The global technology and market leader in power grids, which has a proven track record in pioneering solutions for offshore, has created OceaniQ to help accelerate the clean energy transition. OceaniQ will result in greater volumes of wind power being efficiently harvested and integrated into the world’s energy system.
Combining cross-industry competence from the power and marine sectors, OceaniQ addresses applications for fixed platforms, floating structures and sub-sea power systems for wind, marine and other offshore operators. Hitachi Energy rigorously designs its OceaniQ products, services, and solutions in collaboration with customers and partners, which are designed to solve the specific needs of offshore energy operators.
ABB upgrades process control systems and cement grinding units in UAE for increased uptime and uniformity across multiple sites
Global technology company ABB has installed ABB Ability™ System 800xA®, the market-leading distributed control system (DCS) automation platform, to upgrade three grinding units at Star Super Cement in Dubai, UAE, and ensure optimized operations with the Star Cement clinkerization plant in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
Star Cement and Star Super Cement are subsidiaries of Ultratech Cement, India and operate a 3 million tons per annum (TPA) clinkerization unit at Ras Al Khaimah, four cement grinding units of 2.2 million TPA unit at Jabel Ali, 1.4 million TPA unit at Abu Dhabi and 1.1 million TPA unit at Ajman in UAE as well as a 1 million TPA grinding unit in Bahrain.
ABB was the electrical and automation partner for the Star Cement clinkerization plant ten years ago and had deployed ABB’s DCS for three cement grinding units when these plants were installed. Each grinding unit had a different generation of DCS depending on the plant commissioning period. All grinding units have now been upgraded to ABB Ability System 800xA which can implement advanced process control methods and is ranked by the ARC advisory group as the world’s #1 DCS platform over the last 22 years.
