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Resultancy Offers Business Process Health Check Resultancy is offering business performance improvement services for manufacturing companies on a no success, no fee basis. The company's Success-as-a-Service business model (also known as the Consultancy 2.0 model) offers manufacturing businesses a risk free and self-financing method for beating the recession through competitive transformation. Up until now, many businesses have viewed the deployment of management coaching and business consultancy services as an expensive luxury. Many manufacturing executives have either had unsatisfactory experiences of working with coaching and management consultancy firms, or know of executives who have. This situation is hurting businesses who could benefit from practical help and advice but are lacking confidence in the profession's track record to make a positive difference. Resultancy has built a team of multi-disciplinary coaches and consultants who differentiate the brand of professi...

The Aspentech 2009 user conference, which is intended to highlight how customers use process optimisation to 'navigate uncertainty', is scheduled to be held on 4-7 May in Houston. BP, Dow Chemical, Fluor and Evonik Degussa, along with other process-industry customers, will share best-practice experiences at the event, which will take place at the Woodlands Waterway Marriott. The theme of the conference highlights how Aspentech customers are using AspenONE to increase efficiency, reduce manufacturing costs and improve agility in a volatile global economy. The Aspentech conference will also focus on best practices for using software to optimise process manufacturing. It will bring together engineering and manufacturing professionals from a range of process-industry companies and across the Aspentech partner community. James Hackett, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Anadarko, an independent oil-and-gas exploration and production company, will deliver the ope...

Rockwell Bases Fluid Router On Process Controller Rockwell Automation has introduced a repeatable fluid-routing solution delivered on a process-controller platform. It is a configurable system that gives consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers a method of transferring fluids from one destination to the next. Mike Jamieson, global director - consumer packaged goods - Rockwell Automation, said: 'The fluid-routing solution helps simplify the fluid-routing process by using pre-developed modules to define and control routing paths. 'This helps to reduce system life-cycle costs and improve scalability.' The Rockwell Automation fluid-routing solution is delivered on the Logix Control Platform and the Factorytalk integrated production and performance software suite. It applies standard control technology and reusable engineering that can be easily deployed in most production environments - from simple, partially automated facilities to complex, fully-automated piping networ...