All
CO2-free glassmaking
An intriguing conversation with a container glass manufacturing customer led to discussions between Eurotherm colleagues on the possibility of zero...
‘It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data’*
Published in Glass Worldwide, March/April 2015Obviously, the title of this article was compelling enough to draw attention. Readers may be...
Communicating the cost benefits of power solutions
Ashley Taylor, Finance Director at Eurotherm, discusses the long-term challenge faced by cost approvers when investing in power control solutions.Working...
India cannot afford to buy cheap glass systems
René Meuleman, former Eurotherm Glass Business Development Manager, provides a personal reflection on the gradual change of mindset enabling growth...
Everything under control?
With increasing environmental regulation of the glass industry adding to production costs René Meuleman illustrates the benefits that process control...
We need vision!
Rene Meuleman, former Global Glass Industry Technical Leader at Eurotherm, considers the glass industry’s need for visionary leadership and benchmarks...
The sense and non-sense in process automation
René Meuleman argues for a different approach to redundancy and fault tolerance when planning for the safety of a process.Across...
Process control specialist supports innovation
In 1965 Eurotherm, a small company specialising in temperature controllers, opened in the UK. Today, the company is recognised worldwide...
How can predictive strategies contribute in a better power control and decreased energy consumption?
AbstractIn co-operation with leading glass manufactures Eurotherm have developed a new electric power control system called EPower. The system is...
Time to speed up development
René Meuleman believes the glass industry needs to kick start its approach to innovative manufacturing processes. Almost every glassmaker worldwide suffered during...
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough’
By the time we start to fell confident with what we have, we need to be aware that there is...
Smart Thyristor Control of Power Supply on Electric Boosting Systems provides Potential Energy Savings
AbstractThere are of course physical limitations to the interesting and ongoing commercial strive for higher glass furnace pull rates. One...
