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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...
‘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...
Making bushing control ‘green’
René Meuleman, Stanley Rutkowski and Martin Moeginger consider how to improve the efficiency and profitability of bushing positions by smart design...
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 Invensys, 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 as...
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...
Precious metal heating control beyond energy efficiency
The focus on achieving better energy efficiency in glass manufacturing has led to the development of a ground breaking collaboration project...
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...
CO2-free glassmaking
An intriguing conversation with a container glass manufacturing customer led to discussions between Eurotherm colleagues on the possibility of zero...
