Welcome to WIB The International Instrument Users' Association.
WIB provides process instrumentation evaluation- and assessment
services for- and on behalf of- its industrial user member companies.
WIB operates in close collaboration -through the 'SWE' federation-
with 'sister' Associations, EXERA in France and SIREP/EI in the
UK.
A co-operation agreement exists with the NAMUR organisation in Germany.
Tom Kuperij
Managing Director
WIB MISSION
Facilitate exchange of experience and expertise amongst end-users and with vendors of C&A
Provide requirements, selection and application guidance through independent evaluation
Technip Benelux: a valued addition to WIB's membership base.
In The Netherlands, Technip is active in the design and engineering and worldwide implementation of process plants and units in the oil & gas, refining, petrochemical and offshore industry.
Technip Zoetermeer has proprietary design technologies and know-how in the field of ethylene cracking units and hydrogen/synthesis production plants. It also offers operational support services and proprietary operational software to operators of ethylene and hydrogen plants.
ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute
Hosts free European Conference
24 May 2012
The Hague The Netherlands
Time: 10:00 AM Location: 'Glazen Zaal' -
Prinsessegracht 26,
2514AP The Hague,
The Netherlands
Click here here for the full announcement and the registration form for the event
We are proud to welcome OCI Nitrogen as latest addition on WIB's member list. OCI Nitrogen ranks among the market leaders in Europe in the field of nitrogen fertilizers and is the world's largest producer of melamine. OCI Nitrogen is a division of Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), an Egyptian company with a global workforce of 86,000.
OCI Nitrogen operates principally in the field of industrial and infrastructure construction and mineral fertilizers, with projects and investments in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The head office of OCI- Nitrogen is in Geleen (the Netherlands), with production sites being located in Geleen, Indonesia and China.
New WIB member:
Smurfit Kappa Group
We are very pleased to anounce a new WIB membership (nr 30 !) of the Netherlands Technological centre of the Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG).
SKG is a world leader in paper-based packaging products.
The group operates in 21 countries in Europe (as well as in 9 countries in Latin America) and is the European leader in containerboard, solidboard, corrugated and solidboard packaging materials.
SKG is also the industry leader of paper products recycling in Europe, sourcing approximately 5 million tonnes of recovered paper as raw material for the group’s mills.
R&D Centres in Sweden and the Netherlands and the Technological Centre in the Netherlands support SKG’s operations.
The Smurfit Kappa Group Corporate headquarter is located in Dublin, Ireland.
Press Release
Cyber Security Standard To Protect Global Critical Infrastructure
The International Instrument Users Association (WIB) Releases Comprehensive Cyber Security Standard To Protect Critical Industrial Computer Systems From Cyber Attack.
Now available for download: WIB Plant Security standard
The first copy of the WIB Plant Security standard was presented during the mini-seminar to WIB management for formal distribution. The Standard was created in close collaboration between the WIB Plant Security Working Group and Wurldtech Security Technologies.
The WIB Guideline Document: 'Process Control Domain-Security Requirements for Vendors' is freely available to interested professionals.
Mr. Tyler Williams (left), CEO Wurldtech Security Technologies and Mr. Ted Angevaare, Global DACA Manager Shell
Organisations
WIB has two sister organisations, Evaluation International/SIREP (United Kingdom)
and EXERA (France), who together form EWE International Instrument Users' Associations (former SWE). The EWE Liaison has a common mission statement. All EI, WIB, EXERA reports are distributed amongst each other's members. WIB has a close relationship with the German end-users' organisation NAMUR (International User Association of Automation Technology in Process Industries). More Information about other organisations and liasions Click Here
Independent Laboratories
For evaluation-, test- and assessment services WIB works together with independent laboratories like for example TNO, Kema, NMi, C&TSi and SP.
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