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
Please advice your intention to attend as soon as possible:
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.
New WIB member:
EdeA
EdeA was founded in 1996 and is responsible for the operation of facilities in which produce and distribute steam, electricity, water and various types of air and technical gases for various customer plants in the Geleen industrial area.
New WIB member:
Solar Turbines
Headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, Solar Turbines Incorporated, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial gas turbines.
Products from Solar Turbines play an important role in the development of oil, natural gas and power generation projects around the world.
Solar uses C&A products from various origins in their packaged products, but do not themselves manufacture- nor are affiliated to- C&A products.
WIB mini-seminar 2011
Proces control optimisation
THE BUSINESS CASE
The WIB miniseminar was held on march the 17th in The Hague.
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.
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.
