Provided is a process including: receiving a tank-nearly-full message indicating that a tank at an oil or gas related facility is or will be ready for a truck to unload and transport fluid accumulating in the tank; in response to the tank-nearly-full message, creating a tank-run record; sending a description of the tank-run to a mobile device of a driver of an oilfield truck; receiving, from the mobile device of the driver of the oilfield truck, a tank-run claimed message indicating that the driver will drive to the oil or gas related facility and transport at least some of the fluid accumulating in the tank; and after the tank-run claimed message, performing steps including: confirming that the tank-run has not yet been claimed; after the confirmation, designating the tank-run as claimed by the driver; and sending confirmation to the mobile device of the driver.

Provided is a process including: receiving a tank-nearly-full message indicating that a tank at an oil or gas related facility is or will be ready for a truck to unload and transport fluid accumulating in the tank; in response to the tank-nearly-full message, creating a tank-run record; sending a description of the tank-run to a mobile device of a driver of an oilfield truck; receiving, from the mobile device of the driver of the oilfield truck, a tank-run claimed message indicating that the driver will drive to the oil or gas related facility and transport at least some of the fluid accumulating in the tank; and after the tank-run claimed message, performing steps including: confirming that the tank-run has not yet been claimed; after the confirmation, designating the tank-run as claimed by the driver; and sending confirmation to the mobile device of the driver.

Provided is a process including: receiving a tank-nearly-full message indicating that a tank at an oil or gas related facility is or will be ready for a truck to unload and transport fluid accumulating in the tank; in response to the tank-nearly-full message, creating a tank-run record; sending a description of the tank-run to a mobile device of a driver of an oilfield truck; receiving, from the mobile device of the driver of the oilfield truck, a tank-run claimed message indicating that the driver will drive to the oil or gas related facility and transport at least some of the fluid accumulating in the tank; and after the tank-run claimed message, performing steps including: confirming that the tank-run has not yet been claimed; after the confirmation, designating the tank-run as claimed by the driver; and sending confirmation to the mobile device of the driver.

Provided is a process including: receiving a tank-nearly-full message indicating that a tank at an oil or gas related facility is or will be ready for a truck to unload and transport fluid accumulating in the tank; in response to the tank-nearly-full message, creating a tank-run record; sending a description of the tank-run to a mobile device of a driver of an oilfield truck; receiving, from the mobile device of the driver of the oilfield truck, a tank-run claimed message indicating that the driver will drive to the oil or gas related facility and transport at least some of the fluid accumulating in the tank; and after the tank-run claimed message, performing steps including: confirming that the tank-run has not yet been claimed; after the confirmation, designating the tank-run as claimed by the driver; and sending confirmation to the mobile device of the driver.

Techniques for detecting suspicious performance of a throttling control valve (also referred to herein as a valve) in a process plant are described herein. For each of N time periods, a computing device determines and analyzes process parameter values for process parameters related to a valve to determine a status of the valve for the time period. The computing device compares the valve statuses over the N time periods to determine whether the valve is operating well for at least a threshold portion of at least a subset of the N time periods. In response to determining that the valve is not operating well for at least the threshold portion of at least the subset of the N time periods, the computing device determines that the valve is suspected of performing poorly, and provides an indication of the suspect valve to a user interface for display to a user.

A pilot control unit is for at least one valve drive of a hydraulic valve with a valve slide. The valve slide can be adjusted by the valve drive, in order to supply hydraulic lines with hydraulic fluid through the hydraulic valve. The pilot control unit is set up to supply electronics and a power end stage for actuating an electrical actuator of the valve drive with electrical energy and operating commands and there is a parametrization module in the pilot control unit for this purpose, in which operating parameters for the operation of the at least one hydraulic valve by the valve drive thereof are stored.

An engine oil system includes a filter assembly, a sensor assembly, and a controller. The filter assembly includes a filter and a bypass valve. The filter assembly forms a portion of an oil flow path of the engine oil system. The sensor assembly includes an inlet pressure sensor, an outlet pressure sensor, and a temperature sensor. The controller is configured to control a position of the bypass valve in the open position or the closed position with an unfaulted control routine using a temperature (T.sub.OIL) measured by the temperature sensor and a differential pressure (P.sub.OIL) measured by the inlet pressure sensor and the outlet pressure sensor, execute a bypass valve control algorithm configured to identify a faulted condition and an unfaulted condition of the sensor assembly, and identify the faulted condition or the unfaulted condition using the bypass valve control algorithm. The faulted condition is identified where the temperature (T.sub.OIL) or the differential pressure (P.sub.OIL) is outside of an expected temperature range or an expected differential pressure range, respectively.

In a production line where various operations have to be performed on a unit that is conveyed through or assembled in the line, a control system for a set of actuators is provided that operates in discrete steps to carry out movement in a machine and is required to synchronize at points in speed and position. A controller is provided for each actuator, and a coordinator configured to determine or receive the position of the actuators and to receive or generate data concerning a waypoint, being positions and corresponding speeds for the actuators. The controllers are configured to change the speed of the actuators, and the coordinator starts the movement of at least one actuator on the basis of a point reached by another actuator, so as to achieve the desired synchronization.

It is possible to recognize the consistency of opening/closing states of valves to be affected by a valve when the valve is set to be open. There is provided a technique that includes: a display structure by which a recipe defining process conditions is editable, wherein a display area includes a valve opening/closing setting area configured to set opening/closing states of valves connected to a piping; and a controller for: (a) when at least one specified valve among the valves is set to be open, checking opening/closing states of one or more related valves which are to be affected by the specified valve set to be open; and (b) when the opening/closing states of the related valves are different from predefined opening/closing states, switching a display of each related valve whose opening/closing state is different from a corresponding one of the predefined opening/closing states in the valve opening/closing setting area.

An engine oil system includes a filter assembly, a sensor assembly, and a controller. The filter assembly includes a filter and a bypass valve. The filter assembly forms a portion of an oil flow path of the engine oil system. The sensor assembly includes an inlet pressure sensor, an outlet pressure sensor, and a temperature sensor. The controller is configured to control a position of the bypass valve in the open position or the closed position with an unfaulted control routine using a temperature (T.sub.OIL) measured by the temperature sensor and a differential pressure (P.sub.OIL) measured by the inlet pressure sensor and the outlet pressure sensor, execute a bypass valve control algorithm configured to identify a faulted condition and an unfaulted condition of the sensor assembly, and identify the faulted condition or the unfaulted condition using the bypass valve control algorithm. The faulted condition is identified where the temperature (T.sub.OIL) or the differential pressure (P.sub.OIL) is outside of an expected temperature range or an expected differential pressure range, respectively.