Smart Grid + Smart Generation: Filling the Generation Gap

Power demand in the United States grew over 5% between early 2009 and 2010, a trend that isn't expected to change anytime soon.  Statistics demonstrate that it's going to take a variety of smart technology and strategies to fill this pending generation gap, including generating more power with our existing assets through...

Data Integration and Risk Mitigation Top CFO Priorities

A new report released by IBM outlines the best practices of organizations referred to as value integrators, who across every financial metric examined outperform their competition by...

The Dow Formula for Minimizing Unplanned Events
by Jeff Dudley, Director of Maintenance and Reliability, Dow Chemical

Unplanned events are bad business.  They pose safety hazards to employees and the environment and can waste upwards of 10% of company revenues and 45 work days per year.  It's time to take the leadership position back from unplanned events. Dow Chemical shares its formula for doing precisely that.

Meridium Commissions Research Studies with Virginia Tech and Texas A&M

Meridium has commissioned the Virginia Tech College of Engineering and the Texas A&M Mays Business School to conduct research examining how asset intensive companies manage the overall performance, safety, reliability and maintenance of their production assets.  Results will...