ACCELERATE THE FUTURE OF YOUR TERMINAL, TODAY

ON 27 May 2020, Tank Storage Magazine began a new venture – online professional seminars from industry experts. The first one, entitled ‘Accelerate the Future of Your Terminal, Today’, was given by John Colpo, Principal Analyst, Oil and Gas, at Honeywell. ‘We partnered with Tank Storage Magazine to help us maximise our reach with terminal operators around the globe – they covered all the bases on a promotional front, were flexible to our needs, and their industry knowledge all contributed to an easy partnership and successfully executed webinar,’ says Liliana M. Pereira, Global Customer Marketing at Honeywell Process Solutions. Colpo looked at the technology options available for the digital transformation of terminal operations. Here, we will give an outline of some of his main points. While the digital transformation of industry began in the 1970s with advent of more accessible computers and the internet, it is more recently that it has really taken off. The physical footprint of computing and networking has reduced dramatically, coinciding with an exponential increase in processing power and bandwidth, and huge price drops. Combine this with the availability of...