How Dow is using big data monitoring to extend tank and basin service life AT ITS industrial site in Stade, northern Germany, Dow Chemical achieved a global first: the deployment of a fully integrated, multi-sensor structural health monitoring (SHM) system across its tank and containment infrastructure. Developed by Texplor Group and certified by the German TÜV inspection agency, this solution is reshaping how tank farms and basins are maintained – through real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and big data. Instead of fixed inspection cycles, Dow now operates 24/7 monitoring via the TEX-Sky Monitoring Cloud. Following consultation with TÜV and Texplor, Dow […]
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Execution, not technology, holds the key to port digitalisation
Digitalisation across fragmented port environments such as Houston, Texas, US, is no longer constrained by technology. The platforms exist, the data is available and the operational value case is increasingly clear. The greater challenge lies in execution; bringing independent organisations together around shared, digitised pre-arrival workflows and persuading them to move away from long-established ways of working. Houston provides a clear example of the complexity involved. It is a dense, highly active port environment where terminals, vessels, agents, surveyors, traders and service providers each perform essential functions, but often optimise their own part of the process in isolation. Individual companies […]
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June 4, 2026
