Common in the Life Sciences and Food & Beverage industries are clean-in-place (CIP) operations to effectively clean the interior surfaces of production process piping, vessels and other inline assets before the next batch is run.
This short, 2:10 YouTube video, Effective Conductivity Measurement in Clean-in-Place Applications, highlights the importance of extremely tight measurement and control to avoid costly waste and contamination.
New technologies usually become more broadly adopted as multiple suppliers adopt the technology and provide interoperability. Standards efforts help to define common requirements into a specification for suppliers to follow in their technology development programs.
Today, industries such as warehouses, airlines and others employ radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology for increased productivity. The use of RFID is not yet common in the process industries.
In a Valve magazine article, The Case for RFID in Process Plants, Emerson’s Shannon Jelken, highlights the need for a standardized approach among suppliers to improve their customers’ overall project and operational performance.
Today much of the management around valves and other plant assets is paper-based and in need of a digital transformation. Shannon opens noting that most plant maintenance staff:
…deal exclusively with paper records regarding valve maintenance, parts lists, service, repairs and other data on a valve’s history. Some of these papers reside at the project site in the maintenance shop while others are kept at a central office. Some operators rely on component vendors to keep records.
This paper-based approach requires effort:
Continue Reading ▶Yesterday Cisco announced the Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points. The release highlighted the collaboration with Emerson to include connectivity with field device wireless networks.
Emerson’s Bob Karschnia is quoted:
“By integrating the new Cisco heavy duty access point with Emerson’s next-generation WirelessHART gateway, we are able to leverage sensor data from critical assets to eliminate blind spots, and improve productivity and safety of their operations…”
This short, 2:01 YouTube video, Cisco + Emerson Story describes this collaboration between Cisco and Emerson. It produced the Emerson Wireless 1410S Gateway designed for the Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Access Point built for industrial environments and hazardous locations up to Class 1, Division 2.
You may have heard the phrase “Digital Twin” bandied about in our world of automation. It may conjure up mental images of models, simulations, training systems, and more.
In an Institution of Civil Engineers article, Defining the digital twin: 7 essential steps, Emerson’s Mart Berutti defines digital twin with these characteristics:
Here are the seven essential steps that Mart shares:
Emerson’s Dr. Tiffany Tang joins our continuing series, 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert. As an Operational Certainty Consultant, Tiffany works with manufacturers and producers to optimize their processes to improve production, energy & emissions and overall robustness.
We hope you’ll enjoy this episode and will consider subscribing to the whole FIRSTHAND: Operational Certainty in Pod series on your iOS or Android mobile device.
Jim Cahill
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