There are lots of reasons why aging, legacy automation systems can be barriers to effective digital transformation. The most obvious reason is that legacy systems are typically complex to connect to new analytics systems, as those systems are rarely designed for...
In this Emerson Automation Experts podcast, Jim Cahill speaks with Emerson’s Aaron Crews who leads the modernization team. Aaron discusses a new application, REVAMP which is a groundbreaking, cloud-based, advanced software solution that helps manage the transition of legacy applications to optimal control.
Modernization projects are something of a catch-22. As more plants reach two, three, or even four decades of operation, they need to update their automation to increase efficiency and drive the most value out of every second of operation. That efficiency directly...
Modernization. We hear it is happening everywhere, and yet, when we look at our own facilities, a modernization project looks like such a massive task that it is hard to even get started. Even though technologies in the plant may be decades old, some teams continue to...
There is no escaping the fact that many of today’s process manufacturing plants need to modernize. As Emerson’s Aaron Crews explains in his recent article in Control Engineering, “Plants are often using technologies that are 20 to 40 years old. In many cases, the...
Modernization projects have become more important than ever as the benefits of updated control technologies such as better HMIs, advanced process control, better integration with asset management systems, improved alarm management, and more have all transitioned from...
In this podcast, Emerson’s Aaron Crews joins me to discuss the innovative DeltaV IO.CONNECT which simplifies the process of modernizing control & automation systems from many different suppliers.
In a Chemical Processing article, Maintenance: Turnarounds Get A New Spin, Emerson’s John Sanders and Aaron Crews join a KBC senior leader to share their perspectives on optimizing STOs [shutdowns, turnarounds, outages].
At the time of the writing of this post, Wikipedia defined augmented reality as: …an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real-world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple...
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