Jaime Alvarado Millan is the Valve Health app software product manager at Emerson. He has been working for over seven years with technology companies in various B2B industries. Jamie holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Lima in Peru, an MS degree in Marketing from the Universidad del Pacifico in Peru, and an MS degree in Business from the University of Piura in Peru.

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Finding the Value in Control Valve Data

Jan 12, 2024

In a world awash with digital data, many tend to assume that more data equals more value, but the reality is that data only becomes valuable when it is analyzed and acted upon. In my article titled “Transforming Valve Data into Dollars,” published to Automation.com in November 2023, I discuss a new software application that converts raw control valve data into actionable information.

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