At the Emerson Exchange Americas Virtual Series, Emerson’s Alec Grainger, Chris Noble and Ajay Rana teamed up to share how to choose the right motion technology—servo vs. variable frequency drive vs. pneumatics.
Posts by or with Jim Cahill
Artificial Intelligence in Vaccine Manufacturing
In a Jersey’s Best article, Powerful AI technology is changing the way N.J. operates, for the better, Emerson’s Dennis Belanger explains how AI is used, “…as a monitoring tool to understand the condition of eggs that are often used to create vaccines to combat the influenza virus…”
Innovative Pulse Staking and Swaging for Thermoplastics
In a Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) article, Advanced Technology for Plastics Staking and Swaging, Emerson’s Priyank Kishor describes a technology innovation, pulse staking. Pulse staking uses local heating and cooling to raise the temperature of plastic components and allow plastic reforming to be carried out.
Optimizing Combustion Processes
Emerson’s Bob Sabin works with manufacturers and producers to improve how combustion units operate. Energy costs are typically a large part of the overall operational costs for these production processes. Bob shared that many times with combustion improvement projects, people get focused on efficiency only. Often, more importantly is the reliability & availability, responsiveness, ease of operation, and ease of troubleshooting & maintenance of these units.
IIoT for Reliability and Safety Improvements
In an Intech article, Using IIoT technology to improve reliability and safety, Emerson’s Marcelo Carugo shares ways IIoT helps manufacturers and producers improve safety practices and overall reliability.
Teaming IT and OT on Cybersecurity
In a Refiner’s Guide to Digital Transformation article, No more silos: OT and IT team up to tackle cybersecurity, Emerson’s Rick Gorskie shares strategies on how to enhance collaboration and protection.
Optimizing Food and Beverage Steam Usage
At the Emerson Exchange Americas Virtual Series, Emerson’s Josh Friesz shared ways to monitor steam traps to help assure quality production in Food & Beverage applications.
Manifold Valve Positions when Calibrating Multivariable Transmitters
Michael Flesch shares how multivariable transmitter calibration and manifold valve operation affect the performance of natural gas flow measurement applications at the Emerson Exchange Americas Virtual Series.
Integrated Gas Metering Systems
Gas metering systems are the cash registers for custody transfer between companies. At the Emerson Exchange Americas Virtual Series, Emerson’s Juan Najera shares some best practices in designing and operating these gas metering systems.
Verification Methods for Coriolis Flow Meters
Emerson’s Marc Buttler discussed the verification process for Coriolis flow meters using methods such as master meters, proving, lab calibration and secondary verification diagnostics at the Emerson Exchange Americas Virtual Series.
Mitigating Loss of Containment Risks
At the Emerson Exchange America Virtual Series, Emerson’s Ed Schodowski, David Macedonia, Christiane Lederer and Brian Ledeboer we on a panel to discuss innovations in process safety around loss of containment for refiners, chemical and petrochemical producers.
Assessing Digital Transformation Maturity versus Peers
The Emerson Digital Transformation team has developed a Digital Maturity Model Quick Index online tool to help you assess where you are today in your digital transformation (DX) journey in comparison to others in your industry.
Subscribe for Updates
Follow Us
We invite you to follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube to keep up to date on all the latest news, events and innovations to help you take on and solve your toughest challenges.
Want to re-purpose, reuse or translate content?
Please do, Just link back to the post and send us a quick note so we can share your work. Thanks!
Our Global Community
The opinions expressed here are the personal opinions of the authors. Content published here is not read or approved by Emerson before it is posted and does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Emerson.