In a recent LinkedIn article, “Smart Plant and Automation Modernization,” Emerson’s Jonas Berge, ISA Fellow and digital transformation advisor, lays out what a modern smart plant automation ecosystem should include, from field sensors and valves to the distributed control system (DCS), safety instrumented system (SIS), and device management software.
Meeting regulatory and industry standards drives more complex plants: advanced process licenses and catalysts, heat integration, power islanding, mixed energy sources including hydrogen readiness, carbon capture, closed-loop water, and pollution abatement. More process units mean more rotating and static equipment, which means more advanced process control and far more pervasive condition monitoring.
Emerson’s Jonas Berge has penned another great LinkedIn article, M+O Sensors: Comprehensive Plant Data Collection. Typically, plant sensors are added for measurement and control (M+C), but it’s also essential to add sensors for monitoring and optimization (M+O).
Emerson’s Jonas Berge authored the article, Automation and AI for Operational Excellence in Refining and Petrochemicals, and how they enable greater performance across many dimensions, including safety, sustainability, reliability, and production.
Emerson’s Jonas Berge shares his thoughts on a recent ARC Advisory Group article, Unifying Device Integration Across the Automation Landscape. The article highlights the author’s recent conversation with the FieldComm Group’s leadership team.
Emerson’s Jonas Berge recently posted to his LinkedIn feed about the four types of Industrial AI—and how to use them correctly.
A vendor with only one type of industrial AI tool will tend to force-fit that tool into all applications, like a “hammer in search of nails.” Working with a vendor that supports multiple AI tools can help operators avoid single-tool bias.
Jonas Berge shares his ideas on driving sustainability improvements during an OSEA 2024 panel appearance on the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) landscape in a decarbonizing and digitalized world.
Emerson’s Jonas Berge has a library of LinkedIn articles that are well worth an automation professional’s time to visit and read. To give you a flavor, here are the titles of his five most recent articles: Automation Intensity – How to Elevate Your Plant’s Level...
In a ControlGlobal.com article, Ethernet-APL becomes a reality, Emerson’s Jonas Berge describes how Ethernet-APL provides a single high-speed infrastructure to manage the wide variety of protocols and devices required in an automation architecture.
Jonas Berge spoke at the Asian Downstream Summit 2023. His presentation, The refiner’s guide to digital transformation, shared how plant transformations in driving improved safety, sustainability, reliability, and quality performance can help refiners overcome operational challenges.
In a new paper published by the BioPhorum organization, Smart Maintenance Architecture: A Data-Driven Approach to Smarter Maintenance, Emerson’s Jonas Berge joined with experts from Applied Materials, Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK, Merck, Roche, and members of the BioPhorum team to collaborate and publish this paper.
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