One of the most popular topics of discussion at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference has been the new Ovation™ Automation Platform 4.0. Attendees have had the opportunity to take a close look at the software to see all the new capabilities and features built in....
There is no question that the rise of renewable energy has complicated operations for power generators and distributors. New technologies mean new devices and lots more data to manage. With each passing year, everything seems to be getting bigger and more complicated....
As electrification continues to increase around the globe, more and more power generators—including utilities—are looking for new sources of generation to keep up with demand. On the most basic level, the push toward more electric vehicles and the electronic devices...
We have talked a lot in this space about the importance of a boundless automation vision for successfully deploying AI into the OT space. After all, AI needs loads of data, and if that data is trapped in silos, it can’t get to the data lakes, analytics applications,...
We all know that assets fail. The question is not one of “if” but rather “when” and “how catastrophically”. But what many people don’t know is that the need to repair failing assets is not the only concern with asset health. In his presentation at the 2025 Ovation...
Today’s reliability teams face something of a catch-22. As experienced personnel have retired from process manufacturing in droves, plants have fewer and fewer expert staff with each passing year. That means fewer people are available to collect the critical...
Margins are tight, personnel are in short supply, and competition is steeper than it has ever been in the process manufacturing industry. As a result, organizations are looking to capture every ounce of performance improvement possible. One of the key places...
For years, simulation has been a core technology for effective and efficient testing and training. Live digital twin simulation duplicates a physical plant, creating a dynamic digital replica that allows users to operate the controls and receive clear results and...
One of the most prominent topics of discussion at the Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference 2025 has been the increasing challenges the grid faces as electrification continues to expand across the globe. In his presentation on Tuesday, Adam Wortz dug into the details to...
Emerson’s Bob Yeager, Rick Kephart, and Glenn Heinl launched another exciting week in Pittsburgh with their keynote presentations at the 2025 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference. Bob began the event by sharing some of the many ways Emerson will be “leading the future”,...
It feels today as if the whole world is consumed by a focus on AI. In media, in industry, and even in our day-to-day lives, AI tools have come front and center at an almost unheard-of pace. In industrial manufacturing, the rise of AI is incredibly apparent. While it...
We’ve talked a lot in this space about how cybersecurity is a particularly difficult challenge for OT teams. For decades, OT systems were specifically engineered to be closed to the outside world and from one another to ensure secure, reliable operation. That trend...
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