It likely comes as no surprise that advanced process control (APC) has only gotten better as time has gone by. Old APC software, though very powerful in its own right, was often complex to configure and even more difficult to maintain. That turned away a lot of...
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Better Grid Reliability Starts with Analytics
As electrical grids get more complex, so too does the task of keeping them online. Grid operators have long had reliability programs, as they are essential to safe operation, but the most effective plants are updating those programs with modern technologies as they...
Successfully Bring Renewable Assets Into the Fold
One of the hottest topics of conversation at the 2023 Ovation Users’ Group conference has been renewables, and much of that conversation has been around the struggle to bring a wide array of disparate renewable assets together into a unified system of control,...
Ovation Users’ Group Power Industry Forum Tackles Modern Challenges
The power industry session at the 2023 Ovation Users’ Group conference in Pittsburgh took a closer look into the state of the industry, exploring both what is happening broadly in power generation, as well as the impact of the rise of renewables on the way plants and...
Ovation Users’ Group 2023 Opens with a Look Into the Future
After three long years, the Ovation™ Users’ Group is back in person in Pittsburgh in 2023. Bob Yeager opened the conference with an expansive vision for the many ways Emerson will work together with its users to meet a changing future. Change is a central theme in...
AMS Device Manager Data Server | Extended Intelligent Field Device Analytics Without the Aggravation
As process manufacturing scope and capabilities have grown over the decades, so, too, has the need to carefully deploy and monitor dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of automation assets. Plant personnel rely on measurement and analytical instrumentation, digital...
Unshackle Innovation with One Click Tech Transfer
Most people have heard the adage that, “COVID changed everything.” However, few people, when presented with that idea, think that any of those changes were positive. But we often forget that in the span of eight short months, the world saw a wide array of innovators...
Life Sciences Digital Maturity – Know Where You Are to Know Where You Can Go
To know where you’re going, you have to know where you are, and operating a life sciences manufacturing facility is no exception. Pharmaceutical processors regularly have to take stock of their technological capacity to keep a finger on the pulse of the four main...
Modern Automation Will Power the New Hydrogen Economy
The rapid shift to more sustainable industrial operations has dramatically impacted the hydrocarbon processing industry. It seems like almost overnight, operations teams are looking at entirely new processes focused on manufacturing new, greener alternative products...
Prototype Sensing Technologies are at the Forefront of Innovation
On June 4-7, experts in process analytical technology (PAT) gathered for the 2023 IFPAC conference. While there, they discussed the latest developments in PAT, quality by design, and overall process monitoring and control within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology,...
Better Data Access Keeps the Lights On
As power producers begin the shift to more renewable sources of energy, one primary concern resurfaces over and over: availability. Utilities are adding solar, wind, battery, and other renewable assets to their already wide array of power generation tools, and as they...
Data-Driven Culture Drives Maintenance and Reliability Results
Life sciences organizations are not short on data. Most plants already have many sensors in place to drive operational data to the control system so operators always know exactly what is happening at any given moment of production. Operations teams know that good data...
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