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...
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Ovation 4.0 Headlines the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference
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”,...
Context Is the New Currency in Industrial AI
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...
What Type of Cyber Defender Is Your OT Team?
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...
Stronger Together: Why Power Industry Cybersecurity Starts with Collaboration
One of the greatest challenges around the world is convincing people (or companies, for that matter) to make changes they don’t want to invest in. Regardless of the state of the marketplace, change that comes with added costs is always a difficult sell. And if that...
Big Machines, Bigger Stakes: Avoiding Downtime in Mining Operations
Are you familiar with electric rope shovels? If you’re in the mining industry, you almost certainly are, but for those who may not have mining experience, a quick definition is in order. Electric rope shovels handle the movement of massive loads of minerals at a mine...
AI Requires Reliability Infrastructure
Today, it seems as though everyone has new personnel they need to rapidly upskill. While the expertise crisis resulting from the shrinking industrial workforce is nothing new, it certainly doesn’t seem to be getting better anytime soon. As a result, process...
Exchange 2025 Goes Above and “Beyond”
Emerson Exchange 2025 is off to a strong start. At the opening keynote, CEO Lal Karsanbhai and CTO for Emerson’s Aspen Technology business, Claudio Fayad, introduced a core component of this year’s gathering, the reveal of Emerson’s Project Beyond. Project Beyond...
AMS Machine Works software version 1.8 offers breakthrough advancements in asset management, reliability and maintenance for industrial rotating machinery
Emerson’s AMS Machine Works software continues to advance in the mission to unite the full breadth of condition monitoring and vibration technologies making up the AMS machinery health management lineup—including route-based portables, wireless sensing, edge...
One Platform to Rule Them All
AI seems to be everywhere these days. It’s on our phones, it interacts with us when we need customer service, it’s generating art and entertainment—the list goes on and on. However, one place where AI tools don’t seem to be making an appearance is at the...
MES Done Right
Automation in the process manufacturing industry is nearly always complex. Not only must automation technologies carefully orchestrate operations, but they must also monitor safety, reliability, efficiency, and these days, even sustainability. The distributed control...
Unraveling the Cybersecurity Knot: How OT Teams Can Leverage Automation Experts
It has become increasingly obvious that the need for strong cybersecurity is not going to go away. Operational technology (OT) assets have increasingly become targets of both large-scale and small-scale attacks, often with devastating effects. OT teams need to be...
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