Here on this blog we celebrate the Emerson experts from around the world. And with the celebration of International Women's Day this Sunday, I wanted to pay tribute to the women we've featured here on Emerson Automation Experts. Encouraging people to study in the...
4C CEO Steve Probst kicked off the 4C HSE conference here in Austin, Texas with a look at how digital transformation initiatives are having an impact of driving health, safety and environmental improvements. Downstream hydrocarbon processors are driven to be among the...
One of the conferences for the power and chemical processing industries is the ConnectedPlant conference. The focus is on the technologies and solutions focused on improving plant operations. Some of the technologies explored included artificial intelligence (AI),...
Reliable, accurate flow measurements are at the heart of excellence in production accounting and mass balances for chemical and hydrocarbon processing facilities. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are only as good as the data that feeds them. Next Tuesday, February 18...
According to the United States Energy Information Administration, the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast refiners and petrochemical producers accounted for 50.5% of the U.S. total finished petroleum products as of October 2019. So with over half of America's refining and...
Pharma 4.0 is an initiative based on Industry 4.0, begun out of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering Germany/Austria/Switzerland (ISPE D/A/CH) organization, which lead to the formation of: …the ISPE Pharma 4.0 special interest group (SIG) in 2017....
Just a quick programming note that I'll be taking a break from posting for the rest of the year. I'll resume on January 6, 2020. Have a fantastic holiday season and New Year celebration!
I just Googled "digital transformation" and saw it returning about 34,900,000 results—so there is no shortage of information out there. But what if your company imperative is to digitally transform your manufacturing or production operations due to market pressures or...
It took a couple of days over the weekend to catch my breath from a fantastic Emerson Exchange conference last week. In a flurry of blog posts, I tried to capture some of the expertise shared by Emerson experts across all the different businesses. Let me take a brief...
Emerson's Andrew Smith and Jesse Sumstad presented "Tune into Savings by Maximizing Your Combustion Efficiency" at the 2019 Emerson Exchange conference. Here is the abstract of their session: There are two major, competing theories to fired equipment control:...
Emerson's Brian Joe and Ben Skal presented on Plantweb technologies and how they help facilitate digital transformation initiatives. Brian opened noting that process control is all based on the See-Decide-Act closed-loop model. Typically it is an open-loop process for...
Emerson's Dr. Tiffany Tang presented Novel Idea of Model Predictive Control on Fast Process! First Application at the 2019 Emerson Exchange conference. Here is Tiffany's abstract: Carbon black formation reaction is a fast process in the order of seconds. An...
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