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),...
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Production Accounting and Mass Balance Performance Management
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...
Driving Safer and More Secure Refining and Chemical Operations
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...
Sharing Best Practices on Path to Pharma 4.0
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....
Enjoy Your Holidays!
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!
Clearing Up Digital Transformation Myths
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...
Your Personal Brand Digital Transformation
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...
Maximizing Combustion Efficiency
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:...
Closing the Loop Driving Reliability, Safety and Energy Improvements
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...
Case Study in Carbon Black Process Optimization
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...
Simplifying Hazardous Location Smart LED Lighting Installation
Emerson's Edward Brann presented, Simplify Connected Lighting for Hazardous Locations with Appleton and Plantweb at the 2019 Emerson Exchange conference. Ed opened describing the evolution of hazardous area lighting. Typically standard lighting stays on 24x7 which...
Improving Subsurface Models to Reduce Drilling Uncertainty
Emerson's Orly Kletenik presented Reduce Drilling Uncertainty through Rapid Evaluation of Subsurface Scenarios at the 2019 Emerson Exchange conference. Orly opened by noting that exploration seismic data never grows old. It can be used through the life of the...
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