One really good podcast and website about all things "Internet of Things" is Stacey Higginbotham's Stacey on IoT. In a post, There are 3 different versions of the IoT, she highlights the three versions, consumer IoT, enterprise IoT, and industrial IoT. We spend quite...
I shared a great case study from the oil patch yesterday with time savings with wireless pressure monitoring at the well head. Today, let's continue with another great case study from the oil patch with a Control magazine article, Use wireless to monitor thief...
ScienceDirect defines an oil and gas well workover as: …any kind of oil and gas well intervention involving invasive techniques, such as wireline, coiled tubing, or snubbing. It is an expensive process of pulling and replacing a well completion to repair an existing...
The Emerson acquisition of General Electric's Intelligent Platform business closed on February 1, 2019. Emerson's Rich Carpenter recorded a podcast with IoT Time's Ken Briodagh the prior summer while serving as the General Manager of this business. In the IoT...
Emerson's Juan Panama and Mark Jordan presented on building the utility of tomorrow, today at the 2019 Ovation Users' Group conference. The focus was on how to start down the path to digital transformation. It begins with a solid business case. For instance, in a...
Justifying projects to improve reliable operations can be difficult. Projects driving increased revenue are often prioritized over those that reduce costs. In a Chemical Processing article, Build An Effective Condition-Monitoring Program, Emerson's Shane Hale shares...
Early in my career as a freshly-minted electrical engineer in the mid-1980s, I worked on projects on offshore oil & gas production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. These platforms required turbine or reciprocating engine gas generators with diesel engine backup...
We see it in our daily lives as companies undertake digital transformation initiatives, either for competitive advantage or survival. Many industries, including music, film, transportation, and lodging are all going through this. Even within our world of...
As we approach the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, it is around-the-clock daylight for oil and gas producers in Alaska's Arctic region. This situation flips to months of darkness around the winter solstice. These conditions and others pose challenges for...
Yesterday Cisco announced the Cisco Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points. The release highlighted the collaboration with Emerson to include connectivity with field device wireless networks. Emerson's Bob Karschnia is quoted: "By integrating the new Cisco...
You may have heard the phrase "Digital Twin" bandied about in our world of automation. It may conjure up mental images of models, simulations, training systems, and more. In an Institution of Civil Engineers article, Defining the digital twin: 7 essential steps,...
Many posts here have explored Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies used in process manufacturing to improve safety, reliability, efficiency & emissions, and production. But what about discrete manufacturing applications such as packaging and assembly...
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