A key topic on the mind of attendees at Emerson’s 2020 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference water/wastewater industry panel was how technology can help with the influx of new challenges facing water management plants. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a glimpse of the...
A common power industry theme at the 2020 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference has been the many challenges organizations experience in a shifting environment. The need for maintaining reliability and compliance and avoiding obsolescence remain, yet organizations also...
The challenges associated with a shift toward renewables and maintaining business continuity during a global pandemic have resulted in new opportunities that have been a constant topic among attendees at Emerson’s 2020 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference. Customers are...
Power companies across North America are transitioning to more renewable fuel sources, and they require new digital technologies, software, and services to help them drive operational excellence across the enterprise. Emerson and Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems...
Day two of the Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference saw speakers focusing on the importance of cybersecurity in driving better operations across the power and water industries. Hyperconnectivity challenges cybersecurity Many...
Emerson’s 2020 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference opened with Bob Yeager, president of power & water solutions, providing an update on the power and water landscape in our rapidly changing world. Bob opened with a look at how interaction and routines have...
In a Power magazine article, New Monitoring and Analytics Tools Improve Plant Performance, Emerson’s Brian Joe and Juan Panama describe how Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies help electrical generating plants increase reliability and overall efficiency.
Plant staff at electrical power generating facilities are having to change the way they operate given the increasing amounts of intermittent renewable energy being added to the grid. More startup and shutdown cycles are being required to manage the constantly shifting...
Emerson's Matt Musko shared the basics and installation best practices for generator excitation controls at the 2019 Ovation Users' Group conference. Matt opened describing the fundamentals of generator excitation. Three things are necessary to generate electricity:...
Emerson's Alvin Faustino and Azime Can-Cimino discussed plant prognostics with the Ovation Intelligence Framework at the 2019 Ovation Users' Group conference. Here's a visual of the framework: Azime opened explaining that prognostic maintenance requires starting with...
At the 2019 Ovation Users' Group conference, Emerson's Sam Onuska and Greg Lieb provided an update on turbine overspeed protection in Ovation distributed control systems. Sam opened discussing the purpose of turbine overspeed protection. It's required for personnel...
Emerson's Laurence O'Toole and Felipe Londono were joined by Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS)'s Michael Glover to present on gas turbine control enhancements at the 2019 Ovation Users' Group conference. MHPS and Emerson formed an alliance in 2008 to provide...
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