Data available in manufacturing and production facilities is growing faster than people can process. In a Process Industry Informer article, How Valve Condition Monitoring Reduces Plant Downtime, Emerson's Fabrice Hoenig highlights this challenge: The vast amount of...
As we enter this new decade of the 2020s, I wanted to do a quick look back at 2019 to share the 10 most popular posts in terms of total views. It's quite interesting to see that half of the top 10 are posts with embedded podcasts. What's interesting is that you can...
This short 3-minute video, Digital Valve Services, highlights a portfolio of tools that provide operational data that is supplemented by OEM expert support to help keep valves operating as expected.
Here in the Austin, Texas area, our Control System Modernization & Migration team recently opened a new Modernization Center. I caught up with Emerson's Scott Ross about the numerous ways to modernize a system based on the business objectives of the facility. In...
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers are common here at Emerson. Our company published a study this year that found: …that 6 out of 10 Americans are interested in pursuing STEM careers – but fewer than 4 in 10 (39%) have felt encouraged to do so....
Manufacturer and producer reliability teams focus much of their efforts around the large plant assets including pumps, compressors, and control systems to maintain efficient and reliable operations. Valves, actuators and regulators often don't get this same attention....
The concept of Agile for managing software projects began in the 1990 in software development under early forerunners such as "…Scrum, DSDM, Application Development and Extreme Programming". The waterfall project management method was causing growing lead times and...
Now, with these control systems being more than 30+ years old, most of these legacy systems have been placed in to end of life or retired lifecycle status which means no further factory support is available. I caught up with Emerson's Scott Ross about the choices that...
How many times have you used a high technology device such as a smart phone or watch, only to discover a much easier/better way to do something after being shown how? This productivity improvement could have come from someone showing you, coming upon a write up or...
Last month at the Emerson Exchange conference in Nashville, I shared notes in a real-time blog post about the MyEmerson personalized digital experience for our customers. Here is a quick, less than 2-minute YouTube video, MyEmerson: A Personalized Digital Experience....
Way back in the mid-1980's, when I was a newly-minted engineer working oil & gas production projects offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, a new series of PLCs came on the scene to replace the Allen-Bradley PLC-2's we had been using. They were the PLC-5 series. Now,...
I heard a great story from Emerson's Sam Thiara of a polymer producer in the Middle East region that was looking to improve energy efficiency across the facility's steam system. They wanted to reduce energy costs and their carbon footprint, while also improving the...
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