The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is in full swing this week over in Houston. While onshore oil & gas production has been getting all the attention with the Permian Basin here in Texas, offshore production is making big strides around the globe. A Forbes...
Emerson's Sudhir Jain joins us in this FIRSTHAND Operational Certainty in a Pod podcast as a follow up to our earlier 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert podcast with Sudhir. As an Operational Certainty consultant, he shares some of the oil & gas applications for...
If you're in the energy business—upstream, midstream, downstream, and electrical power generation & distribution, IHS Markit has a great CERAWeek On-Demand Video site of presentations and interviews from the conference. One example is the presentation,...
The history of model predictive control (MPC) dates back to the early 1970s invented at Shell Oil and was known as Dynamic Matrix Control. MPC was designed at that time to solve largescale control challenges. As technology advanced, this technology could be more...
Defining operational states and codifying these into control strategies has many advantages in improving safety and overall operational performance. In an AIChE Spring Meeting presentation, A New Look at Industrial Incidents—Driving Operating Discipline in the Control...
Organizational change involves managing change for people, processes and technologies. Emerson executive president, Mike Train, joined a CERAWeek 2019 panel, Digital Skills & the Workforce to look at the people part of this change management process. Panel...
Decarbonization vs. Profit: Eliminating the Rivalry with Exergy is the session at CERAWeek 2019 presented by Emerson's Ana Gonzalez Hernandez. Ana opened her presentation defining resource efficiency being the goal to reduce the use of energy and materials to produce...
Decarbonization is a hot topic at this year's CERAWeek. In a panel, Industrial Energy Efficiencies: The path to decarbonization, Emerson's Peter Zornio shared the role that technology can play in this initiative. Peter pointed out that new sensors have become...
One of the areas where Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) teams are more closely collaborating is in machine learning applications. At the recent ARC Industry Forum conference in Orlando, Blair Fraser, with Emerson Impact Partner Lakeside...
Many manufacturers and producers require high-resolution analysis of liquid and process gas streams as an integral part of their production processes. A big challenge is in designing, engineering, installing, commissioning and supporting these complex analytical...
This FIRSTHAND: Operational Certainty in Pod podcast with Emerson's Chris Hamlin is a follow up to our 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert with Chris. In this podcast, we explore Chris' thoughts on a presentation he gave recently at a conference in the Netherlands. The...
I've been giving thought to everything I heard this week at the 2019 ARC Industry Forum now that I'm back in Austin. I think what stands out the most is how to prioritize steps on a digital transformation journey. I captured it in this tweet: Advice for...
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