For those attending the Emerson Exchange with distillation processes, you don't want to miss Emerson's Lou Heavner's presentation, Advanced Distillation - 102. Lou is an advanced control consultant, whom you may recall from earlier posts. He'll be presenting Wed, 9/30...
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Reasons to Come to the Emerson Exchange
In these challenging economic times, it can be difficult to justify attendance at conferences, which can enhance your skills and abilities to resolve issues with your manufacturing process. The Emerson Exchange board recently put a list of reasons why you should...
Refinery Solves Crude Unit Issues by Getting Back to Basics
Sometimes plants go through a revamp and things just don't work right. Loops that used to run fine in automatic mode now run in manual mode and require constant attention. I caught up last week with Emerson's James Beall, a principal process control consultant, whom...
A View of MPC Control from Operations to Design
I caught up with Emerson's Lou Heavner the other day and we traded a few teenager "war stories." Lou is an advanced automation consultant and I've shared some of his expertise in posts over the years. He mentioned he had done a very basic presentation to show the...
A Few Tips to Optimize Your Process
I've featured quite a number of experts around Emerson over these past three years. Some categories, like Process Optimization, have more than 50 posts. There is quite a bit of wisdom mixed in all those posts. A few months ago, I was asked by Plant Engineering...
For These Economic Times, Squeeze More Out Of Your Process
One only has to come across reports like the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing ISM Report On Business to see the slowing global economic conditions. The report notes: Manufacturing activity continued to decline at a rapid rate during the month of...
Advanced PID Functions for Improved Control Performance
I saw Emerson's James Beall the other week and asked him for a copy of his Emerson Exchange presentation, Interesting and Useful Features of the DeltaV PID Controller. Every year, James presents to standing-room-only crowds and his presentation (given twice) this year...
Guidance for Good Dynamic Control Loop Performance
If ever there were a need for dynamic control, it would be for the global bond and equity markets this week. Instead of tackling that global challenge, with today's post I'll highlight Emerson senior process control consultant Mark Coughran's Emerson Exchange...
More Ideas for Saving Energy in your Plant
My colleague, Deb Franke, pointed me to a great article in her RSS feeds. The ChemicalProcessing.com article, Innovative Fixes for Saving Energy in Plants, describes some ideas to help reduce plant energy costs. Although energy costs have come down in recent weeks,...
Advice for Batch Reactor Temperature Control
Emerson's Mark Coughran has been busy sharing his process control expertise lately. His latest article, Improve Batch Reactor temperature control, appears in the June issue of Chemical Processing magazine. Mark describes three batch reactor temperature control cases...
Taming Extruder Temperature Control
I caught up with Emerson's Mark Coughran, a senior process variability consultant whom you may recall from earlier process tuning and optimization posts. Mark shared a story of a plastics manufacturer that was challenged to bring a new product to market with a new...
Start with the Basics to Reduce Process Variability
James Beall delivered a Back to the Basics - Process Control Diagnostics Improves Refinery Performance presentation at the recent AIChE spring meeting. James, whom you may recall from earlier variability management posts, is a principal process control consultant....
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