In spite of my best efforts to use persistent RSS search feeds in order not to miss any news about Emerson experts in action, here's one that got by me. Mark Coughran, a consultant on Emerson's Advanced Applied Technology team, shared this control challenge question...
Like capacitors do for electrical circuits, vessel levels provide capacity that can absorb variability within the process. In many cases, a properly tuned level controller can make the variability of the vessel outflow can be much less than the variability vessel...
Jack Murray, a member of Emerson's Metals, Mining, and Minerals industry team, shared a paper he had co-written with an Alcan Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery staff member and Emerson fieldbus consultant, Sudhir Jain. Alcan was recently purchased by Rio Tinto....
I've highlighted the topic of plant turnarounds (planned downtime for maintenance) a few times in the past. Back from the Emerson Exchange, here's my take on the Smart Turnaround workshop. For continuous processes that run for years, this turnaround provides...
Last October, I featured one of Emerson's advanced automation service consultants, Lou Heavner, and how he worked with Lukoil to create virtual sensors based on neural networks. Their efforts were told in more detail in the March 2007 issue of InTech magazine. The...
From my prior post with Greg McMillan and his thoughts on PAT and Advanced Control, I neglected to mention that he will be at the Interphex 2007 Conference & Exhibition next week presenting two seminars in the Emerson booth (#2354). The seminars will be held 1:30pm on...
In an earlier post, I mentioned seeing a draft article by Emerson's Terry Blevins and James Beall on performance monitoring and the Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) initiative. The article, Monitoring and Control Tools for Implementing PAT, has now been published...
I came across the following nine control fundamentals according to Mark Coughran, a consultant on Emerson's Advanced Applied Technology team. These are based up his years of experience working with process manufacturers to optimize their performance. You may recall...
I caught a sneak preview of draft article that ModelingAndControl.com's Terry Blevins who collaborated with James Beall whom you may recall from earlier posts. The draft explores the initial steps Pharmaceutical and Biotech manufacturers should consider when preparing...
Emerson's Lou Heavner, a consultant on the Advanced Automation Services team, recently co-authored a paper, Using Neural Network Technology for Virtual Sensing in Crude Refining Units, at the recent ISA EXPO 2006. Lou worked with engineers from Russian oil refiner,...
I had the chance to catch up with James Beall while he was here in Austin for meetings. You may remember James from an earlier post of a refiner in dire need of process stabilization assistance. James will be presenting a paper at the rapidly approaching Emerson...
The need to educate newer process automation engineers has been a continuing conversation among the process automation blogs (examples here, here, and here.) I caught up with Norm Ito, a variability management specialist who helps process manufacturers optimize the...
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