Friday is a Meet the Experts day at Emerson Exchange where a multitude of panels are assembled to field questions from the user community. I'm in the "Expanding the Use of DeltaV Advanced Control" panel with a great line up of advanced control technologists and...
Emerson's Gergo Kertesz shared a story of how to get a plant started up and running with the aid of control loop tuning. His abstract: This Russian Petrochemical Company is one of the world's largest petrochemical complexes. The company specialises in the production...
Over in LinkedIn's Process Control group, a question was asked: What is the difference between regulatory and model predictive control. Is it possible that MPC work as stand alone without regulatory control? Emerson's Chowyang Neo offered: Regulatory Control generally...
Effectively controlling the drum level in an industrial boiler helps to maximize overall energy efficiency. When the drum level varies it can not only impact boiler efficiency, but overall reliability due to unplanned shutdowns. Emerson's Mark Coughran shared a story...
Process automation hall of fame member Greg McMillan has nearly completed an updated version of the book, Tuning and Control Loop Performance: A Practitioner's Guide. It had last been updated back in 1994. You may be familiar with Greg through his blog posts on the...
Efficiency projects benefit process manufacturers across many industries. This is particularly true in the mining industry as Emerson's Douglas Morris describes in today's post. It's well known that the mining industry has hit a small rough patch; the lowering demand...
Last week, Emerson Consultant James Beall was working with a major U.S. plastics facility on the Texas Gulf Coast, helping the firm figure out how it might save some of the money it spends on distillation energy by using Emerson's Smart Process Distillation Column...
Emerson's Anand Iyer concludes his Cloud I/O series today with a summation of what the technology may bring to process manufacturers. The more we change things, the more they seem same. Nevertheless, most changes inch us forward into new developments and new futures....
One of the very active U.S. universities in the field of engineering and automation is Oklahoma State University. Their OSU Automation Society was founded several years ago and its purpose is to spread awareness and promote automation and control systems as a...
For producers of commodity products, profitability primarily comes from operational excellence—that is optimizing costs to run the process as efficiently as possible. In the U.K-based PTQ article, Refinery operations gain from advances in digital automation, Emerson's...
It's human nature to operate within a comfort zone. For plant operators, where the stakes are incredibly high, it means operating away from constraint limits. Unfortunately, to maximize the performance of the process, it means to get as close to the limits as you can...
The changing global economy is impacting the demand for steel. Emerson's Juan Carlos Bravo, a member of the metals and mining industry team, highlights the challenges steel producers currently face. Last week in our blog post, China and its impact in iron ore prices...
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