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...
advanced process control
Educational Resource for Tuning and Control Loop Performance
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...
Successful Miners are Efficient Miners
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...
With Smart Process Distillation, James Beall Finds Hidden Savings for Gulf Coast Plastics Plant
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...
Cloud IO-So What will Change?
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....
Sharing Process Control Expertise with Next-Gen Automation Professionals
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...
Improving Refinery Operations through Technology
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...
Making Advanced Process Control Practical
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...
Too Much Steel
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...
Making Advanced Process Control Approachable
A recent ControlGlobal.com article, Advanced Process Control Ain't Easy, concluded: The optimal solution is elusive, but perhaps the most promising path is to start with the simplest APC possible, one that delivers an acceptable percentage of theoretical benefits, but...
Optimizing LNG Plant Projects and Process Operations
While the energy markets continue to adjust to the growing supplies of natural gas through increasing shale gas production, project and operational goals around shorter schedules, faster startups, and maximized production rates remain constant. I caught up with...
Embedded Advanced Control Innovations Lead to ISA Fellow Recognition
If you're going to ISA Automation Week September 24-27, 2012 in Orlando, Florida, make sure to say hi to one of ISA's newest Fellows, Emerson's Jeffery Williams. Jeff is being honored for his contributions in the development of embedded advanced control for use on...
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