You may have seen the news of the 2013 HART Plant of the Year noting: HART technology has helped reduce production downtime related to control valve failures… We use the HART signal to monitor real time valve conditions which has helped with identifying problems...
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Combined Reliability-Centered Course for Instrumentation Professionals
At a meeting last week with our global consultants, I caught up with Emerson's Tinh Phan. He shared with me a new course that has been created using human-centered design (HCD) persona information by the Emerson Educational Services team. It addresses how to manage...
Field Device Local Display in Process Safety Applications
One of the great things about conferences such as last week's Emerson Exchange Americas conference is reconnecting face-to-face with people where some time has passed. I had the chance to connect with Emerson's Riyaz Ali, whose expertise I've highlighted in several...
DeltaV and AMS Device Manager PlantWeb Integration – What you need to know
Emerson's Tinh Phan discussed the integration of control and asset management with DeltaV and AMS Device manager. His abstract:With the continuous changing integration of DeltaV and AMS Device Manager since DeltaV v11, End User are not getting the benefits of Emerson...
Selecting the Best Portable Tools for Maintaining Your HART and FOUNDATION fieldbus devices
Emerson's Alan Dewey provided an overview of effective tools for plant smart devices. His abstract: Handheld configurations, calibrators, loop validators, laptops, notebooks, tablets, mobile phones, and other specialty devices are just a few of the possible tools that...
Recognition of Effective Predictive Maintenance Program
Control Engineering magazine has a great article and 8-minute video, A Straightforward Maintenance Strategy Yields Improved Plant Performance, featuring Monsanto Muscatine's use of technology to move from reactive to predictive maintenance to improve output and reduce...
Predictive Monitoring of Terminals and Tanks for Environmental Protection
Emerson's Chris Womack shares his insights on terminal and tank monitoring in today's guest post. In the world of tanks and terminals, there's mounting pressure for more environmental protection in the form of "sustainability"—the use of recyclable and non-toxic...
Reducing Time-Consuming Calibration Activities
I caught up with Emerson's Chris Amstutz, whom you may recall from earlier Life Sciences-related posts. Chris leads a team of Life Sciences industry consultants. He shared how calibration is a time-consuming and documentation intensive activity in highly regulated...
Simplifying Human Interfaces via Dashboards
I had a sneak peak at an upcoming article on human interface design by Emerson's Tom Wallace. You may recall Tom from some of our earlier smart device and digital communications protocol posts. In the article, Tom notes the unrelenting drive to simplify, given the...
Extending Diagnostics to Wireless Field Devices
What's that expression... "Tan, rested, and ready"? After a nice holiday break filled with family, friends, and football (I'm in Texas after all!), it's time for me to dive back into the business of highlighting experts around Emerson Process Management. I read a...
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