A blog post by Emerson's Anand Iyer. The last couple of decades have seen integrated engineering across the globe. Some of this actually started with the Y2K and internet and cloud have been largely responsible for this mode of operation. A philosophical argument...
Update: Welcome scadasec Digest readers. Much work needs to be done with cybersecurity technology and work processes before Anand's vision might be realized. Emerson's Anand Iyer explores offshoring control rooms in today's guest post. I wonder what Elmore Leonard...
Emerson's Anand Iyer applies process safety thinking to automobiles. Statistics put highway accidents as the largest human killer. More people die in automobile accidents than in the wars of the modern world, nuclear power plants or process plants. We have put in a...
A blog post by Emerson's Anand Iyer. Since the days of my "initiation" in this field, machinery protection has always been another system, whose domain has been questioned many a times. While the instrumentation and control (I&C) team would probably maintain the...
Here's an idea from Emerson's Anand Iyer. Would a rental solution generate sufficient justification to experiment with those borderline cases?Back in 2008, working in maintenance group for a leading petrochemical giant in India, there was this discussion on how some...
A small piece of humor from Emerson's Anand Iyer. Morning Fox News has some accident on some freeway. A few days ago, an overturned ethanol truck had given us a 1-hour drive (30 mins more than normal) to office. I see traffic news every morning, because my older car...
How does a beach vacation viewing dolphins along the coast of India tie back to process control? Emerson's Anand Iyer explains in today's guest post. There is a town called Malvan in Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. This place is very popular amongst tourists for...
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....
Emerson's Anand Iyer continues his series on Cloud I/O with a look from an asset management perspective. We have already perceived some interaction with asset management systems.The availability of communication paths and higher bandwidth in select paths will enable...
Emerson's Anand Iyer continues his series on the I/O cloud expanding on the I/O bubbles concept. For the last few decades, we have been focusing on the concept of redundancy specifically at the CPU and card levels. A few critical field devices are redundant in a few...
We continue our series on Cloud I/O from Emerson's Anand Iyer. Today's post is a primer on intuitive control. When we have an I/O cloud or bubbles of IO information with very less binding of the IO and a more free choice (within certain boundaries), there is an...
Emerson's Anand Iyer brings his humor and perspectives to instrumentation and innovation in today's guest post. Elizabeth, a popular movie, depicted the dire straits of the British Empire sometime in the 15th century and how by commanding entrepreneurs to set sail...
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