Manufacturers and producers are looking for new ways to transform their business performance through a combination of technology, people and streamlined work practices. The nomenclature for these initiatives can change from industry to industry. For upstream oil &...
As we approach the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, it is around-the-clock daylight for oil and gas producers in Alaska's Arctic region. This situation flips to months of darkness around the winter solstice. These conditions and others pose challenges for...
The premier event in the energy industries—upstream, midstream, downstream and power—will occur in Houston, Texas next week at CERAWeek 2019. It: …provides comprehensive insight into the global and regional energy future by addressing key issues—from markets and...
Have you ever stopped to consider the path and ownership transfers your car's gasoline or diesel took from the wellhead when it was still crude oil until you pumped it into your tank at the gas station? For the businesses involved in custody transfer process through...
Sometimes a good discussion occurs among experts in a collaboration application within the Emerson firewall. Today's post is an example. Emerson's Jonas Berge was asking the global community of consultants and interested parties in refining about the manually operated...
Making an operational step change in a production process involves a clear vision and people, processes and tools to execute the vision. A July/August 2014 Tank Storage magazine article, Automating terminal operations, highlights the story of Vopak transforming their...
Increasing shale oil and gas production in the U.S. is increasing the need for storage tanks to hold it. One example as highlighted in a recent Bloomberg article, Houston Fills With Crude Oil That Can't Be Shipped Out: Storage tanks are filling as new pipelines carry...
Hi, it's Chris Womack again with another guest post about terminals. So, how do you quickly modify an acid terminal to dramatically reduce overfills—and their attendant clean-up costs, product losses, and environmental compliance headaches—to save a bit more than...
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...
For those in the biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturing industries, Emerson's Chris Amstutz has been sharing a great series of forum posts in the Emerson Exchange 365 community, Life Sciences track. Here are a few examples of some specific SAP to manufacturing...
For pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, the process of drug compound experimentation requires robust and reproducible results before the scale up process can begin. Emerson's Chris Amstutz pointed me to a great whitepaper by Broadley James, Automating Industrial...
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...
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