For process manufacturers and producers, reliability directly impacts safety, performance, and efficiency. As technologies continue to advance, predictive maintenance methods couple with improved work processes help to improve the reliability of process operations....
Across many process manufacturing and producing industries, falling prices are driving the need for increased efficiency and reliability, as well as reduced costs. While optimizing process control can yield gains, so can applying technology to the condition of the...
If you look through the annual reports of major process manufacturers and producers you don't have to look very hard to find the word "reliability". For example, on page 3 of the 2014 ExxonMobil annual report, Chairman and CEO Rex W. Tillerson wrote: Operational...
Author: Douglas Morris Recently, the consulting arm of Black & Veatch published its annual strategic directions report for the US utility industry. In 2014 "reliability" was again identified as the top industry concern. This report discusses how technology will...
"Why do some machines fail early, while others operate for many additional years?" Emerson's Ray Garvey and Spectro's Pat Henning open with this great question in a Machinery Lubrication article, Identifying Root Causes of Machinery Damage with Condition Monitoring....
In a recent Automation World column, The Future is Attainable with Today's Automation, Emerson Process Management's former president, John Berra, noted: The number one issue in process plants is the disruptive cost of an unplanned shutdown. And the number one cause of...
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