Over the past several years, I've covered the advancements in batch analytics to improve the efficiency of batch processes and spot troubles early enough to avoid or resolve the trouble. There can be many simultaneous complex activities in batch operations including...
Creating batch process models such as fermentation is challenging due to their inherent time variability batch to batch. It's also critical to know when problems are beginning to develop when corrective measures can be taken. Emerson's David Rehbein, a Senior Data...
Emerson's Tyson Bridger has a fascinating article, Cloud Computing Can Be Applied For Reservoir Modeling, in E&P magazine. The phrase, "cloud computing" gets bandied about quite a bit, so I turned to Wikipedia for the latest definition: Cloud computing is...
In case you haven't seen this news yet, the OPC Foundation has renamed OPC Xi to OPC .NET 3.0 (WCF). Let's call it OPC .NET 3.0 for short. It's the same client/server connectivity standard and functionality for the process industries that I've been describing as OPC...
Update: OPC Xi is now called OPC .NET 3.0. Original post: We began this week with a post about the compatibility of the OPC Express Interface (Xi) standard with the existing OPC classic real-time, alarm & events, and historical data access servers to provide...
Emerson's Christie Deitz and Bristol-Meyers Squibb's Joe Maguire are presenting, Electronic Workflow for a Bioreactor, at the 2010 WBF North American Conference this week in Austin. Their abstract: Automating workflow and eliminating paper batch records can provide...
WBF is holding their annual North American conference this week in Austin, Texas. For those not here, you can get a flavor for what's happening through the WBF Twitter account and the search hash tag, #WBFna. Two Emerson presenters are on the agenda today. First, Dawn...
Last week, we cautioned about the use of obsolescence in developing an automation modernization project justification. Sticking on the theme of justification, I received a copy of a presentation, Tank Farm and Terminal Automation: Developing a Business Case. Emerson's...
I caught up the other day with Emerson's Shenling Yang, who is a senior project execution engineer in the Life Sciences and Food & Beverage (LSFB) industry group. You may recall Shenling from earlier posts. She shared two pieces of news with me. The first is that...
Last week, Syncade smart operations management suite software was officially unveiled at ARC Advisory Group's Orlando Forum--Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Sustainable Manufacturing. The Syncade suite of software provides resource management, operations...
At the request of one of Emerson Process Experts blog readers who has long commute to and from his office, I started to add podcast recordings at the end of each post to provide an audio version of each post, beginning this past October. Today, I thought we'd push the...
This is a great time of year to be a blogger for Emerson with the Emerson Exchange happening next week. It's that time when process manufacturing professionals, Emerson and local business partner professionals, and alliance members gather to exchange their expertise...
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