At the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, Saudi Aramco’s Abdulmohsen Alahmed and Reenad Almutairi presented Cybersecurity Challenges: The Journey Toward Virtualization and Centralization. Here is their session abstract: With the dynamic nature of...
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Modernization and Extension of Existing Batch Production Plants
In his presentation at the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 in Düsseldorf, Sven Girgensohn, E-EMC/OT E&I Engineering at BASF Personal Care & Nutrition GmbH, described how a modernized control system is supporting the need for greater flexibility and reliability of...
Make the Cybersecurity Journey Far Less Puzzling
Tackling cybersecurity can often feel like trying to complete an overly complex jigsaw puzzle. Figuring out how all the pieces connect is often a frustrating step. In the worst cases, however, the cybersecurity jigsaw puzzle doesn’t even have edges. And when that...
Emerson uses the NAMUR MTP standard for integration between a DCS and multiple PLC-based systems
While process manufacturing operations are usually automated, they sometimes are not as completely integrated as end users would desire, often resulting in operational silos or islands of operation. A typical production plant may use a large DCS for process control,...
State Based Control is Writing the Future of Modern Manufacturing
Modern process manufacturing organizations have to be more competitive than ever. No longer are these companies competing solely against similar businesses in their region or even world area. Today’s most profitable companies are global, and to compete, they must keep...
Modern Advanced Process Control is Easier than Ever
It likely comes as no surprise that advanced process control (APC) has only gotten better as time has gone by. Old APC software, though very powerful in its own right, was often complex to configure and even more difficult to maintain. That turned away a lot of...
Modern Automation Will Power the New Hydrogen Economy
The rapid shift to more sustainable industrial operations has dramatically impacted the hydrocarbon processing industry. It seems like almost overnight, operations teams are looking at entirely new processes focused on manufacturing new, greener alternative products...
Ready the Plant for a New Era of Automation
It didn’t take long for the rise of the internet to upend the way process manufacturers do business. Over the span of just a few years, plants went from prioritizing a rigid, isolated control system structure to needing ways to integrate across the enterprise to...
Breaking Free of Control System ‘Lock-In’
There is no escaping the fact that many of today’s process manufacturing plants need to modernize. As Emerson’s Aaron Crews explains in his recent article in Control Engineering, “Plants are often using technologies that are 20 to 40 years old. In many cases, the...
Today’s Modernization Technologies Eliminate Rip-and-Replace
Modernization projects have become more important than ever as the benefits of updated control technologies such as better HMIs, advanced process control, better integration with asset management systems, improved alarm management, and more have all transitioned from...
Expert Advice for Securing Safety Systems
As more and more processing plant personnel begin to work remotely in the wake of cultural changes from the global pandemic and an acceleration in plants’ digital transformation initiatives, there is probably no topic more deserving of attention than cybersecurity....
Reduce the Complexity and Cost of Modernization
One of the most difficult challenges many of today’s process manufacturing plants face is modernization. Operations and maintenance teams know that they cannot drive the best possible performance and sustainability using technologies that are 20 or 30 years old;...
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