Creating a safe and secure automation process starts with implementing a well-designed basic process control system (BPCS) and safety instrumented system (SIS). Government agencies and industry associations offer guidelines and requirements for how these systems...
Author: John Dolenc It is nice to hear from our customers and read in the literature that it has become important to not just replace obsolete control system equipment, but to also provide operational improvement. For the longest time I have been puzzled by the idea...
We'll continue with our series on getting your brownfield automation project approved. In part one, Front End Planning for Control System Modernization Projects, we explored how changes in the project become more expensive the later in the schedule that they are made....
Austin, Texas, already a hotbed for technology as recently recognized by Forbes magazine, will host a gathering of chemical engineering professionals later this month. The AIChE is hosting the 2015 Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety here on...
Author: Dennis Tkacs Why do computer driven systems fail? It's a subject I want to develop over the next few blog posts. And by fail I don't mean technically, but rather why do they fail to meet the business cases under which their procurement was initially justified?...
Author: Gordon Lawther In the world of aging automation systems and infrastructures, there are always new features and capabilities that we'd like to have. HMI's [human machine interfaces] more akin to our home computers, intuitive engineering tools with pre-defined...
Coming out of our recent global consultant meeting here in Austin, I heard a great story from Emerson's Glyn Westlake about a Spanish refinery that wanted to provide their operators with an identical and realistic environment to learn and gain familiarity with both...
At a meeting last week with our global consultants, I caught up with Emerson's Tinh Phan. He shared with me a new course that has been created using human-centered design (HCD) persona information by the Emerson Educational Services team. It addresses how to manage...
Measurement instrumentation has traditionally been used by process manufacturers to control their processes safely and reliably. This instrumentation may not be enough to operate the process as efficiently as possible. In a recent comment to one of my earlier posts,...
Control systems are built to last for decades of reliable operation. Yet technology continues to advance at a rapid pace. At the recent Emerson Exchange conference in Texas, Emerson's Jean Pressly presented To Migrate Or Not To Migrate—DCS HMI Only. Here is a recap of...
Many of us have been around process automation for decades. We also have new folks joining our ranks every day. It's for the new members of the global process automation community that I share a presentation given by Emerson's Gordon Lawther at the ChemInnovations...
At the upcoming June 10-12, 2009 Automatic Control Conference, Emerson's Greg McMillan and Terry Blevins will be presenting, Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry. Describing this session, Greg wrote on the ModelingAndControl.com blog: The first semester I...
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