Cybersecurity is a critical concern for industrial manufacturers these days, particularly as high-profile incidents targeting plants have become the new normal. No organization wants to risk the production loss, safety concerns, and reputation damage that come with a...
Within the digital or business transformation stream of the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 conference, Jacek Brauer, Europe and Asia advanced process control expert at Bunge, explained how to control non-linear processes efficiently using DeltaV™ Distributed Control...
Hovione is a contract development and manufacturing company dedicated to helping pharmaceutical customers bring new and off-patent drugs to market. As part of the digital transformation conference stream at Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024, Mariana Brás, senior process...
It seems as if the challenges facing process manufacturers have changed nearly overnight, with many operations teams now facing entirely different goals than just five short years ago. These new goals—increased sustainability, reduced energy use, optimal...
Preventive Maintenance sets the foundation for the availability and peak performance of industrial control systems. It’s essential to establish and continue ongoing processes and regular cadence for experts to inspect, test, and maintain system components.
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...
The life sciences marketplace is changing faster than nearly any other industry. Gone are the days when companies focus on a single treatment to drive their entire business. Today’s life sciences manufacturers are challenged to bring new treatments to the marketplace...
In today’s manufacturing environment, where fewer experienced people are running the plant, well-designed alarm strategies are more important than ever. A timely, clear, accurate alarm—one that is not buried in an alarm flood—can mean the difference between safe...
At my alma mater, The University of Texas, here in Austin, Texas, is the Carl J. Eckhardt Combined Heating and Power (CHP) Complex. It is often described: …as the largest and most integrated microgrid in the U.S…. [It] is capable of generating 135 MW (megawatt) power...
Earlier this week, we shared how integrated control systems connected with turbine generators and other associated process areas, can improve overall efficiency and reliability for electrical power producers. Continuing on this theme, a Combined Cycle Journal article,...
Regulatory bodies across the globe continue to impose stricter specifications for transportation fuels to reduce combustion byproducts. Emerson's Murali Krishnan and Patrick Truesdale shared a story with me of an Asian refiner who needed to modernize its blend and...
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...
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