If you use Foundation fieldbus technology with your smart instrumentation in your plant or perhaps may in the future, I want to share that an updated Segment Design Tool is now available for you to download. This tool is specifically designed to verify physical and...
This week, the Bio International Convention (Bio 2014) is happening in San Diego, California. Several of Emerson's Life Sciences consultants, including Zuwei Jin, are there to discuss some of the issues and trends in pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing processes...
The news is out today of Emerson's opening of a new flow loop facility, in Stavanger, Norway. This facility is part of the Roxar brand of products and services which serve the oil & gas industry with advanced technology for production optimization, production...
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...
Cybersecurity remains a top concern among process manufacturers around the globe. In a recent Process Engineering article, Weak spot, the article opens: Last month marked the end of technical support for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. Robert Smith...
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,...
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...
Emerson's Aaron Crews, Molly Firkins, and Jessica Graham presented, "Rules" for Designing Optimal Operator Displays at the 2012 Emerson Exchange. Their abstract:“How can I design displays in the right way?” No matter whether we are creating, migrating or optimizing...
In today's guest post, Emerson's Jim Cushman, a member of the Power & Water Solutions business, looks at the process control architecture requirements for solar photovoltaic-based power generation. Early developers of solar photovoltaic (PV) did not consider the...
With respect to future releases, research is a key part of the Emerson planning process. The research team asked if I'd share a new survey on control systems they are currently conducting. The survey shares various types of process control systems with you. Each type...
I've known Emerson's Cindy Scott a long time in our days building the DeltaV brand, and even earlier. I've not known Cindy to be versed in the use of the Queen's English by spelling words such as color, colour. I can only assume the article I read, Don't let colours...
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