My RSS subscription to the Fieldbus Foundation blog alerted me to a device revision management whitepaper over at the EDDL.org (Electronic Device Description Language) site. The whitepaper, Device Revision and Lifecycle Management Guide: How to keep systems up to date...
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Increased Span and Reduced Complexity in Process Automation
Pipeline magazine has an interesting article, The evolution of automation, which describes some of the ways automation technologies are changing plant environments. The article provides perspectives from several automation suppliers, including Emerson's Phillip Bond....
Wireless Level Switches and Interoperability
Emerson's Jonas Berge shares how level switches have joined the ranks of wireless devices in a recent Control Engineering Asia article, Switching to Wireless. He notes how this enables: …an easy and cost-effective solution for level monitoring without laying cable or...
Enhanced Foundation Fieldbus Interoperability
I saw the news from the Fieldbus Foundation of automation systems or "hosts" being registered incorporating the Host Profile "61b". It is described: In the Foundation fieldbus automation infrastructure, hosts can include configuration tools, recording devices, alarm...
Accessible Guided Wave Radar Setup, Calibration, and Diagnostics
In last week's post, Refinery Desalter Guided Wave Radar Level Measurement, Emerson's Jonas Berge added a comment with a link to an article he wrote about the setup, calibration, and diagnostics of guided wave radar (GWR) level transmitters. The article, New EDDL is...
Directing Alerts to Plant Operators
I saw a post by Emerson's Jonas Berge, over at the EDDL LinkedIn Group referencing device diagnostics and asset management. Jonas' work has been highlighted on this blog in many industry standards-related posts. He references a Control Engineering article by Herman...
Hydraulic Partial Stroke and Diagnostics on Emergency Shutdown Valves
I've discussed partial stroke testing (PST) as a diagnostic for the health of a valve in many posts over the years. These posts describe flow applications found in most process manufacturing facilities. But what about high-pressure and hydraulic applications including...
Clarifications on Process Fieldbuses
As 2010 was winding down, I did a post Digital Busses Team Up for Successful Results in which I referenced a book Catching the Process Fieldbus--An Introduction to Profibus for Process Automation. Over the holidays, I received an email from Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom...
Accessible Wireless Vibration Monitoring
I always enjoy reading articles written by Emerson's Jonas Berge. He explains concepts simply and makes them easily understandable. What prompted this thought is a recent article in Control Engineering Asia magazine, Value from Vibration. You may recall Jonas from...
Digitally Connected Variable Speed Drives
Whether controlling pumps, fans, blowers, conveyors, compressors, extruders, mixers, agitators, chippers, etc., AC variable speed drives can be found in most plants and mills. Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom you may recall from earlier digital communications-related...
Device Calibration Trim and EDDL
In my email this morning was the monthly Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) digest. It's one of many ISA email discussion lists. Emerson's Jonas Berge is the driving force behind the EDDL educational information that comes out in this email list and on the...
Improving Usability for Maintenance Technicians
Emerson's Adam Lund has a great article, Human Centered Design Supports Improved Job Performance, in the February edition of Maintenance Technology magazine. Adam highlights some reasons why human centered design is growing in importance for process automation...
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