The rapid development of the COVID-19 vaccine has created a dramatic shift in the way the public and life sciences organizations view the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. In a recent Q&A with Pharma Manufacturing, Nathan Pettus, president of Emerson’s process...
electronic marshalling
Modernization of DCS and PLC with Electronic Marshalling
Now, with many control systems being 30+ years old, most of these legacy systems have been placed in to end of life or retired lifecycle status. This means no further factory support is available. I caught up with Emerson's Scott Ross about some of the choices that...
Simplifying Safety Instrumented System Modernization Projects
One of my first assignments as a newly minted Electrical Engineer was to tend to a triple modular redundant (TMR) safety instrumented system (SIS) on an offshore Gulf of Mexico oil & gas gathering facility. This was back in the 1980s when these systems were...
Simplifying Pneumatic Valve Manifold Engineering and Installation
Wikipedia defines a solenoid valve as an: …electromechanically operated valve. The valve is controlled by an electric current through a solenoid: in the case of a two-port valve the flow is switched on or off; in the case of a three-port valve, the outflow is switched...
More on Foundation Fieldbus and HART
I wanted to bring visibility to several recent comments from an earlier post, Major Difference between Foundation Fieldbus and HART Protocols. Here's the summation thought from the first comment: …With one software package, and as put above with HART pass-through, you...
Usability and Other Improvements in DeltaV Version 12
I wanted to highlight a series of posts from Emerson's Bruce Greenwald on his Process Control Musings blog. He highlights some additions to the DeltaV version 12 release—DeltaV Version 12 Fun Facts and Features:Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In Part 1, Bruce highlights...
Better Tank-Level Measurement Using Multivariable Devices
Chris Womack recaps an Emerson Exchange presentation on storage tank process availability. It's crucial to keep storage tanks—and terminal facilities—constantly monitored, so they're always associated with an ongoing cost. But that cost is going down. In another of...
Roots of PLCs and DCSs
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...
IO Clouds-Possible Future of Control Systems
Emerson's Anand Krishnan Iyer brings his unique perspectives to cloud technology—specifically around clouds of control system I/O. Today's post kicks off a multipart series exploring the possible future of these I/O clouds. Clouds. Monsoon clouds mean a lot to us....
A Quick Video Look at Electronic Marshalling
In this short, 1:54 Automation World video, Emerson CHARMS provide flexible process control, Emerson's Bruce Greenwald describes how electronic marshalling and DeltaV CHARMS flexible I/O modules simplify the process control system engineering, configuration, and...
Technical Challenges in Scaling First of Kind Technologies
Douglas Morris, who is part of Emerson's alternative energy industry team, writes a follow-up to his recent post about the challenges alternative energy producers face when scaling up first of a kind technology: In my last post, I discussed some of the financial...
Growing Number of Process Automation-Related How To Videos
One of the big benefits that free services such as YouTube has brought us is the proliferation of "how to" videos. Seeing a visual and audio display of someone showing how to do something really speeds up the learning process when compared to text alone, or text with...
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