Process manufacturing plants today are responsible for a dizzying array of intelligent instrumentation. As sensing technology has become simultaneously more powerful and more affordable, it sometimes feels as though every facility is bristling with new devices on...
We have talked a lot in this space about the importance of a boundless automation vision for successfully deploying AI into the OT space. After all, AI needs loads of data, and if that data is trapped in silos, it can’t get to the data lakes, analytics applications,...
As today’s lean process manufacturing teams look for ways to make the most of their limited resources, many are trying to find a way to limit the impact of having their most expert people spread thin across plants that may be many miles—or even continents—apart. Often...
Many things have changed in process manufacturing in recent years. Teams—including reliability and maintenance—have gotten smaller, budgets have shrunk, production expectations have increased, expertise has become rarer, and equipment has gotten more complex. One...
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...
We hear so much today about digital transformation, but, as Emerson’s Claudio Fayad explains in his recent article in Processing magazine, digital transformation has been happening for far longer than we all imagine. In fact, “The modern distributed control system...
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