Yesterday, we shared thoughts from Emerson's Peter Zornio about new types of services enabled by the Industrial Internet of Things. Today we'll look at how these technologies continue to bring IT organizations and Operations staff closer together—whether they like the...
Enterprise Integration
Big Data and WIIFM
The hype-scale for the phrase "Big Data" has been with us and pegged for many years. A quick Google search yields 264 million search results. Wikipedia defines this concept as: …a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing...
Connecting Remote Wireless Device Networks Together
How do you connect a remote area with IEC 62591 WirelessHART field devices back to another area of your plant, mill, or field? Emerson's Neil Peterson shows how to do this in this 1:51 second video taken at the Cisco Connected Industries Booth at Cisco Live 2012. In...
ARC Update on DeltaV SIS
ARC Advisory Group's recently published ARC View, Emerson Brings DeltaV SIS into the Future with Version 11 Release, describes the continuing advancements of the DeltaV SIS safety instrumented system. DeltaV SIS launched over 5 years ago and this whitepaper provides...
Should Engineers be Social or Not?
A colleague pointed me to this provocatively titled article, Social media: Why engineers should be anti-social, on the Control Engineering website. It reports: A recent survey says that IT departments are having arms twisted to relax cyber security rules and allow...
Coriolis Flow Measurement to Natural Gas Accounting
In the news a while back was Emerson and Flow-Cal, maker of the leading natural gas accounting software. They introduced Coriolis-specific data integration to the FLOWCAL software. The purpose is: ...to enable direct interface of API Ch. 21.1-compliant Micro Motion...
Critical Backup for Your ISA95 Level 3 Information
I caught up the other day with Emerson's Shenling Yang, who is a senior project execution engineer in the Life Sciences and Food & Beverage (LSFB) industry group. You may recall Shenling from earlier posts. She shared two pieces of news with me. The first is that...
Single Batch Recipe, Single Engineering Environment
One of the things I'd like to do more in future posts, is to "hand over the keys" to this blog to one of our experts and "let them drive." Today's post is from Joanne Salazar, a member of the Data Management Services team. For those of you who use Twitter, Joanne is...
Comparing EDDL and FDT/DTM Communications Enablers
I had the opportunity to visit with Emerson's Tom Wallace who was here in Austin recently. I like to joke with Tom that a post I had done with him comparing and contrasting HART and Foundation fieldbus caused such a stir, that it produced one of this blog's highest...
Improving the Flow of Information per S95 Standard
While in Asia last week, I had the opportunity to catch a presentation by Bob Lenich, Director of Emerson's Data Management Services. With the announcement last year of Emerson's acquisition of Decision Management International and the Compliance Suite manufacturing...
A New Generation of Automation Professionals
I'm returning back to the U.S. from a week of meetings in Thailand. I'm struck by the sheer number of large greenfield projects being implemented and being planned across the Asia-Pacific region. Over the past several years, Emerson project teams from this region have...
Improving Production Management to Better Compete
I caught up the other day with Michael Barrett who manages some of Emerson's relationships with providers of production management software like OSIsoft. Michael strongly believes that production management is a key success factors for process manufacturers competing...
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