Here’s an advanced look at John Berra’s new book Turning the Giant: Disrupting Your Business with Persistent Innovation (slated for release on March 5, 2024). John is the Past Chairman of Emerson’s automation business and was President of the Systems business during the development of the DeltaV control system.
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Power Industry Valve Application Video Series
Valves are critical in many power industry applications such as boiler feedwater & recirculation, superheat attemperation, turbine bypass, and more. In this YouTube Fisher Valves & Instruments Power Industry Application Series, you can learn about the role...
Weighing Your Wind Turbine Options: Retrofit, Replace or Repair?
I’m often asked about how much impact wind turbine control retrofits can have on overall operations, and how they stack up against replacement or repair. It’s simple: they can be a very cost-effective way to positively affect the performance and reliability of a...
Introducing the DeltaV™ PK Flex Controller Podcast
Juan Carlos Bravo highlights how the DeltaV PK controller enables greater flexibility and scalability to subscribe only to the size and functions you require for your project for reduced capital costs and project risks.
Control Valve Challenges in Carbon Dioxide Transport and Sequestration
As climate change progresses, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), is critical. Spurred by government subsidies and mandates, CO2 sequestration projects are underway across the globe. My December 2023 Automation.com article,...
Strategies for Better Remote Analysis
It is often said that the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the biggest catalysts of digital transformation in many process manufacturing organizations. Operations and maintenance teams that would never before have considered adding remote systems quickly discovered they...
Avoiding the Energy Penalty Paradox to Just Not Trade One Form of Emissions for Another
In a Global Hydrogen Review article, Emerson’s Janka O’Brien explains how hydrogen producers can avoid creating a new emissions stream while reducing another.
Lowering the Carbon Footprint by Optimizing Liquids Pipelines
Emerson’s Jennifer Worthen joins podcast host Jim Cahill to discuss ways to drive more optimized liquids pipelines performance.
Finding the Value in Control Valve Data
In a world awash with digital data, many tend to assume that more data equals more value, but the reality is that data only becomes valuable when it is analyzed and acted upon. In my article titled “Transforming Valve Data into Dollars,” published to Automation.com in November 2023, I discuss a new software application that converts raw control valve data into actionable information.
Circularity and Solving a Sustainability Conundrum: Carbon Emissions vs Plastic Trash
In a new eBook, Emerson looks at how building a circular economy can simultaneously solve two sustainability problems.
Edge Analytics Usher in the Future of Plant Maintenance
Today’s plant maintenance looks very different from a picture of just 10 or 15 years ago. The tools and strategies that reliability teams have at their disposal have expanded dramatically—from new sensing technologies to comprehensive software solutions to track and...
Emerson’s New DeltaV Edge Environment Propels Operational Performance By Maximizing Access to Secure, Contextualized Data
How the DeltaV Edge Environment enables greater use of operational data scattered across various systems and software applications to help you improve overall performance in safety, efficiency, reliability, and sustainability.
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