At the Emerson Exchange 2025 Conference, Control Southern’s Jordan Cain and Emerson’s Daniel Busch presented “Using Smart Valve Positioners to Cut Downtime and Optimize Outages”.
Using Smart Positioners to Make Smart Decisions
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Elevate Your Maintenance Game: The Power of Smart Positioners and Emerson’s Experts Analysis
During a recent presentation at Emerson Exchange 2025, Daniel Busch, Emerson Senior Valve Condition Monitoring Analyst, and Jordan Cain, Account Manager at Control Southern Inc., presented "Using Smart Positioners to Make Smart Decisions." An attendee asked, "Do you...
Driving Performance with Digital Valve Controllers
Emerson’s Jaime Alvarado Millan, Nathan Krasnovsky, and Naman Tahan teamed up to present, Harnessing the Power of Digital Valve Controllers: Introducing Valve Reliability Suite™ Solutions, at the Emerson Exchange 2025 Conference. Here is their presentation abstract:...
Role of Digital Valve Controllers in Modern Process Safety
Valves used in process safety applications remain static for much of their existence in a manufacturing or production process. Digital valve controllers can play an essential role in ensuring these valves operate as they should when called upon in an abnormal situation.
Boosting Efficiency and Safety: The Power of Digitalization in Greenfield LNG Projects Podcast
Emerson’s Riyaz Ali & Tom Mullins join podcast host Jim Cahill to share the story of an LNG producer and how they applied digitalization in their project design and installation to deliver integrated solutions to improve the project schedule and ongoing operational performance.
Rigorous Reliability Valve Testing for Hydrogen Production and Carbon Capture Applications
In this video, Valve Solutions for Carbon Capture in Steam Methane Reformer and Pressure Swing Adsorption Units, Emerson’s Suzanna Grills highlights the importance of rigorous testing to provide solutions suitable for hydrogen SMR production & carbon capture applications.
Digital Valve Controller Diagnostic Alerts Maximize Maintenance Efficiency
There are three basic alert settings within all Fisher digital valve controllers that provide advanced notice of degrading performance, but those alerts must be enabled, configured and monitored — ideally by following the four-step program outlined in this article.
Digital Valve Controller Employs Edge Computing
Valve controllers play a vital role in industrial processes, ensuring that control valves are positioned accurately under changing process conditions. Building upon fifty years of valve controller improvements, the new Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ DVC7K digital valve controller...
Pneumatic Controllers Revived by Flexible, Configurable, Digital Process Controller
Emerson’s Fisher Instruments has been producing its Wizard pneumatic controllers since the 1940s, refining and revamping them every 20 years or so. Along the way, the company produced its electro-pneumatic controllers, and more recently developed its Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ digital pneumatic controllers (DPC). In all, Emerson estimates there are more than 1 million of its pneumatic controllers presently operating.
Advice at the Device™ for Your Valves
The Fisher FIELDVUE DVC7K digital valve controller offers Advice at the Device technology with real-time analytics for valve health diagnostics and prescriptive corrective actions. In a ControlGlobal.com article, Advice at the device—and remotely, Emerson’s Tom Brandau is quoted on the history of digital valve controller technology.
Improving Performance with Digital On-Off Valves
I’ve often written about how digital valve controllers improve control valve performance and ongoing maintenance. But how about on-off valves? In this Valve World Americas featured story, How Digitized On-Off Valves Improve Operations, Emerson’s Riyaz Ali explains how...
Better Cybersecurity Increases Confidence to Outsource Data Analysis
Highly secure connections to plant automation systems and intelligent field instruments are enabling Emerson to provide remote monitoring services, helping processing companies and manufacturers to achieve significant operational benefits without having to develop in-house data analysis expertise.
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