Manufacturers across many industries continued to be pressured to be able to do more with fewer staff in their plants. Technologies have advanced to provide more measurements added more easily to be able to optimize the efforts of plant staff. In a Control Engineering...
Foundation Fieldbus
Time to Move Beyond 1960s-Era Technologies?
Happy New Year everyone! I hope your holidays were filled with joy, rest and time with family and friends. Let's open 2017 with a look at a LinkedIn post by Emerson's Jonas Berge asking if we are ready to stop building plants with 1960s-era automation technology....
IIoT Protocols and Comparisons
In LinkedIn's Industrial Internet of Things group was a discussion topic, IIoT Protocols, Overview and Comparison. The discussion thread referenced an rti blog post, 6 Industrial IoT Communication Solutions – Which One's for You? [Comparison]. The post describes the...
Continuing Digital Transformations in Process Automation
Happy New Year and I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are recharged to accomplish even greater heights in 2016! I wanted to share an extremely popular LinkedIn post, 2016: Digital Transformation by Emerson's Jonas Berge. Posted just a week ago, it currently...
Foundation Fieldbus and WirelessHART for New Plant Construction
In an earlier post, Considerations for Wired versus Wireless Instrumentation, we provided some guidance on when to consider digital communications-enabled technologies such as Foundation fieldbus and when to consider wireless technologies such as WirelessHART....
Considerations for Wired versus Wireless Instrumentation
If you have an instrumentation and automation project for a new installation you are faced with many technology selection decisions. For instance, instrumentation based on digital communications technologies, which provide robust diagnostics and predictive...
Digital Protocol Diagnostics and Risk Analysis
In an earlier post, Wired Versus Wireless Risk Analysis for Process Instrumentation Measurements, we highlighted the fault tree methodology for performing risk analysis on wired and wireless instrumentation. Emerson's Jonas Berge added a thoughtful comment which I...
Innovative Uses and Proven Results with HART Digital Communications Protocol
You may have seen the recent news of the HART Communications Foundation and the Fieldbus Foundation merging to form the FieldComm Group. Ted Masters, President and CEO of the FieldComm Group noted: …the creation of FieldComm Group is an unprecedented opportunity to...
Time-Synchronized Digital Closed Loop Control
The October 6-10 Emerson Exchange conference in Orlando, Florida is rapidly approaching. If you have, but are not taking full advantage of some of the digital field devices in your facility and will be joining us at the conference, you may want this session. Emerson's...
Extending Measurement Device Stability to 15 Years
One of the benefits of advancing technologies can be increased reliability. For measurement devices in the processing industries, these technology improvements can mean increased operations and maintenance productivity through extended calibration intervals, improved...
Technology Enhancements Simplify Foundation Fieldbus
I want to once again elevate the comments of Emerson's Jonas Berge around the topic of educational materials for the Foundation fieldbus digital communications technology. In a post, For Foundation Fieldbus Segment Design-Use Typicals Approach, a commenter asked:...
For Foundation Fieldbus Segment Design-Use Typicals Approach
Last week I highlighted an updated tool for designing Foundation fieldbus segments. Emerson's Jonas Berge left a great comment with links for additional resources to which I wanted to bring visibility in this post. I've also inserted some hyperlinks where you can find...
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