I hope the live blog posts from last week's Emerson Exchange conference in Texas gave you a flavor for some of the happenings. In one of the posts, 7 Ways Fieldbus Improves Operator Confidence and Performance, I received a great comment back from Emerson's Jonas Berge...
Emerson's Alan Dewey provided an overview of effective tools for plant smart devices. His abstract: Handheld configurations, calibrators, loop validators, laptops, notebooks, tablets, mobile phones, and other specialty devices are just a few of the possible tools that...
Notable contributor to Control magazine and process control specialist, John Rezabek presented on 7 ways the Foundation fieldbus technology improves operator confidence and performance. His abstract:Using the abundant insights available from digitally integrated field...
A ControlGlobal article, Industrial Networks: The Ethernet vs. Fieldbus Cage Match, spawned a discussion in the PROFIBUS and PROFINET LinkedIn group. I wanted to share Emerson's Jonas Berge's posts on this topic: Wait! Are we talking about "H1 fieldbus" or "H2...
As technology advances, process automation professionals face a myriad of ways to connect instrumentation and final control elements to their control systems. Some ways include direct wiring, remote I/O, multiplexors, locally mounted transmitters, HART-enabled...
Emerson's Richard Barnes provides perspectives on an asset reliability project on which he's working with a European refinery's project team. A week ago, I had the pleasure of sitting by the beach, on the coast of the Black Sea, having an early breakfast before...
Happy Friday—it's Chris Womack with another guest post, this time about new device diagnostics standards and how they're changing daily plant maintenance, including turnaround planning. Back in March, your regular blog host Jim Cahill wrote about how the Fieldbus...
In an earlier post, Measuring Hydrocarbon Dew Point with Gas Chromatographs, we highlighted the challenges with liquids in natural gas. Emerson's Jonas Berge added a comment [hyperlinks added]: The 700XA gas chromatograph can be integrated into intelligent device...
In a post last week announcing an update to the Foundation Fieldbus Segment Design Tool, and another post highlighting its availability to members of the DeltaV LinkedIn group, Emerson's Jonas Berge shared some excellent thoughts that I wanted to pass along to you....
Standards are an essential part of technology advancement. They provide a way for users to choose from multiple suppliers, and suppliers to create solutions with multiple suppliers' technologies. In areas where competing standards emerge, it's great when a path to a...
The diagnostics available in smart instrumentation can help to improve process efficiency, reduce unplanned downtime, reduce maintenance costs, and more. I received word that a valuable tool, the Foundation Fieldbus Segment Design Tool, has been updated to help in the...
The Fieldbus Foundation has been collaborating with the international process industry end-user association, NAMUR, to adopt the NAMUR NE-107 standard as part of the Fieldbus Foundation's Diagnostics Profile Specification (FF-912). The purpose of this NE-107 standard...
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