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...
Foundation Fieldbus
Adding Asset Performance Management for Refinery Reliability
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...
Using the FF-912 Diagnostics Specification to Improve Daily Maintenance Routines
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...
Managing Analyzers, Transmitters, and Control Valves with a Common Approach
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...
Integrated Power in Foundation Fieldbus Card Streamlines Projects
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....
Update and History of Field Device Integration (FDI) Effort
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...
Updated Foundation Fieldbus Segment Design Tool
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...
Adopting Smart Instrumentation Diagnostic Operator Alert Standard
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...
Usability and Other Improvements in DeltaV Version 12
I wanted to highlight a series of posts from Emerson's Bruce Greenwald on his Process Control Musings blog. He highlights some additions to the DeltaV version 12 release—DeltaV Version 12 Fun Facts and Features:Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In Part 1, Bruce highlights...
Device Revisions Management Best Practices-Is DD the Problem or the Solution?
Emerson's Jonas Berge posed this question, which he addressed in his Emerson Exchange presentation with the same name. His abstract: Keeping the system up to date with new types and versions of 4-20 mA/HART, WirelessHART, FOUNDATION fieldbus, and PROFIBUS devices as...
View, Trend, and Configure Advanced Pressure Diagnostics
Emerson's Tom Wallace shared some new templates available in the DeltaV control system version 11 or newer to better understand and access advanced diagnostics from smart pressure devices. His abstract [hyperlink added to article]:Advanced pressure diagnostics use...
Human Centered Design for the Operating Plant-Part 2
In our continuing series on why and how technologies developed with a human centered design (HCD) approach, Emerson's Tom Wallace looks more closely at guided configuration and setup as well as leveraging productivity across different device types and protocols....
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