Online communities continue to grow and prosper in our world of process automation because they provide a peer-to-peer environment for problem solving. The DeltaV LinkedIn group is one that has had a steady growth in membership. In this group, a question was recently...
Foundation Fieldbus
Foundation Fieldbus India Presentations
I received a note from Emerson's Jonas Berge of a recent Foundation fieldbus (FF) General Assembly meeting in Mumbai, India. It was their largest gathering of process automation professionals to date. Jonas shared with me that India has an ever-increasing process...
Operational Gains with Foundation Fieldbus
Emerson's Jonas Berge alerted me to a series of Asia Pacific region seminars on Foundation fieldbus. The Singapore Fieldbus Foundation site has links to the presentations given for the seminars held in Malaysia, Taiwan, and one in Singapore for the water/waste water...
Clarifications on Process Fieldbuses
As 2010 was winding down, I did a post Digital Busses Team Up for Successful Results in which I referenced a book Catching the Process Fieldbus--An Introduction to Profibus for Process Automation. Over the holidays, I received an email from Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom...
Ways to Freely Educate Yourself in Process Optimization
Universities around the world provide great foundational engineering educations. But how does one become a true expert in our world of process automation? The answer is that unlike ever before, there are more ways than ever to freely educate oneself. If you think the...
Digital Busses Team Up for Successful Results
Those that read this blog regularly know that I rarely delve into controversial topics. The focus is much more about connecting readers with the experts we have all around Emerson Process Management. One of the few posts that caused a dust up was Response to...
Human Centered Design Approach for Level Control
You may have heard about the focus on Human Centered Design (HCD) approaches across Emerson Process Management. The importance of this trend was highlighted in a recent Sound Off! blog post on Human Factors Engineering. This HCD focus over the past several years has...
Welcome Mark Nixon to the Modeling and Control Blog
I wanted to welcome a new blogger to the family of Emerson Process Management bloggers. Emerson's Mark Nixon joins Terry Blevins and Greg McMillan over at the Modeling and Control blog. You may recall Mark from some earlier posts on this blog. I've known Mark for many...
Digitally Connected Variable Speed Drives
Whether controlling pumps, fans, blowers, conveyors, compressors, extruders, mixers, agitators, chippers, etc., AC variable speed drives can be found in most plants and mills. Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom you may recall from earlier digital communications-related...
Device Calibration Trim and EDDL
In my email this morning was the monthly Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) digest. It's one of many ISA email discussion lists. Emerson's Jonas Berge is the driving force behind the EDDL educational information that comes out in this email list and on the...
ARC Closer Look at I/O on Demand
Emerson's DeltaV team connected with ARC Advisory Group's Larry O'Brien to share details on the DeltaV I/O on Demand capability in the upcoming DeltaV version 11 release. Larry's ARC View, How Emerson's "I/O on Demand" Is Changing the Automation Infrastructure,...
I/O on Demand Cost Analysis
The DeltaV team has been hard at work creating two new whitepapers detailing an I/O on Demand cost analysis and Electronic Marshalling. These technologies are available in the latest DeltaV release. Emerson's Oil and Gas sales and marketing director, David Newman...
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