In a ControlGlobal.com article, Ethernet-APL becomes a reality, Emerson’s Jonas Berge describes how Ethernet-APL provides a single high-speed infrastructure to manage the wide variety of protocols and devices required in an automation architecture.
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Fostering Collaborative Maintenance Practices
Tools that advance collaborative efforts among co-workers, especially for maintenance teams in manufacturing operations, help increase reliable and efficient operations. Here's an under 3-minute YouTube video example, Managing Device Configurations with AMS Trex,...
Instrumentation Diagnostics and Safe, Reliable Operations
As technology has advanced in power and sophistication, its ability to self-diagnose and perform predictive diagnostics has too. In a Plant Engineering article, Using diagnostic functions to improve system safety, Emerson's Mark Menezes shares examples of how these...
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...
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...
Proactive Maintenance and Award-Winning Performance
You may have seen the news of the 2013 HART Plant of the Year noting: HART technology has helped reduce production downtime related to control valve failures… We use the HART signal to monitor real time valve conditions which has helped with identifying problems...
WirelessHART Join Key Interoperability and Problem Solving
Author: Craig Abbott Recently, a customer using a non-Emerson hand held communicator ran into problems during FAT. None of the devices they had configured would connect to the Rosemount 1420 gateway whilst other devices, configured by our technician using a 475 hand...
Providing Operators Process Control Valve Position Feedback
Control systems provide signals to control valves to regulate their position per the requirements of the control strategy. It is good engineering practice, especially for critical control valves to have valve travel feedback from independent devices such as position...
More on Foundation Fieldbus and HART
I wanted to bring visibility to several recent comments from an earlier post, Major Difference between Foundation Fieldbus and HART Protocols. Here's the summation thought from the first comment: …With one software package, and as put above with HART pass-through, you...
Temperature Diagnostics for Improved Refinery Operations
I highlighted some of the challenges North American refiners face in an earlier post with tight oil from shale formations. Emerson's Michelle Weimert has Hydrocarbon Processing article, Leverage diagnostics to keep production running smoothly, which looks at the role...
Selecting the Best Portable Tools for Maintaining Your HART and FOUNDATION fieldbus devices
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...
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