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...
Control Engineering magazine has a great article and 8-minute video, A Straightforward Maintenance Strategy Yields Improved Plant Performance, featuring Monsanto Muscatine's use of technology to move from reactive to predictive maintenance to improve output and reduce...
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...
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...
In a post, Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop, we shared some new diagnostics available in the Rosemount Enhanced 3051 Pressure Transmitter. Emerson's Alexander Miller shared some additional information with me about the Local Operator...
Ever wonder why we have multiple forms of wireless communications on our PCs, smart phone, and tablet devices? 3G, 4G, 802.11, Bluetooth® wireless technology all serve a purpose in the types of information that is conveyed wirelessly between devices. For example, a...
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...
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...
My friends in Chanhassen have been hard at work on the usability front. I connected with Emerson's Alexander Miller to find out what's the latest with the Rosemount 3051 pressure transmitter. Alex pointed to two new innovative features — Local Operator Interface (LOI)...
ControlGlobal.com has a great article, Addressing Control Applications Using Wireless Devices—How Wired and Wireless Transmitter Installations Differ in Closed-Loop Control Applications and What Changes Are Required in the PID, by Emerson's Terry Blevins, Mark Nixon,...
A person in the DeltaV LinkedIn group, in a thread, AMS Device Manager and Foundation Fieldbus converters, asks: I am looking for cost-effective solution for our customer. He needs calibrate FF devices in laboratory ( read data from device ) and he already has AMS DM...
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