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...
HART communications
Recognition of Effective Predictive Maintenance Program
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...
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...
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...
Streamlined Pressure Transmitter Local Operator Interface
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...
Complementary Wireless Communication Technologies
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...
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...
Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop
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)...
Wireless Device-Based Control Loops
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,...
Configuring Foundation Fieldbus Devices via USB PC Connection
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...
Choosing Wireless Sensor Networks
Proprietary wireless sensor networks have been with us for more than a decade. The standards-based wireless network, IEC 62591 WirelessHART has now been available for more than 4 years. In an Industrial Automation Asia article, Choose Wireless Wisely, Emerson's Jonas...
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