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...
My RSS subscription to the Fieldbus Foundation blog alerted me to a device revision management whitepaper over at the EDDL.org (Electronic Device Description Language) site. The whitepaper, Device Revision and Lifecycle Management Guide: How to keep systems up to date...
After a two-week hiatus and lots of time away from "the grid", let's get things going here on the blog again. I was speaking with Emerson's Dr. José A. Gutierrez. He was kind enough to send me the third edition of the book, Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks:...
Pipeline magazine has an interesting article, The evolution of automation, which describes some of the ways automation technologies are changing plant environments. The article provides perspectives from several automation suppliers, including Emerson's Phillip Bond....
Furnaces, fired heaters, boilers and other process units requiring burners to manage are common across many process industries such as refining, chemicals, petrochemicals, and power. Recognizing and reacting to flame instability is critical since a flameout condition...
I've discussed partial stroke testing (PST) as a diagnostic for the health of a valve in many posts over the years. These posts describe flow applications found in most process manufacturing facilities. But what about high-pressure and hydraulic applications including...
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...
Emerson's David Sheppard, a certified functional safety expert, passed along a great story of a recent refinery incinerator startup. Over the course of a week, the incinerator was taken down so that the emergency shutdown system (ESD) and process control-related...
We must be having fun because this week has absolutely flown by. I had the chance to visit Innotech Austin yesterday afternoon. It's a conference for business technology innovations for IT and marketing professionals. The advances of social media and mobile...
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...
A colleague pointed me to a recent ConnectingIndustry.com article, Taking wireless level data acquisition to HART. Emerson's Catrine Bengtsson shared her expertise for this article. Many plants have legacy control systems with analog input (AI) and analog output (AO)...
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux shared a Control Engineering Asia article written by the renowned process safety expert, Paul Gruhn. The article, Providing Process Safety, analyzes some of the latest trends in safety instrumented systems (SIS) designs for the process...
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