Emerson's Deji Chen and Mark Nixon have written a recently published book, WirelessHART™ - Real-Time Mesh Network for Industrial Automation. They teamed with University of Texas at Austin professor, Aloysius Mok to write a comprehensive work on this global wireless...
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...
Emerson Process Management's chief strategic officer, Peter Zornio, shared his thoughts on how IEC 62591 WirelessHART and ISA100.11a could converge in a recent Control Engineering article, News and comment: Can WirelessHART and ISA100 converge? The HART Communications...
You may recall Emerson's Bill Zhou from his demo video pieces here on the blog. I told him to be on the lookout for unscrupulous talent agents who'll want to whisk him away to Hollywood. Bill pointed me to a HART Communications Foundation announcement of Mitsubishi...
Process automation systems and safety instrumented systems (SIS) have been changing with the rapid pace of technology change. An ARC Advisory Group whitepaper, Business Issues Driving Safety System Integration, outlined some of the various ways automation suppliers...
Emerson's Alan Harris has written a new whitepaper, DeltaV SIS HART Capabilities. It describes various HART capabilities that can be used with the DeltaV SIS system as well as HART diagnostics implementation best practices. For those unfamiliar with HART, the HART...
Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom you may recall from earlier EDDL-related posts, has written a great summary of the EDDL demonstration at the recent ISA Expo 2009. I'll highlight a few of his key points and embed a slideshow of some pictures from the event. For those...
You have to love the march of technology as it applies to handheld devices, such as smart phones. Calling, texting, tweeting, emailing, web browsing all continue to get easier. In our world of process automation, technology also advances, although not quite at the...
I saw ARC Advisory Group's Larry O'Brien's post this week, Emerson Profibus Membership is One More Step toward Common Ground. In it, he writes: In fact, Emerson has supported Profibus for some time. The PNO membership officially seals the deal and gives Emerson a hand...
I wanted to give a quick mention of the HART Communications Foundation's annual HART Plant of the Year End Users' Award. They are encouraging nominations from all world areas through May 31. I mention this because some process manufacturers have begun to include...
What's that expression... "Tan, rested, and ready"? After a nice holiday break filled with family, friends, and football (I'm in Texas after all!), it's time for me to dive back into the business of highlighting experts around Emerson Process Management. I read a...
I'm lucky enough to receive a copy of Andrew Bond's Industrial Automation Insider newsletter each month through an Emerson subscription agreement. Andrew covers the happenings among the automation suppliers and standards bodies. You can also find some of Andrew's...
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