I hate to date myself, but I remember the first color monitors coming into process automation operator workstations in the 1980s when I was a young systems engineer. Having a palette of colors was really nice when putting together displays for our operators on...
Statistical Process Control (SPC) has long been applied in discrete manufacturing operations as a predictive diagnostic technology. Statistical Process Monitoring (SPM), the continuous process version of SPC, has been applied less often as highlighted by Emerson's Tom...
Flow Control magazine interviewed Emerson Process Management president Steve Sonnenberg and chief strategy officer Peter Zornio on product usability. The article, Emerson On Why Product Usability Matters, shares their thoughts on some of the whys behind taking a human...
Emerson's Tom Wallace completes his series of posts on the impacts of a human-centered design (HCD) approach. In today's guest post, he explores its impact on automation projects. Field devices cost is a small part of overall project cost, however they are typically...
There is always a swirl of activity before large events. And none is larger than next week's Emerson Exchange conference in Anaheim, California. We're expecting a record turnout and I look forward to reconnecting and meeting as many of you who'll be there as is...
In our continuing series on why and how technologies developed with a human centered design (HCD) approach, Emerson's Tom Wallace looks more closely at guided configuration and setup as well as leveraging productivity across different device types and protocols....
Emerson's Tom Wallace continues his series on the impact of human centered design on the technologies used by automation professionals. In previous blog posts, I shared some of the science behind Human Centered Design (HCD). In this and the next couple of blog posts,...
Last week, Emerson's Tom Wallace posed the question Are Human-Technology Interactions Solving or Causing Problems? in part one of a two-part series. Today, Tom explores this question by looking at how we learn, how we think, and how this applies to human-technology...
Process automation engineers' decisions impact everything from project cost and schedule, to uptime, throughput, quality, and safety. Instruments and valves connect the physics and chemistry of your process, and the decisions made by your automation systems and...
I had a sneak peak at an upcoming article on human interface design by Emerson's Tom Wallace. You may recall Tom from some of our earlier smart device and digital communications protocol posts. In the article, Tom notes the unrelenting drive to simplify, given the...
I'm always in the hunt for stories to tell, and had a chance hallway meeting with Emerson's Tom Wallace when he was in town a few weeks back. You may recall Tom from some of our posts on HART, Foundation fieldbus, EDDL, and FDT. Some of these posts generated quite a...
BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) held a BOF (birds of a feather) session on usability engineering. This session featured a presentation,...
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