Safe operations are a top priority for process manufacturers and producers. One major area affecting process and personnel safety is the capabilities and performance of plant operators. The Center for Operator Performance (COP) consortium brings together: …a diverse...
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Knowledge Sharing at Ovation User Group
User group conferences are a tremendous source of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. What's learned at these conferences can be invaluable as a shortcut to learning what works well, what to avoid, and who has similar interests with whom you can connect. Combined Cycle...
Migrating Control System Human Machine Interfaces
Control systems are built to last for decades of reliable operation. Yet technology continues to advance at a rapid pace. At the recent Emerson Exchange conference in Texas, Emerson's Jean Pressly presented To Migrate Or Not To Migrate—DCS HMI Only. Here is a recap of...
Bridging Color Sciences with Process Automation
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...
Control Architecture for Solar Photovoltaic Plants
In today's guest post, Emerson's Jim Cushman, a member of the Power & Water Solutions business, looks at the process control architecture requirements for solar photovoltaic-based power generation. Early developers of solar photovoltaic (PV) did not consider the...
Color Considerations in Alarm Design
I've known Emerson's Cindy Scott a long time in our days building the DeltaV brand, and even earlier. I've not known Cindy to be versed in the use of the Queen's English by spelling words such as color, colour. I can only assume the article I read, Don't let colours...
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