Technology changes come at so quickly, it is something difficult to process how they can be used to help us improve performance. In our world of process automation, these changes must be proven over time before being put into widespread use. For example, WirelessHART...
IEC 62591
Important Opportunities Today in Refineries and Petrochemical Plants
This article was first published in the Spanish language—La actualidad del mercado de hidrocarburos ofrece importantes oportunidades en refinerías y petroquímicas in Instrumentacion y Control magazine and is translated and posted with permission from the publisher....
Improving Refinery Operations with Wireless Measurements
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers annual meeting took place this past March in San Francisco. In a Hydrocarbon Processing magazine recap of day 3 from the conference, Emerson's Ed Schodowski shared ways to improve refinery performance in an article,...
Putting IIoT into Operation for Business Results
I did a quick Google search on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and it yield about 588,000 search results. You can see quite a bit about on the web and across the social networks that discuss process automation-related topics. But what is future and what can...
Modernizing Plants with Pervasive Sensing
We opened this week with a look at how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing the traditional view of information flow through the process manufacturing and production enterprise as defined by the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture developed in the...
IIoT in the Process Industries
For many of us, purchasing or receiving the gift of a fitness tracker ushered us into the Internet of Things era. These devices not only collect and report on the number of steps we take each day, but also depending on their sophistication, the quality of our sleep,...
WirelessHART Security Update
In recent weeks, there have been third party reports regarding security vulnerabilities of WirelessHART® systems. Emerson's security experts have investigated and evaluated these claims. There are no known instances of successful security breaches in a customer...
Technical Guide for IEC 62591 WirelessHART Installations
I saw a news alert, New technical guide available for using WirelessHART devices in industrial applications, which pointed to a detailed document, System Engineering Guidelines IEC 62591 WirelessHART. I'll highlight a few items from this document. Part I from the...
Divided Wall Column MPC Control with Wireless Instrumentation
Distillation is an important process from crude oil refining to fine sipping whiskey production. Managing this process safely, efficiently and reliably is the challenge. In a recent Hydrocarbon Processing article, Use model predictive control to achieve real-time...
Continuing Digital Transformations in Process Automation
Happy New Year and I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are recharged to accomplish even greater heights in 2016! I wanted to share an extremely popular LinkedIn post, 2016: Digital Transformation by Emerson's Jonas Berge. Posted just a week ago, it currently...
ISA Process Control and Safety Symposium Presentations
Last week, the 2015 ISA Process Control and Safety Symposium took place in Houston, Texas. Leading experts from across our world of process instrumentation and control shared their wisdom to help advance the cause of safer, more efficient and more reliable operations....
Industrial Internet of Things Drivers and Investment Priorities
As the ubiquity of communications and the underlying hardware and software continue to advance, so do opportunities to apply the Industrial Internet of Things, a.k.a. Industrie 4.0, solutions. In a CIO Review article, IIoT Business Drivers and Investment Priorities,...
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