One of the new things I want to try here on the blog is a podcast series asking many of our experts five questions. The questions will revolve around how they got started into the field that they're in, challenges faced, spare time activities, and guidance for younger...
Author: John Dolenc It is nice to hear from our customers and read in the literature that it has become important to not just replace obsolete control system equipment, but to also provide operational improvement. For the longest time, I have been puzzled by the idea...
One of the key ways to improve operational performance is to reduce unplanned downtime. An ARC Advisory Group blog post, Technology Trends to Watch for in 2017, noted: One of the biggest end user challenges remains unscheduled downtime. IIoT-enabled solutions, such as...
Any newly-minted Chemical Engineer will tell you that there remains a large learning curve when entering the process industries, especially if their focus is around controlling the process. Often these new ChemEs have never had classes in process dynamics. In a great...
Author: John Dolenc Many times modernization project justification is made up of several smaller optimization projects that are added together to reach enough financial benefit to justify the project. One of the interesting discussions we have internally amongst the...
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is not simply more sensing and final control elements available for monitoring and controlling—it is also about enabling new ways to collaborate to solve problems. In a CIOReview article, New Application Business Models – The...
In adhesive production processes, coalescers and separators are used to accelerate the separation of immiscible liquid (completely insoluble) dispersions. I learned about this from Emerson's Sudhir Jain and Mark Coughran, who shared a recent visit they made with an...
From the Fitbit, Apple Watch or other activity tracking device you may have to your smart thermostat which you can control from your smartphone, the Internet of Things is rapidly advancing all around us. Technology journalist, Stacey Higginbotham has covered these...
In LinkedIn's Industrial Internet of Things group was a discussion topic, IIoT Protocols, Overview and Comparison. The discussion thread referenced an rti blog post, 6 Industrial IoT Communication Solutions – Which One's for You? [Comparison]. The post describes the...
Digital sensors, both wired and wireless, combined with analytic software and experts can reduce operational risks and improve reliability, production levels and energy usage. When the path between these elements includes distance and the internet, these devices...
It seems that the pace of technological change only continues to increase affecting the way we work and we live. Recently, Emerson's Jonas Berge participated in a panel at the NASSCOM Design & Engineering Summit in Bangalore, India. The topic of the panel was...
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Jim Dunbar presented Steam Management and Optimization. His abstract: Sipchem facility includes utility plant supplying steam to seven downstream production plants. Utility plant was struggling with reliability...
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