In today's Wall Street Journal article, U.S. Oil Prices Fall Below $50 a Barrel, it chronicles the continuing decline in oil prices over the past 6 months. This increases the pressure on oil & gas producers to find ways to reduce production costs and optimize...
For many plants and production facilities, instrumentation devices measuring the process were limited to just what was needed for monitoring and control due to installation costs and complexity. Wireless instrumentation has opened up the opportunity to add...
Meeting energy production targets is a constant battle for global oil & gas producers. Today, the International Digital Oilfield Conference kicked off in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The conference organizers highlighted ways producers are addressing this...
In a Perspektive Prozessindustrie article, Für iOps-Projekte gibt es keine fertige Spezifikation (pp 16-17), Emerson's Andreas Fuchs and Ernst Jäger describe the first steps toward integrated operations (iOps). Here is a translation of their interview. Mister Fuchs,...
The growing need for experience and rapidly advancing high-bandwidth communications technology is driving new thinking among process manufacturers on how they manage their operations. The authors of the book, Integrated Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry noted:...
Over the past many weeks, we've highlighted how communications technologies have made integrated operations, or iOps much more practical. It allows experts to help problem solve over great distances, as if they were at the local site in person. This not only applies...
Having all the expertise required to optimally operate the plant, mill, platform, or other process manufacturing facility on site is difficult and growing more so by the day as operations are getting more complex. Technology has continued to advance where specialized...
It's been a whirlwind two weeks circling the globe—first last week in Stuttgart, Germany for the Emerson Exchange conference and then this week at our office in Manila, the Philippines. I'm back now in Austin blogging and catching up. Let's close the week with a short...
Update and bump: Here is some news from the grand opening:Emerson Innovation Center opens in Round Rock - KVUE News (2-minute video) Perry praises Texas business climate at opening of Emerson facility in Round Rock - KXAN News (35-second video) Emerson lifts curtain...
As we make final preparations for the Emerson Exchange Americas conference in Dallas next week, I wanted to highlight article by Emerson's Jeff Dymond. The Control Engineering article, The role of the new integrated business operator in an iOps environment,...
In the February 2013 edition of Chemical Industry Digest, University of Texas Separations Research Program (SRP)'s Robert Montgomery and Emerson's Pete Sharpe and Nikki Bishop authored, Manage Essential Assets with Automated Monitoring. In prior posts, we've discussed...
Wireless technologies have established their value in process automation. In a MaintWorld magazine article, Remote, Automated Monitoring Keeps a Watchful Eye on Essential Assets 24/7 (pp. 14-16), Emerson's Nikki Bishop and Aaron Crews describe how these wireless...
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