For chemical manufacturers, what business performance improvements are possible by executing a digitalization strategy? In a Chemical Engineering article, Digitalization Founded in Modern Process Control Strengthens Chemical Operations, Emerson's John Dolenc shares...
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Justifying Your Automation Modernization Projects
Emerson's John Dolenc presented on how to justify your automation project at the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. He shared justification methods to identify operational improvements and estimate the financial impact. He opened on where to look within operations,...
The Value of Process Monitoring
Author: John Dolenc What should you expect from a modern control system that you do not get from the older system now running your process? A major improvement in modern control systems is the ability to monitor the performance of the control loop. This includes how...
Looking for Process Improvement Opportunities
Author: John Dolenc When looking at justifying a control system modernization through a Return on Investment methodology, improvement opportunities obtained through automation improvements need to be found in the process unit. In this blog post, let's look at how...
Start with Improvement Opportunities in Modernization Projects
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...
When to Implement Improvements on Control System Modernization Projects
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...
Planning and Justifying Control System Modernization Projects
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...
Where to Look for Benefits in DCS Modernization Project Justification
We'll continue with our series on getting your brownfield automation project approved. In part one, Front End Planning for Control System Modernization Projects, we explored how changes in the project become more expensive the later in the schedule that they are made....
Front End Planning for Control System Modernization Projects
Sometimes getting a project's capital budget approved is tougher than executing the project itself. That can be even truer for brownfield sites trying to modernize an aging control system. Trying to justify that "something might break and we won't quickly be able to...
Getting Your Brownfield Automation Project Approved
Author: John Dolenc Improving operational performance is a good area to look for financial improvements to justify replacing your old control system. Almost all process units have operational issues that can be improved to provide better financial performance....
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Early Bird registration opens today for the October 12-16, 2015 Emerson Exchange conference in Denver, Colorado. You'll save $200 USD by registering by August 15. You can see the full list of accepted presentation abstracts here. I'll highlight several more of the...
Capacity Improvement is Major Batch Optimization Objective
In the process optimization blog category, most posts highlight ways to optimize continuous processes. Many of these processes are energy intensive and energy efficiency is often the objective of optimization efforts. But what about batch processes? I saw an email...
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