We're trying a few new things this week at the Emerson Exchange. I've got my mobile webcam gear and we're livestreaming a handful of the presentations throughout the week. Emerson's Laurie Ben and John Dolenc were gracious enough to agree to be first with their...
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Considerations in Control System Modernization Projects
Emerson's Laurie Ben and John Dolenc will be teaming up at the year's Emerson Exchange to present Modernizations & Migrations: Lessons Learned. The workshop is in two parts because of the vast ground they cover with respect to control system modernization and...
Look Beyond Control System when Modernizing
The EngineerLive website has an article, System migration: make sure you improve control, not just replicate, which shares many of the thoughts we've expressed in recent modernization posts. I turned once again to Emerson principal modernization consultant, John...
Thoughts on Control System Migration Projects
Control magazine had a great article a few months back entitled, Control System Migration. It did a great job covering the selection and planning process when modernizing your automation system. Recently, I featured Emerson's John Dolenc and his perspectives on...
Don’t Corner Yourself with an Automation Obsolescence Justification
Recently, when Emerson's John Dolenc was in Austin, we had one of those hallway conversations about automation modernization projects. He shared a paper he'd written a few years back that contained many of his thoughts on modernization project justification. The paper...
Estimating Process Automation Benefits
John Dolenc, a principal consulting engineer in Emerson's advanced applied technology organization whom you may recall from earlier posts, presented Estimating Benefits from Process Automation at the Emerson Exchange. John began by discussing what types of activities...
Business Objectives First when Planning Automation Modernization
Charlie Masi, over at Control Engineering magazine's Ask Charlie blog, had an interesting post recently. Entitled, When is a piece of equipment or system obsolete?, he writes: After spending several hundreds of thousands, or just as often millions, of dollars building...
Process Automation Feasibility Studies for Operational Improvement
Do you ever feel that pressure when things just aren't right? Things like increasing production costs, growing raw material and/or finished product inventories, inconsistent quality and inflexible production to meet changing customer needs. According to John Dolenc, a...
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