As liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant come online across the globe, the fundamental nature of the gas market is changing with supply finding demand and pricing variability decreasing. The October 25-27 Gas Asia Summit, as part of the Singapore International Energy Week...
Jonas Berge
Moving Towards Inherently Safer Plants
In the early days of social networks and even for some process manufacturers and producers today, IT departments blocked these social networks including YouTube. I recommended that engineers point to sites such as the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation...
Time to Move Beyond 1960s-Era Technologies?
Happy New Year everyone! I hope your holidays were filled with joy, rest and time with family and friends. Let's open 2017 with a look at a LinkedIn post by Emerson's Jonas Berge asking if we are ready to stop building plants with 1960s-era automation technology....
IIoT Protocols and Comparisons
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 Disruption and Evolving Business Models
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...
Benefitting from IIoT at Your Own Pace
The Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are getting quite a bit of focus in the press and analyst community within our world of process manufacturing. The promise to be able to improve reliability, efficiency, safety and overall performance...
Adding Wireless Sensors for Health, Safety and Environment
Wireless communications have changed everything from the way we listen to music to the way information is collected and disseminated. For process manufacturing and production plants, it means more the process can be sensed beyond traditional monitoring and control...
Improving Power Plant Operations with Second-Level Automation
When many plants were built years ago, they were instrumented to provide what was required for safely manage the process. As time has passed, the requirements are far greater for efficiency, reliability and regulatory demands. In a Power Engineering International...
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...
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...
Position Feedback for Refinery Manually Operated Valves
Sometimes a good discussion occurs among experts in a collaboration application within the Emerson firewall. Today's post is an example. Emerson's Jonas Berge was asking the global community of consultants and interested parties in refining about the manually operated...
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