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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
One only has to do a Google News search on the Industrial Internet of Things to see all the happenings around this convergence of digital intelligence, communications, sensing and control. Another term coming from a European perspective, Industry 4.0 is a: …collective...
Across many process manufacturing and producing industries, falling prices are driving the need for increased efficiency and reliability, as well as reduced costs. While optimizing process control can yield gains, so can applying technology to the condition of the...
In an earlier post, Identifying Components then Optimizing Industrial Energy Consumption, we discussed how energy optimization initiatives were affected by what could be measured. Emerson's Jonas Berge added a great comment to that post, which I will share here to...
Yesteryear, energy and water were relatively inexpensive, waste disposal carried little cost, emissions did not incur fines and people willing to work in harsh manufacturing plant and production facility environments were abundant. Today, energy and water costs are...
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