I received a note from Emerson's Jonas Berge of a recent Foundation fieldbus (FF) General Assembly meeting in Mumbai, India. It was their largest gathering of process automation professionals to date. Jonas shared with me that India has an ever-increasing process...
Jonas Berge
Directing Alerts to Plant Operators
I saw a post by Emerson's Jonas Berge, over at the EDDL LinkedIn Group referencing device diagnostics and asset management. Jonas' work has been highlighted on this blog in many industry standards-related posts. He references a Control Engineering article by Herman...
Operational Gains with Foundation Fieldbus
Emerson's Jonas Berge alerted me to a series of Asia Pacific region seminars on Foundation fieldbus. The Singapore Fieldbus Foundation site has links to the presentations given for the seminars held in Malaysia, Taiwan, and one in Singapore for the water/waste water...
Clarifications on Process Fieldbuses
As 2010 was winding down, I did a post Digital Busses Team Up for Successful Results in which I referenced a book Catching the Process Fieldbus--An Introduction to Profibus for Process Automation. Over the holidays, I received an email from Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom...
Proliferating Applications for Wireless Instrumentation
Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom I've highlighted many times on this blog, is at it again with another great article in Industrial Automation Asia magazine. The article, Wireless Sensor Networks: All In One describes the IEC 62591 WirelessHART communications standard and...
Accessible Wireless Vibration Monitoring
I always enjoy reading articles written by Emerson's Jonas Berge. He explains concepts simply and makes them easily understandable. What prompted this thought is a recent article in Control Engineering Asia magazine, Value from Vibration. You may recall Jonas from...
Digitally Connected Variable Speed Drives
Whether controlling pumps, fans, blowers, conveyors, compressors, extruders, mixers, agitators, chippers, etc., AC variable speed drives can be found in most plants and mills. Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom you may recall from earlier digital communications-related...
Device Calibration Trim and EDDL
In my email this morning was the monthly Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) digest. It's one of many ISA email discussion lists. Emerson's Jonas Berge is the driving force behind the EDDL educational information that comes out in this email list and on the...
Improving Usability for Maintenance Technicians
Emerson's Adam Lund has a great article, Human Centered Design Supports Improved Job Performance, in the February edition of Maintenance Technology magazine. Adam highlights some reasons why human centered design is growing in importance for process automation...
Summary of Multi-Supplier EDDL Demonstration at ISA Expo 2009
Emerson's Jonas Berge, whom you may recall from earlier EDDL-related posts, has written a great summary of the EDDL demonstration at the recent ISA Expo 2009. I'll highlight a few of his key points and embed a slideshow of some pictures from the event. For those...
Updated ISA Email Lists and EDDL
Emerson's indefatigable Jonas Berge shared with the ISA EDDL list today that ISA has upgraded its email list server software. You may recall Jonas from his leadership on the electronic device description language (EDDL) web site and in many posts here on this blog....
EDDL and Profibus Common Ground
I saw ARC Advisory Group's Larry O'Brien's post this week, Emerson Profibus Membership is One More Step toward Common Ground. In it, he writes: In fact, Emerson has supported Profibus for some time. The PNO membership officially seals the deal and gives Emerson a hand...
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