Emerson's Laurie Ben and Aaron Crews presented DCS Modernization—What Does it Cost?, at the 2019 Emerson Exchange conference. Laurie opened sharing the facts that over 5800 modernization projects have been performed since the 21st century began. Emerson provides...
Emerson's Laurie Ben and James Beall presented How to Sell the Value of Digitalization with MPC at the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. Laurie opened by describing different ways digitalization is described—Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and Digital...
The typical lives of industrial control systems (ICSs) are measured in decades. Even so, the time comes when reliability and securing replacement parts becomes nearly impossible given the rapid advancement of technology. There is much to plan and do when the time...
Those of us in the "baby boomer" generation know how fast time goes by. Children grow up quickly and the control systems running our process manufacturing and production facilities age. There's not much we can do about kids growing up quickly, but we do have ways to...
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....
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...
Whether it is students preparing for a test or seasoned engineers planning an automation project, early planning and preparation improves the odds of success. Congratulations to Emerson's Laurie Ben for receiving an Outstanding Presentation Award from the AIChE Fuels...
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...
In an earlier post, we previewed some of the Big Data presentations which will take place at the upcoming April 26-30 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting here in Austin, Texas. There are several other presentation by Emerson folks I wanted to highlight. Laurie Ben will be...
Emerson's Laurie Ben, director of control system modernization, shared some tips on how to manage your control system modernization projects. Laurie opened with what a migration project looks like when it goes wild. A common issue the wrong form of PID control being...
Modernizing plant control systems is almost always a major undertaking. Emerson's Laurie Ben will share her perspectives in ChemInnovations 2012 conference presentation, Forward or Reverse? Which Direction is Right for your Modernization Project? The ChemInnovations...
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