Author: Jocelyn Sexton At this year's Offshore Technology Conference, Asset Strategy & Management Program Manager Rick Gorskie talked to oil and gas customers about their concerns regarding cybersecurity. As you can imagine, it's a hot topic. Many of our customers...
Lifecycle Services
Gain a Competitive Advantage–While Wearing Pajamas
Author: Jocelyn Sexton Across a variety of industries, manufacturing plants must meet rigorous production goals in order for companies to remain competitive. Especially in today's economic climate, everyone is looking for the best cost options to make improvements...
Reduce Downtime and Protect Your Plant
By: Jocelyn Sexton Monitoring a control system can pose many challenges. When dealing with numerous technologies and/or remote locations, operators can experience information overload. Technology is always evolving, and training costs can be high. And while 24x7x365...
Looking for a Long-Term Relationship?
Author: Jocelyn Sexton When Emerson Process Management begins a relationship with a customer, we often spend one to four years planning, designing, implementing and building a project. Lifecycle Services is what takes place for 20-30 years after that initial project...
Ordering Rosemount Measurement Instrumentation Extends to Australia
Online purchasing and support for Rosemount measurement products has been available here in the U.S. A colleague shared some news with me that this store has now expanded to process manufacturers and producers in Australia. Emerson Process Management Australia Online...
Upgrading Control Systems in Planned and Structured Way
Anyone who's gone through the challenge of upgrading an operating system on a PC, smart phone, or other electronics device knows the complexities that can be involved. When looking at upgrading a process automation system in an operating plant, the difficulty of the...
Control System Health Monitoring
Emerson's DeltaV team has put together a 4:22 Youtube System Health Monitoring video showing how system experts located remotely can help diagnose and work with local maintenance personnel to avoid problems before they lead to downtime. In the video, a diagnostic...
Rolling Out Emerson’s Management System for Bulk-Liquids Terminals
Hi. It's Chris Womack again, with another tidbit about terminals. If you haven't seen it yet, an article in the July-August issue of Tank Storage magazine adds a little update about Emerson's partnership with Vopak, the world's largest bulk-liquids storage firm. (The...
Monitoring Plant Asset and Automation System Health
As process manufacturers lose experienced automation professionals to retirement and/or turnover, the need to maintain reliable operations remains. Emerson's Tinh Phan provides a look at system health monitoring from the field devices, through the asset and control...
Correcting Control Network Communications
Reliability is a broad topic for process manufacturers. It encompasses plant equipment, the production process, reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) programs, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)—just to name a few. We've touched on many of these areas in prior...
Managing Automation System Components across Lifecycle
Buddy Ilao provides another screencast update in showing ways to manage the software versions and hardware components within a process automation system across their respective lifecycles. He describes this Lifecycle Status for Guardian Support screencast: We'll show...
Your Thoughts on Lifecycle Management Sought
An activity that benefits process manufacturers and process automation suppliers is the research conducted by the trade analysts and trade press. These groups have a broad base of people across many industries and geographies to which they can reach out to uncover...
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