The growing impact of smart phones and tablet technology continue to impact our everyday lives, including our world of process automation. I heard from some friends on Emerson's Machinery Health Management team of a new mobile site, the CSI 2140 Mobile Procedure. It...
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Users Discussing Portable Vibration Analyzer Experiences Webinar Series
If you're a maintenance professional or have responsibility for the reliability of your plant assets, I want to share that the Asset Optimization team is conducting a series of "Ask the Expert" webinars on the CSI 2140 vibration analyzer. The neat part is that these...
Offshore Oil & Gas Platform Machinery Protection and Prediction Systems Results
The harsh, corrosive environment found on offshore oil & gas platforms can lead to unplanned downtime and lost production when equipment fails. A Scandinavian Oil-Gas magazine article, Upgraded Online Protection and Prediction Systems Improve Machinery Health...
Vibration and Process Data Spot Turbo-Expander Problem
Many industrial processes require refrigeration, such as in the extraction of ethane and natural gas liquids (NGLs) from natural gas. From Wikipedia, a turboexpander: …also referred to as a turbo-expander or an expansion turbine, is a centrifugal or axial flow turbine...
Maintenance Management and Control System Integration
A blog post by Emerson's Anand Iyer. Since the days of my "initiation" in this field, machinery protection has always been another system, whose domain has been questioned many a times. While the instrumentation and control (I&C) team would probably maintain the...
Chilean Miners Challenge-Extract More with Same Number of Personnel
The pictures were coming in last week from the EXPONOR conference in Chile over on the Emerson Process Management Facebook page. Emerson's Juan Carlos Bravo, a member of the Metals & Mining industry team, shares his perspectives from the conference. On June 17th,...
How Technology Can Help Miners Improve Brownfield Operations
As miners face many economic and technical headwinds, Emerson's Douglas Morris of the metals and mining and power industry teams, describes how technology can improve mine productivity by reducing unplanned downtime. If you've picked up the newspaper recently, you've...
The Age Old Question-Trucks or Conveyors?
Emerson's Douglas Morris, on the metals & mining and alternative energy industry teams, explores trade offs of trucks and conveyors in mining operations. This past week Vale SA from Brazil made an interesting announcement when they said they were investing $20...
Remote, Automated Plant Asset Monitoring
Wireless technologies have established their value in process automation. In a MaintWorld magazine article, Remote, Automated Monitoring Keeps a Watchful Eye on Essential Assets 24/7 (pp. 14-16), Emerson's Nikki Bishop and Aaron Crews describe how these wireless...
Cooling Tower Wireless Condition Monitoring Webinar
In a recent Automation World column, The Future is Attainable with Today's Automation, Emerson Process Management's former president, John Berra, noted: The number one issue in process plants is the disruptive cost of an unplanned shutdown. And the number one cause of...
Conveyers: Don’t Get Pinched By Your Pinch-Points
In today's guest post, Emerson's Dan Nower, a member of the Asset Optimization and Metals & Mining industry team, shares his thoughts on ways to combat "pinch-points" in mining operations. In recent blog posts, we have discussed how world markets are pressuring...
Wirelessly Monitoring Essential Assets
We're entering that time of year where draft presentations have been developed and submitted to the Emerson Exchange organizers. The 2011 event will be held October 24-28 in Nashville, Tennessee USA. A few weeks ago, I caught up with Emerson's Pete Sharpe who leads...
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