Authors: Jeff Dymond and Mike Boudreaux The reality of lower oil and gas prices is driving energy companies to operate differently. The lower price per barrel is squeezing profitability and pushing companies to contain costs, increase reliability, and respond quickly...
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Industrial Internet of Things and Changing Automation Architectures
The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture has been a defining architecture for instrumentation, automation, manufacturing operations and business planning and logistics systems since its introduction in the 1990s. In a Plant Services article, What a smart device...
Reliability Programs and the Cloud
The technology advancement of computer virtualization is having a tremendous impact on companies across the globe. And the consolidation of these servers into data centers "in the Cloud" is fundamentally changing how IT, operations and maintenance organizations within...
Formula 1 Racing and Remote Reliability and Performance Monitoring
So how exactly does Formula 1 (F1) racing compare with process manufacturing and production? It's an interesting question that Emerson's Mike Boudreaux explores in an Uptime magazine article, Chasing the Checkered Flag. In both cases, optimum performance results from...
Sharing Devices between Control and Safety Instrumented Systems
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux alerted me to a discussion in the Oil and Gas Instrumentation Club LinkedIn group. The thread referenced an earlier post on this blog, Field Device Sharing Between Control and Safety Systems that Mike had written. Mike quoted Emerson certified...
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