I caught up with Emerson's Lou Heavner the other day and we traded a few teenager "war stories." Lou is an advanced automation consultant and I've shared some of his expertise in posts over the years. He mentioned he had done a very basic presentation to show the...
I recently exchanged some emails with Emerson's Sergei Kuznetsov, part of TAG projects organization, and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sergei is principal control systems engineer, certified professional engineer, and has an MSEE degree. He shared with me an...
One only has to come across reports like the Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing ISM Report On Business to see the slowing global economic conditions. The report notes: Manufacturing activity continued to decline at a rapid rate during the month of...
One of my posts, Improving Gas Plant Throughput and Robustness with MPC, brought a strong response from a reader. Entitled MPC Unsustainable Benefits, it described his experiences applying MPC in a major U.S. oil company over a ten-year period. He summed up his...
Continuous manufacturing processes have long benefited from the application of advanced process control (APC) in their processes to improve upon their regulatory control. Batch manufacturing processes have recently been able to take advantage of these technologies. I...
Pharmaceutical Technology Europe has a recent article entitled, Artificial intelligence the key to process understanding. It discusses the opportunity to enhance the FDA's Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) initiative using artificial intelligence based tools like...
A continuing theme to several of these blog posts is how process manufacturers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency in these times of high energy costs. One way to do this is to optimize the steam required for a distillation process. I caught up with Pete...
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