At the 2017 Ovation Users Group conference, there was a presentation by an electrical power producer on driving cultural change and operational excellence through the use of simulation in the Ovation distributed control system. The facility had a 92% capacity factor...
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Reliable Electrical Power and Utilities at the University of Texas
As a University of Texas electrical engineering graduate, it is great to hear a success story on the successful electrical load control using Emerson technology on the main campus in Austin, Texas. The campus operates an independent electrical grid but connects back...
Comprehensive Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure
The electrical power generation and distribution industries, especially here in the U.S., have a long history in working to improve reliability and security. This history goes back to the establishment of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) in the...
Upcoming Ovation Users’ Group Conference
Two weeks from now, July 23-27 2017, will be Emerson's Power & Water Solutions business unit's Ovation Users' Group conference. This year will mark its 30th year. The Ovation Users' Group is managed, guided, and run exclusively by its members, with Emerson's Power...
Improving Batch Manufacturing Workflows and Recordkeeping
The pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing industries are challenged with errors in manual entries in the production process, getting batches right the first time, reaching final signoff for batch release, and managing the data accumulated throughout the...
Petya Ransomware/Malware Recommended Considerations for DeltaV Users
Over in the Emerson Exchange 365 global community's DeltaV group, Emerson's Rick Gorskie posted this update on the Petya Ramsomware / Malware cyber-attack occurring around the world. On the 27th of June 2017, we became aware of the “Petya...
Simplifying Pneumatic Valve Manifold Engineering and Installation
Wikipedia defines a solenoid valve as an: …electromechanically operated valve. The valve is controlled by an electric current through a solenoid: in the case of a two-port valve the flow is switched on or off; in the case of a three-port valve, the outflow is switched...
Understanding Servers, Converters and Gateways
As instrumentation and control system, also known as Operational Technology (OT) incorporate wireless and other classic Informational Technology (IT) components, the worlds of OT and IT continue to merge. For control and automation specialists, it means things like...
Avoiding Dangerous Malware Infections
The malware WannaCry/WannaCrypt has been all over the news recently. Since most of the operator and engineering workstations used in distributed control systems (DCSs) and supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) are PC-based, the question was...
Organizational Readiness for Top Quartile Reliability Performance
As the technology and work practices have progressed, so has reliability practices from reactive to preventive to predictive maintenance (PdM). In a Plant Engineering article, The path to prescriptive maintenance, Emerson's Will Goetz describes prescriptive...
Optimizing Safety Instrumented System Proof Testing
If you are new to the world of process safety, you quickly learn that it has its own jargon with phrases such as safety instrumented functions, proof test intervals, PDFavg, etc. A Flow Control magazine article, Ensuring safety compliance with optimized proof testing,...
Shot Putting and Ruggedness Testing
Let's end the week with a short video showing the durability of a smart field device communicator. In this 1:47 YouTube video, AMS Trex Durability Tests, the AMS Trex device communicator is given some abuse to demonstrate its ruggedness. Emerson's Nicholas Meyer and...
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