If your responsible for reliability and maintenance practices at your facility, I'm sure you're very aware of Uptime magazine and the Reliabilityweb.com site. Last week at the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, CEO and Publisher Terrence O'Hanlon recorded a 9:11...
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Implementing an Effective Alarm Management Program
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin Emerson's Kim Van Camp and exida's Todd Stauffer presented Seven Steps to a Peaceful Control Room: How to Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program for your DeltaV System. Their abstract: Has the alarm horn become the...
Renewable Energy Powering Gas Wells and Pipelines
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, an oil and gas producer shared a story of automating natural gas wells and pipelines with renewable power sources. The presenter opened describing some of the choices for renewable energy including solar panels and wind...
Driving Maintenance Workflows with Condition Monitoring
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Will Goetz presented, Best Practices for Using Condition Monitoring to Drive Maintenance Workflows. His abstract: A well designed condition monitoring system can find the early warning signs of failures but what...
Improve Safety Proof Test Capabilities with Intelligent Instrumentation
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Afton Coleman, Erik Mathiason and Tonya Wyatt presented, Improve Safety Proof Test Capabilities with Intelligent Instrumentation. Their abstract: Safety Instrumented Systems are designed to be the most critical...
Simplifying Local Smart Field Device Communications
The Industrial Internet of Things has opened great possibilities for remote experts with advanced analytical tools to diagnose issues before they lead to greater problems. However, there is still nothing like being there locally by the asset with an issue with...
Testing Valves in Safety Instrumented Functions
Safety instrumented systems are a critical part of process manufacturers and producers overall process safety management in protecting personnel, environment, equipment, property, reputation and image. In an Offshore Engineer article, Safety Instrumented Function loop...
Integrated Biometric Authentication in Electronic Records
How many of you have more passwords than you can possibly remember? Count me in with the affirmatives. Biometric authentication is one way to overcome this large and growing problem. For process manufacturers and producers, especially those in highly regulated...
Condition Monitoring and Workflow Best Practices
This year's Emerson Exchange conference for the Americas will take place on my home turf of Austin, Texas during the week of October 24 through 28. Registration is open and you can save $400 through the end of August on the registration fee. Knowing that getting...
Pipeline Leak Detection with Best Available Technology
Authors: Marc Buttler and Rossella Mimmi On October 8, 2015, the State of California approved and filed Assembly Bill 864 (AB-864) Oil Spill Response: Environmentally and Ecologically Sensitive Coastal Areas. AB-864 enacted the new Government Code Section 51013.1,...
Flow Measurement Pressure-Temperature Compensation
Peer-to-peer knowledge sharing provides valuable information beyond what is possible to find in owners' manuals and other technical documentation from suppliers. You can find it every day in your Google searches about personal technologies that you use and...
Freely Available Learning Tools for New Process Automation Professionals
A question on PID control in the Emerson Exchange 365 community reminded me how good some of the free, online learning tools are available for engineers new to our instrumentation and process automation ranks. The question: i have a question about PID, about setpoint...
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