A key component of reliable operations is the health of the rotating machinery within a process manufacturing or production process. Monitoring the vibration levels on this machinery is an important component in an effective reliability-centered maintenance program. I...
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ISA Process Control and Safety Symposium Presentations
Last week, the 2015 ISA Process Control and Safety Symposium took place in Houston, Texas. Leading experts from across our world of process instrumentation and control shared their wisdom to help advance the cause of safer, more efficient and more reliable operations....
“The 33” Movie Reminds Us of the Importance of Safety in Mining Operations
Author: Juan Carlos Bravo This weekend, the movie named "The 33" opened in theaters. It depicts the story of the 33 miners trapped for 69 days in a gold mine in Copiapo, in Chile. I think this movie provides a glimpse of how the mining operations are a serious but...
Renewables Growing Faster than Expected
Author: Juan Carlos Bravo As we have been reporting in this blog, the energy scenario is changing. In fact, it might be changing faster than anyone expected due the low oil prices. As reported by the World Energy Outlook 2015, "renewables contributed almost half of...
Reliability Program Success through Direct Engagement for Organizational Culture Change
Fear of change is often the leading obstacle of progress. For process manufacturers and producers, reliability-centered maintenance concepts have been around since the 1970s. Technology advancements in sensors and wireless communications have vastly improved the...
Monitoring Compressors to Avoid Unplanned Downtime
Compressors are important assets for most process manufacturers and producers. Common threats to their health include high vibration, fluctuations in gas flow, surge conditions, suction or discharge restrictions, temperature spikes, seal failures and inadequate...
Optimizing Batch Process Automation Design in MES and DCS
For pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, the flow and capture of information is as important as the flow of the manufacturing process in readying products to release for sale. In a Pharmaceutical Technology magazine article, Connecting MES to Process Control,...
IIoT Devices and Work Management Processes in Reliable Operations
Reliable process manufacturing and production is one of the pillars of top performing companies. In the ARC Advisory Group's Industrial IoT/Industrie 4.0 Viewpoints blog, IBM guest blogger Jim Crosskey highlights the role of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)....
Differences in Model Predictive Control Applications
One of the new things that we tried at last week's Emerson Exchange conference in Denver was to have our Emerson Exchange 365 community members submit questions for a Meet the Experts session panel on process control and optimization. The thread, questions and answers...
SIS CHARMS in DCS and SIS Integrated Solution in DCS Modernization Project
Emerson's Janka O'Brien, with support from MC Chow, teamed up with Robert Ancrum, the SIS Technical Authority for a major Midwestern U.S. refiner, to tell a story of a control system and SIS modernization project. Their abstract: This session is to discuss DCS...
Answers to Your Process Control and Optimization Questions from the Experts
Friday is fast approaching, so submit your questions on process control and optimization to the panel of end user and Emerson experts. Visit the Emerson Exchange 365 community, Virtual Q&A: Process Control >> REPLY to THIS POST w/ QUESTIONS. I will be asking...
Critical Techniques to Prevent Process Instability
Greg McMillan, who over the years has worked extensively with the DeltaV technology program and now a modeling and control consultant with Mynah Technologies presented Critical Techniques to Prevent Process Instability at the Emerson Exchange conference in Denver....
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