Author: Jonathan Lustri As a Life Sciences consultant, I get involved in many different aspects of MES [manufacturing execution system] projects. In a recent project, I helped define the project execution plan. I knew Emerson's biotech customer was highly concerned...
As energy prices slowly creep higher from earlier lows, the need for managing energy usage remains constant for most process manufacturers and producers. The U.S. Department of Energy's Energy-Intensive Process Portfolio list processes in the refining, petrochemicals,...
Advancing technologies open up new possibilities to improve manufacturing and production processes. But, one of the great challenges is to revamp the work processes and procedures to best take advantage of these technologies. One example is in integrated operations...
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...
If you're not fluent in Polish, you may have missed a recent Automatyka article, Bezpieczeństwo funkcjonalne zgodne z normami [Functional Safety Compliance]. Emerson's Andy Crosland and Ryszard Boroń wrote it and provided me an English translation of the article so...
The ANSI/ISA-95 standard defines models for the information flows between the instrumentation and automation layers up to the enterprise information layers for process manufacturers and producers. Moving up the levels increases the need for people, processes and...
If you're responsible for reliability in your process manufacturing or production operations, you may have seen the ARC Advisory Group's report, Proactive Asset Management with IIoT and Analytics. I'll highlight a few points from the article and from reliability...
PetroWiki defines reservoir management as: …a dynamic process that recognizes the uncertainties in reservoir performance resulting from our inability to fully characterize reservoirs and flow processes. It seeks to mitigate the effects of these uncertainties by...
Part 1 in the series addressed basic distillation column control and Part 2 explored inferential composition measurement and control design. In today's post I share how we need to consider how to close the material balance and the application of advanced process...
Technology is great for solving problems, especially for complex problems when it's couple with expertise. But in many cases, the technology and the expertise is separated geographically. Thankfully communications technologies continue to advance to bridge the...
In 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Guidance for Industry – Process Validation: General Principles and Practices. It highlighted a third validation stage goal of continued process verification (CPV) for: …continual assurance that the process...
Even non-critical pumps in your process can cause spills, vapor clouds, fires and worse. Most of these failure incidents provide warning well in time to solve the problem—if feedback mechanisms are in place for your operators and maintenance personnel. In tce, the...
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