Emerson’s Vicky Athanasiou presents Prevent LNG Tank Stratification and Rollover Events through Operator Training at the AspenTech Optimize 24 conference.
operator training
Building a Better Digital Transformation Foundation
While new technologies connected with digital transformation, IIoT, and Industry 4.0 are exciting and carry great promise, it’s important to make sure there isn’t more you can be getting from what you already have. This is the main point of an Executive Corner column...
Operator Training Systems Yet More
Operator Training by Doing was a session at the 2019 ARC Industry Forum. Here was the session's abstract: Operator training continues to be very important as the millennial generation assumes operational responsibility for industrial manufacturing. Industry has...
Embedded Simulation for Training and Engineering
At the 2018 Ovation Users' Group Conference, Emerson's James Thompson and Sheldon Willis provided an update on embedded simulation in the Ovation distributed control system. Ovation-based high-fidelity simulator models are embedded directly into virtual Ovation...
System Virtualization Now and Going Forward
The week of Emerson Exchange was a blur. I'm thankful to have had Emerson folks taking great notes at many of the workshops. David Walker, a manager in the Systems and Solutions Middle East organization, shared his notes on a presentation on virtualization with the...
Simulation, Expertise, and Knowledge Transfer
If you're involved with simulation in your plant, you may be familiar with Mynah's Martin Berutti and his blog. In one of his posts, he shares his thoughts on the business benefits, requirements, and steps for building a Virtual DeltaV system with a virtual plant and...
How Good Is Your Operator’s Mental Model?
In the December 2009 issue of David Strohbar of Beville Engineering and Danyele Harris-Thompson of Klein Associates, outline steps for preparing plant operators in their article, Build Operator Training Expertise Faster. Their article is based upon published findings...
Modular, Interactive Operator Training
Helen Chen, a project engineer and member of Emerson's TAG business, shared a recent project with me where she developed modular, interactive operator training screencasts for a DCS modernization project. TAG provides specialized services for process manufacturers on...
Transferring Plant Operator Expertise
Chemical Processing magazine has a great article, Build Operator Expertise Faster, written by folks from the Center for Operator Performance (COPS). The article provides recommendations for how best to transfer the expertise of experienced plant operators who are...
Virtual Training Courses across the Internet
A few days ago, I saw this Twitter tweet from Emerson's Jeff Hackney: Train fm home - Emrsn Virtual Training classes for MiMiC V3 (Dec 1, 09) and DeltaV 7009 (Nov 2, 09) https://tiny.cc/Emerson_VLearning Jeff is part of the Emerson Educational Services team and I was...
Modernization Project Operator Training
A great question came into the Process Automation Usability Project site, in the Implementation forum section. The post, Is training sufficient asks: How many companies institute a formal training procedure -- not only when controls systems are changed, but for...
Stories of Operator Training Solutions
Our internal blogs at Emerson (blogs.emersonprocess.com for those readers with access to the Emerson internal network) are vibrant and growing. One of the folks I've featured in past posts, Jeff Hackney, who leads the DeltaV operator training solutions (DeltaV OTS)...
Keep Up to Date With the Latest News and Updates
Follow Us
We invite you to follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube to stay up to date on the latest news, events and innovations that will help you face and solve your toughest challenges.
Do you want to reuse or translate content?
Just post a link to the entry and send us a quick note so we can share your work. Thank you very much.
Our Global Community
Emerson Exchange 365
The opinions expressed here are the personal opinions of the authors. Content published here is not read or approved by Emerson before it is posted and does not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Emerson.