When many plants were built years ago, they were instrumented to provide what was required for safely manage the process. As time has passed, the requirements are far greater for efficiency, reliability and regulatory demands. In a Power Engineering International...
Technology changes come at so quickly, it is something difficult to process how they can be used to help us improve performance. In our world of process automation, these changes must be proven over time before being put into widespread use. For example, WirelessHART...
This article was first published in the Spanish language—La actualidad del mercado de hidrocarburos ofrece importantes oportunidades en refinerías y petroquímicas in Instrumentacion y Control magazine and is translated and posted with permission from the publisher....
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers annual meeting took place this past March in San Francisco. In a Hydrocarbon Processing magazine recap of day 3 from the conference, Emerson's Ed Schodowski shared ways to improve refinery performance in an article,...
At the Emerson Exchange Brussels conference, Danny Vandeput presented An Economic Study in Enterprise Asset Management. His abstract: Complex process plant operations often make it difficult to make timely and informed decisions about plant management and maintenance...
I did a quick Google search on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and it yield about 588,000 search results. You can see quite a bit about on the web and across the social networks that discuss process automation-related topics. But what is future and what can...
We opened this week with a look at how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing the traditional view of information flow through the process manufacturing and production enterprise as defined by the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture developed in the...
If you're unfamiliar with CERAWeek, it is billed as: …the premier annual international gathering of energy industry leaders, experts, government officials and policymakers, leaders from the technology, financial, and industrial communities – and energy technology...
Author: Danny Vandeput Let's face it, the world has changed in a dramatic way. 10 years ago, people barely knew what "The Cloud" was (except for looking up in the sky and trying to imagine of seeing a sheep, a horse or something else exotic). Today many of us have...
Author: Douglas Morris Back in the 1990s, the Robert Redford film "Sneakers" was a story about cryptography, hackers, and a government plot. It's not an Oscar-worthy movie, but it was interesting back in the day. Anyway, during one of the final scenes, Ben Kingsley's...
Across many process manufacturing and producing industries, falling prices are driving the need for increased efficiency and reliability, as well as reduced costs. While optimizing process control can yield gains, so can applying technology to the condition of the...
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...
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