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...
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Important Opportunities Today in Refineries and Petrochemical Plants
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....
Improving Refinery Operations with Wireless Measurements
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,...
Enterprise Asset Management Economic Study
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...
Putting IIoT into Operation for Business Results
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...
Modernizing Plants with Pervasive Sensing
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...
CERAWeek Strategies for a New World
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...
Sense More and Solve More with Pervasive Sensing
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...
Pervasive Sensing: Looking Beyond the Process in Power Plants
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...
Multi-parameter Condition Monitoring for Plant Asset Reliability
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...
Reliability Programs and the Cloud
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...
Instrumenting for Increased Performance
Yesteryear, energy and water were relatively inexpensive, waste disposal carried little cost, emissions did not incur fines and people willing to work in harsh manufacturing plant and production facility environments were abundant. Today, energy and water costs are...
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