OK, I confess to being an engineer in my core when I was explaining to my son the other day how the heart is a reciprocating pump. The systolic and diastolic pressures are the high and low-pressure peaks based on the heart's expansion/contraction cycle. Blood pressure...
Last week, I shared how resonance can contribute to excessive machine vibration in the post, Spotting and Fixing Resonance in Plant Equipment. A colleague pointed me toward another true Emerson Expert, Dr. Allen Fagerlund. Al's expertise is on noise measurement and...
Alain Pellegrino, a predictive maintenance technician with Emerson's local business partner Laurentide Controls, has a great article in ReliablePlant.com on resonance in plant equipment. The article, How to identify, correct a resonance condition, describes how...
Those that come across this blog know that the mission is to give visibility to the expertise of the folks around Emerson Process Management. This post will be slightly different. It does feature an expert, Emerson's Jim Walker. He is a member of the Machinery Health...
As I mentioned in an earlier "itchy publish button" post, it's always dangerous to include a blogger on your email distributions for upcoming items. I saw an advanced copy of a 2009 American Control Conference paper prepared by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's...
Storms blew through Austin the week before last knocking out power to our building. It reminded me of the criticality of reliable power to conduct business in this information age. If you're responsible for maintaining the power distribution facility at your plant,...
One of the best parts of authoring the Emerson Process Experts blog is some of the conversations that follow in phone calls and emails. These can happen even years after a post has been published. A good example is one that sparked from the post, What is Your Reactive...
The controlled chaos that surrounds a plant turnaround, or planned shutdown, has given more than a few engineers some gray hair. I highlighted a plant turnaround planning presentation at last year's Emerson Exchange and I asked Emerson's Chris Forland if I could get...
In several parts of the world including North America, Emerson Process Management sells some of its products and services through local business partners. I came across a great Pulp & Paper magazine article, Control Valve Management Can Pay Off Big, written by...
My spy utility, WatchThatPage, alerted me to another good article, this time on the Fisher control valves and regulators area of the Emerson website. The article, Getting ready for the nuclear renaissance, from the April issue of Valve World magazine, features Bill...
High energy costs continue to prompt process manufacturers to seek ways to increase their energy efficiency. A colleague pointed a great post to me, The Seven Steps to Successful Industrial Energy Management, on the Energy Pathfinder blog. My take away was that the...
In spite of my best efforts to use persistent RSS search feeds in order not to miss any news about Emerson experts in action, here's one that got by me. Mark Coughran, a consultant on Emerson's Advanced Applied Technology team, shared this control challenge question...
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