It would be great if plants could run forever after starting them up, but unfortunately, they slowly degrade as they operate. Equipment and assets foul, corrode, erode, rattles and more. Some can be maintained while the process continues to run, but many require the...
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Improving Capital Project and Plant Turnaround Performance
Last week's Petrochemical Engineering & Construction and Gulf Coast Shutdowns & Turnarounds conferences took place in New Orleans. Here are excepts from the full posts over on the Top Quartile Performance site. Beyond Best Practice: The Latest Thinking in...
Using the FF-912 Diagnostics Specification to Improve Daily Maintenance Routines
Happy Friday—it's Chris Womack with another guest post, this time about new device diagnostics standards and how they're changing daily plant maintenance, including turnaround planning. Back in March, your regular blog host Jim Cahill wrote about how the Fieldbus...
Detecting Valve Seat Leaks
The devices that touch your process such as control valves, measurement instrumentation, and analyzers have tremendous impact on the ability to control the process efficiently. Even the best control and advanced control strategies can't do what they are designed to do...
Impacts of Control Valve Diagnostics
Plants tend to run longer in between turnarounds, or the period of time in which a plant is shut down for maintenance. These turnaround time intervals can be three, four, five, or even longer depending on the process and the industry. Emerson's Riyaz Ali, whom you may...
Mobile Accessibility to Valve Diagnostics
We must be having fun because this week has absolutely flown by. I had the chance to visit Innotech Austin yesterday afternoon. It's a conference for business technology innovations for IT and marketing professionals. The advances of social media and mobile...
Extending Plant Turnarounds Out 5-7 Years
Industrial Automation Insider's Andrew Bond wrote an article for ControlGlobal.com, DVCs Drive Digitization of the Process Industries. It describes the introduction of digital valve controllers by Emerson's Fisher business in the 1990s and their widespread use--more...
Hot Cutovers Help Provide Operator Learning Curve Time
Today is the first of two guest blog posts this week. Aaron Crews graciously agreed to write this while I'm goofing off this week on vacation. Thanks Aaron! Jim is a brave soul to hand over the keys to the blog while he's on vacation this week. Hopefully I don't do...
Minimizing Plant Turnaround Chaos
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...
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