Emerson's Brian Joe and Ben Skal presented on Plantweb technologies and how they help facilitate digital transformation initiatives. Brian opened noting that process control is all based on the See-Decide-Act closed-loop model. Typically it is an open-loop process for...
Emerson's Manasi Menon and Brian Joe provided an update on Plantweb Analytics at the 2019 Emerson Exchange conference in Nashville. Plantweb Analytics are focused around operational analytics. There are two major categories of operational analytics—principle-driven...
When you hear "digital twin," think of this as a digital replica of physical assets such as pumps and compressors, processes, people, places, systems and devices. Through these replicas, the operation of these things are modeled and simulated through their lifecycles....
One really good podcast and website about all things "Internet of Things" is Stacey Higginbotham's Stacey on IoT. In a post, There are 3 different versions of the IoT, she highlights the three versions, consumer IoT, enterprise IoT, and industrial IoT. We spend quite...
Asset condition monitoring versus performance monitoring—what's the difference? And, analyzing and forming decisions on the data from this monitoring—should it be done within the company or in the cloud? These questions are the subject of a Control Engineering...
Wireless sensors, as a part of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) set of technologies, are finding new applications due to their ease of installation and commissioning. Many of these applications fall outside of the traditional monitoring and control...
The Plantweb digital ecosystem includes a scalable range of technologies, applications and services. One of these solutions, Location Awareness provides real-time, safety-focused monitoring of plant personnel.
As we approach the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, it is around-the-clock daylight for oil and gas producers in Alaska's Arctic region. This situation flips to months of darkness around the winter solstice. These conditions and others pose challenges for...
Production agility is an increasing objective among refiners and petrochemical producers. Changing characteristics of feedstocks and demand for produced products is forcing these companies to look for solutions to increase operational flexibility. In a Petroleum...
Every day, our lives continue to be digitally transformed in how we communicate and engage with each other. It's not just the technologies in smart phones, smart watches and applications; it's how we use these technologies to change the way we accomplish things. The...
The costs and difficulties associated with wiring and terminations have historically limited the sensors used in manufacturing and production processes to only the most essential measurements. Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)-based wireless devices have...
Author: Chip Bremer At Tuesday's Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Technical Session "Digitalization Deployed: Case Studies," Emerson Automation Solutions' Chief Technology Officer Peter Zornio provided insight on how digital transformation can "close the loop" in...
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