Even back when I was a young engineer in the 1980s, we had condition monitoring solutions for our large turbine generators and compressors on the offshore oil & gas production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Condition monitoring technology has advanced greatly...
Over on IHS Markit's CERAWeek On Demand channel, you'll find many of the sessions and one-on-on interviews from last week's CERAWeek conference in Houston. For example, here's a one-on-one conversation between IHS Markit's David Hicks and Emerson's Melissa Ruths. In...
There is much talk this week at CERAWeek 2019 about the need to get data from Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensors and final control devices "out to the cloud" for collaboration. But how? IIoT technologies provide the opportunity to expand monitoring beyond...
We know that manufacturers and producers undergoing digital transformation journeys need to consider people, processes and technologies along the path to better performance. Technology alone won't cause a transformation, but it plays a very important role. The...
Manufacturers and producers can take steps in their digital transformation journeys to improve energy efficiency and reduce unaccounted for losses. In a comment to an earlier post, Jonas Berge highlighted 7 ways.
Let's end the week with a quick 1:48 YouTube video about Plantweb Insight to better analyze and use the data for safe, reliable and compliant operations. Plantweb Insight is enabled by wireless sensors and networks and gives users the knowledge to make effective and...
At the recent 2018 Gastech Conference in Barcelona, Spain, Emerson's Patrick Deruytter presented on ways for gas plants and liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities to drive operations to top quartile performance. The focus of the presentation was to look at...
At the recent Emerson Exchange conference, a scenario-based exhibit demonstrated how technology, communications and enabled experts can fundamentally change the massive effort of planning and executing turnarounds, a.k.a. shutdowns and outages. In this 2:39 YouTube...
Many of us are experiencing digital transformations in our homes in small steps. Devices like Emerson's Sensi wi-fi thermostat that can be controlled via a smartphone app, digital voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Google Home and Apply Siri, and smart locks to...
Big data is not just a phenomenon on the surface of oil & gas production producing areas. It's growing rapidly below the surface as well. In an article from the 2018 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) show daily, Facing the Digital Deluge (p19), Emerson's...
In several of the upstream oil & gas-related blog posts we highlighted digital transformation opportunities and activities. But what about in the midstream sector including gas processing facilities, pipelines and storage terminals? In a Pipeline Industry Report...
Interest in how the Industrial Internet of Things can improve manufacturing performance spans the globe. Emerson’s Jonas Berge recently presented at the 2nd China Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) summit 2018 in Shanghai.
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