Seeing a pit crew in action at a Formula One race is seeing optimized maintenance in action. Emerson's Juan Carlos Bravo, a member of the metals and mining industry team, highlights an Automining Conference presentation comparing these pit crews to how mining...
predictive maintenance
Gold Prices Shine While Confidence in Gold Mining Operations Lags
Economic uncertainty and pressure on global currencies continue to impact the price of precious metals including gold. Emerson's Juan Carlos Bravo, a member of the metals and mining industry team, explores the performance of gold mining stocks and the role automation...
Business Case for Essential Asset Monitoring
"According to Solomon Associates, a world-class performer is a company whose maintenance costs are below 1.4 percent plant replacement value, with mechanical availability greater than 96.7 percent." Are your maintenance costs below this 1.4% threshold and 96.7%...
Diagnostic Opportunities in FCC Units
A reader who came upon one of the posts in the abnormal situation prevention category asked about ways early fault detection could reduce unplanned downtime in a refinery fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit. I turned to Emerson's Gary Hawkins, a consultant on the...
Healthy Pumps, Healthy Hearts
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...
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