The Industrial Safety and Security Source blog has a post, Firing Up Burner System, which describes the implementation of a burner management system (BMS) at RockTenn's recycled paper mill in St. Paul, Minnesota. Their challenge was to replace an old relay panel-based...
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux shares some thoughts on a recent ControlGlobal.com article on process manufacturing accidents: Process safety has been a popular topic these days. Unfortunately, it has hit mainstream press because of high profile safety incidents such as last...
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux has been receiving great questions on process safety and the IEC 61511 global safety standard during some of the recent Safety Lifecycle Seminars. He's written a post to address one of them: A very common topic of discussion is the sharing of...
I discussed the use of RTDs and thermocouples for temperature measurement last week in a post, Temperature Measurement and Installation Practices. Emerson's Len Laskowski, a certified functional safety expert (CFSE), was recently asked about the use of thermocouples...
A question was posed this week to Emerson's Mike Boudreaux about how to take credit for partial stoke tests in a performance verification process. Mike leads the process safety systems efforts and was presenting on this topic this week. He wrote up this post to recap...
Our process safety systems team alerted me to a great study on process safety. The Automation.com site shares an Aberdeen Group December 2010 study, A Roadmap for a Safe and Productive Plant. The research study: ...surveyed more than 230 manufacturing executives to...
The product and service roadmap sessions are typically the most highly attended sessions at Emerson Exchange. Attendees are anxious to understand the forward paths for these products and services. You might have already read about this year's DeltaV SIS roadmap...
Earlier this week, Emerson's Chuck Miller and Mike Boudreaux were at the ChemInnovations 2010 conference in Houston, Texas. During this session, presenters talked about topics related to safety and security for instrumentation, automation, and control in the chemical...
Update and bump: Ed was kind enough to allow us to add his presentation into Slideshare (download): Using Syncade Workflow and AMS Device Manager for SIF Proof Testing on a DeltaV SMART SIS SystemView more presentations from Emerson Exchange. Update 2: There was also...
Bluefield Process Safety's Mike Schmidt and Emerson's Chuck Miller presented What Now? More Standards for Safety and Regulatory Compliance. In their presentation they discuss challenges in developing a solid review and comparison of the burner management safety (BMS)...
The annual Emerson Exchange technical conference is now just a week away. We hope you'll be able to join us in historic, San Antonio Texas for this exchange of expertise. If you're involved in process safety at your plant with equipment such as furnaces, boilers,...
While I'm traveling this week to attend a customer event, Emerson's Mike Boudreaux has graciously written the following post to share the process safety-related activities that will be occurring at the upcoming Emerson Exchange in San Antonio. Process safety is on the...
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