Author: Juan Carlos Bravo Over the past several months, news of commodity prices being hit hard due the slowdown of China’s economy has been a common theme. It was refreshing to read positive news among so much turmoil. The article, Rio saves $200m a year using robots, big data, describes how that despite net earnings […]
The technology advancement of computer virtualization is having a tremendous impact on companies across the globe. And the consolidation of these servers into data centers “in the Cloud” is fundamentally changing how IT, operations and maintenance organizations within these companies operate. In a Plant Services article, What impact is the cloud having on asset management […]
In today’s Wall Street Journal article, U.S. Oil Prices Fall Below $50 a Barrel, it chronicles the continuing decline in oil prices over the past 6 months. This increases the pressure on oil & gas producers to find ways to reduce production costs and optimize operations. In an Offshore Engineering magazine article, Remote Surveillance of […]
In the February 2013 edition of Chemical Industry Digest, University of Texas Separations Research Program (SRP)‘s Robert Montgomery and Emerson’s Pete Sharpe and Nikki Bishop authored, Manage Essential Assets with Automated Monitoring. In prior posts, we’ve discussed how wireless technologies have opened up the ability to continuously monitor plant assets not already instrumented. I’ll focus […]
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