There are very few topics getting as much attention today as renewable energy. From expanding wind farms and solar operations to green hydrogen technology, to electric vehicles and their impact on the grid and infrastructure, the face of how we generate and use power...
SCADA
Break Away from Suboptimal Turbine Control
The days of wind energy as a niche market are long behind us. Today, wind power makes up a growing share of the energy marketplace as corporate, government, and societal pressures for reducing carbon emissions continue to increase. However, meeting the needs of the...
Strategies for Better Remote Analysis
It is often said that the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the biggest catalysts of digital transformation in many process manufacturing organizations. Operations and maintenance teams that would never before have considered adding remote systems quickly discovered they...
Lowering the Carbon Footprint by Optimizing Liquids Pipelines
Emerson’s Jennifer Worthen joins podcast host Jim Cahill to discuss ways to drive more optimized liquids pipelines performance.
Pneumatic Controllers Revived by Flexible, Configurable, Digital Process Controller
Emerson’s Fisher Instruments has been producing its Wizard pneumatic controllers since the 1940s, refining and revamping them every 20 years or so. Along the way, the company produced its electro-pneumatic controllers, and more recently developed its Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ digital pneumatic controllers (DPC). In all, Emerson estimates there are more than 1 million of its pneumatic controllers presently operating.
Emerson: Empowering Digital Transformation from Floor to Cloud™ with Comprehensive Hardware, Software, and Services
In the realm of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturing, where diverse equipment and production lines are the norm, the challenges of connectivity and coordination are ever-present. However, solutions are now within reach. In my September 2023 article for Machine Design, titled “Digital Transformation: Guidelines for CPG Industry Implementations,” I delve into how Emerson’s cutting-edge technologies are revolutionizing the landscape for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators (SIs), and end users by enabling seamless Floor to Cloud™ architectures.
Augmented Reality
Silvia Gonzalez explores how Emerson Movicon.NExT™ augmented reality (AR) technology is revolutionizing human-machine interfaces (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. The article highlights how AR interfaces, delivered through devices like tablets and AR goggles, empower industrial operators in various ways. Operators can follow step-by-step instructions, receive training, and access data from hazardous areas safely.
When You Need Super-fast Installation in 115 Worldwide Plants, You Need a Serious Software Partner – Case Study
A global leader in industrial packaging launched a worldwide search for a software provider that could implement a unified and coherent production supervision and management system in 115 production plants globally. The manufacturer required a system that would allow...
FEI Foods Increases Production to Meet Worldwide Demand with Movicon.NExT™ Platform
Hello everyone. I’m Ajay Rana and recently, in an article in Food Manufacturing, I had the opportunity to talk about an interesting case study with FEI Foods, Europe’s largest producer of ready-to-eat rice and grain pouches, based in South Wales, UK. I think it has...
Movicon™ SCADA/HMI Reduces Engineering Time and Costs for Italian Packaging Machine Builder
For machine builders and systems integrators, anything they can do to simplify their engineering, speed their time to market and differentiate themselves to customers is a significant win. Here’s a brief case study from Emerson customer, Kosme s.r.l. that designs and...
Copper Winding OEM Enhances Customer Experience and Flexibility with Movicon™ HMI/SCADA – Case Study
When buying hardware and software for their systems, OEMs need to consider not just which products will do the job, but also those that will make life easiest for their end-user customers. This was the case for copper-winding OEM, Sipro, a winding and assembly...
Successfully Bring Renewable Assets Into the Fold
One of the hottest topics of conversation at the 2023 Ovation Users’ Group conference has been renewables, and much of that conversation has been around the struggle to bring a wide array of disparate renewable assets together into a unified system of control,...
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