Any plant that operates complex, expensive, or even dangerous equipment is familiar with machinery protection systems. Ensuring that equipment will be shut down in the case of an emergency is a primary goal for these organizations, both to keep personnel and the...
Like any process manufacturing industry, the food and beverage industry is focused on operational excellence to deliver the best product safely and on time. However, many small and medium sized processers are discovering the need to incorporate more automation into...
We finally got our wish. Industry 4.0 delivered a wide array of new technologies—sensors, edge devices, mobile devices, and more—that now collect, and sometimes deliver, massive amounts of data from every asset imaginable. However, that leaves a lot of organizations...
The world has come to an interesting intersection. We need more renewable energy just as the aging wind turbine infrastructure, made up of many assets that are decades old, is beginning to underperform. However, replacing turbines is costly and regulations have...
At many plants around the globe, reliability strategies haven’t changed much in the last few decades. Technicians grab a documentation device—sometimes an Android or iOS device, sometimes a hardened laptop, other times, a fit-for-purpose handheld communicator—and head...
One of the most fascinating frontiers of the new push toward more renewable forms of energy is the increase in utility-scale battery storage. More renewable sources of energy means more variability on the grid, so energy producers need a place to store that energy...
As more and more power generators bring renewables assets into their portfolios, complexity of operations is becoming an increasingly popular theme. In a recent interview with Wind Systems magazine, Emerson’s Matt Roberts dug into that complexity and the tools...
Utilities around the globe are reacting to a public call to address climate change. The future of generation will call for new technologies that reduce emissions and provide more sustainable power. However, as James Fraser points out in his recent article in enerG...
Plants need a strong pipeline of data to help them ensure optimal performance. We spend a lot of time talking about how to collate, transmit, and store that data so it is easily accessible whenever and wherever people need it. However, all that strategizing is of...
Tackling cybersecurity can often feel like trying to complete an overly complex jigsaw puzzle. Figuring out how all the pieces connect is often a frustrating step. In the worst cases, however, the cybersecurity jigsaw puzzle doesn’t even have edges. And when that...
Many plants are facing personnel shortages, but the truth of the matter is that today’s biggest problems can’t be solved simply by finding more people. As organizations tackle more and more complex problems like driving down emissions, increasing efficiency, reducing...
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...
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