Digital sensors, both wired and wireless, combined with analytic software and experts can reduce operational risks and improve reliability, production levels and energy usage. When the path between these elements includes distance and the internet, these devices...
It seems that the pace of technological change only continues to increase affecting the way we work and we live. Recently, Emerson's Jonas Berge participated in a panel at the NASSCOM Design & Engineering Summit in Bangalore, India. The topic of the panel was...
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Jim Dunbar presented Steam Management and Optimization. His abstract: Sipchem facility includes utility plant supplying steam to seven downstream production plants. Utility plant was struggling with reliability...
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Sean Sims and Will Goetz teamed up to give an update on the reliability consulting process and the host of lifecycle services to improve operational performance for process manufacturers and producers. Sean...
Traditionally, most of the sensors in industrial processes were wired into the control systems or supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. Because of the expense of the sensors, junction boxes, cabling/conduit/cable trays/etc. and installation and...
The hype-scale for the phrase "Big Data" has been with us and pegged for many years. A quick Google search yields 264 million search results. Wikipedia defines this concept as: …a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing...
Author: Jocelyn Sexton Without fail, cybersecurity continues to make headlines. News about data breaches, password protection, identify theft, hacks and viruses are so prevalent, it's easy to feel security fatigue. It can also seem overwhelming to stand vigilant for...
The latest edition of Emerson's Innovations in Process Control magazine is out. The focus is around ways to improve the performance of shutdowns, turnarounds and scheduled outages. Roel Van Doren, president of Emerson Automation Solutions Europe, opens noting that:...
A lot of businesses benchmark themselves against other companies in the same industry and against themselves over time using various metrics and key performance indicators (KPI's). One example of this is Solomon Associates Benchmarking which is widely used, especially...
Author: James Gremillion When the process licensor designed your methanol plant, everything fit together to exactly produce the nameplate amount of methanol yearly. In the design there were necessary tradeoffs made because of costs, physical size, availability of...
Typically, you'll find broadly used production and data management systems at the heart of effective operational excellence programs. These systems help to identify aging plant infrastructure before these assets lead to unplanned shutdowns, slowdowns and quality...
Over the past year, I wished numerous colleague happiness in their next phase of life, post retirement. The numbers will continue to grow as the baby boomers enter their retirement years. One of the things Emerson has been doing is promoting science, technology,...
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