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...
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Digital Disruption and Evolving Business Models
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...
Steam Management and Optimization
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...
Reliability Consulting and Lifecycle Services
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...
IIoT and Operational Improvements
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...
Big Data and WIIFM
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...
How to Form a Cybersecurity Strategy to Protect Your Investments
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...
Ways to Improve Planned Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages
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:...
What is Operational Certainty?
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...
Optimizing Distillation for Increased Methanol Capacity
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...
Achieving Operational Excellence through Automation
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...
Stories of Paths to a STEM Career
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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