Author: Scott TurnerThis is the final part in the five part series on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification (URS). The topic of this final post is 'Hardware'. As before, I am really interested in seeing your comments on this. I think understanding...
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Where to Look for Benefits in DCS Modernization Project Justification
We'll continue with our series on getting your brownfield automation project approved. In part one, Front End Planning for Control System Modernization Projects, we explored how changes in the project become more expensive the later in the schedule that they are made....
Integrated Operations Continue to Deliver Benefits in Today’s Oil Market
Authors: Jeff Dymond and Mike Boudreaux The reality of lower oil and gas prices is driving energy companies to operate differently. The lower price per barrel is squeezing profitability and pushing companies to contain costs, increase reliability, and respond quickly...
Fundamentally Transforming Capital Project Planning and Execution
Executing capital projects grows increasingly difficult as their size and scope continues to expand. I caught up with Emerson's Kevin Jackson who has witnessed this growth over time. Kevin notes that today 65% of projects over a billion dollars fail. Likewise, 35% of...
Industrial Internet of Things and Changing Automation Architectures
The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture has been a defining architecture for instrumentation, automation, manufacturing operations and business planning and logistics systems since its introduction in the 1990s. In a Plant Services article, What a smart device...
Front End Planning for Control System Modernization Projects
Sometimes getting a project's capital budget approved is tougher than executing the project itself. That can be even truer for brownfield sites trying to modernize an aging control system. Trying to justify that "something might break and we won't quickly be able to...
From Operators to Cross-Functional iOps Teams
Control rooms where operators monitor and control the process have changed over the years as technologies have advanced. Today with advances in communications technologies, this "room" can extend globally. In a Process Engineering article, Remote Controller, Emerson's...
Life Experiences Shape Consulting Translation Skills
Author: Michalle Adkins Before the holidays, I wrote a blog post, Life Experiences from a Woman in STEM, in the Emerson Exchange 365 Women in Stem group. I talked about growing up on a farm where I gained some early experiences with animals, vitamins, medications,...
Monitoring Control Valves with Remote Expertise
An ARC Advisory group study highlighted that "The global process industry loses $20 billion, or five percent of annual production, due to unscheduled downtime and poor quality. ARC estimates that almost 80 percent of these losses are preventable…" Key components in...
Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification
Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the 'Control Philosophy'. The first three in the series include Considerations for Your User Requirement...
Developing High-Level Operator Skills Prior to Startup
For those that follow the various forms of auto racing, you know that the skills of the drivers typically separate overall race results, even when the racecars are nearly identical in performance. And so it is with experienced, high-level operators in process...
Develop, Test and Train for Lower Risk Projects
One way to improve the probability for a successful process automation project is to include dynamic simulation during the design phases to help with configuring the control system, testing before commissioning the system and training the operators before the process...
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