Emerson's Dr. Douglas White presented, Reducing Process Plant Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Use Through Automation. His abstract: Even with the recent reduction in energy prices, energy remains the largest cost after feedstocks for most process plants. Reducing...
We're less than two weeks from the Emerson Exchange conference in Denver. I hope you've made plans, registered and will be there with us. If so, make sure you have your Mobile App and are planning your schedule. If not, make sure to catch the October 12 Livestream of...
Some of my favorite posts are ones that come out of a string of problem-solving email messages. And so it is with today's post. Emerson's Mark Coughran was recently at biopharmaceutical facility that was having temperature control issues on a reactor vessel. The...
Author: Scott Turner In this five-part series, I will be providing guidance on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification. I will try and pull ideas and information from a number of different sources. For example, I have recently asked people through...
For refiners challenged with increasing regulations, blending operations are a major area where automation investments can help meet these regulations and improve operational performance. Emerson's Marcelo Carugo, who leads the refining and petrochemical industry...
Whether it is students preparing for a test or seasoned engineers planning an automation project, early planning and preparation improves the odds of success. Congratulations to Emerson's Laurie Ben for receiving an Outstanding Presentation Award from the AIChE Fuels...
A human-centered design (HCD) approach means taking a close look at a task or set of tasks and seeing how the design can simplify and streamline it. As this HCD approach continues to unfold through the Emerson Process Management organization, products and technologies...
As members of the "baby boom" generation retire and remove their deep experience from process manufacturers and producers, sometimes the remaining staff knows little of the inner workings of the control systems. Many of these distributed control systems and PLCs that...
If you'll be presenting at the October 12-16 Emerson Exchange conference, the July 1 deadline for submitting your first presentation draft is rapidly approaching. If you're not presenting and planning to join us in Denver, you have until August 15 to get the Early...
Author: Jocelyn Sexton Across a variety of industries, manufacturing plants must meet rigorous production goals in order for companies to remain competitive. Especially in today's economic climate, everyone is looking for the best cost options to make improvements...
If you look through the annual reports of major process manufacturers and producers you don't have to look very hard to find the word "reliability". For example, on page 3 of the 2014 ExxonMobil annual report, Chairman and CEO Rex W. Tillerson wrote: Operational...
I wanted to bring additional visibility to a great thread in the LinkedIn Process Control group on advanced regulatory control versus advanced process control. The post, So, ARC Can "Replace" APC? is based on a blog post, Advanced regulatory versus model-predictive...
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