The AIChE 2013 Spring Meeting and 9th Global Congress on Process Safety is taking place this week down the road from me in San Antonio, Texas. I just heard the news from Emerson's Tim Olsen, Chair of the AIChE Fuels & Petrochemicals Division, that a paper on...
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How to Incorporate Statistical Process Monitoring
Statistical Process Control (SPC) has long been applied in discrete manufacturing operations as a predictive diagnostic technology. Statistical Process Monitoring (SPM), the continuous process version of SPC, has been applied less often as highlighted by Emerson's Tom...
Detecting Loop Electrical Integrity Issues
Advanced diagnostics are improving our lives in many ways from healthcare to transportation. And in our world of process automation, they are fundamentally changing the way we operate and manage our plants. In an earlier post, A High-Speed, Statistical View for Better...
Simplifying Access to Abnormal Condition Detection Diagnostics
I'm always in the hunt for stories to tell, and had a chance hallway meeting with Emerson's Tom Wallace when he was in town a few weeks back. You may recall Tom from some of our posts on HART, Foundation fieldbus, EDDL, and FDT. Some of these posts generated quite a...
Shifting from Time-Based to Condition-Based Maintenance
You may recall Emerson's Bill Zhou from his demo video pieces here on the blog. I told him to be on the lookout for unscrupulous talent agents who'll want to whisk him away to Hollywood. Bill pointed me to a HART Communications Foundation announcement of Mitsubishi...
Pressure, Flow, Level Diagnostics in High Definition
Let's close this week with a new era for us in YouTube-based demonstration videos. The team has just added three new videos produced in high definition (HD) video format. The videos include: If you click through and see the videos in HD on the YouTube site, what makes...
Collect, Analyze, Decide, and Act on Critical Measurements
Emerson's Bill Zhou is in town this week, escaping the cold north of Minnesota. You may recall Bill, from his Emerson Exchange plugged impulse line video demonstration. Actually, his purpose was not to see the Austin wildflowers in full bloom, but to work with the...
A High-Speed, Statistical View for Better Decision Making
You might recall Emerson's Bill Zhou from a quick, Rosemount transmitter demo video done at the Emerson Exchange a few weeks ago. I asked Bill if I could get a copy of his and Andrew Klosinski's recent National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA)...
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