Author: Michalle Adkins We are seeing a trend in the life sciences industry moving away from blockbusters to niche busters, population based medicines and even to the extreme of personalized medicines. The Emerson Life Sciences consulting team recently had the...
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Managing Coalbed Methane Wells Feeding LNG Plant
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities require careful pressure management on their incoming gas pipelines. In a recent LNG Industry article, Turn it Up (and Down), Emerson's Michael Calvert describes the challenges and solutions around the Santos Gladstone LNG (GLNG)...
Optimizing Life Sciences Processes by Improving Data Integration
Pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers face many economic and technical challenges including reduced prices and diminishing profits, rising research & development costs, increasing regulatory requirements and a greater need for optimized manufacturing...
Conference Room Pilots to Generate Involvement in MES Projects
Author: Jonathan Lustri As a Life Sciences consultant, I get involved in many different aspects of MES [manufacturing execution system] projects. In a recent project, I helped define the project execution plan. I knew Emerson's biotech customer was highly concerned...
Reducing Communications Problems during Shift Changeovers
Sources of unplanned downtime can be many including equipment failures and human error. For downtime resulting from operator interactions, one major source of errors is the communications breakdown that sometimes happens during a shift change. If not told or seen in...
Prototype Manufacturing Operations Management Projects
The ANSI/ISA-95 standard defines models for the information flows between the instrumentation and automation layers up to the enterprise information layers for process manufacturers and producers. Moving up the levels increases the need for people, processes and...
RFID Tagging for Materials Movements
Some of the technologies making the Internet of Things (IoT) possible include WirelessHART, radio-frequency identification (RFID), near field communication, barcodes, QR codes and digital watermarking. I mention this because many process operations require material...
Successfully Automating Terminal Operations
Making an operational step change in a production process involves a clear vision and people, processes and tools to execute the vision. A July/August 2014 Tank Storage magazine article, Automating terminal operations, highlights the story of Vopak transforming their...
Managing Terminal Logistics
Moving and properly accounting for the products in a terminal facility requires quite a bit of logistical support and reporting. In this 14:57 YouTube video, Syncade Logistics: Reducing Product Integrity Surprises, Emerson's Brian Crandall demonstrates how these...
Prototyping Key in Manufacturing Execution System Projects
In an earlier post, Five Strategies for Mitigating Automation Project Risk, we highlighted the importance of prototyping: Risks in budget, schedule, changes, and project execution can be reduced with a prototyping strategy. Prototyping helps incorporate operational...
Rolling Out Emerson’s Management System for Bulk-Liquids Terminals
Hi. It's Chris Womack again, with another tidbit about terminals. If you haven't seen it yet, an article in the July-August issue of Tank Storage magazine adds a little update about Emerson's partnership with Vopak, the world's largest bulk-liquids storage firm. (The...
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