I highlighted some of the challenges North American refiners face in an earlier post with tight oil from shale formations. Emerson's Michelle Weimert has Hydrocarbon Processing article, Leverage diagnostics to keep production running smoothly, which looks at the role...
Update: See a recorded version of the Cooling Tower webinar. Reliability of plant assets and process operations remains near the top of every manufacturer's list of concerns. According to the ARC Advisory Group: The global process industries lose $20 billion, or 5%...
In a recent Automation World column, The Future is Attainable with Today's Automation, Emerson Process Management's former president, John Berra, noted: The number one issue in process plants is the disruptive cost of an unplanned shutdown. And the number one cause of...
I saw an inside-the-firewall blog post from Emerson's Tim Olsen about an upcoming, no charge, HART Energy Webinar. The title of the webinar is Reliability and Safety Improvements with Pump Health Monitoring. It will be held September 28th at 10:00am CDT (13:00 UTC)....
We're entering that time of year where draft presentations have been developed and submitted to the Emerson Exchange organizers. The 2011 event will be held October 24-28 in Nashville, Tennessee USA. A few weeks ago, I caught up with Emerson's Pete Sharpe who leads...
At the upcoming Meridium conference, May 2-6 in Roanoke, Virginia USA, three Emerson presenters will be on the agenda: Stuart Harris, Augie Di Giovanni, and Mike Boudreaux. The AMS Suite: Asset Performance Management software is built upon Meridium's APM enterprise...
I discovered a great article, The Signs of Failure, in the fall edition of Resource Engineering & Maintenance magazine. Emerson's Dan Nower, a member of the Machinery Health Management team wrote the article. Dan shares the thought that most rotating machinery...
I discovered this post yesterday, Alarming Links & Resources from the Harold in Control blog. It included a link to a DeltaV whitepaper on Alarm Rationalization. It also pointed to a LinkedIn discussion in the Alarm Management group, Alarm Rationalisation Success...
OK, the folks in Emerson's Fisher valve division get pretty excited about control valves, but do you? Control valves, after all, have been around for a while: The concept of a control valve goes at least as far back as the bronze plug cocks used by the Romans in their...
Utilities Middle East magazine had a recent interview with Emerson's Jeff Householder. Jeff is based in Dubai and leads the Systems and Solutions efforts for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. This Q&A article explores Jeff views on the outlook for the power...
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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