With effective wireless technologies, workers are no longer confined to a control room. Instead, they can track critical data on hand-held devices and receive real-time alerts from equipment, allowing them to respond quickly, collaborate securely, and address any issues to decrease downtime.
Emerson's Craig Abbott provides some technical considerations for your IEC 62591 WirelessHART field device network. A frequently asked question about the WirelessHART 2.4GHz radio network is "How far can these devices transmit?" Depending on local units of...
Here's another guest post by me, Chris Womack. Custody transfer is today's topic—specifically, improving level and temperature measurement of crude oil for custody transfer, while minimizing cost and disturbances to current operations. Even more specifically, when...
Here's an idea from Emerson's Anand Iyer. Would a rental solution generate sufficient justification to experiment with those borderline cases?Back in 2008, working in maintenance group for a leading petrochemical giant in India, there was this discussion on how some...
Hi, it's Chris Womack again with another guest post about terminals. So, how do you quickly modify an acid terminal to dramatically reduce overfills—and their attendant clean-up costs, product losses, and environmental compliance headaches—to save a bit more than...
How do you connect a remote area with IEC 62591 WirelessHART field devices back to another area of your plant, mill, or field? Emerson's Neil Peterson shows how to do this in this 1:51 second video taken at the Cisco Connected Industries Booth at Cisco Live 2012. In...
In refineries and petrochemical plants, pipe racks are the "backbones" of the process units. It is also the place Emerson's Gary Hawkins, a senior refining consultant, recommends should be completely covered with an IEC 62591 wireless device communications...
If you have wireless field devices in your plant, you may be already familiar with the planning tool, AMS Wireless SNAP-ON application. It helps you plan your IEC 62591 WirelessHART network and compare the plan to best design practices. And once the network is online,...
Update: I received feedback that several portions of this post were incorrect and not current so after consulting with our team of experts, here’s a modified version of the post. Original post:Last week in a post, Wireless Device-Based Control Loops, we highlighted...
Since the WirelessHART standard was ratified in 2007 and approved as the global IEC 62591 standard in 2010, its use among process manufacturers has continued to grow. A release from last fall noted: IMS Research reports that worldwide shipments of industrial products...
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