The next generation of discrete automation is here, and the future is even more exciting. At the Emerson Users Exchange Live 2021 Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Emerson’s Derek Thomas and Vibhoosh Gupta provided an overview of Emerson’s PACSystems™ controllers...
Technologies
A Glimpse into Future Control Systems
Let's end this week before Thanksgiving here in the U.S. with a vision, "…on how plant managers, operators, and engineers may digitally transform the way plants and teams operate.", with this 3-minute YouTube video, DeltaV Technology for Next-Generation Operations....
Advancing RFID-Based Productivity in Process Manufacturing
New technologies usually become more broadly adopted as multiple suppliers adopt the technology and provide interoperability. Standards efforts help to define common requirements into a specification for suppliers to follow in their technology development programs....
Better Decisions with Intelligent Mobile Access
The rise of smart phone and tablets has enabled businesses to completely rethink workflows and access to information. Within the world of manufacturing, this is even true for supervising and managing the process. In a Chemical Engineering article, Engineering...
Augmented Reality for Operators
Augmented reality—a day in the life of operations is the intriguing title of a 2018 Emerson Exchange conference presentation. Emerson's Aaron Crews, Mary Grace Francisco, and Mark Nixon joined University of Texas Center for Energy & Environmental Resources' Robert...
Future of Control Systems
The pace of technological change is dizzying. Even in our world of automation where there's a premium on proven, amazing changes have occurred over the past decade. In a Control Engineering Europe article, Looking into the future of control systems, Emerson's Bob...
Trends toward Remote Turbine Operations
At the 2018 Ovation Users' Group Conference, Emerson' Brett Benson discussed the challenge of operating multiple plants with reduced staff levels and how centralized control for single or multiple plant sites is a viable solution. The latest developments in...
Mobile Control System Operational Experience
One only has to do cursory "people-watching" to see how connected most all of us are to our mobile devices. Whether it's social feeds, news, messaging or other activities much of our attention goes there. This technology is transforming the way we interact, learn and...
The Innovation Tsunami’s Impact on the Energy Sector
Emerson Automation Solutions' CTO Peter Zornio joined a CERAWeek 2018 panel, How Will the Innovation Tsunami Change the Energy Sector? The panel, moderated by IHS Market's Paul Markwell, included leaders from Statoil, Amazon Web Services, Schlumberger, and MIT Energy....
5 Questions for DeltaV Product Marketing Manager Jessica Jordan
Emerson's Jessica Jordan joins our continuing podcast series on 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert. In these podcasts, we want to share the stories of the paths taken to a science, technology, engineering and/or math (STEM) education and career in the field of...
Advancing Combustion Control Efficiency
Controlling industrial combustion-based units such as boilers, heaters and furnace has historically relied on the use of fuel-to-air curves. These curves represent the amount of fuel and air required for a given load. In this 4:28 video, Patented Combustion Solution...
Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive
Electronic circuit boards have historically contained many metal and plastic substances toxic to us, such as lead-based solder. In the decade of the 2000s, the European Union developed the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS 1) Directive in order to...
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