Robert Ferris continues his nanotechnology series with a look at communicating the benefits. Introduction to Marketing of Nanotechnology. While nanotechnology-enabled products can deliver value, many products fail to succeed in the market. A lot of times, these...
The growing impact of smart phones and tablet technology continue to impact our everyday lives, including our world of process automation. I heard from some friends on Emerson's Machinery Health Management team of a new mobile site, the CSI 2140 Mobile Procedure. It...
It's hard not to find news on nanotechnology and its impact on products we use every day. Emerson's Robert Ferris, Ph.D., will share a series of posts in the coming month that will provide a balanced review of what nanotechnology means to you and your business'...
We'll close the week highlighting a video by Emerson's Tom Moser, President of the Rosemount Measurement business unit. He is interviewed by GREATER MSP (Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership) about a new facility for the expanding Emerson...
I had a chance to catch up with Emerson's Kei Cheung at the recent Emerson Exchange conference. She showed me a demonstration of a Rosemount 8800 Severe Service Vortex Sensor. This technology recently won Flow Control magazine's Flow Control Innovation Award. About...
During the recent Emerson Exchange conference, the live blog posts were flowing fast and furiously here on the blog. One of the posts highlighted Emerson's Michelle Weimert's session, Combine your knowledge on Temperature Measurement with the experts and the new...
Many plants perform route-based, machinery condition monitoring with portable vibration analyzers. The most common vibration sensor used is a single-axis accelerometer mounted to a 2-pole magnet, which can easily attach to a variety of surfaces including curved ones....
Emerson's Anand Iyer applies process safety thinking to automobiles. Statistics put highway accidents as the largest human killer. More people die in automobile accidents than in the wars of the modern world, nuclear power plants or process plants. We have put in a...
A ControlGlobal article, Industrial Networks: The Ethernet vs. Fieldbus Cage Match, spawned a discussion in the PROFIBUS and PROFINET LinkedIn group. I wanted to share Emerson's Jonas Berge's posts on this topic: Wait! Are we talking about "H1 fieldbus" or "H2...
You may have seen the news of a next generation of portable vibration analyzer, the CSI 2140 Machinery Health Analyzer. Portable vibration analyzers are great for providing advance warning of machinery failures as part of a predictive maintenance program. The CSI 2140...
A small piece of humor from Emerson's Anand Iyer. Morning Fox News has some accident on some freeway. A few days ago, an overturned ethanol truck had given us a 1-hour drive (30 mins more than normal) to office. I see traffic news every morning, because my older car...
Control valves are the workhorses of process automation. They touch the process and execute the control strategy coming from the automation system. Any valve seat leakage can impact the level of control and lead to safety issues, unplanned downtime, quality issues,...
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