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...
Technologies
My Non-007 Car
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...
Listening for Leaky Valve Seats
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,...
Tarkarli Beach, Nivti Golden Rocks, Dolphins and Intuitive Processing
How does a beach vacation viewing dolphins along the coast of India tie back to process control? Emerson's Anand Iyer explains in today's guest post. There is a town called Malvan in Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. This place is very popular amongst tourists for...
Coriolis Meter and Meter Verification Educational Video
Coriolis mass flow and density measurement is used in a multitude of applications such as custody transfer, dirty/wet gas, cryogenic, critical phase fluids, sanitary, corrosive liquids, and more. Emerson's Micro Motion team has put together and excellent 4:10...
Cloud IO-So What will Change?
Emerson's Anand Iyer concludes his Cloud I/O series today with a summation of what the technology may bring to process manufacturers. The more we change things, the more they seem same. Nevertheless, most changes inch us forward into new developments and new futures....
Technology and Innovation Attract Next-Gen Mining Workers
Emerson's Juan Carlos Bravo of the metals and mining industry team describe what the industry is doing to attract the next generation of professionals. I attended the annual conference of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) in Denver, Colorado...
Integrating Asset Management Fields to IO Bubbles
Emerson's Anand Iyer continues his series on Cloud I/O with a look from an asset management perspective. We have already perceived some interaction with asset management systems.The availability of communication paths and higher bandwidth in select paths will enable...
Multicasting, Multihoming, IO Bubbles
Emerson's Anand Iyer continues his series on the I/O cloud expanding on the I/O bubbles concept. For the last few decades, we have been focusing on the concept of redundancy specifically at the CPU and card levels. A few critical field devices are redundant in a few...
The Growing Need for Services in Mining
Emerson's Douglas Morris of the alternative energy and metals & mining team notes the growing role technology and services play in making mining operations more efficient. There aren't many days that pass without an article that addresses the ever-changing global...
A Primer on Intuitive Control
We continue our series on Cloud I/O from Emerson's Anand Iyer. Today's post is a primer on intuitive control. When we have an I/O cloud or bubbles of IO information with very less binding of the IO and a more free choice (within certain boundaries), there is an...
Improving Refinery Operations through Technology
For producers of commodity products, profitability primarily comes from operational excellence—that is optimizing costs to run the process as efficiently as possible. In the U.K-based PTQ article, Refinery operations gain from advances in digital automation, Emerson's...
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