The latest Control magazine included a supplement by Emerson's Rosemount team on ways to operate a plant closer to its full potential. One article, Boost Safety and Compliance While Testing New Limits, provides ways process manufacturers have deployed wireless...
Technologies
Lamenting Missed Ambient Pressure Transmitter Calibration Job Opportunities at the Mars Colony
Emerson's Anand Iyer brings his humor and perspectives to instrumentation and innovation in today's guest post. Elizabeth, a popular movie, depicted the dire straits of the British Empire sometime in the 15th century and how by commanding entrepreneurs to set sail...
Understanding and Handling Entrained Gas Flow Measurement
I was alerted to a nice series of videos on two-phase flow measurement, also known as liquid with entrained gas. These videos were developed by Emerson's Micro Motion team. In the first video (2:21), Two-Phase Flow (entrained gas) Applications, Emerson's Joel...
Sources, Causes, and Ways to Decrease Process Noise Levels
Those that work or have visited industrial processes know how loud they can be with the fluids flowing through the process. Emerson's Fisher Valves & Instruments team has a great piece, The Silent Treatment—Fisher Solutions to Noise Problems. It addresses common...
Roots of PLCs and DCSs
Many of us have been around process automation for decades. We also have new folks joining our ranks every day. It's for the new members of the global process automation community that I share a presentation given by Emerson's Gordon Lawther at the ChemInnovations...
Systematic Flowmeter Selection Process
One of the challenges automation engineers face is in the selection of the best flow measurement technology for their application. Multitudes of technologies exist, each with their advantages and disadvantages. Emerson's Brian Fretschel and Amy K. Johnson wrote an...
Process Automation Systems of the Future
Emerson's Anand Iyer continues his series on Cloud I/O with his vision for what the future might hold for process automation systems. Let us look at what effect the cloud IO concept would have on the distributed control system (DCS) as we know today:The IO cloud forms...
Bridging Color Sciences with Process Automation
I hate to date myself, but I remember the first color monitors coming into process automation operator workstations in the 1980s when I was a young systems engineer. Having a palette of colors was really nice when putting together displays for our operators on...
A Primer on Snapshot Processing and Some Controller Swaps
Emerson's Anand Iyer continues his series on Cloud I/O with a look at snapshot processing and controller swaps. Once upon a time, more than a decade ago, we faced a problem on a column, which seemed to open up our minds to a wonderful world of possibilities loosely...
Results Applying Real-Time Batch Analytics
For batch processes, comparing between batches to achieve a high degree of consistency has always been a challenge. In a Chemical Processing article, Batch Processing Gets a Boost, Emerson's Dawn Marruchella shares results from some beta sites where the real-time...
Complementary Wireless Communication Technologies
Ever wonder why we have multiple forms of wireless communications on our PCs, smart phone, and tablet devices? 3G, 4G, 802.11, Bluetooth® wireless technology all serve a purpose in the types of information that is conveyed wirelessly between devices. For example, a...
The 8 Most Important Cars in the World – Cloud IO
Emerson's Anand Iyer provides part three (part 1, part 2) of his Cloud I/O series sharing a primer on IO bubbles and central control units. Solving Traffic problems of Boston to Beijing using some intuitive processing. While visiting Stuttgart's Mercedes Benz museum,...
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