The refining industry has traditionally recognized the benefit of training simulators more than almost any other process industry. The industry as a whole has little tolerance for unscheduled downtime. Operator mistakes can be costly or even deadly. Most refineries...
The Life Sciences industry is quick to recognize and use key technologies that can reduce new plant capital project schedules or reduce variation and risk in the operation of the process. The industry has recognized the business benefits of simulation systems for...
At the upcoming June 10-12, 2009 Automatic Control Conference, Emerson's Greg McMillan and Terry Blevins will be presenting, Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry. Describing this session, Greg wrote on the ModelingAndControl.com blog: The first semester I...
Wow, what a fast and furious week... I'll close the week by highlighting a recent article by ModelingAndControl.com's Greg McMillan. He coauthors the article, Virtual Plant Provides Real Insights, which appears in the January 2009 edition of Chemical Processing...
I won't spoil the press release in the works about the donation of a DeltaV system to a major university for use by a consortium of universities, but I will share that Emerson's Terry Blevins was at the university last week. He was there to provide an introductory...
Interphex2008, the Pharmaceutical and Biotech manufacturing conference is going on this week in Philadelphia. Before Emerson's Terry Blevins and Mike Boudreau left, they passed along the presentation they are giving on Thursday, March 27. It's entitled, Application of...
In the upcoming March issue of BioProcess International magazine, there is a great article by Emerson's Greg McMillan and Michael Boudreau, Broadley-James' Trish Benton, and the University of Texas at Austin's Yang Zang. The article, PAT Tools for Accelerated Process...
In an earlier post about a Mynah Simulation Consultant joining the automation blogging community, I sent a note to Jason Covington who manages their forums and blog expressing my wish that these were RSS-enabled. This meant that I could receive updates as posts were...
The folks at Mynah Technologies with their Mimic simulation software, virtual I/O network gateways, PLC I/O interfaces and host of drivers for the DeltaV system continue to build conversations through their forums and experts blogs within the forum. Recently Dr....
Pharmaceutical Technology Europe has a recent article entitled, Artificial intelligence the key to process understanding. It discusses the opportunity to enhance the FDA's Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) initiative using artificial intelligence based tools like...
As much as this pains me to say it, people usually prefer from hearing from other people with experiences to share than from marketing folks. This a big reason for the growth and popularity of supplier user group meetings including our Emerson Exchange. A personal...
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