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  • DeltaV Blog: Delivering Benefits for Emerging Pharma Manufacturers

    Jim Cahill
    For emerging pharma manufacturers facing urgent imperatives to bring products to market quickly with limited resources and constrained funding, the Digital Batch Record solution, with the Recipe Importer Tool, solves real problems in practical, affordable, and immediately implementable ways.

  • Ovation Blog: The Shift Reshaping Power Generation and Grid Operations

    Jim Cahill
    In his recent article in Power magazine, Emerson’s Mike Ames shared that the power industry, historically, hasn’t typically been a source of sweeping changes. However, recent events have changed that trend: “As the steady state behavior in power grid’s generation, transmission and distribution begins to change more rapidly, the next few years are shaping up […]

  • DeltaV Blog: Batch Disposition Vision and Practical Framework

    Jim Cahill
    In a recently released BioPhorum paper, BATCH DISPOSITION: A shared vision and practical framework for digitized transformation, Emerson’s Michalle Adkins and Debbie Bouwens joined with other experts in the Life Sciences industry to author this work.

  • DeltaV Blog: Charting the Path to Zero Trust in OT Environments

    Jim Cahill
    It is becoming increasingly clear that no organization is safe from cybersecurity risk. Operational technology (OT) assets are increasingly proving to be appealing targets for malicious entities, evidenced by many high-profile attacks in recent years. Further complicating this scenario, Emerson’s Alexandre Peixoto explains in his recent article in Smart Industry, is the fact that as […]

  • Ovation Blog: Harness Existing Wind Assets with Smarter Software

    Jim Cahill
    Wind power is an incredibly efficient, clean source of energy—and it’s one that has been in use for a very long time. As a result, nearly everywhere around the globe it is possible to see wide open spaces dotted with wind turbines providing electricity to the grid. As more and more power generation companies around […]

  • Ovation Blog: Advancing Hydro Operations Through Next-Generation Automation

    Jim Cahill
    For as little attention as it gets, hydro generation is a surprisingly important part of global power infrastructure. Many of the most critical sites around the world have been in operation for decades, reliably generating energy and supplying water management for communities. In his recent article in Power magazine, Emerson’s Matthew Roberts explores the modern […]

  • DeltaV Blog: Driving Biotech Manufacturing Performance with Digital Twins

    Jim Cahill
    A Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News article, Beyond Process Development: AI Reshaping Use of Digital Twins, highlights the evolving use of digital twin technology in the Life Sciences industry.

  • DeltaV Blog: Bringing Born-Digital Speed to Every Life Sciences Workflow

    Jim Cahill
    In the last few years, life sciences innovation has jumped by leaps and bounds. Many of the emerging autologous, patient-specific therapies being released are accomplishing things the general public never thought would be possible. These autologous treatments are highly technology dependent. They require flexible manufacturing and push as close to real-time release as possible. But, […]

  • Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Streamlining Overfill Proof-Testing

    Jim Cahill
    This two-and-a-half-minute YouTube video, Save Costs and Simplify Proof Testing with the Rosemount 2140 Level Detector, describes how the Rosemount 2140 level detector's vibrating fork, with smart diagnostics and fully integrated remote proof-testing, streamlines the process. The post Streamlining Overfill Proof-Testing appeared first on the Emerson Automation Experts blog.

  • DeltaV Blog: SCADA That Adapts as Fast as Your Operations

    Jim Cahill
    Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software has long been a staple in process manufacturing to help companies control and monitor equipment as well as manage alarms, reports, and process adjustments. Through most of those years, the assumption has been that the implementation of a SCADA system meant assigning additional resources to install, configure, secure, […]

  • DeltaV Blog: Unlocking the Full Lifecycle Value of Digital Twin Simulation

    Jim Cahill
    The most obvious value from a digital twin comes in the project phase. Project teams often use digital twin simulation software to dramatically reduce the design and testing phases for new control solutions. Then, when the design and testing are done, forward-thinking teams typically leverage that same digital twin to train operators, helping them practice […]

  • DeltaV Blog: Preparing Pharma Operations for an Autonomous Future

    Jim Cahill
    Continuous manufacturing was a game-changer for the ability to deliver life-improving and life-saving biopharmaceutical treatments to patients as quickly as possible. Automation made it possible to make manufacturing significantly more efficient, helping teams to coordinate a full value chain to drive peak efficiency. Now, that increased speed to market has created a new normal. Expectations […]

  • Ovation Blog: Addressing AI-Driven Power Generation Demand Surge

    Jim Cahill
    In a POWER Magazine article and podcast, Emerson Addresses Power Industry’s AI-Driven Demand Surge, Emerson’s Seth Harris joins Executive Editor Aaron Larson to discuss these challenges and the role of automation and AI-enabled technologies to help address these challenges.

  • DeltaV Blog: Simplify, Scale, Succeed with Software-Defined Control

    Jim Cahill
    Control technologies have changed greatly over the years. Many of today’s modern industrial controllers would be almost unrecognizable when set side-by-side with controllers from decades ago. A key contributor to this shift has been digitalization. Digital technologies changed the game in how we control and manage automation systems. As digitalization has increased in automation technology, […]

  • DeltaV Blog: The Next Generation of Life Sciences Automation Begins Today

    Jim Cahill
    As technology progresses, it opens up new opportunities for streamlining processes to drive increased reliability and operational excellence. This trend is as true in the life sciences as it is in any other process manufacturing industry. In fact, it might be more relevant, as more and more life sciences manufacturers are rolling out born-digital facilities, […]

  • DeltaV Blog: Software-Defined Control for Enhanced Productivity

    Jim Cahill
    In this 4-minute YouTube video, How it Works: DeltaV IQ Controller, Emerson’s Brandon Hieb describes how the IQ Controller augments highly engineered, built-for-purpose industrial controllers, bringing greater flexibility, scalability, and efficiency to modern control systems.

  • DeltaV Blog: When Waiting for Rules Risks Everything

    Jim Cahill
    We all know cybersecurity is critical to safe and successful operation of our businesses. Moreover, most of us know that we could be doing more when it comes to cybersecurity. After all, we see new cyberattacks in the news almost every day, sometimes happening to companies we recognize, other times to organizations with names that […]

  • DeltaV Blog: Addressing Pressing Challenges in Life Sciences

    Jim Cahill
    Eliminating silos of data into a comprehensive industrial data fabric enables reshaping the data landscape to provide aggregated, contextualized data for digital transformation initiatives for pharmaceutical & biotech manufacturers.

  • Ovation Blog: Successfully Planning and Executing Power Projects

    Jim Cahill
    Combined cycle plants will play a crucial role in this growth in electricity production. Emerson’s Ovation distributed control system automates 18 of the 20 largest combined cycle plants here in the U.S. Ovation Green automates many other forms of non-hydrocarbon energy sources, including nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, battery, and green hydrogen.

  • DeltaV Blog: Award-Winning DeltaV Real-Time Scheduling Software Podcast

    Jim Cahill
    David Zhang joins podcast host Jim Cahill to discuss digitalization efforts among pharmaceutical & biotech manufacturers, and the important role that real-time scheduling plays in bringing these therapies to market in a timely manner.

  • DeltaV Blog: How OEMs Outshine Customer Expectations

    Jim Cahill
    DeltaV SaaS SCADA isn’t just about getting data and analytics. It’s about redefining what it means to be an OEM in today’s industrial world with a trusted partner who’s there to seamlessly help you every moment of every day.

  • Ovation Blog: The Sun Rises on New Cybersecurity Demands

    Jim Cahill
    Solar generation has been around for a very long time. However, until recently, it always made up a very small percentage of global power generation. As a result, solar generation was never really considered critical infrastructure. Today, however, that dynamic is changing, and as Emily Affare explores in her recent article in North American Clean […]

  • Ovation Blog: Electric Actuator Smart Field Device Connectivity

    Jim Cahill
    At the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference, Emerson’s Tom Mullins and Andy Le presented Smart Field Device Connectivity – Electric Actuation.

  • Ovation Blog: From Cloud to Control Layer: Making GenAI Work for Power

    Jim Cahill
    Look around and you’ll very quickly discover just how rapidly the world is changing. Electric vehicles—including those used for mass transportation—seem to be around every corner. People communicate and entertain themselves using a wide array of electronic mobile devices. Data centers are popping up around the globe to power AI engines that are reshaping our […]

  • Ovation Blog: Powerful Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Power Plant Efficiency and Reliability

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Nikolaos Pratikakis and Michael Painter presented Modernizing Power Plant Control with Aspen DMC3: AI-Enhanced MPC for Efficiency and Reliability at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference.

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