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Using Wireless Throttling Valves in Column Control

Jim Cahill

Emerson's Kurtis Jensen and Terry Blevins teamed up with the University of Texas at Austin's Stephen Briggs to control a column with wireless valves. Their abstract: The control performance that may be achieved using wireless throttling valves has been evaluated through tests conducted at the UT Pickle Research Center on an 6" distillation column. The test results indicate that the control achieved using a wireless…
- 8 Oct 2014
Proactive Maintenance and Award-Winning Performance

Jim Cahill

You may have seen the news of the 2013 HART Plant of the Year noting: HART technology has helped reduce production downtime related to control valve failures… We use the HART signal to monitor real time valve conditions which has helped with identifying problems before they could cause unplanned events. This reliability effort combined with several improvement initiatives has yielded significant financial savings…
- 18 Jul 2014
Safety Valve Positioners and Common Cause Failure Questions

Jim Cahill

If you work with pumps in your facility, you may be familiar with the Empowering Pumps site, a wealth of information to help you with these important assets in your plant. Founder Charli K. Matthews has launched something similar for valves, Empowering Valves . I had the opportunity to contribute a guest post, Common Cause Failures in Safety Valve Positioners? It was based on a question I recently received. The question…
- 27 Feb 2014
Safety Valve Positioners and Common Cause Failure Questions

Jim Cahill

If you work with pumps in your facility, you may be familiar with the Empowering Pumps site, a wealth of information to help you with these important assets in your plant. Founder Charli K. Matthews has launched something similar for valves, Empowering Valves . I had the opportunity to contribute a guest post, Common Cause Failures in Safety Valve Positioners? It was based on a question I recently received. The question…
- 27 Feb 2014
Providing Operators Process Control Valve Position Feedback

Jim Cahill

Control systems provide signals to control valves to regulate their position per the requirements of the control strategy. It is good engineering practice, especially for critical control valves to have valve travel feedback from independent devices such as position transmitters, limit switches, or positioner output feedback. Emerson’s Riyaz Ali , whom you may recall from earlier posts , shared ways this position information…
- 10 Jan 2014
Field Device Local Display in Process Safety Applications

Jim Cahill

One of the great things about conferences such as last week’s Emerson Exchange Americas conference is reconnecting face-to-face with people where some time has passed. I had the chance to connect with Emerson’s Riyaz Ali , whose expertise I’ve highlighted in several digital valve controller and safety-related posts . He shared a story where he was recently asked about having local valve diagnostics access in the production…
- 9 Oct 2013
Recognition of Effective Predictive Maintenance Program

Jim Cahill

Control Engineering magazine has a great article and 8-minute video, A Straightforward Maintenance Strategy Yields Improved Plant Performance , featuring Monsanto Muscatine’s use of technology to move from reactive to predictive maintenance to improve output and reduce costs. Their use of smart field devices and control valve positioners provided important diagnostic data to the reliability engineers. This use and…
- 26 Jun 2013
FIELDVUE presentations at the 2012 Emerson Exchange in Anaheim

Kyley Leger

The FIELDVUE team will be well representated at the Emerson Exchange this year! Below is the schedule and the presentations we will be providing: • “Gathering and Interpreting Diagnostic Data from Control Valves” Tuesday, October 9 at 8 AM Wednesday, October 10 at 2:15 PM Presenters are Steve Hagen and Ron Hager •”FIELDVUE Product Update” Tuesday, October 9 at 3 PM Wednesday, October 10 at 9 AM Presenter is Lorin…
- 21 Sep 2012
FIELDVUE Performance Diagnostics [Video]

Kyley Leger

Are you accurately monitoring your valves? Did you know that FIELDVUE Performance Diagnostics can solve problems before they occur? Whether you’re using a DVC2000, DVC5000, DVC6000, or DVC62000 Series digital valve controller, FIELDVUE products can predict problems before they happen. Watch the FIELDVUE DVC6000 digital valve controller video for more information. http://youtu.be/ny4BcXvSNTo
- 12 Mar 2012
Mount a FIELDVUE DVC6200 on a quarter-turn valve

Kyley Leger

Watch this how to video on mounting a FIELDVUE DVC6200 digital valve controller on a quarter-turn valve. http://youtu.be/0YZuwZi9eJo If you've done this before, please leave a comment below.
- 7 Oct 2011
Mount a FIELDVUE DVC6200 to a Fisher GX valve

Kyley Leger

Watch this how to video and see how easy it is to mount a FIELDVUE DVC6200 digital valve controller to a Fisher GX valve. http://youtu.be/s8QemOqurf4 If you've had the opportunity to try this, please let us know in the comments section.
- 7 Oct 2011
Mount a FIELDVUE DVC6200 digital valve controller to a sliding stem valve

Kyley Leger

Mounting a FIELDVUE DVC6200 digital valve controller to a Fisher sliding stem valve is simple. Watch our how to video to see how it's done. http://youtu.be/SBr99gejyII If you've mounted a FIELDVUE DVC6200 digital valve controller, use the comments section to tell us how it went.
- 4 Oct 2011