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  • Driving Reliability Improvements

    Jim Cahill
    A more reliable manufacturing or production facility is a more sustainable facility. Many non-optimum outcomes, such as flaring, reprocessing, waste, and other non-optimum results, can be avoided. When Emerson and Aspen Technology came together to form a global technology and software team, this enabled complementary technologies and solutions to be applied to enterprise-level reliability. AspenTech and Emerson can…

  • Debunking Condition Monitoring Misconceptions

    Jim Cahill
    The personnel landscape of processing plants has changed. Yesterday’s deep bench of experienced personnel has given way to leaner, more nimble groups supporting a wide variety of disparate technologies, often across an entire fleet. But while these teams are often smaller, they are also made up of digital natives—highly technical engineers who are used to constant access to critical information. The best plants are…

  • Debunking Condition Monitoring Misconceptions

    Jim Cahill
    The personnel landscape of processing plants has changed. Yesterday’s deep bench of experienced personnel has given way to leaner, more nimble groups supporting a wide variety of disparate technologies, often across an entire fleet. But while these teams are often smaller, they are also made up of digital natives—highly technical engineers who are used to constant access to critical information. The best plants are…

  • Political Dilemma in the Plant

    Jim Cahill
    Anchovy Rice, Banana Flower Salad, and the Instrument Technician You would think that for an industry as technical and geeky as Process Instrumentation and Condition-Based Monitoring, workplace politics would not be nonexistent right? Well, you would be wrong. In my age of innocence as a younger marketing guy, I learned some interesting lessons in a refinery that is not too far away. I knew we had the best solution…

  • Political Dilemma in the Plant

    Jim Cahill
    Anchovy Rice, Banana Flower Salad, and the Instrument Technician You would think that for an industry as technical and geeky as Process Instrumentation and Condition-Based Monitoring, workplace politics would not be nonexistent right? Well, you would be wrong. In my age of innocence as a younger marketing guy, I learned some interesting lessons in a refinery that is not too far away. I knew we had the best solution…

  • Guardian Digital Experience is an Evolution in Support

    Jim Cahill
    The Emerson Exchange Users’ Conference is all about Emerson users, and perhaps no session better exemplified that sentiment than the Transformation of Guardian presentation on day three. Nina Golder , vice president of Emerson’s Lifecycle Services, shared with the audience that user feedback, requests, and experiences are all behind Guardian’s current evolution from a service portal to a comprehensive digital experience…

  • Guardian Digital Experience is an Evolution in Support

    Jim Cahill
    The Emerson Exchange Users’ Conference is all about Emerson users, and perhaps no session better exemplified that sentiment than the Transformation of Guardian presentation on day three. Nina Golder , vice president of Emerson’s Lifecycle Services, shared with the audience that user feedback, requests, and experiences are all behind Guardian’s current evolution from a service portal to a comprehensive digital experience…

  • Software Simplifies Technology Transfer

    Jim Cahill
    The life sciences marketplace is changing faster than nearly any other industry. Gone are the days when companies focus on a single treatment to drive their entire business. Today’s life sciences manufacturers are challenged to bring new treatments to the marketplace as quickly as possible—a trend that was magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic . As a result, innovation is key today. And innovation requires technologies…

  • Software Simplifies Technology Transfer

    Jim Cahill
    The life sciences marketplace is changing faster than nearly any other industry. Gone are the days when companies focus on a single treatment to drive their entire business. Today’s life sciences manufacturers are challenged to bring new treatments to the marketplace as quickly as possible—a trend that was magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic . As a result, innovation is key today. And innovation requires technologies…

  • Streamlining Proof Testing Procedures

    Jim Cahill
    Click to enlarge Safety instrumented systems (SISs) require periodic proof testing of all of their safety instrumented functions (safety loops) which include the sensor, logic solver, and final element. An out-of-the-box proof testing solution from Emerson, ProofCheck , is available to provide all the aspects of proper SIS testing in a single solution, including field devices, wiring, signal conditioners, safety logic…

  • Streamlining Proof Testing Procedures

    Jim Cahill
    Click to enlarge Safety instrumented systems (SISs) require periodic proof testing of all of their safety instrumented functions (safety loops) which include the sensor, logic solver, and final element. An out-of-the-box proof testing solution from Emerson, ProofCheck , is available to provide all the aspects of proper SIS testing in a single solution, including field devices, wiring, signal conditioners, safety logic…

  • Four Best Practices for Condition Monitoring

    Jim Cahill
    It is easier than ever to store massive amounts of data. The cost of wireless sensing technologies has dropped dramatically, making it much easier to instrument every asset in the plant and ensure that no performance aberration goes unnoticed. However, bringing in all this data carries with it the risk of information floods. If data is collected and stored without a plan, it can easily become overwhelming. To help organizations…

  • Four Best Practices for Condition Monitoring

    Jim Cahill
    It is easier than ever to store massive amounts of data. The cost of wireless sensing technologies has dropped dramatically, making it much easier to instrument every asset in the plant and ensure that no performance aberration goes unnoticed. However, bringing in all this data carries with it the risk of information floods. If data is collected and stored without a plan, it can easily become overwhelming. To help organizations…

  • Driving Operational Performance and Workforce Efficiency Improvements

    Jim Cahill
    Let’s take a quick look at how to boost business performance with enterprise-level software that fully integrates operational technology (OT) data, optimizes operational health and performance, and fosters a more informed and productive workforce. This quick 2:19 YouTube video, Plantweb Optics: Driving Operational Performance and Workforce Efficiency to New Levels , provides an overview of how this application help enable…

  • Innovation Days Showcase Software Solutions to Drive Operational Gains

    Jim Cahill
    Process and manufacturing organisations are increasingly harnessing advanced industrial software technologies to drive their journey to digital transformation and help them achieve their business and sustainability targets. With our extensive portfolio of innovative software solutions and renowned expertise, Emerson is the ideal partner to help companies implement data management and control architectures that provide…

  • Innovation Days Showcase Software Solutions to Drive Operational Gains

    Jim Cahill
    Process and manufacturing organisations are increasingly harnessing advanced industrial software technologies to drive their journey to digital transformation and help them achieve their business and sustainability targets. With our extensive portfolio of innovative software solutions and renowned expertise, Emerson is the ideal partner to help companies implement data management and control architectures that provide…

  • Three Strategies to Drive Improved Reliability

    Jim Cahill
    For high-output industries like Food & Beverage, production downtime stemming from equipment failure can be especially costly. Operations producing soft drinks, juices or beer, for instance, may replace maintenance rounds with sensors and automated data collection for more reliable results, or apply monitoring to its critical climate control equipment like cooling towers or ammonia compressors. A rapid decrease in the…

  • Three Strategies to Drive Improved Reliability

    Jim Cahill
    A rapid decrease in the cost of sensing equipment has driven many reliability teams to implement even more automated condition monitoring across their facilities. A wide variety of new technologies are both easy to implement and full of robust features to increase visibility of asset health. There are many ways to plan and implement a condition monitoring program, but across all those options there are a few core strategies…

  • Get Expert Operating Analysis with Remote Valve Condition Monitoring

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Lifecycle Services Business Development Manager John Carlow recently published an article in the March/April 2022 edition of Process Instrumentation. The article is titled Get Expert Operating Analysis with Remote Valve Condition Monitoring . It describes how plants can unleash the power of their installed equipment to avoid unplanned outages by utilizing remote monitoring services. A summary of the article…

  • Get Expert Operating Analysis with Remote Valve Condition Monitoring

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Lifecycle Services Business Development Manager John Carlow recently published an article in the March/April 2022 edition of Process Instrumentation. The article is titled Get Expert Operating Analysis with Remote Valve Condition Monitoring . It describes how plants can unleash the power of their installed equipment to avoid unplanned outages by utilizing remote monitoring services. A summary of the article…

  • Plantweb Optics New Release Podcast

    Jim Cahill
    The Plantweb Optics platform continues to advance in the mission to securely and efficiently connect and collect global operational technology (OT) data from manufacturing and process control applications & systems, and from IT systems to contextualize and transform this data into actionable information for decision-makers made available on any device, anytime, at any location. I recently had the opportunity to sit…

  • Plantweb Optics New Release Podcast

    Jim Cahill
    The Plantweb Optics platform continues to advance in the mission to securely and efficiently connect and collect global operational technology (OT) data from manufacturing and process control applications & systems, and from IT systems to contextualize and transform this data into actionable information for decision-makers made available on any device, anytime, at any location. I recently had the opportunity to sit…

  • Make the most of your reliability workforce

    Jim Cahill
    Today’s plants frequently have limited personnel but still need to find ways to do more work and meet increasing goals and quotas. This dichotomy frequently causes a problem when it comes to asset monitoring, which is traditionally performed by technicians manually inspecting equipment with handheld devices on a regular schedule. In the current environment, plants are faced with a dilemma: do they reduce the manual rounds…

  • Make the most of your reliability workforce

    Jim Cahill
    Today’s plants frequently have limited personnel but still need to find ways to do more work and meet increasing goals and quotas. This dichotomy frequently causes a problem when it comes to asset monitoring, which is traditionally performed by technicians manually inspecting equipment with handheld devices on a regular schedule. In the current environment, plants are faced with a dilemma: do they reduce the manual rounds…

  • Improving Mining Shovel Performance

    Jim Cahill
    In mining operations, mining shovels do the heavy lifting in digging and extracting ore in surface mining operations. They are used in coal, copper, gold and other ore mining operations. In an Engineering and Mining Journal Article, Shovel Service Suppliers Help Cut Costs, CO2 , Emerson’s Tom Francisco joins other mining experts to describe ways to extend the life and improve maintenance practices on these critical…

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