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  • Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Reducing Personnel Emergency Response Times

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Connecting with Experts in the Spring Event Season , I highlighted one of Greg McMillan ’s presentations at the 2023 Spring AIChE & Congress on Process Safety meeting . Today I’ll recap a few things from Jacob Tardoni ’s presentation that he shared this week. Jacob’s presentation, Mapping an Evacuation in Real-Time—Digital Mustering with Wireless Personnel Location Technology, explored barriers to…

  • Operations Management Blog: Leaning into “Lean”

    Jim Cahill
    Any company’s success is often linked with its ability to adapt and change in response to market conditions and demands. For this reason, it is important to create a corporate culture that supports continuous improvement and innovation. The idea is to create an environment that encourages people to think freely so they can identify and solve problems while celebrating creativity and innovation. This strategy can benefit…

  • PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog: Leaning into “Lean”

    Chiara Ponzellini
    Any company’s success is often linked with its ability to adapt and change in response to market conditions and demands. For this reason, it is important to create a corporate culture that supports continuous improvement and innovation. The idea is t...

  • PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog: The Advantages of Digitalization in Clean-in-Place Systems

    Deidrea Niece
    Clean-in-place (CIP) systems are a vital part of daily production in the food and beverage industry. They allow manufacturers to clean internal piping, tanks, and machines from one batch to the next to meet government regulations and ensure product ...

  • PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog: Choosing the Right HMI is Critical in Food Processing

    Steve Ward
    In the food processing industry, users choose human machine interfaces (HMI) based on their potential to make operational performance improvements, which generally means the HMI needs to be easy to use. Ease of use supports increased operator efficie...

  • Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Two-Solenoid Safety Instrumented Functions

    Jim Cahill
    The practice of process safety has its own language, including concepts such as PFDavg, 1oo2 (one out of two), 2oo2, 2oo3, etc. A whitepaper, Doubling Up On Safety (signup required for download), explores a two-solenoid safety methodology that lets you exercise your solenoid valve online—protecting your plant, improving uptime, and enabling you to better adhere to functional safety requirements. The solenoid valves…

  • PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog: Edge Control Technology Eliminates Downtime During Critical Sugar Harvest

    Ajay Rana
    Like many other industries, food and beverage companies are often “rock and a hard place” enterprises. They need technology upgrades, but have such tight margins, every proposed change must be justified with precise ROI. One such company ...

  • Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Simplifying Safety Valve Installation and Maintenance

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson Portfolio Manager Kurtis Jensen and Product Manager Lura Parrent recently published an article in the Jan 2023 issue of Hydrocarbon Processing . It is titled “ Simplifying Safety Valve Installation and Maintenance ” and it discusses new technologies on how to simplify safety valve installations while improving performance and reliability. The article is summarized below. Hazardous materials and dangerous reactions…

  • PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog: Retaining Talent: Creating an Engaging Company Culture

    Deidrea Niece
    As companies worldwide struggle to maintain employee engagement and retain top talent, Deloitte reports that this is one of their biggest challenges. This is particularly true in the current climate where, in February 2022, over 4 million people chos...

  • PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog: Manage Energy for Processing, Discrete and Hybrid Plants – Simply and Cost-effectively

    Alan Harris
    As regulations get more stringent and profitability more elusive for plants and factories, all eyes turn to energy management. Not only is high quality, uninterrupted power critical to operations’ continuity and plant safety, there is also subs...

  • DeltaV Blog: Real-World Implications of Spectral PAT for Life Sciences

    Jim Cahill
    There is a growing buzz around spectral process analytical technology (PAT) for the life sciences industry. Spectral PAT sounds really fancy. What is it, and how can it affect my company’s mission to produce treatments and cures that improve the quality of life for our patients? Let’s start with the basics. The ultimate value proposition of every life sciences manufacturer is to produce goods that dramatically improve…

  • DeltaV Blog: Democratizing Data can be Intuitive and Cybersecure

    Jim Cahill
    The need to gather more and more data from plant systems for analytics seems to be growing exponentially, particularly as companies expand their digital transformation initiatives to improve efficiency and sustainability across their entire operations. In fact, Emerson’s boundless automation architecture is centered on this critical need for democratized data —anytime and anywhere. Whether on the plant floor or in the…

  • DeltaV Blog: Today’s Modernization Technologies Eliminate Rip-and-Replace

    Jim Cahill
    Modernization projects have become more important than ever as the benefits of updated control technologies such as better HMIs, advanced process control , better integration with asset management systems, improved alarm management , and more have all transitioned from “nice features” to best practices. But traditional modernizations were often expensive and required extensive downtime, two things that few plants can…

  • DeltaV Blog: Expert Advice for Securing Safety Systems

    Jim Cahill
    As more and more processing plant personnel begin to work remotely in the wake of cultural changes from the global pandemic and an acceleration in plants’ digital transformation initiatives, there is probably no topic more deserving of attention than cybersecurity . Fortunately, industry groups have recently increased focus on this critical topic, releasing guidelines and standards such as those from IEC 61511—the standard…

  • DeltaV Blog: Reduce the Complexity and Cost of Modernization

    Jim Cahill
    One of the most difficult challenges many of today’s process manufacturing plants face is modernization. Operations and maintenance teams know that they cannot drive the best possible performance and sustainability using technologies that are 20 or 30 years old; however, many feel locked into their legacy control technologies because transitioning is complex, time consuming, and expensive. Emerson’s Monil Malhotra recently…

  • DeltaV Blog: The Future of Automation is Boundless—and its Foundation is Software

    Jim Cahill
    As Emerson Exchange 2022 wrapped up, people were talking quite a bit about two new concepts they heard a lot about in their sessions: boundless automation and software-defined control. But as is the case with any announcement of a future vision, people were left with many questions. Fortunately, Emerson’s Claudio Fayad has been happy to answer those questions across an expansive series of expert articles and in many…

  • DeltaV Blog: Module Type Package Unlocks the Flexibility Driving Pharma Innovation

    Jim Cahill
    There can be little question that Industry 4.0 technologies are reshaping the way life sciences companies operate. In the wake of the rapid development of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic , more facilities than ever are being “born digital.” Some of these born-digital facilities are the result of new organizations with entirely digital strategies, and others are biopharmaceutical organizations that have been around…

  • PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog: Emerson at PACK EXPO 2022: The Future of Connected Manufacturing

    Deidrea Niece
    Last week, over 40,000 packaging and processing professionals descended on Chicago for PACK EXPO. As one of the largest trade shows in North America, it’s a prime opportunity to see the latest and greatest innovations in the industry. And this ...

  • DeltaV Blog: Data Defines the Future of Control

    Jim Cahill
    We hear so much today about digital transformation, but, as Emerson’s Claudio Fayad explains in his recent article in Processing magazine , digital transformation has been happening for far longer than we all imagine. In fact, “The modern distributed control system (DCS) has been digitally transforming operational technology (OT) for well over 20 years now.” What has this meant for operations teams? It has resulted…

  • DeltaV Blog: Expert Advice for Alarm Management

    Jim Cahill
    Many factors, both internal and external to a process, can contribute to alarms. Effective alarms are one of the most important elements of a safe plant. However, setting up an effective process alarm solution is a stumbling point for many teams. There are ways to create better alarm management, but they aren’t always intuitive. Fortunately, experts like Emerson’s Asad Malik and David Lee are ready to help, as they…

  • Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Expert Advice for Alarm Management

    Jim Cahill
    Many factors, both internal and external to a process, can contribute to alarms. Effective alarms are one of the most important elements of a safe plant. However, setting up an effective process alarm solution is a stumbling point for many teams. There are ways to create better alarm management, but they aren’t always intuitive. Fortunately, experts like Emerson’s Asad Malik and David Lee are ready to help, as they…

  • DeltaV Blog: Modular, Sustainable Power Generation Projects

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Sverre Smemo and Wärtsilä ’s Raymond Walsh presented Power Plant of the Future at last week’s 2022 Emerson Exchange conference. Wärtsilä & Emerson collaboration to achieve lowest risk and reduced cost to Smart Power Generation for a 100% sustainable future using Project Certainty. Constantly improve the process and allow for new technology to be easily implemented. Need long term life cycle solution to support…

  • DeltaV Blog: 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…

  • Ovation Blog: Mapping the Future of Industrial Software

    Jim Cahill
    Day one of the Emerson Exchange Users’ Conference featured Monil Malhotra , vice president of industrial software, sharing the roadmap for Emerson’s industrial software offerings. Monil explored the reasons and the path forward for Emerson’s initiative to bring standalone software under one umbrella—meeting user needs from end to end. Today’s process manufacturers are faced with a data tsunami. More devices can collect…

  • DeltaV Blog: Mapping the Future of Industrial Software

    Jim Cahill
    Day one of the Emerson Exchange Users’ Conference featured Monil Malhotra , vice president of industrial software, sharing the roadmap for Emerson’s industrial software offerings. Monil explored the reasons and the path forward for Emerson’s initiative to bring standalone software under one umbrella—meeting user needs from end to end. Today’s process manufacturers are faced with a data tsunami. More devices can collect…

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