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Emerson Automation Experts: Gaining Experience in the Refining and Petrochemical Industries

Jim Cahill

The work is ongoing along the Texas & Louisiana gulf coast to come back from the massive flooding from Hurricane Harvey. A MarketWatch article notes that more that 20% of the total U.S. refining capacity was shut down and only slowly now coming back online. And an RBN Energy post highlights the impact on the natural gas liquids (NGL) and petrochemical manufacturers in this region. As a key supplier to these industries…
- 8 Sep 2017
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: How to Motivate Management and Millennials (M&Ms)

Gregory K McMillan

The key to a much brighter future of our profession depends upon management providing the funding and support and millennials seeking to improve process performance by the use of the best automation and process control. There are some common approaches to these seemingly very different groups. Management is focused on the bottom line that may be as short term as quarterly results. If management has only business degrees…
- 15 Aug 2017
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: How to Motivate Management and Millennials (M&Ms)

Gregory K McMillan

The post, How to Motivate Management and Millennials (M&Ms) , originally appeared on ControlGlobal.com's Control Talk blog. The key to a much brighter future of our profession depends upon management providing the funding and support and millennials seeking to improve process performance by the use of the best automation and process control. There are some common approaches to these seemingly very different groups.…
- 14 Aug 2017
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: Webinar Recording: How to Use Key PID Controller Features

Gregory K McMillan

The post Webinar Recording: How to Use Key PID Controller Features first appeared on the ISA Interchange blog site. This educational ISA webinar on control valves was introduced by Greg McMillan and presented by Hector Torres , in conjunction with the ISA Mentor Program . Greg is an industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow…
- 14 Aug 2017
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: Webinar Recording: How to Use Key PID Features

Gregory K McMillan

The post Webinar Recording: How to Use Key PID Features first appeared on the ISA Interchange blog site. This educational ISA webinar on control valves was introduced by Greg McMillan and presented by Hector Torres , in conjunction with the ISA Mentor Program . Greg is an industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow from Solutia…
- 14 Aug 2017
Implement & Build Blog: Network Architecture Considerations in Ovation Control Systems

Jim Cahill

Emerson’s Craig McDaniel provided an overview on the Ovation control system network architecture at the 2017 Ovation Users Group conference. He provided a basic overview of Ovation’s network architecture showing standard configurations, connectivity, redundancy, IP addressing schemes, port assignments, network hardware, and connections to third party equipment will be provided in this session. He also discussed the traffic…
- 27 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: DeltaV Secure Passwords: The Do’s and Don’ts

Jim Cahill

Author: Rick Gorskie Generally, we (carbon-based lifeforms) are terrible when it comes to selecting a secure password for our computers or software programs. This comes from not being prepared for the inevitable password question when installing new...
- 21 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: DeltaV Secure Passwords: The Do’s and Don’ts

Jim Cahill

Update: The recently released U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Digital Identity Guidelines recommend longer passwords. It’s important for security professionals to keep abreast of modified recommendations due to advancements...
- 21 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: DeltaV Secure Passwords: The Do’s and Don’ts

Jim Cahill

Update: The recently released U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Digital Identity Guidelines recommend longer passwords. It’s important for security professionals to keep abreast of modified recommendations due to advancements...
- 21 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: DeltaV Secure Passwords: The Do’s and Don’ts

Jim Cahill

Update: The recently released U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Digital Identity Guidelines recommend longer passwords. It’s important for security professionals to keep abreast of modified recommendations due to advancements...
- 21 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: DeltaV Secure Passwords: The Do’s and Don’ts

Jim Cahill

Update: The recently released U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Digital Identity Guidelines recommend longer passwords. It’s important for security professionals to keep abreast of modified recommendations due to advancements...
- 21 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: Keeping Control Systems Current for Secure and Reliable Operation

Jim Cahill

As commercially available off-the-shelf operating systems and hardware came on the scene for control systems, they brought with them rapid performance improvements that translated into increase functionality and ease of use. They also brought with them...
- 20 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: Keeping Control Systems Current for Secure and Reliable Operation

Jim Cahill

As commercially available off-the-shelf operating systems and hardware came on the scene for control systems, they brought with them rapid performance improvements that translated into increase functionality and ease of use. They also brought with them...
- 20 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: Keeping Control Systems Current for Secure and Reliable Operation

Jim Cahill

As commercially available off-the-shelf operating systems and hardware came on the scene for control systems, they brought with them rapid performance improvements that translated into increase functionality and ease of use. They also brought with them...
- 20 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: Keeping Control Systems Current for Secure and Reliable Operation

Jim Cahill

As commercially available off-the-shelf operating systems and hardware came on the scene for control systems, they brought with them rapid performance improvements that translated into increase functionality and ease of use. They also brought with them...
- 20 Jul 2017
Improve & Modernize Blog: Keeping Control Systems Current for Secure and Reliable Operation

Jim Cahill

As commercially available off-the-shelf operating systems and hardware came on the scene for control systems, they brought with them rapid performance improvements that translated into increase functionality and ease of use. They also brought with them the need to provide ongoing software and hardware updates to remain secure, reliable and available. In a Maintenance Technology article, Focus on Automation System Updates…
- 20 Jul 2017
Improve & Modernize Blog: Keeping Control Systems Current for Secure and Reliable Operation

Jim Cahill

As commercially available off-the-shelf operating systems and hardware came on the scene for control systems, they brought with them rapid performance improvements that translated into increase functionality and ease of use. They also brought with them the need to provide ongoing software and hardware updates to remain secure, reliable and available. In a Maintenance Technology article, Focus on Automation System Updates…
- 20 Jul 2017
Operate & Maintain Blog: Keeping Control Systems Current for Secure and Reliable Operation

Jim Cahill

As commercially available off-the-shelf operating systems and hardware came on the scene for control systems, they brought with them rapid performance improvements that translated into increase functionality and ease of use. They also brought with th...
- 20 Jul 2017
Plan & Design Blog: 3D Immersive Dynamic Simulations

Jim Cahill

You may have seen the recent announcement that Google Glass is back as Google Glass Enterprise Edition (EE) designed for workplace environments like ours in the manufacturing space. This technology joins others well established technologies such as D...
- 19 Jul 2017
Plan & Design Blog: 3D Immersive Dynamic Simulations

Jim Cahill

You may have seen the recent announcement that Google Glass is back as Google Glass Enterprise Edition (EE) designed for workplace environments like ours in the manufacturing space. This technology joins others well established technologies such as D...
- 19 Jul 2017
Plan & Design Blog: 3D Immersive Dynamic Simulations

Jim Cahill

You may have seen the recent announcement that Google Glass is back as Google Glass Enterprise Edition (EE) designed for workplace environments like ours in the manufacturing space. This technology joins others well established technologies such as D...
- 19 Jul 2017
Plan & Design Blog: 3D Immersive Dynamic Simulations

Jim Cahill

You may have seen the recent announcement that Google Glass is back as Google Glass Enterprise Edition (EE) designed for workplace environments like ours in the manufacturing space. This technology joins others well established technologies such as D...
- 19 Jul 2017
Plan & Design Blog: 3D Immersive Dynamic Simulations

Jim Cahill

You may have seen the recent announcement that Google Glass is back as Google Glass Enterprise Edition (EE) designed for workplace environments like ours in the manufacturing space. This technology joins others well established technologies such as D...
- 19 Jul 2017
Plan & Design Blog: 3D Immersive Dynamic Simulations

Jim Cahill

You may have seen the recent announcement that Google Glass is back as Google Glass Enterprise Edition (EE) designed for workplace environments like ours in the manufacturing space. This technology joins others well established technologies such as D...
- 19 Jul 2017
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: Insights to Process and Loop Performance

Gregory K McMillan

Here we look at a myriad of metrics on process and control loop performance and show how to see through the complexity and diversity to recognize the commonality and underlying principles. We will see how dozens of metrics simplify to two classes each for the process and the loop. We also provide a concise view of how to compute and use these metrics and what affects them. Let’s start with process metrics because while…
- 7 Jul 2017