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Operate & Maintain Blog: Monitoring Control Valves with Remote Expertise

Jim Cahill

An ARC Advisory group study highlighted that “The global process industry loses $20 billion, or five percent of annual production, due to unscheduled downtime and poor quality. ARC estimates that almost 80 percent of these losses are preventabl...
- 2 Feb 2016
Operate & Maintain Blog: Monitoring Control Valves with Remote Expertise

Jim Cahill

An ARC Advisory group study highlighted that “The global process industry loses $20 billion, or five percent of annual production, due to unscheduled downtime and poor quality. ARC estimates that almost 80 percent of these losses are preventabl...
- 2 Feb 2016
Operate & Maintain Blog: Optimize Energy Consumption with Additional Monitoring

Jim Cahill

In a quick Emerson Exchange 365 Operate & Maintain group discussion post, Plant modernization for energy efficiency and loss control , Emerson’s Barbara Hamilton alerted the community to a nice article in Control Engineering Asia magazine. The...
- 1 Feb 2016
Operate & Maintain Blog: Optimize Energy Consumption with Additional Monitoring

Jim Cahill

In a quick Emerson Exchange 365 Operate & Maintain group discussion post, Plant modernization for energy efficiency and loss control , Emerson’s Barbara Hamilton alerted the community to a nice article in Control Engineering Asia magazine. ...
- 1 Feb 2016
Operate & Maintain Blog: Optimize Energy Consumption with Additional Monitoring

Jim Cahill

In a quick Emerson Exchange 365 Operate & Maintain group discussion post, Plant modernization for energy efficiency and loss control, Emerson’s Barbara Hamilton alerted the community to a nice article in Control Engineering Asia magazine. T...
- 1 Feb 2016
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: What Are the Equivalent Methods to Eliminate Proportional Step and Derivative Kick?

Gregory K McMillan

The post What Are the Equivalent Methods to Eliminate Proportional Step and Derivative Kick? first appeared on the ISA Interchange blog site. The following technical discussion is part of an occasional series showcasing the ISA Mentor Program , authored by Greg McMillan , industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow from Solutia Inc…
- 25 Jan 2016
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: Effect of Measurement Span on Loop Performance

Gregory K McMillan

The post, Effect of Measurement Span on Loop Performance first appeared on the ControlGlobal.com Control Talk blog. The advent of smart transmitters has reduced the effect of large measurement spans on accuracy but most measurement accuracies are still a function of per cent of span, albeit possibly detailed by more sophisticated equations than simply the error being a percent of span. Bigger considerations these days…
- 24 Jan 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification

Jim Cahill

Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the ‘Control Philosophy’. The first three in the series include Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification , Process Overview for Your User Requirement Specification and Scoping Your User Requirement Specification . The fifth and final part to be written…
- 22 Jan 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification

Jim Cahill

Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the ‘Control Philosophy’. The first three in the series include Considerations for...
- 22 Jan 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification

Jim Cahill

Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the ‘Control Philosophy’. The first three in the series include Considerations...
- 22 Jan 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification

Jim Cahill

Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the ‘Control Philosophy’. The first three in the series include Considerations fo...
- 22 Jan 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification

Jim Cahill

Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the ‘Control Philosophy’. The first three in the series include Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification , Process Overview for Your User Requirement Specification and Scoping Your User Requirement Specification . The fifth and final part to be written…
- 22 Jan 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification

Jim Cahill

Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the ‘Control Philosophy’. The first three in the series include Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification , Process Overview for Your User Requirement Specification and Scoping Your User Requirement Specification . The fifth and final part to be written…
- 22 Jan 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification

Jim Cahill

Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the ‘Control Philosophy’. The first three in the series include Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification , Process Overview for Your User Requirement Specification and Scoping Your User Requirement Specification . The fifth and final part to be written…
- 22 Jan 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Effective Control Philosophies for Your User Requirement Specification

Jim Cahill

Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the ‘Control Philosophy’. The first three in the series include Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification , Process Overview for Your User Requirement Specification and Scoping Your User Requirement Specification . The fifth and final part to be written…
- 22 Jan 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Developing High-Level Operator Skills Prior to Startup

Jim Cahill

For those that follow the various forms of auto racing, you know that the skills of the drivers typically separate overall race results, even when the racecars are nearly identical in performance. And so it is with experienced, high-level operators in process manufacturing and production facilities. Emerson’s Ronnie Bains shared a recent eptq article, Operator training simulator accelerates learning , with me. The…
- 20 Jan 2016
Improve & Modernize Blog: SureService is a Sure Bet to Improve Your Control System

Jim Cahill

Author: Jocelyn Sexton SureService is an old name with a new meaning at Emerson. SureService now refers to a new offering from Emerson’s Lifecycle Services for DeltaV systems . It includes four tiers of packaged services that make it easier to fill the gaps between where you are now, and where you want to be in the future in terms of more efficiently managing and maintaining your system. In this quick 2:36…
- 5 Jan 2016
Operate & Maintain Blog: SureService is a Sure Bet to Improve Your Control System

Jim Cahill

Author: Jocelyn Sexton SureService is an old name with a new meaning at Emerson. SureService now refers to a new offering from Emerson’s Lifecycle Services for DeltaV systems . It includes four tiers of packaged services that make it easier to fill...
- 5 Jan 2016
Operate & Maintain Blog: SureService is a Sure Bet to Improve Your Control System

Jim Cahill

Author: Jocelyn Sexton SureService is an old name with a new meaning at Emerson. SureService now refers to a new offering from Emerson’s Lifecycle Services for DeltaV systems . It includes four tiers of packaged services that make it easier t...
- 5 Jan 2016
Operate & Maintain Blog: SureService is a Sure Bet to Improve Your Control System

Jim Cahill

Author: Jocelyn Sexton SureService is an old name with a new meaning at Emerson. SureService now refers to a new offering from Emerson’s Lifecycle Services for DeltaV systems. It includes four tiers of packaged services that make it easier to f...
- 5 Jan 2016
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: What Is the Definition of PID Bumpless Transfer?

Gregory K McMillan

The post What Is the Definition of PID Bumpless Transfer? first appeared on the ISA Interchange blog site. The following technical discussion is part of an occasional series showcasing the ISA Mentor Program , authored by Greg McMillan , industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow from Solutia Inc (now Eastman Chemicals). Greg will…
- 28 Dec 2015
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: Hidden Factor in Our Most Important Control Loops

Gregory K McMillan

Composition, pH and temperature loops that largely determine product quality have a hidden factor that affects the loop linearity and particularly the ability to perform well at low production rates. Here we detail the factor, the consequences and the solutions for continuous unit operations and fed-batch reactions. More...
- 13 Dec 2015
Implement & Build Blog: Develop, Test and Train for Lower Risk Projects

Jim Cahill

One way to improve the probability for a successful process automation project is to include dynamic simulation during the design phases to help with configuring the control system, testing before commissioning the system and training the operators before the process goes live. In an earlier post, Building Competency through Operator Training Systems , we highlighted the application of operator training simulators…
- 9 Dec 2015
Operate & Maintain Blog: Secure Out of the Box Myth-Part 2

Jim Cahill

In Secure Out of the Box Myth-Part 1 we highlighted some of the challenges and misconceptions around effective cybersecurity efforts. We’ll recap some of the additional key points from Emerson’s Neil Peterson ‘s presentation at the AFPM (American...
- 2 Dec 2015
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: How Do You Measure Control System Performance?

Gregory K McMillan

The post How Do You Measure Control System Performance? first appeared on the ISA Interchange blog site. The following technical discussion is part of an occasional series showcasing the ISA Mentor Program , authored by Greg McMillan , industry consultant, author of numerous process control books, 2010 ISA Life Achievement Award recipient and retired Senior Fellow from Solutia Inc (now Eastman Chemicals). Greg will…
- 2 Dec 2015