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  • Emerson Automation Experts: Emerson Education Services Overview Podcast

    Jim Cahill
    Technology advances at a breathtaking pace. This advancement includes our world of automation and instrumentation. To take full advantage of the capabilities introduced by these technologies, upskilling personnel is paramount. In this Emerson Automation Experts podcast, Adelina Decean joins me to discuss the importance of this workforce development and the benefits it can deliver in improving operational performance…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Spare Parts Ordering Made Easy

    Jim Cahill
    MyEmerson is a personalized digital experience that allows customers instant access to dedicated digital content and resources for their organization. Learn more about how to use order spare parts with MyAssets to efficiently manage your plant. Visit www.emerson.com/myemerson for more information or to register for an account. Here is a quick 1:12 YouTube video, Ordering Spare Parts with MyEmerson , demonstrating the…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Spare Parts Ordering Made Easy

    Jim Cahill
    MyEmerson is a personalized digital experience that allows customers instant access to dedicated digital content and resources for their organization. Learn more about how to use order spare parts with MyAssets to efficiently manage your plant. Visit www.emerson.com/myemerson for more information or to register for an account. Here is a quick 1:12 YouTube video, Ordering Spare Parts with MyEmerson , demonstrating the…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: 5Ps of Control System Reliability and Performance–Part 2: Preventive Maintenance

    Jim Cahill
    We began exploring the key elements (5P’s) of Control System reliability and performance by looking at the considerations and recommendations around Protection with Cybersecurity . Here, we continue our examination of the 5P’s with: Part II – Preventive Maintenance Preventive Maintenance sets the foundation for the availability and peak performance of industrial control systems. Establishing processes and a regular…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: 5Ps of Control System Reliability and Performance–Part 2: Preventive Maintenance

    Jim Cahill
    We began exploring the key elements (5P’s) of Control System reliability and performance by looking at the considerations and recommendations around Protection with Cybersecurity . Here, we continue our examination of the 5P’s with: Part II – Preventive Maintenance Preventive Maintenance sets the foundation for the availability and peak performance of industrial control systems. Establishing processes and a regular…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Designing & Specifying Process Automation Parameters to Drive Performance

    Jim Cahill
    A plant’s performance can be optimized at the intersection of capital equipment, production processes, and people.  Done correctly from the start through the selection of technologies and how they are deployed can lead to higher levels of productivity, reliability, safety, and sustainability. The Industrial Impact of Process Automation Process automation has become more and more important as the bar is getting progressively…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Designing & Specifying Process Automation Parameters to Drive Performance

    Jim Cahill
    A plant’s performance can be optimized at the intersection of capital equipment, production processes, and people.  Done correctly from the start through the selection of technologies and how they are deployed can lead to higher levels of productivity, reliability, safety, and sustainability. The Industrial Impact of Process Automation Process automation has become more and more important as the bar is getting progressively…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Three Steps to Maximize Your Next Outage with a Data-Driven Valve Maintenance Strategy

    Jim Cahill
    Are you asking yourself why we prioritize the same valve list over and over again for every outage? When you started as a reliability or maintenance engineer, your manager handed you a list of valves to service during each outage. You’ve been using that list repeatedly at this point and you may occasionally discover that certain valves don’t require maintenance during the outage. If you are creating your own valve list…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Three Steps to Maximize Your Next Outage with a Data-Driven Valve Maintenance Strategy

    Jim Cahill
    Are you asking yourself why we prioritize the same valve list over and over again for every outage? When you started as a reliability or maintenance engineer, your manager handed you a list of valves to service during each outage. You’ve been using that list repeatedly at this point and you may occasionally discover that certain valves don’t require maintenance during the outage. If you are creating your own valve list…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: The 5 P’s of Control System Reliability and Performance

    Jim Cahill
    Many factors contribute to maintaining a reliable and optimally performing control system. This series will explore five essential P ’s: P rotection with Cybersecurity, P reventive Maintenance, P redictive Maintenance, P arts and Extended Warranty, and a P latform for Support and Lifecycle Updates. Collectively, these elements form a simple but powerful framework to help safeguard your control system against downtime…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: The 5 P’s of Control System Reliability and Performance

    Jim Cahill
    Many factors contribute to maintaining a reliable and optimally performing control system. This series will explore five essential P ’s: P rotection with Cybersecurity, P reventive Maintenance, P redictive Maintenance, P arts and Extended Warranty, and a P latform for Support and Lifecycle Updates. Collectively, these elements form a simple but powerful framework to help safeguard your control system against downtime…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Future of Automation and Control

    Jim Cahill
    Over at the ISA Interchange blog , an interesting set of questions about the future appeared from the ISA Mentor Program: What do you see as changes occurring now and in the future? Today, is working from home better or worse than driving across town to a factory or office? Does that kind of change affect cost, availability, quality, schedule, stability, marketability, or some other factors? Are these changes positive…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Future of Automation and Control

    Jim Cahill
    Over at the ISA Interchange blog , an interesting set of questions about the future appeared from the ISA Mentor Program: What do you see as changes occurring now and in the future? Today, is working from home better or worse than driving across town to a factory or office? Does that kind of change affect cost, availability, quality, schedule, stability, marketability, or some other factors? Are these changes positive…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Better Cybersecurity Increases Confidence to Outsource Data Analysis

    Jim Cahill
    Plantwide digital ecosystems, such as Emerson’s Plantweb , are now enabling process and manufacturing organizations to gather more data than ever before relating to the performance, health, and status of their equipment and automation systems. However, analyzing potentially complex data can be difficult, especially if there is a lack of suitably skilled resources on-site. Many companies have therefore turned to automation…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Better Cybersecurity Increases Confidence to Outsource Data Analysis

    Jim Cahill
    Plantwide digital ecosystems, such as Emerson’s Plantweb , are now enabling process and manufacturing organizations to gather more data than ever before relating to the performance, health, and status of their equipment and automation systems. However, analyzing potentially complex data can be difficult, especially if there is a lack of suitably skilled resources on-site. Many companies have therefore turned to automation…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: The Top 4 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to Improve Your Next Outage

    Jim Cahill
    You just completed your outage. You are ordering pizza for the team and starting to get back to a normal shift schedule. As you’re getting back to business-as-usual, you are finishing up open items and making sure there are no issues with any of the units that were brought down for maintenance. Now, it’s been a few weeks, a month after the units are all up and running and it’s time for the post-outage review. Capturing…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: The Top 4 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to Improve Your Next Outage

    Jim Cahill
    You just completed your outage. You are ordering pizza for the team and starting to get back to a normal shift schedule. As you’re getting back to business-as-usual, you are finishing up open items and making sure there are no issues with any of the units that were brought down for maintenance. Now, it’s been a few weeks, a month after the units are all up and running and it’s time for the post-outage review. Capturing…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Virtual Training for Sharpening Automation Skills

    Jim Cahill
    To gain the benefits of modern technologies, it is important to understand their capabilities and how to best apply them. We’ll have a series of upcoming podcasts on elements of Emerson Educational Services and how it helps to help you and your peers get the most out of the automation technologies. Given the challenges with available time, travel, and expenses, virtual training has become and important way to build…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Virtual Training for Sharpening Automation Skills

    Jim Cahill
    To gain the benefits of modern technologies, it is important to understand their capabilities and how to best apply them. We’ll have a series of upcoming podcasts on elements of Emerson Educational Services and how it helps to help you and your peers get the most out of the automation technologies. Given the challenges with available time, travel, and expenses, virtual training has become and important way to build…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Prioritizing Sustainability Initiatives

    Jim Cahill
    When it comes to driving more sustainable operations forward, how do you prioritize your actions? At the 4C Health, Safety & Environmental Conference , Emerson’s Doug White presented How to Evaluate Sustainability Options. Here is the presentation abstract: To reach greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, many state, regional and national governments have implemented or are considering implementing low-carbon fuel…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Prioritizing Sustainability Initiatives

    Jim Cahill
    When it comes to driving more sustainable operations forward, how do you prioritize your actions? At the 4C Health, Safety & Environmental Conference , Emerson’s Doug White presented How to Evaluate Sustainability Options. Here is the presentation abstract: To reach greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, many state, regional and national governments have implemented or are considering implementing low-carbon fuel…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Digital Technologies Support Safe Remote Operation of Offshore Platforms

    Jim Cahill
    The ability to remotely operate offshore oil and gas platforms enables companies to minimize the number of people required on board the platform. Because less accommodation is then required, the weight of the platform can be reduced, leading to cost savings, while transporting fewer people offshore increases safety, by keeping more workers away from potential hazards, and also reduces operating costs. In an article in…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: Digital Technologies Support Safe Remote Operation of Offshore Platforms

    Jim Cahill
    The ability to remotely operate offshore oil and gas platforms enables companies to minimize the number of people required on board the platform. Because less accommodation is then required, the weight of the platform can be reduced, leading to cost savings, while transporting fewer people offshore increases safety, by keeping more workers away from potential hazards, and also reduces operating costs. In an article in…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: The Future is Now for Predictive Valve Maintenance

    Jim Cahill
    Saurabh Pathak , Emerson’s Digital Valve Global Marketing Director and Naman Tahan , Emerson’s Digital Valve Services Director of Engineering and Operations, recently published an article in the March 2023 issue of Processing. It is titled “ The Future is Now for Predictive Valve Maintenance ” and it describes how advances in digital valve controllers, diagnostic software, and network communications are enabling significant…

  • Emerson Automation Experts: The Future is Now for Predictive Valve Maintenance

    Jim Cahill
    Saurabh Pathak , Emerson’s Digital Valve Global Marketing Director and Naman Tahan , Emerson’s Digital Valve Services Director of Engineering and Operations, recently published an article in the March 2023 issue of Processing. It is titled “ The Future is Now for Predictive Valve Maintenance ” and it describes how advances in digital valve controllers, diagnostic software, and network communications are enabling significant…

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