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Event Highlights & Feature Sessions
  • Video Recap from Day 4 at Emerson Exchange

    Here are video recaps of days 1 and 2 and day 3 The post Video Recap from Day 4 at Emerson Exchange appeared first on the Emerson Automation Experts blog.
  • Video Recap from Day 4 at Emerson Exchange

    Here are video recaps of days 1 and 2 and day 3 Related Posts Wireless for High Temperature Electric Arc Furnace Control At the Emerson Exchange-Physically or Virtually Emerson Exchange Conference Video Highlights from Day 1 and Day Video Recap from Day 3 at Emerson Exchange Renewable Energy Powering Gas Wells and Pipelines Driving Maintenance Workflows with Condition Monitoring The post Video Recap from Day 4 at…
  • Video Recap from Day 4 at Emerson Exchange

    Here are video recaps of days 1 and 2 and day 3 Related Posts Wireless for High Temperature Electric Arc Furnace Control At the Emerson Exchange-Physically or Virtually Emerson Exchange Conference Video Highlights from Day 1 and Day Video Recap from Day 3 at Emerson Exchange Renewable Energy Powering Gas Wells and Pipelines Driving Maintenance Workflows with Condition Monitoring The post Video Recap from Day 4 at…
  • Best-in-Conference Award Winners Named

    by Jim Montague One of the unfailing highlights of Emerson Global Users Exchange are the Best in Conference Awards for its very finest conference sessions, and the winning presentations for 2016 were no exception. Five teams won awards in the conference's main categories, and accepted their crystal plaques at lunch on the event's fourth day this week in Austin. Texas. The record-breaking 800 session proposals received…
  • Severe Service Isolation Valve Provides Solution to Leak-Through Problem at Buck Combined Cycle

    by Paul Studebaker Duke Energy’s Buck Combined Cycle Plant in Rowan County, North Carolina, is a 630-MW facility that burns gas in two combustion turbines and uses their exhaust to generate steam for additional turbine generators. Ever since its startup in 2011, the safety isolation valve on the spray attemperator has been a bad actor. “We replaced it three times between 2011 and 2014, each time at a cost of $10,000…
  • Vision to Reality: A Roadmap to IIoT

    by Paul Studebaker “The Shell Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) is the largest floating thing in the world, six times the size of an aircraft carrier, but it has only 100 people on board caring for it. How can they do this?” asked Jonas Berge, director, applied technology, Emerson Automation Solutions. “A team in Perth, Australia—1,100 miles away—watches over equipment and advises them. Along with the travel…
  • Natural Gas Pipeline Reduces Operation Risk by $3.4 million

    by Mike Bacidore FortisBC serves more than one million customers with natural gas and electricity in British Columbia. Almost two-thirds of FortisBC’s customer base is located in the greater Vancouver area and on Vancouver Island. “We wanted to show how important [failuer risks] are to the organization, so we created a risk analysis of our transmission assets and prioritized our work,” Loge said. “Risk is the probability…
  • Spam Be Gone: Monsanto Tames Nuisance Alerts

    by Dave Perkon "Sometimes, taking advantage of status and diagnostics in intelligent devices can inundate you,” began Joel Holmes, site electrical reliability engineer at Monsanto’s manufacturing facility in Muscatine, Iowa. “A single instrument failure can result in six or more alerts. So, instead of sorting through a mountain of nuisance alerts, use AMS Device Manager to rid your system of spam information so you…
  • ExxonMobil Rotterdam Expansion Saves with Emerson

    by Jim Montague It's good to get your ducks in a row, but, if you happen to be expanding ExxonMobil's Rotterdam Advanced Hydrocracker (RAHC), that's about a million ducks, so it might be good to get some help. To streamline its project management and procurement process to help to mitigate risk and accelerate deployment on the $1.2-billion brownfield project, ExxonMobil is using an innovative main instrument vendor…
  • Mexican Energy Company Resurrects Oil platform with Increased Production

    By Mike Bacidore When the Abkatun-A permanent platform exploded and collapsed in April 2015, the operator, Mexican state energy company Pemex, couldn’t get it back into production quickly enough. “Abkatun-A platform was built in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 1980s,” explained Ana Matute Portillo, Emerson marketing communications manager in the region. “The oil complex of six integrated platforms is 80 km off the…
  • Prevent Downtime and Ensure Safety with Isolated Instrument Grounds

    by Paul Studebaker From the days of Westinghouse and Edison, when “power distribution” was by a single, naked copper wire strung through trees and around glass knobs, to today’s civilization, which would not be possible without computers and tablets, people have struggled and died to provide adequate grounding systems. “The electrical intersection of man and machine has resulted in injuries and deaths,” said Terry Colleran…
  • Steam Management and Optimization

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Jim Dunbar presented Steam Management and Optimization. His abstract: Sipchem facility includes utility plant supplying steam to seven downstream production plants. Utility plant was struggling with reliability issues that had caused a ripple effect throughout the entire facility causing significant production loss. SipChem consulted Emerson and based on recommendations;…
  • Steam Management and Optimization

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Jim Dunbar presented Steam Management and Optimization. His abstract: Sipchem facility includes utility plant supplying steam to seven downstream production plants. Utility plant was struggling with reliability issues that had caused a ripple effect throughout the entire facility causing significant production loss. SipChem consulted Emerson and based on recommendations;…
  • Steam Management and Optimization

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Jim Dunbar presented Steam Management and Optimization. His abstract: Sipchem facility includes utility plant supplying steam to seven downstream production plants. Utility plant was struggling with reliability issues that had caused a ripple effect throughout the entire facility causing significant production loss. SipChem consulted Emerson and based on recommendations;…
  • Steam Management and Optimization

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Jim Dunbar presented Steam Management and Optimization. His abstract: Sipchem facility includes utility plant supplying steam to seven downstream production plants. Utility plant was struggling with reliability issues that had caused a ripple effect throughout the entire facility causing significant production loss. SipChem consulted Emerson and based on recommendations;…
  • Ethanol Greenfield Awarded Reliability Program of the Year

    By Dave Perkon At the Ethanol Greenfield plant in Varennes, Quebec, production increased by 80%, yield improved by 11%, and even though production almost doubled in 10 years, there was only a 14% increase in maintenance cost. All of this couldn't have been achieved without a successful reliability program, and for its efforts the facility won the 2016 Emerson Reliability Program of the Year. "Since 2010, unplanned…
  • Implementing an Effective Alarm Management Program

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin Emerson’s Kim Van Camp and exida’s Todd Stauffer presented Seven Steps to a Peaceful Control Room: How to Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program for your DeltaV System. Their abstract: Has the alarm horn become the nemesis of your operators? This presentation describes how to create (build) an effective and sustainable program using ISA-18.2’s alarm management…
  • Implementing an Effective Alarm Management Program

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin Emerson’s Kim Van Camp and exida’s Todd Stauffer presented Seven Steps to a Peaceful Control Room: How to Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program for your DeltaV System. Their abstract: Has the alarm horn become the nemesis of your operators? This presentation describes how to create (build) an effective and sustainable program using ISA-18.2’s alarm management…
  • Implementing an Effective Alarm Management Program

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin Emerson’s Kim Van Camp and exida’s Todd Stauffer presented Seven Steps to a Peaceful Control Room: How to Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program for your DeltaV System. Their abstract: Has the alarm horn become the nemesis of your operators? This presentation describes how to create (build) an effective and sustainable program using ISA-18.2’s alarm management…
  • Implementing an Effective Alarm Management Program

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin Emerson’s Kim Van Camp and exida’s Todd Stauffer presented Seven Steps to a Peaceful Control Room: How to Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program for your DeltaV System. Their abstract: Has the alarm horn become the nemesis of your operators? This presentation describes how to create (build) an effective and sustainable program using ISA-18.2’s alarm management…
  • Steam Management and Optimization

    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Jim Dunbar presented Steam Management and Optimization. His abstract: Sipchem facility includes utility plant supplying steam to seven downstream production plants. Utility plant was struggling with reliability issues that had caused a ripple effect throughout the entire facility causing significant production loss. SipChem consulted Emerson and based on recommendations;…
  • Valve Selection for Safety Instrumented Systems

    by Jim Montague One technical area that can help safety instrumented systems (SIS) fulfill their missions is selecting the right SIS valves, and implementing their diagnostic functions and support software. "Why do we need SISs? To keep plants out of the news," says Tommy Elkins, product manager, ControlWorx services division, John H. Carter Co. Janine McCormick, refining industry manager, Emerson Automation Solutions…
  • How to Change your Safety Culture

    by Jim Montague Installing process safety equipment and software? Easy. Getting people, groups and organizations to change their attitudes and habits? Close to impossible. So what can be done? Deliberate, persistent and targeted training, retraining, simulation and encouraging safety team members to speak up and intervene when needed. "Seventy-five percent of accidents in industry are traceable to organizational…
  • Look Beyond Capital Costs to Find Savings

    by Mike Bacidore A capital expenditure is incurred to create a future benefit, explained Mark Murphy, technical director, electrical & control systems engineering, Fluor Enterprises. Operational expenses are money spent to turn inventory into throughput. And lifecycle cost is the total cost of ownership. “Lifecycle cost includes initial capital cost, installation and commissioning, operation, maintenance and loss…
  • Tank Farm Upgrade Affects Multiple Organizations at 3M

    by Mike Bacidore At the 3M plant in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, recurring problems had prompted the materials resource division to plan a distributed control system (DCS) migration. “We had a daunting challenge,” explained Matt Rauschke, senior resident engineer at 3M, who led a presentation at this week’s Emerson Global Users Exchange. “How do you connect the tank farm’s three different control systems?” The first…