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DeltaV and AMS Device Manager PlantWeb Integration – What you need to know
Jim Cahill
Emerson’s Tinh Phan discussed the integration of control and asset management with DeltaV and AMS Device manager. His abstract: With the continuous changing integration of DeltaV and AMS Device Manager since DeltaV v11, End User are not getting the benefits...
2 Oct 2013
Petroleum Company Improves Pump Health Monitoring
Jim Cahill
Emerson’s Asad Malik, Sanjeev Vyas, and Zyad Al Irhayim presented, Petroleum Company improves Pump Health Monitoring and Secures Production Goals with Emerson Wireless Vibration Monitoring Technology. Their abstract: Petroleum Company in ME monitors critical...
1 Oct 2013
Selecting the Best Portable Tools for Maintaining Your HART and FOUNDATION fieldbus devices
Jim Cahill
Emerson’s Alan Dewey provided an overview of effective tools for plant smart devices. His abstract: Handheld configurations, calibrators, loop validators, laptops, notebooks, tablets, mobile phones, and other specialty devices are just a few of the possible...
1 Oct 2013
Integrated Machinery Protection and Prediction System
Anna Velena
We did a reliability user forum in Shenzhen last July. One of the most asked question was “How do we increase plant availability and reliability?”. In my opinion this is a 3-step process of data collection, data analysis, and asset optimization. Data collection is the basic building block to improving plant availability and reliability and thus it is imperative we get the data collection part right. We need to ensure…
19 Sep 2013
Triaxial Vibration Collection in Route-Based Machinery Monitoring
Jim Cahill
Many plants perform route-based, machinery condition monitoring with portable vibration analyzers. The most common vibration sensor used is a single-axis accelerometer mounted to a 2-pole magnet, which can easily attach to a variety of surfaces including...
11 Sep 2013
Intelligent Field Device Diagnostic Alarm Management
Jim Cahill
In an earlier post, Plant Alarm Management and Analysis, we highlighted the importance of managing plant alarms and the 2009 ratified alarm management standard, ANSI/ISA 18.2. Emerson’s Jonas Berge added a comment that I wanted to share with everyone...
4 Sep 2013
Offshore Oil & Gas Platform Machinery Protection and Prediction Systems Results
Jim Cahill
The harsh, corrosive environment found on offshore oil & gas platforms can lead to unplanned downtime and lost production when equipment fails. A Scandinavian Oil-Gas magazine article, Upgraded Online Protection and Prediction Systems Improve Machinery...
30 Aug 2013
2013 Reliability Program of the Year
Jim Cahill
One of the events to take place at the September 30-October 4 Emerson Exchange conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, is the Reliability Program of the Year. Emerson’s Augie DiGiovanni, whom you may recall from earlier reliability-related posts...
29 Aug 2013
Managing Asset Performance and Collaborating in the Life Science Industry
Jim Cahill
In two very different industries, I have some updates to share from Emerson consultants. On the reliability front, when we last checked in with Emerson’s Richard Barnes, a Senior Asset Optimization Consultant, he was at a refinery located on the Black...
22 Aug 2013
Vibration and Process Data Spot Turbo-Expander Problem
Jim Cahill
Many industrial processes require refrigeration, such as in the extraction of ethane and natural gas liquids (NGLs) from natural gas. From Wikipedia, a turboexpander: …also referred to as a turbo-expander or an expansion turbine, is a centrifugal or axial...
20 Aug 2013
Essential Asset Monitoring Sessions at Emerson Exchange
Jim Cahill
If you’ll be joining us at the September 30-October 4 Emerson Exchange conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area, and asset reliability is on your list of things to learn more about, I suggest a few workshops for you. Emerson’s Nikki Bishop, a Senior...
19 Aug 2013
Monitoring Rotating Machine in Four-Channel Clarity
Jim Cahill
In an earlier post, Portable Vibration Analyzer-Human Centered Design Style, I mentioned four-channel analysis plus phase capability. I checked with Emerson’s Johan Van Puyenbroeck to explain what this means for process manufacturing maintenance professionals...
31 Jul 2013
Monitoring Plant Asset and Automation System Health
Jim Cahill
As process manufacturers lose experienced automation professionals to retirement and/or turnover, the need to maintain reliable operations remains. Emerson’s Tinh Phan provides a look at system health monitoring from the field devices, through the asset...
25 Jul 2013
Maintenance Management and Control System Integration
Jim Cahill
A blog post by Emerson’s Anand Iyer. Since the days of my “initiation” in this field, machinery protection has always been another system, whose domain has been questioned many a times. While the instrumentation and control (I&C) team would probably maintain...
12 Jul 2013
Monitoring Cooling Towers to Avoid Unplanned Downtime
Jim Cahill
Reliability of plant assets and process operations remains near the top of every manufacturer’s list of concerns. According to the ARC Advisory Group: The global process industries lose $20 billion, or 5% annual production, due to unscheduled downtime...
11 Jul 2013
Gaining Back Some of That 20 Percent Capacity
Jim Cahill
“According to the ARC Advisory Group of Boston, plants in the process industries ‘typically operate 20% below full operational capacity,’ and equipment reliability issues have been identified as one of the principal reasons for that wasteful record 1...
2 Jul 2013
Recognition of Effective Predictive Maintenance Program
Jim Cahill
Control Engineering magazine has a great article and 8-minute video, A Straightforward Maintenance Strategy Yields Improved Plant Performance, featuring Monsanto Muscatine’s use of technology to move from reactive to predictive maintenance to improve...
26 Jun 2013
Chilean Miners Challenge-Extract More with Same Number of Personnel
Jim Cahill
The pictures were coming in last week from the EXPONOR conference in Chile over on the Emerson Process Management Facebook page. Emerson’s Juan Carlos Bravo, a member of the Metals & Mining industry team, shares his perspectives from the conference. On...
24 Jun 2013
Portable Vibration Analyzer-Human Centered Design Style
Jim Cahill
You may have seen the news of a next generation of portable vibration analyzer, the CSI 2140 Machinery Health Analyzer. Portable vibration analyzers are great for providing advance warning of machinery failures as part of a predictive maintenance program...
18 Jun 2013
Adding Asset Performance Management for Refinery Reliability
Jim Cahill
Emerson’s Richard Barnes provides perspectives on an asset reliability project on which he’s working with a European refinery’s project team. A week ago, I had the pleasure of sitting by the beach, on the coast of the Black Sea, having an early breakfast...
13 Jun 2013
Using the FF-912 Diagnostics Specification to Improve Daily Maintenance Routines
Jim Cahill
Happy Friday—it’s Chris Womack with another guest post, this time about new device diagnostics standards and how they’re changing daily plant maintenance, including turnaround planning. Back in March, your regular blog host Jim Cahill wrote about how...
24 May 2013
Managing Analyzers, Transmitters, and Control Valves with a Common Approach
Jim Cahill
In an earlier post, Measuring Hydrocarbon Dew Point with Gas Chromatographs, we highlighted the challenges with liquids in natural gas. Emerson’s Jonas Berge added a comment [hyperlinks added]: The 700XA gas chromatograph can be integrated into intelligent...
21 May 2013
How Technology Can Help Miners Improve Brownfield Operations
Jim Cahill
As miners face many economic and technical headwinds, Emerson’s Douglas Morris of the metals and mining and power industry teams, describes how technology can improve mine productivity by reducing unplanned downtime. If you’ve picked up the newspaper...
20 May 2013
Synchronized Information for Proving Oil Sands Extraction Process
Jim Cahill
A Control magazine article, A Data-Driven Search For Oil, captures the results of integrating intelligent devices, the automation system, and plant wide history to improve productivity of oil extraction from the oil sands of Northern Alberta, Canada....
8 May 2013
Applying Wireless Vibration Monitoring in Electrical Power Stations
Jim Cahill
In a recent ME Plant & Maintenance article, Wireless Vibration Monitoring –improves reliability and enhances safety (pdf), a rotating machinery engineer describes how his power station used a wireless vibration transmitter to avoid shutting down a turbine...
18 Apr 2013
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