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Keeping Hydrogen Moving: Secure, Integrated Pipelines for the H₂ Value Chain

Jim Cahill — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:55:57 GMT

Why this matters now As detailed in their recent article in H2Tech, Emerson’s Martin Johnson and Phani Kanakamedala, recognized industry experts, explain that interest in hydrogen is accelerating—and that keeping H₂ moving from producers to users requires security, reliability, and end-to-end integration across retrofit and greenfield pipelines. Cybersecurity is now central to pipeline operations; guidance […]

Breaking the Plateau: How Enterprise Engineering Software Unlocks Fleetwide Optimization

Jim Cahill — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:42:06 GMT

Why this matters now As explored in his recent article in Hydrocarbon Engineering magazine, Emerson’s Dave Denison—an expert with over 25 years in the automation industry—explains that many organizations are hitting diminishing returns from plant‑level digital transformation. While individual sites have improved safety, output, and efficiency, enterprise‑wide performance often plateaus due to inconsistent practices and […]

Embedded AI is the Future of Biopharmaceutical Recipe Creation

Jim Cahill — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:01 GMT

Life sciences may be the ideal industry for the implementation of AI technologies. After all, bringing a treatment all the way through the drug development process is an extremely complicated undertaking, with tremendous amounts of data and a wide array of ever-changing variables to manage. Moreover, every step must be made with an eye on […]

Manufacturing Readiness Is the Next Frontier in Life Sciences AI

Jim Cahill — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:00:09 GMT

AI is changing drug discovery faster than most people expected. Commercial manufacturing is next. The organizations best positioned for that shift are the ones preparing now, not because they’re behind, but because the window to prepare thoughtfully is exactly when things still feel calm. Insilico Medicine advanced a novel drug candidate for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis […]

Unifying Industrial Operations: How the Enterprise Operations Platform Accelerates Modernization

Jim Cahill — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:55:57 GMT

Why this matters now As detailed in his recent article in Control Engineering, Emerson’s Brian LaMothe, a recognized industry expert, explains that operators can no longer rely on plant‑level improvements alone. The most competitive organizations are modernizing around an enterprise operations platform (EOP) built on boundless automation, software‑defined control, and seamless intelligence from the intelligent […]

Digital Frameworks Transform Drug Development

Jim Cahill — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:29:56 GMT

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated development of a vaccine in record time, the biopharmaceutical industry has seen significant change. Today, we know that faster development is possible, though it is still challenging. That has increased the drive of many organizations to improve speed to market, looking at ways to leverage […]

Reinventing Process Control: Why Software‑Defined Architecture Enables AI‑Driven Operations

Jim Cahill — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:16:12 GMT

Why this matters now As explored in his recent article in Smart Industry, Emerson’s Dave Denison—leveraging more than two decades of automation expertise—explains that AI, machine learning, and advanced control workloads are pushing traditional controllers beyond their limits. To prepare for an AI‑driven future, manufacturers must modernize with software‑defined architectures that deliver the compute power, […]

Part 2: Execution Intelligence: Embedding AI Inside Validated Manufacturing

Jim Cahill — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:04:30 GMT

In Part 1, we explored why digital strategies that sit above operations break down in regulated life sciences manufacturing. When analytics are disconnected from validated execution, insight loses the context required to support quality, compliance, and release decisions. The next step is not abandoning enterprise data platforms—but evolving how, and where, intelligence is applied. From […]

Lifecycle‑Ready Industrial AI: How OT Teams Can Confidently Adopt Next‑Generation Intelligence

Jim Cahill — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:48:22 GMT

Why this matters now As explored in his recent article in Control Engineering, Emerson’s Dave Denison—leveraging his decades of experience in the automation industry—explains that OT teams face a unique challenge as AI adoption accelerates. While AI is gaining traction across industries, process manufacturers must ensure any solution they deploy fits securely, reliably, and sustainably […]

Part 1: Why AI in Life Sciences Must Be Grounded in Validated Execution

Jim Cahill — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:57:05 GMT

The common digital strategy playbook is: unify the data, layer on AI, and drive enterprise-level insight. The strategy sounds compelling in its simplicity. And for some industries and some use cases, it can work. But in regulated life sciences manufacturing, there is a constraint that fundamentally shapes how intelligence must be applied: Manufacturing insight must […]

Building an OT-Friendly Path to Advanced AI

Jim Cahill — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:15:28 GMT

Typically, when we think of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, we think of software residing in the cloud. After all, AI models require massive compute power, and as they grow, that power needs to scale rapidly. Such support is a perfect fit for cloud computing. However, as Sean Saul explores in his recent article in Control […]

Solutions for Preventing Compressor Surge Conditions

Jim Cahill — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:00:07 GMT

Compressor surge control remains one of the most popular topics here on the blog. I took an inventory of many of the Emerson products used to control surge conditions.

Building Robust Process Safety on a Solid Foundation

Jim Cahill — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:00:39 GMT

By combining AgileOps with the real-time, dynamic simulation platform, DeltaV Mimic enables continuous operator competency management, thereby directly improving the effectiveness of operators as IPLs.

Scaling Powerful Automation at Your Pace

Jim Cahill — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:20:43 GMT

This minute-and-a-half YouTube video, DeltaV Flex System: Full DeltaV DCS Power, New Flex Way, demonstrates this flexibility and scalability in action over time.

Streamlining Recipe Creation in the Life Sciences Industry

Jim Cahill — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:46:11 GMT

A recent news release, Emerson Streamlines Life Sciences Recipe Creation for Faster Time to Market, shares the innovation of the new DeltaV MES Recipe Importer tool.