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  • Software-Defined Control for Enhanced Productivity

    In this 4-minute YouTube video, How it Works: DeltaV IQ Controller, Emerson’s Brandon Hieb describes how the IQ Controller augments highly engineered, built-for-purpose industrial controllers, bringing greater flexibility, scalability, and efficiency to modern control systems.
  • When Waiting for Rules Risks Everything

    We all know cybersecurity is critical to safe and successful operation of our businesses. Moreover, most of us know that we could be doing more when it comes to cybersecurity. After all, we see new cyberattacks in the news almost every day, sometimes happening to companies we recognize, other times to organizations with names that […]
  • Addressing Pressing Challenges in Life Sciences

    Eliminating silos of data into a comprehensive industrial data fabric enables reshaping the data landscape to provide aggregated, contextualized data for digital transformation initiatives for pharmaceutical & biotech manufacturers.
  • Award-Winning DeltaV Real-Time Scheduling Software Podcast

    David Zhang joins podcast host Jim Cahill to discuss digitalization efforts among pharmaceutical & biotech manufacturers, and the important role that real-time scheduling plays in bringing these therapies to market in a timely manner.
  • How OEMs Outshine Customer Expectations

    DeltaV SaaS SCADA isn’t just about getting data and analytics. It’s about redefining what it means to be an OEM in today’s industrial world with a trusted partner who’s there to seamlessly help you every moment of every day.
  • Four Foundations for Data-Driven AI

    Emerson’s Chief Technology Officer Peter Zornio outlines four foundations for advancing industrial automation in the data-driven AI era amid supply chain disruptions and tech evolution.
  • Why Cybersecurity Looks Different in Life Sciences

    We talk a lot about cybersecurity in the OT space. Cybersecurity has always posed a unique challenge for OT technologies, for a number of reasons. Often, OT teams are dealing with legacy technology that was never designed to be cybersecure and doesn’t operate in a manner that plays well with external cybersecurity tools. In addition, […]
  • Important Standards for Improved Operator Performance

    Emerson’s Tim Olsen pointed me to a great PTQ article, Operator performance advances enable safer operations, that he and User Centered Design Service’s David Lee wrote.
  • The Golden Age of Life Sciences Innovation Needs Smarter Data

    There exists an interesting tension in the life sciences industry; while people have access to more treatments for more maladies than at any other time in human history, there is also increasing pressure to deliver new, innovative treatments. For evidence, simply look to the massive wave of innovation happening in the personalized medicine space. The […]
  • Seamless Automation for a Personalized Future

    It’s hard to discuss the life sciences today without talking about advanced therapeutics and personalized medicine. We are currently in a period of massive innovation that will reshape the delivery of medicine for decades to come. Where once pharmaceutical companies were laser focused on blockbuster drugs, today they are exploring more targeted therapeutic research that […]
  • Why Boiler Drum Level Control Is So Challenging

    I examined some of the process automation hall of fame member Greg McMillan’s writings for the recommendations he has provided over the years to address boiler drum level control challenges.
  • How to Sell the Value of Your Carbon Capture Process

    The Gulf states and other locales are creating carbon capture & storage (CCS) capacity. Emerson’s instrumentation supports accuracy of capture volumes for auditing.
  • Emerson Recognized as a Leader in QKS Group’s SPARK Matrix for Manufacturing Execution Systems – Process and Batch

    In the recently released SPARK Matrix for Manufacturing Execution Systems – Process and Batch, 2024 by QKS Group (formerly Quadrant Knowledge Solutions), Emerson has been named as a Leader.
  • Teams of Life Savers Partnering to Accelerate and Deliver Therapies Podcast

    Emerson’s Jordan Johnson & Rachel Wright join Jim Cahill in this podcast to discuss challenges in the Life Sciences sector and the role of Emerson Life Savers serve in collaborating closely with them to address and overcome these challenges.
  • ​​​Modern Burner Management Control and Optimization​

    At the 2025 Emerson Exchange Conference, Emerson’s Steven Kormann and Ross Turner presented “Not Your Grandfather's Burner Control: Modern BMS Hardware for Modern NFPA Compliance”.
  • Advancing the Boundless Automation Vision

    Emerson’s Project Beyond will deliver the industry’s first software-defined, OT-ready digital platform that seamlessly integrates and optimizes industrial operations.
  • Exchange 2025 Goes Above and “Beyond”

    Emerson Exchange 2025 is off to a strong start. At the opening keynote, CEO Lal Karsanbhai and CTO for Emerson’s Aspen Technology business, Claudio Fayad, introduced a core component of this year’s gathering, the reveal of Emerson’s Project Beyond. Project Beyond builds upon the foundation created with Emerson’s Boundless Automationsm initiative. Announced in 2022, Boundless […]
  • Congratulations to Newly-Minted Hall of Fame Member, Duncan Schleiss!

    Duncan Schleiss led the product management & development of the DeltaV control system from its inception to its industry leadership. Duncan joins a host of luminaries in automation that have advanced the technologies and solutions to drive greater performance in safety, efficiency, reliability, and profitability for manufacturers and producers.
  • Angular Coordinate Method for Compressor Surge Control

    The angular coordinate method allows to simplify the multi-level operation of the compressor to a one-dimensional visualization of the safe operating zone, presenting it as a direct comparison of the process variable with the set value, which is the most common and convenient practice for plant operators monitoring processes in the DCS.
  • Advanced PID Control Techniques in Centrifugal Compressors

    A PID-based control strategy can manage surge margin by using feedforward signals from flow, pressure, or compressor speed fluctuations.
  • DeltaV Edge 2.0 Empowers Life Sciences with Easy Batch Data Access

    Emerson’s Nikki Bishop and Franz Valmonte join podcast host Jim Cahill to discuss innovations in DeltaV Edge 2.0 to help pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturers reduce time to market and release times for the medicines and therapeutics they deliver to the world.
  • MES Done Right

    Automation in the process manufacturing industry is nearly always complex. Not only must automation technologies carefully orchestrate operations, but they must also monitor safety, reliability, efficiency, and these days, even sustainability. The distributed control system (DCS) is a key part of that equation, but far from the only one. To get the most out of […]
  • Unraveling the Cybersecurity Knot: How OT Teams Can Leverage Automation Experts

    It has become increasingly obvious that the need for strong cybersecurity is not going to go away. Operational technology (OT) assets have increasingly become targets of both large-scale and small-scale attacks, often with devastating effects. OT teams need to be vigilant to ensure their assets do not become the next headline. However, OT teams often […]
  • Empower Your Enterprise with Edge Tech and Performance Platforms

    As today’s lean process manufacturing teams look for ways to make the most of their limited resources, many are trying to find a way to limit the impact of having their most expert people spread thin across plants that may be many miles—or even continents—apart. Often national and global operations can result in variability in […]
  • Convertir la Captura de Carbono en una Fuente de Ingreso

    Las tecnologías de Emerson lo hacen posible. En un artículo publicado tanto en Hydrocarbon Processing como en Gas Processing & LNG, Seth Harris de Emerson examina las tecnologías necesarias para crear una fuente de ingresos a partir de la captura de carbono.