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Ovation Blog: Ovation 4.0 Headlines the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference

Jim Cahill

Emerson’s Bob Yeager, Rick Kephart, and Glenn Heinl launched another exciting week in Pittsburgh with their keynote presentations at the 2025 Ovation Users’ Group Conference. Bob began the event by sharing some of the many ways Emerson will be “leading the future”, including a deeper view into the Ovation Automation Platform 4.0. The rise of […]
- 29 Jul 2025
Ovation Blog: Optimizing Battery Energy Storage System Operations

Jim Cahill

Emerson’s Brett Benson shares the news about the Ovation Green battery storage system (BESS) solution. Large-scale battery storage systems are being installed to store the energy generated by renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar.
- 22 Jul 2025
DeltaV Blog: Teams of Life Savers Partnering to Accelerate and Deliver Therapies Podcast

Jim Cahill

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.
- 10 Jul 2025
Ovation Blog: Stronger Together: Why Power Industry Cybersecurity Starts with Collaboration

Jim Cahill

One of the greatest challenges around the world is convincing people (or companies, for that matter) to make changes they don’t want to invest in. Regardless of the state of the marketplace, change that comes with added costs is always a difficult sell. And if that change adds complexity to daily life, it becomes even […]
- 17 Jun 2025
DeltaV Blog: Modern Burner Management Control and Optimization

Jim Cahill

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”.
- 16 Jun 2025
DeltaV Blog: Advancing the Boundless Automation Vision

Jim Cahill

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

Jim Cahill

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 […]
- 21 May 2025
DeltaV Blog: Congratulations to Newly-Minted Hall of Fame Member, Duncan Schleiss!

Jim Cahill

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.
- 15 May 2025
Ovation Blog: Protecting Critical Facilities from Cyber Attacks

Jim Cahill

A recent Forbes article,7 Steps Utilities Must Take To Protect Critical Facilities From Cyber Attacks highlights focus areas for manufacturers and producers to strengthen their operational resilience.
- 9 May 2025
Ovation Blog: Driving Reliability Performance Improvements for Power Producers

Jim Cahill

In a Power article, The POWER Interview: Emerson Exec Discusses Grid Enhancements, Emerson’s James Nyenhuis shares ways technology and transformed work practices can drive reliability performance enhancements.
- 7 May 2025
DeltaV Blog: Angular Coordinate Method for Compressor Surge Control

Jim Cahill

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.
- 5 May 2025
DeltaV Blog: Advanced PID Control Techniques in Centrifugal Compressors

Jim Cahill

A PID-based control strategy can manage surge margin by using feedforward signals from flow, pressure, or compressor speed fluctuations.
- 25 Apr 2025
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Role of Digital Valve Controllers in Modern Process Safety

Jim Cahill

Valves used in process safety applications remain static for much of their existence in a manufacturing or production process. Digital valve controllers can play an essential role in ensuring these valves operate as they should when called upon in an abnormal situation. For safety valves used in throttling applications, digital valve controllers enable precise control through accurate valve positioning to avoid process…
- 21 Apr 2025
DeltaV Blog: DeltaV Edge 2.0 Empowers Life Sciences with Easy Batch Data Access

Jim Cahill

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.
- 17 Apr 2025
DeltaV Blog: MES Done Right

Jim Cahill

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 […]
- 15 Apr 2025
Ovation Blog: Understanding Generator Excitation Systems in Power Generation

Jim Cahill

Effective excitation control is the cornerstone of reliable synchronous generator operation for commercial utilities. The Ovation Excitation System offers a native generator exciter and excitation control system for all synchronous generators.
- 11 Apr 2025
DeltaV Blog: Unraveling the Cybersecurity Knot: How OT Teams Can Leverage Automation Experts

Jim Cahill

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 […]
- 8 Apr 2025
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Enhancing Safety with Advanced Pressure Relief Valve Technologies

Jim Cahill

Pressure relief valves (PRVs) play a critical role in manufacturing and production processes by preventing unsafe overpressure conditions. They also affect regulatory compliance, process reliability, and the plant’s economics. Historically, these devices, independent from the control systems, went unmonitored and required manual inspection to identify leaks and other issues. These leaks can pose safety hazards, environmental…
- 4 Apr 2025
DeltaV Blog: Empower Your Enterprise with Edge Tech and Performance Platforms

Jim Cahill

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 […]
- 2 Apr 2025
DeltaV Blog: Convertir la Captura de Carbono en una Fuente de Ingreso

Jim Cahill

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.
- 31 Mar 2025
DeltaV Blog: Taming Alarm Overload for a Smarter, Safer Future

Jim Cahill

Sometimes, you really can have too much of a good thing. Everyone knows effective alarms are critical to running a safe, efficient plant. In recent years, digitalization has leveled the playing field on alarms. With modern control systems, alarms are easier and faster to create than ever before. Whenever something goes wrong, a user can […]
- 27 Mar 2025
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Driving Quality and Safety in Electric Vehicle Battery Production

Jim Cahill

Most of today’s electric vehicles (EVs) rely on lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries due to their high-energy density. As these batteries have become increasingly more advanced, so has the manufacturing process required to produce them—a complex interplay of chemical production and intricate assembly. To meet the stringent production requirements, ensuring quality, safety , and reliability is paramount in the manufacturing…
- 25 Mar 2025
Ovation Blog: Revolutionize Battery Storage with Modern Green Energy Software Solutions

Jim Cahill

One of the key reasons power generators are turning to renewable energy sources is that the technology has been stable for quite a long time. Photovoltaic solar and wind turbines are well understood, and quite readily available. Putting the energy they generate on the grid can be complex, but, again, the process and its requirements […]
- 18 Mar 2025
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: When is a SIL Suitability Rating Required for Final Control Elements?

Jim Cahill

Update and bump: A LinkedIn post on this subject went viral, so I thought it would be worth sharing Riyaz Ali ‘s thoughts on this subject again. Abstract Final Control Elements (Control valves or Safety Shut Down Valves) are the key components of any close loop control system, whether it is used for Basic Process Control Systems (BPCS) or for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS). Financial constraints derive different…
- 17 Mar 2025
Ovation Blog: Winds of Change: The Push for Unified Green Energy Control Systems

Jim Cahill

Increasing global dependence on electricity is a given. Every year communities around the world add new technologies aimed at improving everything from communication to transportation to manufacturing. As a result, the need for an increase in renewable power generation is expanding at an unheard-of pace. While photovoltaic solar might be the most obvious example of […]
- 4 Mar 2025