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  • Operations Management Blog: Prototyping Key in Manufacturing Execution System Projects

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Five Strategies for Mitigating Automation Project Risk, we highlighted the importance of prototyping: Risks in budget, schedule, changes, and project execution can be reduced with a prototyping strategy. Prototyping helps incorporate...

  • Operations Management Blog: Prototyping Key in Manufacturing Execution System Projects

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Five Strategies for Mitigating Automation Project Risk , we highlighted the importance of prototyping: Risks in budget, schedule, changes, and project execution can be reduced with a prototyping strategy. Prototyping helps incorporate operational philosophies into the upfront engineering, helps ensure consistent look and feel, and provides a visual medium to communicate designs to the project…

  • Operations Management Blog: Prototyping Key in Manufacturing Execution System Projects

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Five Strategies for Mitigating Automation Project Risk , we highlighted the importance of prototyping: Risks in budget, schedule, changes, and project execution can be reduced with a prototyping strategy. Prototyping helps incorporate operational philosophies into the upfront engineering, helps ensure consistent look and feel, and provides a visual medium to communicate designs to the project…

  • DeltaV Blog: Applying Lambda Tuning to Six Common Control Challenges

    Jim Cahill
    Last year, some controversy broke out in the process automation and control community about the use of Lambda tuning for proportional-integral-derivative (PID)-based control. In a post, Lambda Tuning-Yeah or Neah?, we offered a differing view to a Control magazine article, The Case Against Lambda Tuning. Emerson’s Mark Coughran has written an excellent whitepaper that is […] Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: Utilizing DeltaV Advanced Control Innovations

    Terry Blevins
    Several Meet the Expects workshops are schedule on the last day of Emerson Exchange. As part of this effort, Willy Wojsznis and I co-hosted a workshop this year titled Utilizing DeltaV Advanced Control Innovations to Improve Control Performance. In this workshop we explore and discuss innovative features of the DeltaV PID and embedded Advanced Control … Continue reading » Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: Process Education on Demand

    Terry Blevins
    In Emerson’s boot camp for new engineers, I teach the portion on process control based on our book Control Loop Foundation – Batch and Continuous Processes. Each student receives a copy of this book. Customer may receive the same process control training by attending a 4 ½ day class, Control Loop Foundation – 9025, offered … Continue reading » Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: New Batch Analytics Deployment Whitepaper

    Larry Griffin
    This document examines the preparation and deployment process for the DeltaV Batch Analytics feature of the DeltaV™ Professional Batch product. (200KB PDF) Read the full text.

  • Operations Management Blog: Fluidized Bed and Bin Blender PAT Applications

    Jim Cahill
    In the early 2000s, a Wall Street Journal article, New Prescription For Drug Makers: Update the Plants, shared the news: The FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] has concluded that the industry needs to adopt manufacturing innovations, partly to raise...

  • Operations Management Blog: Fluidized Bed and Bin Blender PAT Applications

    Jim Cahill
    In the early 2000s, a Wall Street Journal article, New Prescription For Drug Makers: Update the Plants , shared the news: The FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] has concluded that the industry needs to adopt manufacturing innovations, partly to raise quality standards. The agency is overhauling its elaborate manufacturing regulations for the first time in 25 years. So over the past decade, the Life Sciences…

  • Operations Management Blog: Fluidized Bed and Bin Blender PAT Applications

    Jim Cahill
    In the early 2000s, a Wall Street Journal article, New Prescription For Drug Makers: Update the Plants , shared the news: The FDA [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] has concluded that the industry needs to adopt manufacturing innovations, partly to raise quality standards. The agency is overhauling its elaborate manufacturing regulations for the first time in 25 years. So over the past decade, the Life Sciences…

  • Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Separate Versus Integral Final Element Accessories in Safety Applications

    Jim Cahill
    Final elements such as safety shutdown valves, emergency isolation valves, blowdown valves, etc., in safety instrumented functions (SIFs) are equipped with various accessories such as digital valve controllers, solenoid valves (SOV), and volume boosters...

  • DeltaV Blog: ISA Automation Week – Nov 5-7

    Terry Blevins
    ISA Automation Week is one of the major conferences conducted each year in North American. This year the conference will be held November 5-7 at the Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, TN. The convention center is convenient to reach – just eight miles away from the Nashville International Airport. A number of standards groups conduct meetings … Continue reading » Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: Updated DeltaV SIS with IS Electronic Marshalling Product Data Sheet

    Larry Griffin
    The DeltaV SIS process safety system has the world’s first CHARMs Smart SIS Logic Solver, using the power of predictive intelligence to increase the availability of the entire safety instrumented function in combination with the advantages of the Emerson Electronic Marshalling solution, using Intrinsically Safe (IS) LS CHARMs. (1.8MB PDF) Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: Operator Training System for Deepwater Oil and Gas Redevelopment Project

    Jim Cahill
    One of the reoccurring themes I heard at the recent Emerson Exchange conference for process manufacturers modernizing their control systems was the early engagement of operators in training systems. I met with Emerson’s Ronnie Bains a few months back who is involved in many operator training system (OTS) projects, as part of the Strategic Services […] Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: “Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close up”

    Bruce Greenwald
    So here’s a shameless plug for a great YouTube video that’s about to go viral. For use with our Electronic Marshalling, we’ve released the CHARM Diagnostic App for the iPhone for interpreting and diagnosing the LED lights on CIOC Characterization Modules. Using either the built in camera or manual detection, the color and blink rate of the CHARM’s LED is translated into useful diagnostic information.…

  • DeltaV Blog: Production Upsets Averted with SHM

    Anna Velena
    A system specialist in one of our customer sites called in sick one day leaving no one to monitor a recipe PC which was starting to run out of disk space. This could have resulted to a potential lock-up which would have jeopardized production. In another site, the temperatures of several network switches were increasing beyond the prescribed limits due to a malfunctioning AC. The hardware could have been destroyed…

  • DeltaV Blog: Addressing Control in the Presence of Process and Measurement Noise

    Terry Blevins
    When a measurement used in a control application is characterized by a significant amount of process or measurement noise then to avoid taking control action on noise filtering may be applied in the transmitter or in the control system. However, when traditional filtering techniques are used it is necessary to increase the PID reset time … Continue reading » Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: DeltaV SIS with Electronic Marshalling has been chosen as the 2013 exida Safety Awards winner

    Sergio Diaz
    Exida, a technical authority and certification agency, announced that, DeltaV SIS with Electronic Marshalling has been chosen as the 2013 exida Safety Awards winner in the Logic Solvers category. The awards are meant to honor the most outstanding functional safety products certified by exida per IEC 61508. This award demostrate the exceptional features of DeltaV SIS with Electronic Marshalling as modern Safety Instrumented…

  • DeltaV Blog: Virtuallization Technology is Solving Real Problems here...

    chowyang.neo
    For the longest of time, I have always struggled whenever being asked about how Engineering or Operator Workstations can have redundant or backup solution. We could talk about RAID 5 solution, we can talk about expensive Redundant Servers from Marathon or Stratus etc...but it has always been a difficult conversation. I see the need but the solution is just half way there....UNTIL NOW.... I am really quite impressed…

  • DeltaV Blog: Be sure to get to the DeltaV roadmap sessions

    BobHuba
    Come and Meet Claudio the new DeltaV marketing director. He has a nice concise DeltaV message on v12 and a look into the future...

  • DeltaV Blog: Meet The Expert Workshops – Emerson Exchange

    Terry Blevins
    On the last day of Emerson Exchange, Friday, October 5, a number of Meet the Expert workshops are scheduled.  This year the future architecture team will host two Meet the Expert workshops:  MTE-5524 – Utilizing DeltaV Advanced Control Innovations to Improve Control Performance | Terry Blevins, Willy Wojsznis at 8-9:30am in Dallas 4 and 10-11:30 … Continue reading » Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: Evolving Role to Integrated Business Operator

    Jim Cahill
    As we make final preparations for the Emerson Exchange Americas conference in Dallas next week, I wanted to highlight article by Emerson’s Jeff Dymond. The Control Engineering article, The role of the new integrated business operator in an iOps environment, highlights: A new type of operator that understands the needs of the business, when placed […] Read the full text.

  • DeltaV Blog: Get More Descriptive with your Alarms in DeltaV v12

    Bruce Greenwald
    Sometimes it’s easier to get your point across with less; other times you wish you had more time or room to explain yourself. Submitting an abstract for Emerson Exchange is like that – you end up having to be creative to get your point across in the limited number of characters you’re allotted. One place you hate to be limited is in your alarms. The more information you can provide your operators, the better…

  • DeltaV Blog: Cybersecurity and OPC .NET

    Jim Cahill
    Cybersecurity remains a top concern for process manufacturers around the globe. This is due to the fact that threats are increasing, automation and IT staffs are demanding comprehensive security, regulations and standards are emerging, and proactive measures...

  • DeltaV Blog: Continuous Data Analytics – Field Trail Results

    Terry Blevins
    Over the last two years the future architecture team has conducted field tests of a continuous data analytics capability for quality parameter prediction and process and measurement fault detection. This continuous data analytics capability is addressed in Chapter 9 of Advanced Control Foundation – Tools, Techniques and Applications. The workshop for this chapter is designed … Continue reading » Read the full text.

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