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  • SCADA Blog: Reducing Unaccounted Oil and Gas Production Uncertainty

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Michael Machuca Management of well pad inventory, allocation and custody transfers encompasses multiple operations that contribute to overall production management uncertainty. The accumulated measurement errors and variability in operations within a storage system can quickly add up to a significant level of uncertainty. Higher levels of uncertainty reduce the prospect for timely insight into problematic…

  • Safety Instrumented Systems Blog: Testing Valves in Safety Instrumented Functions

    Jim Cahill
    Safety instrumented systems are a critical part of process manufacturers and producers overall process safety management in protecting personnel, environment, equipment, property, reputation and image. In an Offshore Engineer article, Safety Instrumented Function loop ‘final element’ problems and solutions , Emerson’s Riyaz Ali describes the importance and ways to test the final control elements in these safety loops…

  • DeltaV Blog: Krohne Optiflex 2200 Rev1 Successfully Passes Emerson-DeltaV Interoperability Test

    Larry Griffin
    In Emerson’s continuing commitment to open and interoperable standards, the Krohne Optiflex 2200 Rev1 has passed the rigorous and comprehensive testing of the DeltaV Stress Test labs. Using the Device Installation Kits for Emerson Products website at  http://www2.emersonprocess.com/en-US/documentation/deviceinstallkits/Pages/deviceinstallkitsearch.aspx , these fieldbus device files are now available for use.

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrating Single Use Equipment More Easily with Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems

    Jim Cahill
    One of the trends in the biopharmaceutical industries that have taken root over the past decade and a half is the use of single-use, disposable equipment in the manufacturing process. Prior to their use, these facilities relied on inflexible, hard-piped equipment. An American Pharmaceutical Review article highlights the benefits of single-use equipment: Single-use disposable devices and systems have reduced overall…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrating Single Use Equipment More Easily with Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems

    Jim Cahill
    One of the trends in the biopharmaceutical industries that have taken root over the past decade and a half is the use of single-use, disposable equipment in the manufacturing process. Prior to their use, these facilities relied on inflexible, hard-piped equipment. An American Pharmaceutical Review article highlights the benefits of single-use equipment: Single-use disposable devices and systems have reduced overall…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrating Single Use Equipment More Easily with Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems

    Jim Cahill
    One of the trends in the biopharmaceutical industries that have taken root over the past decade and a half is the use of single-use, disposable equipment in the manufacturing process. Prior to their use, these facilities relied on inflexible, hard-piped equipment. An American Pharmaceutical Review article highlights the benefits of single-use equipment: Single-use disposable devices and systems have reduced overall…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrating Single Use Equipment More Easily with Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems

    Jim Cahill
    One of the trends in the biopharmaceutical industries that have taken root over the past decade and a half is the use of single-use, disposable equipment in the manufacturing process. Prior to their use, these facilities relied on inflexible, hard-piped equipment. An American Pharmaceutical Review article highlights the benefits of single-use equipment: Single-use disposable devices and systems have reduced overall…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrating Single Use Equipment More Easily with Control and Manufacturing Execution Systems

    Jim Cahill
    One of the trends in the biopharmaceutical industries that have taken root over the past decade and a half is the use of single-use, disposable equipment in the manufacturing process. Prior to their use, these facilities relied on inflexible, hard-piped equipment. An American Pharmaceutical Review article highlights the benefits of single-use equipment: Single-use disposable devices and systems have reduced overall…

  • DeltaV Blog: Retirement, Fond Memories

    Terry Blevins
    I am retiring from Emerson later this month. It has been a real pleasure working at Emerson and to share with subscribers of this blog some of my work on control and simulation. I greatly appreciate the many opportunities I had to help shape the control capability in DeltaV, to lead the function block application work in ISP and FF, contribute to ISA and IEC standards committees, to lead the development of DeltaV Advanced…

  • DeltaV Blog: Optimizing the Ammonia Production Process

    Jim Cahill
    James Gremillion Author: James Gremillion One of the earliest applications of “computer control”, a now archaic term, on an ammonia plant was done in 1969 by Weissenfelder and Shah of Borden Chemical and IBM respectively. They were able to implement advanced control schemes in a computer that had proven to be too difficult to do in the pneumatic and electronic controllers of the time. Ammonia production increased…

  • DeltaV Blog: Flexible Operations for Changing Ethane Market Conditions

    Jim Cahill
    In an RBN Energy blog post, The Yellow Rose Of Texas: Battle Of Texas Ethane Begins As Cargo #1 Departs Morgan’s Point , it not only gives a great history lesson on the origins of the Yellow Rose of Texas, but also the market dynamics for ethane production. It highlights the challenge that shale gas production has created for midstream producers: That’s because the Shale Revolution led to huge increases in wet natural…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrated Biometric Authentication in Electronic Records

    Jim Cahill
    How many of you have more passwords than you can possibly remember? Count me in with the affirmatives. Biometric authentication is one way to overcome this large and growing problem. For process manufacturers and producers, especially those in highly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, authenticated actions also need to be recorded to prove that the manufacturing process was…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrated Biometric Authentication in Electronic Records

    Jim Cahill
    How many of you have more passwords than you can possibly remember? Count me in with the affirmatives. Biometric authentication is one way to overcome this large and growing problem. For process manufacturers and producers, especially those in highly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, authenticated actions also need to be recorded to prove that the manufacturing process was…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrated Biometric Authentication in Electronic Records

    Jim Cahill
    How many of you have more passwords than you can possibly remember? Count me in with the affirmatives. Biometric authentication is one way to overcome this large and growing problem. For process manufacturers and producers, especially those in highly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, authenticated actions also need to be recorded to prove that the manufacturing process was…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrated Biometric Authentication in Electronic Records

    Jim Cahill
    How many of you have more passwords than you can possibly remember? Count me in with the affirmatives. Biometric authentication is one way to overcome this large and growing problem. For process manufacturers and producers, especially those in highly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, authenticated actions also need to be recorded to prove that the manufacturing process was…

  • Operations Management Blog: Integrated Biometric Authentication in Electronic Records

    Jim Cahill
    How many of you have more passwords than you can possibly remember? Count me in with the affirmatives. Biometric authentication is one way to overcome this large and growing problem. For process manufacturers and producers, especially those in highly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, authenticated actions also need to be recorded to prove that the manufacturing process was…

  • DeltaV Blog: DeltaV and AMS Interoperability Testing for Hawk Measurement Sultan Acoustic Wave Rev 1 DD Rev 1 (Integral/Remote Unit)

    Larry Griffin
    In Emerson’s continuing commitment to open and interoperable standards, the Hawk Measurement Sultan Acoustic Wave Rev 1 DD Rev 1 (Integral/Remote Unit) has passed the rigorous and comprehensive testing of the DeltaV Stress Test labs. Using the Device Installation Kits for Emerson Products website at  http://www2.emersonprocess.com/en-US/documentation/deviceinstallkits/Pages/deviceinstallkitsearch.aspx , these fieldbus…

  • DeltaV Blog: DeltaV and AMS Interoperability Testing for Yokogawa FLXA21 SC Rev 1 FF

    Larry Griffin
    In Emerson’s continuing commitment to open and interoperable standards, the Yokogawa FLXA21 SC Rev 1 FF has passed the rigorous and comprehensive testing of the DeltaV Stress Test labs. Using the Device Installation Kits for Emerson Products website at  http://www2.emersonprocess.com/en-US/documentation/deviceinstallkits/Pages/deviceinstallkitsearch.aspx , these fieldbus device files are now available for use.

  • DeltaV Blog: DeltaV and AMS Interoperability Testing for Vega Vegaflex 80 Rev 2 FF

    Larry Griffin
    In Emerson’s continuing commitment to open and interoperable standards, the Vega Vegaflex 80 Rev 2 FF has passed the rigorous and comprehensive testing of the DeltaV Stress Test labs. Using the Device Installation Kits for Emerson Products website at  http://www2.emersonprocess.com/en-US/documentation/deviceinstallkits/Pages/deviceinstallkitsearch.aspx , these fieldbus device files are now available for use.

  • DeltaV Blog: Wireless Model Predictive Control Applied for Dividing Wall Column Control

    Terry Blevins
    Willy Wojsznis presented a paper on Wireless Model Predictive Control Applied for Dividing Wall Column Control at the Second International Conference on Event-Based Control , Communication and Signal Processing, EBCCSP2016. This paper was co-authored by me and Mark Nixon and Bailee Roach, University of Texas at Austin. The Conference was held at the Department of computer science of the AGH University of Science and Technology…

  • DeltaV Blog: Automatic Control: Future Challenges, Solutions, and Systems

    Terry Blevins
    I had the pleasure of attending the Second International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication and Signal Processing EBCCSP2016, Krakow, Poland, June 13-15, 2016. On the first day of the conference I gave an industrial keynote presentation on Automatic Control: Future Challenges, Solutions, and Systems. Also, Willy Wojsznis attended the conference and presented a paper. Below is a picture of Willy and me at…

  • DeltaV Blog: DeltaV and AMS Interoperability Testing of GE Sensing XMT868i Rev 3

    Larry Griffin
    In Emerson’s continuing commitment to open and interoperable standards, the GE Sensing XMT868i Rev 3 has passed the rigorous and comprehensive testing of the DeltaV Stress Test labs. Using the Device Installation Kits for Emerson Products website at  http://www2.emersonprocess.com/en-US/documentation/deviceinstallkits/Pages/deviceinstallkitsearch.aspx , these fieldbus device files are now available for use.

  • SCADA Blog: Improving Gas Well Economics via Casing Flow Management

    Jim Cahill
    According the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) , the U.S. remains the largest oil & gas producer : [tweet https://twitter.com/EIAgov/status/734716618228535297 ] Shale oil and gas production has significantly helped secure this leadership position since 2012. The downside of shale oil & gas production are the rapid decline rates for the producing wells. In a World Oil article, Accelerated production…

  • SCADA Blog: Improving Gas Well Economics via Casing Flow Management

    Jim Cahill
    According the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) , the U.S. remains the largest oil & gas producer : [tweet https://twitter.com/EIAgov/status/734716618228535297 ] Shale oil and gas production has significantly helped secure this leadership position since 2012. The downside of shale oil & gas production are the rapid decline rates for the producing wells. In a World Oil article, Accelerated production…

  • SCADA Blog: Improving Gas Well Economics via Casing Flow Management

    Jim Cahill
    According the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) , the U.S. remains the largest oil & gas producer : Today in #Energy : U.S. remains largest producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons https://t.co/A9m92F9CnW pic.twitter.com/5WLl14gwne — EIA (@EIAgov) May 23, 2016 Shale oil and gas production has significantly helped secure this leadership position since 2012. The downside of shale oil & gas…

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