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Operations Management Blog:
Continuous Manufacturing for Solid Dose Form Pharmaceuticals
Jim Cahill
Emerson’s Jonathan Lustri explores the trend towards continuous manufacturing for solid dose pharmaceuticals and the technologies and practices that make this possible. This past year I have become aware of a very big change that is coming to the pharmaceutical industry in the area of manufacturing solid dose form pharmaceuticals. The manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets is moving from its traditional batch process…
19 Dec 2013
Operations Management Blog:
Continuous Manufacturing for Solid Dose Form Pharmaceuticals
Jim Cahill
Emerson’s Jonathan Lustri explores the trend towards continuous manufacturing for solid dose pharmaceuticals and the technologies and practices that make this possible. This past year I have become aware of a very big change that is coming to the pharmaceutical industry in the area of manufacturing solid dose form pharmaceuticals. The manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets is moving from its traditional batch process…
19 Dec 2013
Operations Management Blog:
Continuous Manufacturing for Solid Dose Form Pharmaceuticals
Jim Cahill
Emerson’s Jonathan Lustri explores the trend towards continuous manufacturing for solid dose pharmaceuticals and the technologies and practices that make this possible. This past year I have become aware of a very big change that is coming to the pharmaceutical industry in the area of manufacturing solid dose form pharmaceuticals. The manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets is moving from its traditional batch process…
19 Dec 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Willy Wojsznis – ISA Fellow
Terry Blevins
The International Society of Automation (ISA) Fellow grade is provided to qualified senior ISA members who have made exceptional engineering or scientific contributions to the field of automation that advance the state of the art. Nomination requires a minimum of five Fellow evaluators or a combination of nine Fellows and Senior Members. The candidates nominated … Continue reading » Read the full text.
16 Dec 2013
DeltaV Blog:
More on Foundation Fieldbus and HART
Jim Cahill
I wanted to bring visibility to several recent comments from an earlier post, Major Difference between Foundation Fieldbus and HART Protocols. Here’s the summation thought from the first comment: …With one software package, and as put above with HART pass-through, you can document EVERY HART instrument on site, and THEN with Plantweb, monitor the lot […] Read the full text.
11 Dec 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Using Wireless Measurements In Control Applications
Terry Blevins
Wireless transmitters may be preferred in applications where new measurements are required since the cost may be lower than that associated with installing wired transmitters. However, there is a significant differences in the frequency and manner in which a new measurement value is updated by a wired transmitter vs. a wireless transmitter. Such differences must … Continue reading » Read the full text.
9 Dec 2013
Operations Management Blog:
Bridging Islands of Automation
Jim Cahill
While integration technologies have helped bridge “islands of automation” over the years, some process manufacturers still have parts of their automated processes disconnected from the rest. Emerson’s Gary Mitchell, a senior industry consultant on the...
5 Dec 2013
Operations Management Blog:
Bridging Islands of Automation
Jim Cahill
While integration technologies have helped bridge “islands of automation” over the years, some process manufacturers still have parts of their automated processes disconnected from the rest. Emerson’s Gary Mitchell , a senior industry consultant on the Life Sciences industry team, shares some recent experiences on bridging these islands. I’m spending a lot of my time recently with both existing and potential customers…
5 Dec 2013
Operations Management Blog:
Bridging Islands of Automation
Jim Cahill
While integration technologies have helped bridge “islands of automation” over the years, some process manufacturers still have parts of their automated processes disconnected from the rest. Emerson’s Gary Mitchell , a senior industry consultant on the Life Sciences industry team, shares some recent experiences on bridging these islands. I’m spending a lot of my time recently with both existing and potential customers…
5 Dec 2013
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Flame Detection and Minimizing False Alarms
Jim Cahill
Process manufacturers with hazardous areas in their process are responsible for the safety of the process through the IEC 61511 safety lifecycle—from initial design through decommissioning. Flame monitoring is often an important component in risk mitigation...
3 Dec 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Updated Dual Monitor Workstation Product Data Sheet
Larry Griffin
The DeltaV Dual Monitor Workstation offers a larger viewing area, driven from a single keyboard and mouse. (333KB PDF) Read the full text.
3 Dec 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Updated DeltaV Touchscreen Product Data Sheet
Larry Griffin
Touch and lift to easily manage your process with the intuitive DeltaV Operator Touchscreen interface. (93KB PDF) Read the full text.
3 Dec 2013
DeltaV Blog:
New DeltaV Virtualization – High Availability and Disaster Recovery Whitepaper
Larry Griffin
This whitepaper describes High Availability and Disaster Recovery features supported by DeltaV Virtual Studio. (1.18MB PDF) Read the full text.
3 Dec 2013
DeltaV Blog:
FDI for Device Integration
Terry Blevins
The scope of the ISA104 committee, Device Integration, was modified last year to include adoption and support of the Field Device Integration (FDI) standard (IEC 62769). To help promote the benefits of FDI technology in the process industry, four members of the ISA104 committee worked together this year to write and present a paper on … Continue reading » Read the full text.
2 Dec 2013
DeltaV Blog:
ISA104 Meeting at ISA Automation Week
Terry Blevins
The ISA104 standard committee, Device Integration, met on Monday, November 4th, in conjunction with ISA Automation Week in Nashville, TN. The ISA104 committee consists of 30 people from the USA, Singapore, Japan, France, Germany, UK, China, Canada, and Columbia that have varied backgrounds in industry and universities. Committee members that could not travel to Nashville … Continue reading » Read the full text.
25 Nov 2013
DeltaV Blog:
New DeltaV Executive Portal Product Data Sheet
Larry Griffin
The DeltaV Executive Portal provides one place to view all of your process information, giving decision-making tools to people when and where they need it. (420KB PDF) Read the full text.
25 Nov 2013
Operations Management Blog:
Electronic Batch Record Design Considerations
Jim Cahill
Last week, the 2nd International Summit on GMP, GCP & Quality Control was held in Chicago, Illinois USA. Emerson’s Heather Schwalje, a senior Life Sciences consultant, presented Moving beyond part 11; Quality assurance considerations for translating Current...
21 Nov 2013
Operations Management Blog:
Electronic Batch Record Design Considerations
Jim Cahill
Last week, the 2nd International Summit on GMP, GCP & Quality Control was held in Chicago, Illinois USA. Emerson’s Heather Schwalje , a senior Life Sciences consultant, presented Moving beyond part 11; Quality assurance considerations for translating Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) compliance into Electronic Batch Record (eBR) initiatives. Her discussion centered around three areas: eBR definition and ISA…
21 Nov 2013
Operations Management Blog:
Electronic Batch Record Design Considerations
Jim Cahill
Last week, the 2nd International Summit on GMP, GCP & Quality Control was held in Chicago, Illinois USA. Emerson’s Heather Schwalje , a senior Life Sciences consultant, presented Moving beyond part 11; Quality assurance considerations for translating Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) compliance into Electronic Batch Record (eBR) initiatives. Her discussion centered around three areas: eBR definition and ISA…
21 Nov 2013
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Functional Safety and Tank Overfill Prevention
Jim Cahill
As global oil and gas production continues to fan out to new areas, the need for storage tanks and terminal facilities as part of the distribution processes increases. Making sure those tanks are not overfilled is paramount for safety, environmental protection...
18 Nov 2013
DeltaV Blog:
What’s all the buzz around the new ISA-106 committee and Unit Based Control?
Bryan Jones
The ISA 106 standard will impact continuous process industry procedures in the future. Below is an update that answers some of the questions you might have on the standard and links to the technical report you may find interesting. Formed in 2010, the committee is focused on recommending best practices to automating procedures in continuous process industries. The team is diverse including representatives from Oil…
18 Nov 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Raymond D. Molloy Award
Terry Blevins
In early October, 2013, Willy Wojsznis, Mark Nixon and I were notified by the ISA Publications Department that we were the recipients of the “Raymond D. Molloy Award”. The book we co-authored, Advanced Control Foundation: Tools, Techniques, and Applications, sold the most units of any new book published by ISA in 2012. The publication award’s … Continue reading » Read the full text.
18 Nov 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Press Release: Emerson’s automation safety system wins 2013 exida Safety Award
Larry Griffin
Safety certification body cites innovative design, flexibility, and cyber-security in selection of DeltaV SIS™ with Electronic Marshalling AUSTIN, TEXAS (November 14, 2013) – Emerson’s DeltaV safety instrumented system (SIS) has been granted the 2013 Safety Award by exida, the global leader in functional safety and cybersecurity certification for the process industries. exida recognized the DeltaV [...] Read the full…
15 Nov 2013
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
10 Ways to Improve Functional Safety
Jim Cahill
ISA Portugal recently hosted a conference on functional safety. Emerson’s Russell Cockman, whom you may recall from earlier safety-related posts, presented 10 ways to improve functional safety without worrying where to put the decimal point in the calculation...
13 Nov 2013
DeltaV Blog:
Application of On-line Data Analytics to a Continuous Process Polybutene Unit
Terry Blevins
Lubrizol Corporation has installed at the Deer Park, TX plant a field trail version of Emerson’s Continuous Data Analytics capability. Over the last year Qiwei Li, production engineer, and Robert Wojewodka, Technology Manager and Statistician, have developed PCA/PLS models to predict quality parameter and detect faults for the Polybutene and refrigerant compressor units at the … Continue reading » Read the full text.
11 Nov 2013
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