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DeltaV Blog: Maximizing ROI: Integrated Simulation Delivers Value Across the Plant Lifecycle

Jim Cahill

It has been interesting to watch the recent shift in the attitude toward simulation technologies over the last five or so years. What used to be a “nice to have” add on to a capital project has become, for many organizations, a go-to technology for business success. Companies are under more pressure than ever to […]
- 25 Feb 2025
DeltaV Blog: Turning Carbon Capture into a Revenue Stream

Jim Cahill

In an article published in both Hydrocarbon Processing and Gas Processing & LNG, Emerson’s Seth Harris examines the technologies necessary to create a revenue stream from carbon capture.
- 20 Feb 2025
DeltaV Blog: From Control to Connectivity: Modernizing the DCS for Data-Driven Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

It’s not often that we get a new take on the distributed control system (DCS). After all, the DCS has been a process manufacturing staple for decades, bringing together independent applications and processes for increased stability, and, in the case of the DeltaV DCS, powerful data contextualization. Not only has the DCS been around for […]
- 18 Feb 2025
Ovation Blog: The Evolution of Solar Farms Leans Smarter, Faster, and Digitalized

Jim Cahill

Few people still working in the industry today likely remember the earliest solar production facilities, which operated more like traditional generation plants than their modern counterparts. Unlike those old sites, using solar collectors to produce steam and turn turbines, today’s operations are nearly entirely digital. As the solar plants have changed, so, too, have their […]
- 11 Feb 2025
DeltaV Blog: Deadtime Compensated PID versus Smith Predictor Control

Jim Cahill

A fascinating ControlGlobal.com article compares performance between Smith predictor & deadtime-compensated PID in lag-dominant processes.
- 31 Jan 2025
DeltaV Blog: Industrial Cybersecurity Navigates a New Normal

Jim Cahill

Cybersecurity is a critical concern for industrial manufacturers these days, particularly as high-profile incidents targeting plants have become the new normal. No organization wants to risk the production loss, safety concerns, and reputation damage that come with a cyber-attack. However, these same organizations are struggling to manage their cybersecurity posture. The defense-in-depth strategies, firewalls, and [……
- 28 Jan 2025
DeltaV Blog: Managing process knowledge throughout drug development and manufacturing

Jim Cahill

Digital transformation can be described as the integration of digital technology to create new business processes to meet changing market requirements. Within the life sciences industry, the market is demanding accelerated development and availability of new therapies. Digital transformation is helping the industry by providing the opportunity to execute tasks throughout the product development chain […]
- 20 Jan 2025
DeltaV Blog: Virtualization Delivers Results

Jim Cahill

We hear a lot these days about the value of IIoT technologies and how they will change the way OT teams operate. However, in many cases, the added complexity of IIoT solutions can be difficult for teams to navigate. Effectively implementing IIoT technology into an existing infrastructure takes careful consideration and planning and requires an […]
- 14 Jan 2025
DeltaV Blog: For Life Sciences Data, Context is Critical

Jim Cahill

As systems become increasingly interconnected, we talk more and more about the importance of data and, more specifically, the need to get data to the right people, in the right format, at the right time, wherever they may be. This initiative has become even more imperative as operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) converge. […]
- 7 Jan 2025
DeltaV Blog: Break Down the Barriers to Digital Transformation

Jim Cahill

There are lots of reasons why aging, legacy automation systems can be barriers to effective digital transformation. The most obvious reason is that legacy systems are typically complex to connect to new analytics systems, as those systems are rarely designed for seamless integration with technology that may be decades old. As Aaron Crews explains in […]
- 8 Nov 2024
DeltaV Blog: Simplifying Recipe Creation in the Life Sciences Podcast

Jim Cahill

Melissa Lee & Kebra Tynan join Jim Cahill in this podcast to discuss how Emerson is helping Life Sciences manufacturers address drug development lifecycle challenges with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) based workflow management solution.
- 7 Nov 2024
DeltaV Blog: Cybersecurity Strategies for the Rise of Next-Gen Automation

Jim Cahill

Today’s most successful organizations are facing a wide variety of new challenges: a need for increased flexibility, a push toward more sustainable operations, a shrinking experienced workforce, and more. Meeting those challenges will require unlocking the next generation of automation, such as a Boundless Automation vision for unshackling data and driving efficiency from the field […]
- 22 Oct 2024
DeltaV Blog: Delivering on the Promise of Industry 4.0

Jim Cahill

We finally got our wish. Industry 4.0 delivered a wide array of new technologies—sensors, edge devices, mobile devices, and more—that now collect, and sometimes deliver, massive amounts of data from every asset imaginable. However, that leaves a lot of organizations asking, “Was that it? I thought Industry 4.0 was supposed to usher in the next […]
- 15 Oct 2024
DeltaV Blog: Enabling Boundless Automation in the Life Sciences Industry

Jim Cahill

Several of our recent Life Sciences podcasts have featured conversations about the rapid shifts taking place in this dynamic industry. Automation and information management technology are rapidly advancing to help address these challenges. In a recent Emerson Innovations article, Automation Innovation Delivers Boundless Opportunities for Life Sciences Industry, business leader for Emerson’s process systems and […]
- 10 Oct 2024
DeltaV Blog: Manufacturing Execution Systems for Greater Digital Maturity Podcast

Jim Cahill

Johan Zebib joins Jim Cahill in an Emerson Automation Experts podcast to share how MES addresses many of the challenges for higher quality, and more efficient and reliable production in the pharmaceutical & biopharmaceutical manufacturing industries.
- 9 Oct 2024
Ovation Blog: Power Play: Generative AI “Toys” will Shape the Future of Automation

Jim Cahill

Hopefully by now you’ve had some fun playing around with some of the many Generative AI tools available for free across the internet. Whether you’ve asked ChatGPT to write some poetry for Mother’s Day or tested out the powerful image rendering capabilities of Midjourney, or used DeepAI to colorize some old family photos, there are […]
- 8 Oct 2024
DeltaV Blog: Power Play: Generative AI “Toys” will Shape the Future of Automation

Jim Cahill

Hopefully by now you’ve had some fun playing around with some of the many Generative AI tools available for free across the internet. Whether you’ve asked ChatGPT to write some poetry for Mother’s Day or tested out the powerful image rendering capabilities of Midjourney, or used DeepAI to colorize some old family photos, there are […]
- 8 Oct 2024
Ovation Blog: Solar and Battery Storage Success Comes from Data-Driven Operations

Jim Cahill

One of the most exciting things about the rise of solar energy as a viable technology has been witnessing just how quickly solar operations around the globe have grown in scale. Today’s utility-scale solar farms can be huge, generating hundreds or thousands of megawatts of power and making a significant contribution to the grid. With […]
- 1 Oct 2024
Ovation Blog: Ovation PID Enhancements

Jim Cahill

At the 2024 Ovation Users Conference, Emerson’s Matt Cimino presented What's New in PID Algorithm Enhancements. The new Ovation DCS enhancements will be shown and how they can be used to improve upon PID control.
- 26 Sep 2024
Ovation Blog: Turn Excess Energy into Flexibility with H2

Jim Cahill

Whether it is utilities generating the electricity that powers homes and businesses around the globe, or more localized power facilities providing generation for industrial processing plants, such as oil cracking or chemical manufacturing, modern power generation is far less predictable than it was just five or ten years ago. Renewables are hot at the moment, […]
- 24 Sep 2024
Ovation Blog: The Power of Modern Simulation

Jim Cahill

The continuing changes in the electrical grid that have come as a result of the shift toward more renewable energy have dramatically increased complexity of power generation and distribution operations. Operators not only need to keep a close eye on their plants to ensure they are supplying (and not over-supplying) adequate power, but they also […]
- 17 Sep 2024
Ovation Blog: Improving Productivity with Ovation Object Builder

Jim Cahill

At the 2024 Ovation Users Group Conference, Emerson’s Steven Hutchinson presented What’s Coming in Ovation 4.0: Object Builder.
- 12 Sep 2024
DeltaV Blog: Life Sciences and Automation Companies Deliver the Future—Together

Jim Cahill

In the life sciences, bringing treatments to market quicker is no longer a bonus. Today, accelerating the treatment development pipeline is an expectation—arguably a core value—of the world’s most respected pharmaceutical companies. The pipeline for the COVID vaccine showed us that it was possible to operate differently, and companies around the globe have not only […]
- 10 Sep 2024
Ovation Blog: Optimizing Combined Cycle Operations

Jim Cahill

Emerson’s James Nyenhuis, Ranjit Rao, and Jonathan Gillam presented Consistent and Optimal Combined Cycle Operations at the 2024 Ovation Users Group Conference.
- 4 Sep 2024
Ovation Blog: Security for Cloud-Based Applications

Jim Cahill

Alejandro Cruz and Nick Janouskovec presented Cloud & Security for Cloud Environments at the 2024 Ovation Users Group conference and shared cybersecurity standards and guidelines for electrical power generation companies.
- 21 Aug 2024