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Operations Management Blog: Live John Berra WBF Keynote – Small Victories Mean Big Improvements

Jim Cahill

The WBF – The Organization for Production Technology is holding their annual North American conference this week with the theme, Sharpening the Tools of Manufacturing. John Berra, Chairman Emerson Process Management (Retired) will be delivering the keynote...
- 23 May 2011
DeltaV Blog: 35 Years of Extraordinary PID Innovations

Gregory K McMillan

The Best Tuning of a PID Controller Is Knowledge of the Process Dynamics Read the full text.
- 12 May 2011
DeltaV Blog: Ultimate Limits to Performance

Gregory K McMillan

Whether You Are Talking About Advanced PID Control or Model-Predictive Control, the Final Control Element Determine How Well You Can Achieve Your Control Objectives Read the full text.
- 11 Apr 2011
Operations Management Blog: How We Manage Our Companies

Jim Cahill

Dave Beckmann, a consultant, motivational speaker, and retired Emerson Process Management senior vice president, has a thought-provoking article on ControlGlobal.com, The Future of Process Management. His message is on the need to change the way we manage...
- 7 Apr 2011
Operations Management Blog: Planning an Electronic Document Management Project

Jim Cahill

It’s great that Tim Alosi, from Emerson local business partner, New England Controls, was in town this past week. He saw the recent post, Shrinking Batch Record Creation Time and Document Management Complexity. Repligen is one of New England Controls...
- 28 Mar 2011
Operations Management Blog: Shrinking Batch Record Creation Time and Document Management Complexity

Jim Cahill

I was digging around for the story behind the story of a biotech manufacturer, Repligen’s improved compliance through document management project. Emerson’s Lynn Richard was the solution architect who worked with the Repligen team. Given the production...
- 23 Mar 2011
DeltaV Blog: The Future is Virtually Here

Gregory K McMillan

What's leading to virtualization? The IT Industry Looked for Ways to Manage Costs, and Came Up With the Idea of "Server Farms" Read the full text.
- 17 Mar 2011
DeltaV Blog: Tricking out Aliases, Part 2

Bruce Greenwald

Scott Thompson's commnet to my last post was a good one. He couldn't include a screenshot example in his comment, so I'll share it with y'all: Did you know that you can also use multiple aliases in a single line of code? In the last action example...
- 10 Mar 2011
DeltaV Blog: Tricking Out Aliases

Bruce Greenwald

I’ve been delinquent in blog entries, and while I’ve had several topics floating around in my head, finding the time to get something posted has been tough. I’m not making excuses, but it’s been really busy around here lately. So it took the above video...
- 7 Mar 2011
DeltaV Blog: Operators Unleashed

Gregory K McMillan

If the People On the Front Line Have an Understanding of the Process Relationships, the Result Can Be Truly Remarkable Read the full text.
- 15 Feb 2011
DeltaV Blog: The Virtual Plant - Better than the Real Thing

Gregory K McMillan

When the Virtual Plant Came, the Window to the Future Opened Read the full text.
- 14 Jan 2011
DeltaV Blog: The Final Word on Instrument Upgrade Projects

Gregory K McMillan

A Wrap Up of Measurements and Actuators, Valuable Advice for Projects, and an Amusing, Insightful List of "Things You Don't Want to Hear on Start-up" Read the full text.
- 8 Dec 2010
DeltaV Blog: $IDLE_TIME is the Blue Devils Playground

Bruce Greenwald

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a hot topic these days, and again shows the interactions going on between levels 0, 1, 2 and level 3 of the S95 model. Folks are exploiting the features and functions of DCS platforms to provide intelligence towards...
- 3 Dec 2010
DeltaV Blog: Retrofit Projects - Getting Flows Right

Gregory K McMillan

What Are the Biggest Problems With Getting the Right Control Valves? Read the full text.
- 12 Nov 2010
DeltaV Blog: The Wide World of Wireless

Bruce Greenwald

We had a full house last week here in Charlotte, as we played host to a large group from the Savannah River Site. The focus of the three days was Wireless HART (WiHART) networks, and we had extensive, hands-on sessions. Security was a primary focus...
- 9 Nov 2010
DeltaV Blog: Genentech ECP-1 Award Winner

Bruce Greenwald

We’ve all heard the expression – “Good things come to those who wait” and I guess executing some project work during the winter of 2007/2008 and seeing the positive results almost 3 years later would aptly qualify. Genentech’s ECP-1 facility in Tuas,...
- 26 Oct 2010
DeltaV Blog: Successful Retrofit and Automation Projects

Gregory K McMillan

Discussing Control System Design and Implementation for Retrofit and Automation Projects. What Are the Challenges in Meeting Plant and Corporate Requirements? Read the full text.
- 14 Oct 2010
DeltaV Blog: Update: Prime Time Batch Analytics

Bruce Greenwald

I thought it was worth mentioning that at the Awards Luncheon last Thursday at Emerson Exchange, Steve Sonnenberg, President Emerson Process Management, awarded the PlantWeb Excellence Award to The Lubrizol Corporation and Robert Wojewodka’s paper entitled...
- 4 Oct 2010
DeltaV Blog: Prime Time Batch Analytics

Bruce Greenwald

I mentioned last week that I was helping out at the Emerson Exchange during the technology exhibits for DeltaV Batch. And while we had good traffic from customers (despite my tag as a booth babe), the two areas on either side of us were packed. To the...
- 30 Sep 2010
DeltaV Blog: You Say You Want a (Revo)Solution

Bruce Greenwald

Greeting from San Antonio and the 2010 Emerson Exchange. After two very busy days, I thought I’d share one of the best ideas I’ve seen from Emerson. Spread around the technology exhibits are “Solution” areas. These areas showcase the coming together of...
- 29 Sep 2010
DeltaV Blog: Process Performance Improvement-Part 3

Gregory K McMillan

McMilland and Weiner Concluding Their Interview with Mike Brown. It Focused on the Bottom-Line Performance of Process Control Tools Read the full text.
- 2 Sep 2010
DeltaV Blog: Hot Topic for Emerson Exchange?

Bruce Greenwald

I’ve been following a very interesting discussion thread out on LinkedIn. It’s in the Process Analytical Technology group and it’s entitled “Dangling a Carrot: Should PAT Be Mandated, or Incentivized?” The discussion was started by Paul Thomas, Senior...
- 24 Aug 2010
DeltaV Blog: Process Performance Improvement - Part 2

Gregory K McMillan

Continuation of the Interview with Mike Brown on Performance of Process Control Tools Read the full text.
- 10 Aug 2010
DeltaV Blog: A Lot Less Blood, Sweat, and Tears for the Spinning Wheel

Bruce Greenwald

OK, I really stretched on the title of today’s post, but I feel like I’ve got some added pressure because of Jim Cahill’s blog yesterday on Emerson Process Experts . Yesterday I told you about the new capabilities built right into the DO CHARM in version...
- 21 Jul 2010
DeltaV Blog: Roadrunner Fast

Bruce Greenwald

Awhile back, I wrote about some of the new configuration features I found in version 11.3 DeltaV associated with Emerson’s electronic marshalling and discrete CHARMs. Once we got a hold of our hardware, I started testing out some of these features to...
- 20 Jul 2010