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  • Continuously Diagnosing the Instrumentation Electrical Loop

    My friends in Chanhassen have been hard at work on the usability front. I connected with Emerson’s Alexander Miller to find out what’s the latest with the Rosemount 3051 pressure transmitter . Alex pointed to two new innovative features — Local Operator Interface (LOI) and Power Advisory Diagnostic. I thought we might dig into the Power Advisory Diagnostic more closely in this post, come back, and look at the Local…
  • Detecting Loop Electrical Integrity Issues

    Advanced diagnostics are improving our lives in many ways from healthcare to transportation. And in our world of process automation, they are fundamentally changing the way we operate and manage our plants. In an earlier post, A High-Speed, Statistical...
  • Detecting Loop Electrical Integrity Issues

    Advanced diagnostics are improving our lives in many ways from healthcare to transportation. And in our world of process automation, they are fundamentally changing the way we operate and manage our plants. In an earlier post, A High-Speed, Statistical View for Better Decision Making , I shared how statistical process monitoring (SPM) techniques can help spot plugged impulse lines, furnace flame instability, DP level…
  • Detecting Loop Electrical Integrity Issues

    Advanced diagnostics are improving our lives in many ways from healthcare to transportation. And in our world of process automation, they are fundamentally changing the way we operate and manage our plants. In an earlier post, A High-Speed, Statistical View for Better Decision Making , I shared how statistical process monitoring (SPM) techniques can help spot plugged impulse lines, furnace flame instability, DP level…
  • Detecting Loop Electrical Integrity Issues

    Advanced diagnostics are improving our lives in many ways from healthcare to transportation. And in our world of process automation, they are fundamentally changing the way we operate and manage our plants. In an earlier post, A High-Speed, Statistical View for Better Decision Making , I shared how statistical process monitoring (SPM) techniques can help spot plugged impulse lines, furnace flame instability, DP level…
  • Detecting Loop Electrical Integrity Issues

    Advanced diagnostics are improving our lives in many ways from healthcare to transportation. And in our world of process automation, they are fundamentally changing the way we operate and manage our plants. In an earlier post, A High-Speed, Statistical View for Better Decision Making , I shared how statistical process monitoring (SPM) techniques can help spot plugged impulse lines, furnace flame instability, DP level…
  • Cleaning Plugged Impulse Lines

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Plugged tapping points and impulse lines continue to be two of the greatest challenges within process instrumentation. While I have presented strategies on mitigating or detecting th e conditions, when a plug occurs the plug needs to be cleaned. When a Best Practice of compact primary elements is not practical and Advanced Diagnostics have identified frequently plugged tapping points, the Autorodder from Clearguard is…
  • Reliability with Advanced Diagnostics

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Using instruments with Advanced Diagnostics is one of the three main strategies I commonly present to achieve process control and instrumentation reliability.  There is a lot of diagnostic information available about your process that is not currently...
  • DP Level Measurement with Electronic Remote Sensors Innovation Recognized

    You may recall from a post, Eliminating Temperature Effects in DP Level Measurement, a cool new technology—Rosemount 3015S Electronic Remote Sensors (ERS) system. To avoid some of the temperature and response time issues that I highlighted in the post...
  • DP Level Measurement with Electronic Remote Sensors Innovation Recognized

    You may recall from a post, Eliminating Temperature Effects in DP Level Measurement , a cool new technology— Rosemount 3015S Electronic Remote Sensors (ERS) system . To avoid some of the temperature and response time issues that I highlighted in the post with capillary tubing, this technology includes: Two 3051S pressure transmitter… mounted on the high and low side of the tank avoiding the need for capillary tubing…
  • DP Level Measurement with Electronic Remote Sensors Innovation Recognized

    You may recall from a post, Eliminating Temperature Effects in DP Level Measurement , a cool new technology— Rosemount 3015S Electronic Remote Sensors (ERS) system . To avoid some of the temperature and response time issues that I highlighted in the post with capillary tubing, this technology includes: Two 3051S pressure transmitter… mounted on the high and low side of the tank avoiding the need for capillary tubing…
  • DP Level Measurement with Electronic Remote Sensors Innovation Recognized

    You may recall from a post, Eliminating Temperature Effects in DP Level Measurement , a cool new technology— Rosemount 3015S Electronic Remote Sensors (ERS) system . To avoid some of the temperature and response time issues that I highlighted in the post with capillary tubing, this technology includes: Two 3051S pressure transmitter… mounted on the high and low side of the tank avoiding the need for capillary tubing…
  • DP Level Measurement with Electronic Remote Sensors Innovation Recognized

    You may recall from a post, Eliminating Temperature Effects in DP Level Measurement , a cool new technology— Rosemount 3015S Electronic Remote Sensors (ERS) system . To avoid some of the temperature and response time issues that I highlighted in the post with capillary tubing, this technology includes: Two 3051S pressure transmitter… mounted on the high and low side of the tank avoiding the need for capillary tubing…
  • Reliability and Robustness Demonstrated Through Fun Videos

    A colleague alerted me to a series of fun videos from the Rosemount Measurement team. The videos star Emerson’s Caitlin Breen and Daniel Lucey in the role of white lab-coated Rosemount 3051S Series instrumentation torture specialists. It’s one thing to...
  • Reliability and Robustness Demonstrated Through Fun Videos

    A colleague alerted me to a series of fun videos from the Rosemount Measurement team. The videos star Emerson’s Caitlin Breen and Daniel Lucey in the role of white lab-coated Rosemount 3051S Series instrumentation torture specialists. It’s one thing to say your products are reliable and robust. It’s another to show it. And that they do through a series of reliability experiments–all done in a fun way with music and…
  • Reliability and Robustness Demonstrated Through Fun Videos

    A colleague alerted me to a series of fun videos from the Rosemount Measurement team. The videos star Emerson’s Caitlin Breen and Daniel Lucey in the role of white lab-coated Rosemount 3051S Series instrumentation torture specialists. It’s one thing to say your products are reliable and robust. It’s another to show it. And that they do through a series of reliability experiments–all done in a fun way with music and…
  • Reliability and Robustness Demonstrated Through Fun Videos

    A colleague alerted me to a series of fun videos from the Rosemount Measurement team. The videos star Emerson’s Caitlin Breen and Daniel Lucey in the role of white lab-coated Rosemount 3051S Series instrumentation torture specialists. It’s one thing to say your products are reliable and robust. It’s another to show it. And that they do through a series of reliability experiments–all done in a fun way with music and…
  • Reliability and Robustness Demonstrated Through Fun Videos

    A colleague alerted me to a series of fun videos from the Rosemount Measurement team. The videos star Emerson’s Caitlin Breen and Daniel Lucey in the role of white lab-coated Rosemount 3051S Series instrumentation torture specialists. It’s one thing to say your products are reliable and robust. It’s another to show it. And that they do through a series of reliability experiments–all done in a fun way with music and…
  • Celebrating 10 Years of the Rosemount 3051S in Action

    The old cliché, “time flies when you’re having fun” applies to the many Emerson folks who had a hand in the development, launch, and widespread use of the Rosemount 3051S Series of pressure, DP [differential pressure] level, and DP flow transmitters. Congratulations on this milestone! The continued advance of technology as predicted by Moore’s Law has also applied to instrumentation. In the years leading up to the…
  • Celebrating 10 Years of the Rosemount 3051S in Action

    The old cliché, “time flies when you’re having fun” applies to the many Emerson folks who had a hand in the development, launch, and widespread use of the Rosemount 3051S Series of pressure, DP [differential pressure] level, and DP flow transmitters. Congratulations on this milestone! The continued advance of technology as predicted by Moore’s Law has also applied to instrumentation. In the years leading up to the…
  • Celebrating 10 Years of the Rosemount 3051S in Action

    The old cliché, “time flies when you’re having fun” applies to the many Emerson folks who had a hand in the development, launch, and widespread use of the Rosemount 3051S Series of pressure, DP [differential pressure] level, and DP flow transmitters. Congratulations on this milestone! The continued advance of technology as predicted by Moore’s Law has also applied to instrumentation. In the years leading up to the…
  • Statistical Process Monitoring on Any Host System

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    One of the strategies I recommend to improve process reliability is the use of product tiers.  Manufacturers of instruments have various tiers which should be applied with a specifically defined strategy.  I have presented these tiers as premium, core...
  • Join us in Celebrating 10 Years of the Rosemount 3051S Pressure Transmitter

    Come and visit the Rosemount booth at the 2011 Emerson Global Users Exchange Annual Conference . Monday, October 24, 2011 - 5:00 pm Customer Award Presentation and cake to be served. Click here to view the electronic invite
  • Transient Protection for Instrumentation

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Transient protection is one of the biggest challenges to instrumentation.  Lightning strikes, power surges and even static dissipation can cause significant damage to an instrument.  This is especially true for instruments that are outside and in remote...
  • Improving Pump Reliability

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    Pump reliability is one of the biggest rotating equipment challenges in a process plant.  There are literally hundreds of pumps to monitor and maintain.  There are three strategies which can be implemented to improve punp reliability, which will be explored...