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  • Analytical Experts Blog: AUTOMATION & DRIVES, GOING WIRELESS IN EQUIPMENT MONITORING

    GOING WIRELESS IN EQUIPMENT MONITORING AUTHOR: BRIAN JOE Aug 29, 2017 Maintenance of equipment monitoring systems is an important aspect of manufacturing plant operations. The article highlights how equipment monitoring can be accomplished with wireless instruments and dedicated software analytics running as an app. Until recently, when engineers wanted to monitor plant equipment, such as steam traps…
  • Analytical Experts Blog: CIO STORY, AUG 2017, IIoT WIRELESS CYBERSECURITY

    IIoT Wireless Cybersecurity By Bob Karschnia, VP of Wireless, Emerson Automation Solutions  Bob Karschnia, VP of Wireless, Emerson Automation Solutions Most Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications will utilize some type of wireless communication network for transmitting data collected by sensors to host systems. These host systems use the sensor data for control, monitoring and analysis…
  • Analytical Experts Blog: PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING, JUL-AUG 2017, RETROFITTING PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESSES WITH WIRELESSHART INSTRUMENTATION

    Retrofitting Pharmaceutical Processes with WirelessHART Instrumentation Existing equipment, processes and systems can be retrofitted with wireless instrumentation to improve yield, quality and uptime By Michalle Adkins and Dan Carlson, Emerson Automation Solutions Jul 24, 2017 Pharmaceutical companies are under the same pressures as many other industries to improve operations, produce associated documentation…
  • Analytical Experts Blog: PLANT ENGINEERING, APPLIED AUTOMATION SUPPLEMENT, AUG 2017, IMPLEMENTING WIRELESS PROCESS SENSING

    Implementing wireless process sensing Installing a wireless sensing system may seem complicated, but following these four basic steps can simplify the required effort. Brian Joe, Emerson Automation Solutions 08/04/2017 Oil and gas, chemical, refining, food and beverage, power, and other process industries are under pressure to increase production, make processes more efficient, reduce energy usage, cut maintenance…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Improving Bulk Liquids Storage Terminal Inventory Management

    If you missed today’s final webinar, Improving Inventory Management , in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series , you can still catch the recorded version as well as the rest of the series. In today’s webinar, Emerson’s Lance Berry discussed inventory management challenges for terminal operations. He provided a tank gauging system overview and explained how uncertainty can be reduced through improved accuracy…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Improving Bulk Liquids Storage Terminal Inventory Management

    If you missed today’s final webinar, Improving Inventory Management , in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series , you can still catch the recorded version as well as the rest of the series. In today’s webinar, Emerson’s Lance Berry discussed inventory management challenges for terminal operations. He provided a tank gauging system overview and explained how uncertainty can be reduced through improved accuracy…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Improving Bulk Liquids Storage Terminal Inventory Management

    If you missed today’s final webinar, Improving Inventory Management , in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series , you can still catch the recorded version as well as the rest of the series. In today’s webinar, Emerson’s Lance Berry discussed inventory management challenges for terminal operations. He provided a tank gauging system overview and explained how uncertainty can be reduced through improved accuracy…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Improving Bulk Liquids Storage Terminal Inventory Management

    If you missed today’s final webinar, Improving Inventory Management , in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series , you can still catch the recorded version as well as the rest of the series. In today’s webinar, Emerson’s Lance Berry discussed inventory management challenges for terminal operations. He provided a tank gauging system overview and explained how uncertainty can be reduced through improved accuracy…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Improving Bulk Liquids Storage Terminal Inventory Management

    If you missed today’s final webinar, Improving Inventory Management , in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series , you can still catch the recorded version as well as the rest of the series. In today’s webinar, Emerson’s Lance Berry discussed inventory management challenges for terminal operations. He provided a tank gauging system overview and explained how uncertainty can be reduced through improved accuracy…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Improving Bulk Liquids Storage Terminal Inventory Management

    If you missed today’s final webinar, Improving Inventory Management , in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series , you can still catch the recorded version as well as the rest of the series. In today’s webinar, Emerson’s Lance Berry discussed inventory management challenges for terminal operations. He provided a tank gauging system overview and explained how uncertainty can be reduced through improved accuracy…
  • Flow Blog: Connectivity from Wireless Transmitters to Controllers via EthernetIP

    For manufacturers in the discrete and hybrid manufacturing industries, packaging is an important part of their processes. For reliable and flexible operations connecting the information from the various packaging lines is important. Sensors with online diagnostics play a key role and wireless sensors has enabled easier availability to measurements to increase reliability and operational performance. At the PACK EXPO…
  • Analytical Experts Blog: 3 Steps to Monitoring Critical Electrical Assets – Free White Paper

    By Jonathan Murray, Critical Asset Monitoring Solutions Expert, Emerson Automation Solutions I’d like to talk about a huge issue in the power industry. Electric utilities strive to improve reliability in the face of challenges such as fewer operators, aging assets and increased cycling. A critical asset failure can result in the forced outage of power generation, transmission, or distribution, leading to lost production…
  • Analytical Experts Blog: New Surface Sensor Innovation Achieves Accurate Process Temperature Measurement Overcoming Challenges of Traditional Methods

    by  Ryan Leino, Emerson Automation Solutions, Rosemount Temperature Product Manager As you know, temperature is the most commonly measured variable in the process industry. It’s often a critical factor in determining process efficiency and product quality. There are several ways to measure temperature in the process industry and each one has challenges. I’d like to tell you about a new type of surface sensor technology…
  • Level Blog: Selecting the Right DP Level Device for the Temperature Conditions

    With the season in change from summer to autumn here in the northern hemisphere, let’s look at differential pressure (DP) level measurement performance at various temperature ranges and particularly at cold weather performance. This quick 2:35 YouTube video, DP Level Solutions Optimized for Cold Climates: Improved Response Time , highlights the importance of selecting the right technology and fill fluids depending…
  • Level Blog: Selecting the Right DP Level Device for the Temperature Conditions

    With the season in change from summer to autumn here in the northern hemisphere, let’s look at differential pressure (DP) level measurement performance at various temperature ranges and particularly at cold weather performance. This quick 2:35 YouTube video, DP Level Solutions Optimized for Cold Climates: Improved Response Time , highlights the importance of selecting the right technology and fill fluids depending…
  • Level Blog: Selecting the Right DP Level Device for the Temperature Conditions

    With the season in change from summer to autumn here in the northern hemisphere, let’s look at differential pressure (DP) level measurement performance at various temperature ranges and particularly at cold weather performance. This quick 2:35 YouTube video, DP Level Solutions Optimized for Cold Climates: Improved Response Time , highlights the importance of selecting the right technology and fill fluids depending…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Bulk Liquids Storage Pressure Control and Overfill Prevention

    You only have to watch accident investigation videos such as the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s Filling Blind video to understand the importance of pressure control and overfill prevention strategies for storage tanks in oil & gas liquids production, refining and distribution of petroleum products. This is precisely the subject of the next webinar in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series which will take place…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Bulk Liquids Storage Pressure Control and Overfill Prevention

    You only have to watch accident investigation videos such as the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s Filling Blind video to understand the importance of pressure control and overfill prevention strategies for storage tanks in oil & gas liquids production, refining and distribution of petroleum products. This is precisely the subject of the next webinar in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series which will take place…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Bulk Liquids Storage Pressure Control and Overfill Prevention

    You only have to watch accident investigation videos such as the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s Filling Blind video to understand the importance of pressure control and overfill prevention strategies for storage tanks in oil & gas liquids production, refining and distribution of petroleum products. This is precisely the subject of the next webinar in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series which will take place…
  • Tank Gauging Blog: Bulk Liquids Storage Pressure Control and Overfill Prevention

    You only have to watch accident investigation videos such as the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s Filling Blind video to understand the importance of pressure control and overfill prevention strategies for storage tanks in oil & gas liquids production, refining and distribution of petroleum products. This is precisely the subject of the next webinar in the Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series which will take place…
  • Flow Blog: More Efficient Terminal Product Transfer Operations

    The Bulk Liquids Storage Terminals webinar series continues next week on Wednesday, August 30 at 1pm CDT. The webinar, Reduce Uncertainty in Product Transfer , will be hosted by Emerson’s Marc Buttler . He will discuss the latest solutions to help achieve efficient and profitable liquid loading and unloading product transfer operations. These include technologies that enable consistent and precise metering—while automatically…
  • Analytical Experts Blog: The ABCs of pH (Part 1)

    Hi – I’m Sherri Renberg from the global liquid analysis marketing group, and I’d like to thank the many liquid analysis experts who have contributed to this blog series. We hope you will enjoy these useful answers to some of the most frequently asked questions we get from users about pH measurement. While some of the questions are basic, that’s why they’re valuable. pH is a measurement where it never hurts to go back…
  • Analytical Experts Blog: Pardon Us While We Bask

    Hi everyone. You know that here at Analytic Expert we focus on bringing you solutions-oriented information to solve your plant and processing problems. Today however, we’d like to pause and give you a glimpse into what your confidence in us means. The Asian Manufacturing Awards were conceived in 2012 to recognize companies that deliver cutting-edge industrial technology solutions and services in control, instrumentation…
  • Level Blog: When you need to know more...

    One of our midstream energy customers in Colorado recently upgraded their Rosemount 2120 level switches to the brand new wired HART Rosemount 2140 level detector. Frustrated by the lack of information they were getting back from the level switches due to a lack of remote diagnostics functionality, the company wanted a smart device that would not just send an alarm in the event of an overfill, but would also alert in…
  • Level Blog: Proof Testing Level Measurement Devices

    Safety instrumented systems (SIS) include the sensor(s), final control element(s) and logic solver(s) for each of the safety instrumented functions (SIFs) in the SIS. To verify the SIFs are performing the amount of risk reduction intended for their application, they must be periodically proof tested. PCN Europe magazine interviewed Emerson’s Teddy Tzegazeab on how proof testing has changed for SIFs with liquid level…