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Event Highlights & Feature Sessions

  • New Sensors Bolster Digital Ecosystem Foundation

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Paul Studebaker With the increasing availability of low-cost sensors and wireless technology, today’s plants have the opportunity to improve operational performance by enhancing and leveraging sensing capabilities. Indeed, sensing and measurement technology form the foundation of the new Emerson Plantweb digital ecosystem, unveiled at this week’s Emerson Global Users Exchange in Austin, Texas. “The whole idea is…

  • Marathon Field Tests New Manufacturing Technology to Enhance Future Valve Production and Development

    Emerson Exchange News
    It began with the desire to innovate beyond the bounds of traditional manufacturing: Increasingly challenging customer applications require higher pressures and temperatures; extended time between shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages; and exotic metallurgical requirements. When compounded, these challenges necessitate problem solving and innovation in manufacturing for the industrial market, including control valves. …

  • Journey to becoming a PEMEX Trusted Advisor

    Emerson Exchange News
    During the 2016 Emerson Exchange Americas in Austin, Ricardo Acuña, with RA Energy Mexico, and Juan Luis Najera, with Emerson, discussed how Emerson earned a top position on the Mexican state-owned petroleum company’s “most reliable suppliers” list. That door opened wide after Emerson helped PEMEX achieve a 98-percent availability for the measurement system and significant savings with Daniel measurement and control flow…

  • Shell Greenfield Project Achieves Savings with Emerson’s Project Certainty Initiative

    Emerson Exchange News
    Adopting a project management strategy that employs technologies such as electronic marshalling and virtualization, Shell can potentially save more than 32 percent in capital expenditures for the design of a plant automation system in a world-scale petrochemicals facility being built on the nation’s east coast. The strategy, which reduces complexity and risk while providing the schedule flexibility needed to accommodate…

  • Improving Feedwater Heater Level Control to Maximize Thermal Efficiency and Increase Reliability

    Emerson Exchange News
    XcelEnergy Comanche Generating Station is the largest power plant in Colorado, with a power production capability of 1,410 megawatts. The facility generates power with steam-driven turbine generators using low-sulfur coal. During the 2016 Emerson Exchange Americas in Austin, David Fern, with XcelEnergy, joined Trevor Anderson and Matt Brummer, from Emerson, to discuss feedwater heater efficiency principals and the…

  • New York Terminals Enhances Profitability with Rosemount Tank Gauging System

    Emerson Exchange News
    New York Terminals operates a bulk liquid terminal in the New Jersey/New York harbor area that stores asphalt, diesel, lubes, chemicals, biofuels, and No. 6 oil in its 39 existing storage tanks. Because the independently owned company needed to stay competitive in a changing market, while meeting New Jersey administrative codes for preventing and controlling discharges at major facilities, it sought to increase efficiency…

  • Improve Safety Proof Test Capabilities with Intelligent Instrumentation

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Afton Coleman , Erik Mathiason and Tonya Wyatt presented, Improve Safety Proof Test Capabilities with Intelligent Instrumentation. Their abstract: Safety Instrumented Systems are designed to be the most critical line of defense against a catastrophic failure. Ensuring that each component of the system is working properly is required, often leading to downtime…

  • Improve Safety Proof Test Capabilities with Intelligent Instrumentation

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Afton Coleman , Erik Mathiason and Tonya Wyatt presented, Improve Safety Proof Test Capabilities with Intelligent Instrumentation. Their abstract: Safety Instrumented Systems are designed to be the most critical line of defense against a catastrophic failure. Ensuring that each component of the system is working properly is required, often leading to downtime…

  • Fixed Gas and Flame Detection Best Practices

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Sean McLeskey presented Fixed Gas and Flame Detection Best Practices. His abstract: Many industrial processes involve dangerous gases and vapors: flammable, toxic, or both. With the different sensing technologies available, and the wide range of industrial applications that exist, selecting the best sensor and locating them properly for the job at hand can be…

  • Fixed Gas and Flame Detection Best Practices

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Sean McLeskey presented Fixed Gas and Flame Detection Best Practices. His abstract: Many industrial processes involve dangerous gases and vapors: flammable, toxic, or both. With the different sensing technologies available, and the wide range of industrial applications that exist, selecting the best sensor and locating them properly for the job at hand can be…

  • Fixed Gas and Flame Detection Best Practices

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Sean McLeskey presented Fixed Gas and Flame Detection Best Practices. His abstract: Many industrial processes involve dangerous gases and vapors: flammable, toxic, or both. With the different sensing technologies available, and the wide range of industrial applications that exist, selecting the best sensor and locating them properly for the job at hand can be…

  • Taking Advantage of Smart Plant Technology

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Doug White presented, Taking Advantage in “Smart Plant” Technology. His abstract: Every day we see the continuing advances in sensor, automation, and communication technologies in our personal lives. Applying these technologies in the process industries can significantly improve operational safety, increase plant flexibility and improve operating margins. In…

  • Mitigating Cavitation and Outgassing Control Valve Damage

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Jonathan Vance presented Outgassing and Cavitation: Not So Good Vibrations. Here’s the abstract: Outgassing and cavitation are two of the most common issues associated with control valves. Both phenomena often occur in high pressure drop applications and result in excessive vibration; however, the solutions to combat these critical applications vary greatly.…

  • Taking Advantage of Smart Plant Technology

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Doug White presented, Taking Advantage in “Smart Plant” Technology. His abstract: Every day we see the continuing advances in sensor, automation, and communication technologies in our personal lives. Applying these technologies in the process industries can significantly improve operational safety, increase plant flexibility and improve operating margins. In…

  • Mitigating Cavitation and Outgassing Control Valve Damage

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Jonathan Vance presented Outgassing and Cavitation: Not So Good Vibrations. Here’s the abstract: Outgassing and cavitation are two of the most common issues associated with control valves. Both phenomena often occur in high pressure drop applications and result in excessive vibration; however, the solutions to combat these critical applications vary greatly…

  • Change the Culture, Change the Results

    Emerson Exchange News
    By Paul Studebaker “Ten years ago, we were in a reactive mindset, fixing issues if and when they occurred. We were firefighters, and we were really good at it, but we were totally ineffective at preventing breakdowns,” said Joel Holmes, principal engineer, site electrical reliability, at Monsanto’s Muscatine, Iowa facility, during a Monday press event presentation at the Emerson Global Users Exchange. The Muscatine…

  • Plantweb Digital Ecosystem Takes Users to IIoT Land

    Emerson Exchange News
    The travel brochure for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sure looks attractive—a paradise of connectivity and communications, delivering big data from all sectors, improved decision-making by users, and enabling new levels of efficiency, optimization, productivity and profit. Sounds great, but few process control users and their legacy applications have had the tools to reach the IIoT's sunny shores and take advantage…

  • Polymer Production in a Digital Environment

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Mike Bacidore With annual sales of more than 12 billion euros and almost 16,000 employees, polymer maker Covestro has 30 sites across Europe, Asia and America, eight of them production facilities. “We’ve been making polymers since the 1930s,” said Rich Guhl, director of global process automation. “We develop state-of-the-art polymer materials that can do more. We help to push boundaries by supplying innovative…

  • Emerson Teams with Microsoft for Secure Cloud Computing

    Emerson Exchange News
    By Dave Perkon Emerson Automation Solutions is counting on Microsoft to help secure communications and computing both in the field and in the cloud for the new age of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In particular, intelligent devices based on Windows 10 IoT will help in Emerson’s Secure First Mile initiative for the field, and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform will enable secure data storage and analytics…

  • Emerson Brings Certainty to Operations

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Paul Studebaker Austin is the live music capital of the world, home of the U.S. Grand Prix, and headquarters of Emerson’s Systems and Solutions business, so it’s the perfect place for company management to kick off the 2016 Emerson Global Users Exchange. “Time here is well spent getting fresh ideas, making good connections, finding the energy and urgency to solve tough problems and work with rapid technology change…

  • Corrosion Sensors Join Rosemount Wireless Instrument Arsenal

    Emerson Exchange News
    By Dave Perkon Emerson has added non-intrusive wireless corrosion monitoring to its Pervasive Sensing strategies portfolio, continuing its strategy to invest in its core business platforms and expand in markets that hold significant long-term growth opportunity. On October 3, 2016, Emerson announced it has agreed to acquire UK-based Permasense Limited, a leading provider of non-intrusive corrosion monitoring technologies…

  • Reliability Consulting and Lifecycle Services

    Jim Cahill
    At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Sean Sims and Will Goetz teamed up to give an update on the reliability consulting process and the host of lifecycle services to improve operational performance for process manufacturers and producers. Sean opened describing the see-decide-act and how today’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) follow this model. Sensors measuring the process are no longer just…

  • Accelerate Your Learning at the 2016 Emerson Global Users Exchange!

    Emerson Exchange News
    On behalf of the Board of Directors of the 2016 Emerson Global Users Exchange, welcome to Austin! We’ve come this week to the Live Music Capital of the World to “Accelerate Your Learning.” Since last year’s conference in Denver, your Board has been hard at work to ensure that we continue to drive improvements in the Exchange experience, advancing a “for users by users” agenda that fosters optimal learning and information…

  • Sonnenberg, Train to Address Emerson Users

    Emerson Exchange News
    Following the traditional welcome from Emerson Global Users Exchange Chairman Doug De Bruin of Clearwater Paper, attendees of this morning’s keynote session will hear from the executive leadership of Emerson Automation Solutions, which was formed earlier this year with a mission to address the automation and optimization needs of both process and discrete manufacturing companies through innovative technologies and expertise…

  • Strategic Project Management Saves Millions for Australia’s Wheatstone LNG Project

    Emerson Exchange News
    A liquefied natural gas project in western Australia has realized more than $3.5 million in cost savings by strategically managing the integration of flow meters throughout its facilities. The savings came from eliminating nearly 45,000 project hours during the outfitting of the Wheatstone LNG facility with 129 of Emerson’s Micro Motion™ Coriolis and Rosemount Vortex flow meters, said Jessica Smith, a control systems…

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