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Event Highlights & Feature Sessions

  • Afternoon Forums Focus on Industry Issues

    Emerson Exchange News
    From 2:30 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. this afternoon, Emerson Exchange attendees can choose from among seven Industry Forums for an exploration of topics of concern to specific process industry segments. For more details on the planned agenda, speakers and panelists for each Forum, please consult the event app. Chemicals Forum : The past few years have been quite challenging for the industrial and specialty chemical sector…

  • Chemours Saves Close to $265,000 a Year with 3D Solids Scanner

    Emerson Exchange News
    The Chemours Company — an American chemical company founded in July 2015 as a spin-off from DuPont — is a global provider of performance chemicals, including titanium technologies, fluoroproducts, and chemical solutions. At the 2016 Emerson Exchange Americas in Austin, Texas, James Simon and Ariana Buckley, from Chemours, and Brian Cleary, with Emerson, will discuss how Chemours uses fluorospar to manufacture hydrofluoric…

  • Out-of-the-Box Strategies for Increasing Reliability for Less Cost with a Six-Step Planning Process

    Emerson Exchange News
    Turnarounds are as expensive as they are time-consuming, so refinery operators are under constant pressure to get production systems back up and running faster and at the lowest-possible cost. But today’s operators face multiple priorities that divert their attention from proper turnaround planning, leading to added capital expenses, safety issues, and prolonged downtime resulting from unnecessary work So, how are some…

  • Wireless Guided Wave Radar Takes Inventory Management to the Next Level

    Emerson Exchange News
    The chemical manufacturer Univar kept running into a costly dilemma on two of their tank farms in Ontario, Canada. They found the problem, but to fix it, they would have to adopt an entirely new approach for measuring their tank inventory. Positive displacement level monitors that they were using to measure the inventory inside their tanks were designed with a floating device attached to an overhanging arm that would…

  • At the Emerson Exchange-Physically or Virtually

    Jim Cahill
    As we close the week before next week’s Emerson Exchange conference , I wanted to provide a couple of pointers whether you’re coming to join us, or not but want to peek in on the happenings. At the Emerson Exchange The sheer number of workshops, short courses, educational services courses, expert sessions, industry forums, technology roundtables and roadmaps can be daunting. So much to see and so many choices.…

  • Gas Analyzer Applications

    Jim Cahill
    Monitoring the composition of what’s in an air mixture is important for many processes. Reasons may include detecting dangerous gasses for the safety of the plant personnel, getting the air-fuel ratio right for optimum combustion, or better understanding the mix of hydrocarbons in a gas stream to name a few. At next week’s Emerson Exchange conference , Emerson’s Kyle Stewart is participating in a number of sessions…

  • Four Years on, Exchange365 Community Gaining Critical Mass

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Keith Larson As I write this, it’s already Thursday morning in Denver, the penultimate day of Emerson Global Users Exchange 2015. And as the final formal sessions play out, attendees’ thoughts have begun to turn to overfull email inboxes and to-do lists that await them on return to work next week. For many, the learning, sharing and productive problem-solving of Exchange week has proven invaluable. Indeed, they…

  • Saving the Best for Last: Meet the Experts

    Emerson Exchange News
    The final morning of the 2015 Emerson Global Users Exchange featured several Meet the Experts panel discussions. Each session gave attendees a chance to ask questions and interact with some Emerson’s leading industry, technology, and application specialists. The discussions were too extensive and wide-ranging to capture in full, but here are a few highlights. Process Control Optimization Expert panel members explored…

  • Best-in-Track Award Winners Show Four-star Innovations

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Jim Montague When it comes to process control and automation, too many good cooks don't spoil anything. Indeed, the more than 300 conference sessions, workshops and short courses given at this week’s Emerson Global Users Exchange 2015 show that collaborative effort and team problem solving are key to achieving top plant performance—and often to giving a great presentation. In a Thursday luncheon session, eight…

  • Smarter Instruments Add Up to Better Maintenance for Mitsubishi Chemicals

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Paul Studebaker Control system health management is a game best played all-in. Control loop problems do not just occur in the sensors or the transmitters or the connections to the host—it’s best to take an approach that will help anticipate, identify and diagnose trouble wherever it might occur. Mitsubishi Chemical’s Kashima plant processes naphtha into ethylene, propylene, cracked oil and downstream products…

  • Project Planning: When an Educated Estimate Isn't Good Enough

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Dave Perkon When capital budget planning, the educated guess is a great asset, but a great spreadsheet that can be quickly referenced to answer questions has its value. "Estimating controls migration is difficult, and the number of unknowns is difficult especially when budgeting for projects a year or two in the future,” said Midhu Varghese, section manager for control engineering and validation at AbbVie’s biopharmaceuticals…

  • Arctic Gold Mine Builds Collaborative Culture with Technical Links

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Jim Montague Gold mining is hard enough in normal climates, but doing it in the remote arctic where all equipment, people and supplies must be flown in and out is a whole different ballgame. Just reaching and staying alive in these regions is extremely difficult and costly; recruiting and retaining personnel to work there is even harder. Luckily, there are some new technical tricks for bridging the miles, increasing…

  • Leverage Diversity in a Technical World

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Paul Studebaker Look around you. Traditionally a white male dominated world, the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), in general, and the process automation profession in particular are seeing increased participation by people of a variety of shapes, colors and inclinations. There are good reasons to nurture this trend toward diversity, and to help build inclusive work environments…

  • Inferred Measurement through Predictive Analytics

    Emerson Exchange News
    Inferred Measurement through Predictive Analytics by Dave Perkon The University of Texas at Austin is working on the design and evaluation of a divided wall column (DWC) distillation process. The use of a DWC distillation can provide significant energy and capital savings by basically combining two distillation columns into one. UT researchers, together with Emerson subject matter experts, are using predictive…

  • Biogen Goes Virtual with DCS and MES Systems

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Dave Perkon Virtualization is not that new—it has been a standard in the IT world for the past 10 years or more. "However, it is new to the process world, and we are seeing its many benefits," noted Michael Kalvaitis, a senior engineer at Biogen in Cambridge, Mass. He presented “The Virtual Manufacturing Facility: The Future Is Now” this week at the Emerson Global Users Exchange in Denver. Virtualization of servers…

  • Shell Streamlines Instrument Commissioning with Bulk Editing, Reporting

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Jim Montague Commissioning process control instruments over and over can take a long time, but engineers faced with commissioning tens of thousands of transmitters and other devices on Shell's immense Prelude floating liquid natural gas (FLNG) vessel decided they had to find a better way. Connecting, configuring, adjusting and maintaining all those components would have required tens of thousands of man-hours…

  • New DCMlink Software Manages Electric Actuator Assets in the Field

    Emerson Exchange News
    Emerson Process Management introduced DCMlink™ Software this week at Emerson Exchange. The unified electric actuator control, monitoring and diagnostics platform enhances plant productivity by unifying all electric actuators on a common platform while allowing plant operators to gain deep insights into asset status and performance. The DCMlink platform will allow, for the first time, Emerson customers to diagnose…

  • Blending right the first time at Hyundai Oilbank

    Emerson Exchange News
    The Hyundai Oilbank’s Daesan refinery is the fourth largest refining complex in South Korea, with a capacity of nearly 7 billion barrels of product each year. To ensure that every one of those barrels meets stringent regulatory and quality standards, Hyundai Oilbank recently renewed its focus on the final stage of its operation: blending. At the 2015 Emerson Exchange in Denver, Emerson’s Patrick Truesdale discussed…

  • Think Outside the Box When PID Tuning Just Isn’t Enough

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Dan Hebert Poorly behaving process control loops often indicate the need for a tune-up of the controller’s proportional, integral and derivative (PID) algorithm terms. But what do you do when no amount of tuning will bring the intended process value consistently back in line with its desired setpoint? On Thursday at Emerson Exchange, Mark Coughran, senior process control consultant with Emerson Process Management…

  • A nickel mine gets its money’s worth with wireless

    Emerson Exchange News
    Nickel and copper are used to make everything from cars and appliances to medical instruments and household batteries. As the only primary nickel mining operation in the U.S., Eagle Mine, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, plays a key role in bringing many of those products to market. Getting all that metal out of the ground and turning it into usable product is no small feat. The mill operates continuously processing…

  • How to Control Severe Disturbances with APC

    Emerson Exchange News
    by Jim Montague The old serenity prayer asks for acceptance of the things we can't change, but process control engineers typically try to move more items into the controllable category. Still, there are some areas where even courageous engineers are reluctant to tread, and one of these is delayed coking. "The delayed coking unit in a refinery is complex due to its semi-continuous nature and process severity," says…

  • Air Products Goes Global to Achieve Supply-chain Savings in India

    Emerson Exchange News
    Building a new plant is a major undertaking for any manufacturer in any part of the world. Along with the usual risks and construction costs, there’s the problem of procurement—how to source parts and get them to the site on time and within budget. It’s a concern that becomes especially critical when you’re breaking unfamiliar ground. Today at the Emerson Exchange Americas in Denver, Will Hanlon and Kurt Larson of…

  • P&G Explores Pervasive Sensing and Internet of Process Things

    Emerson Exchange News
    Dramatic advances in electronics and network technology, notably in consumer electronics and automation, continue to generate interest in the so-called "Internet of Things" (IoT). Industrial applications of these technologies have been dubbed the “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIoT). As intriguing and complex as IoT sounds, a sentiment shared by many across the manufacturing world is relatively simple. “IoT may be…

  • Saudi Aramco Claims 'Reliability Program of the Year' Honors

    Emerson Exchange News
    What’s it worth to reduce rotating equipment maintenance by 9%, slash rotating equipment failures by 90%, and eliminate 50,000 man-hours of preventative maintenance activities? At the Saudi Aramco Ras Tanura Refinery in Saudi Arabia, it represented over US$10 million annually and won the trophy for this year’s Emerson Reliability Program of the Year. "Our results went from very good to excellent when we implemented…

  • Leak Detection Helps Wells Meet OSHA PSM Requirements

    Emerson Exchange News
    By Paul Studebaker Strong activity in U.S. oil and gas production has led to a proliferation of new wells in shale regions around the country and federal attention to well pad safety and emissions. “Since June 1, OSHA has required process safety management (PSM) for oil and gas drilling and servicing, oil and gas production facilities and atmospheric storage tanks,” said Josh Peters, manager, measurement, communication…

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