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Event Highlights & Feature Sessions

  • Patch management service streamlines system maintenance at Eli Lilly

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    by Jim Montague One common headache shared by process control engineers and IT managers is how to effectively deal with software patches. And when applications, systems, workstations and the requisite updates multiply, keeping up with all of them can quickly devolve into a sanity-threatening situation. "Patching is not everyone's favorite job. You're always trying to find the next hole and plug it," said Kurt Russell…

  • Non-incendive approach fits Class I, Division 2 needs

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    By Leslie Gordon Like any engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company today, Fluor must compete on project execution, delivery and infrastructure costs. "As such, we needed the best way to approach instrumentation in terms of start-up and commissioning," said Adrian Lee, Fluor director of control systems engineering, in a presentation this week at the Emerson Global Users Exchange. "Most of our installations…

  • Ergon wins PlantWeb Excellence Award; nine Best-in-Track winners named

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    By Jim Montague Baseball coaches talk about touching all the bases. Performers talk about triple-threats who can sing, act and dance. When the process engineers and other technical professionals at the Emerson Global Users Exchange talk about end users that can do literally everything well, they inevitably focus on each year's winner of the PlantWeb Excellence Award and the event's Best-in-Track presenters. Organizers…

  • Meet the experts - Emerson Global Users Exchange

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    In surveys after last year’s Emerson Global Users Exchange, attendees said they wanted more access to Emerson experts during the event. The board of directors responded by expanding and refining the Meet the Experts sessions that traditionally close the conference on Friday morning. The result? More opportunities to meet, question, and learn from the people behind Emerson’s technologies and services. This year’s sessions…

  • Powerhouse availability boosts plant productivity

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    by Paul Studebaker The stoker coal boilers on the powerhouse at FMC’s soda ash mining plant in Granger, Wyoming, had become a serious problem. “The boilers were not running well, and, when they did run, they would not run at full load,” said Barbara Hamilton, senior industrial energy consultant, Emerson Process Management, in her presentation Wednesday morning at Emerson Global User Exchange 2014 in Orlando, Florida…

  • Asset management system pays off big for steel producer

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    North Star BlueScope Steel’s Delta, Ohio, facility turns scrap metal into coiled steel slabs for use in the manufacture of a wide variety of products, from wheel rims and pipes to butane tanks and highway guard rails. “Reliability at every point,” is the company’s motto, and indeed maintaining the reliability of the plant’s equipment has proven essential to keeping its loyal customers satisfied over the years. At the…

  • How to reason with alarm rationalization

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    Alarm rationalization can be a tedious and time consuming process. Deciding what types of alarms a facility needs, what their parameters should be, and how to prioritize them is essential to running a safe operation—but it’s also hard to do. With the complexity of today’s technology, it’s often difficult to determine what the “real” operating envelope is. And the experienced operators who can do it are retiring in droves…

  • Lean collaboration streamlines control valve delivery and costs

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    By Leslie Gordon Like most global energy players today, Chevron is seeking ways to get capital projects off the drawing board and into production quickly, while ensuring the integrity and safety of the end result. "Yet projects keep getting larger while supply chains continue to grow more complex," said James Maze, Chevron global category analyst, in a Wednesday presentation to the Emerson Global Users Exchange in…

  • Start-up services turn back the tide of Superstorm Sandy

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    On October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy struck New York City, battering skyscrapers with high winds, flooding streets and subways, and leaving thousands stranded without power. By the time it was done wrecking the east coast, Sandy would become the biggest Atlantic hurricane on record and the second-costliest weather disaster in U.S. history. The storm didn’t spare the Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Plant (BNYCP), whose…

  • EPCs challenged to manage change

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    By Paul Studebaker As the global economy shifts and absorbs the U.S. oil and gas boom, engineering and procurement contractors (EPCs) are finding that they must respond to pressures from growth and technological change. “Because of the economy, everybody’s trying to do the same thing at the same time, waiting until the last minute to commit investment and then wanting to go full speed ahead,” said Robert Armstrong…

  • Women in Innovation luncheon

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    By Leslie Gordon Statistics say that 40 percent of women with engineering degrees either leave the profession or never enter the field. This is unfortunate because a diverse work environment can help organizations better develop ingenious solutions to important engineering problems. To help address this issue, the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange featured its first "Women in Innovation" luncheon this week. The…

  • Smart technology to drive smarter process plants

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    By Leslie Gordon Technological advances in the form of smaller and more powerful computers, cheaper data storage, and faster more pervasive communication networks are improving the way process plants operate. At this year's Emerson Global Users Exchange, Doug White, director of refining industry solutions for Emerson Process Management, described why these phenomena are resulting in progressively smarter plants. …

  • Occidental overcomes rough terrain by automating 200 wells with wireless

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    By Jim Montague Between its wildly unpredictable weather, limited and costly labor force and rugged terrain, North Dakota can be a rough neighborhood for process applications. These were a few of the reasons why Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s engineers, technicians and operators were so happy to automate more than 200 wells, tanks and other equipment near Dickinson, ND, with wireless transmitters and other components…

  • Wireless monitoring gives greenfield methanol project a head start

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    The recent shale gas boom in North America has driven substantial capital investment in the chemical industry. With plenty of cheap natural gas now available to make methanol—an essential building block in many hydrocarbon products—companies are breaking ground on a string of new greenfield projects to take advantage of the windfall in feedstock. This week at the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange, Robert Armstrong…

  • Making new connections with wireless and solar

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    Ergon Refining already had a number of Emerson’s Smart Wireless solutions at their refinery in Vicksburg, Mississippi. But a remote location where product samples were stored and prepared for shipment presented yet another opportunity to refine daily operations. The results of a custom, solar powered pervasive field network solution were presented at the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando, Florida. Headquartered…

  • Lovochemie boosts yield with embedded MPC

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    For chemical plants, reducing process variability can make a substantial impact on the bottom line. The results of such a project, carried out in a northern region of the Czech Republic, were presented at the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando, Florida. Lovochemie is a KD5 nitric acid plant in Lovosice. Built more than 20 years ago, the plant faces tightening, local environmental regulations. To modernize…

  • Building a world class control system, one step at a time

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    Since it opened in the mid-1970s, Ergon, Inc.’s refinery in Vicksburg, Mississippi, has expanded from a single sweet crude processing unit into a versatile facility capable of producing 25,000 barrels a day of naphtha, diesel, and petrochemical feedstock. As a family owned business, Ergon has been able to grow by seeking out new ways to compete with its bigger corporate rivals. This has meant becoming early adopters of…

  • Tuning out the noise with proper control system grounding

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    Saudi Aramco’s Qurayyah Seawater Plant (QSWP) is the largest facility of its kind in the world. With the capacity to filter and process 14 million barrels a day, QSWP is the source of a vast seawater injection network that includes thousands of kilometers of pipelines and nine downstream plants for injecting high pressure seawater into oil and gas reservoirs. The efficiency of the entire network depends on QSWP operating…

  • Safety lifecycle prevents systemic failures

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    Having a safety instrumented system (SIS) doesn't make a process control application safe. Adopting it intelligently and managing it vigilantly does. "All systems fail at some point in time," said Rahul Bhojani, technical authority for downstream at BP. "SISs can have random or systematic failures. Random failures are usually the result of degraded mechanisms in the hardware, such as corrosion or thermal shocks. Systematic…

  • LyondellBasell claims ‘Reliability Program of the Year’ honors

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    By Mike Bacidore How much would a 10% savings in maintenance and operations at your plant be worth? At the LyondellBasell chemical plant in Channelview, Texas, it merited recognition as the Emerson Reliability Program of the Year, a program which started in 1989. “Our budgets have not increased since 2009,” explained Christopher Ryan, reliability engineering manager of the award-winning facility. “Avoided downtime…

  • Ingenuity ingredients? Think differently, speak up, take risks

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    By Jim Montague So you want be inspiring and ingenious? Congratulations, it's a very worthwhile path. However, it's also fraught with stress, frustration, organizational obstructions, personal conflicts, uncooperative colleagues, calcified managers, incentives against change, minefields, face-plants, thankless chipping away in obscurity and little recognition even if you finally succeed. Despite these and other…

  • Jam session rocks Exchange

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    After a long day of learning and serious discussions, Exchange attendees cut loose Tuesday night at the Emerson Exchange Music Jam. Users, Emerson employees and members of the media showed off their musical side, playing with the Emerson Exchange House Band. Mike "Elwood" Train and Peter "Jake" Zornio brought the house down singing a Southside Chicago favorite, "Soul Man.”

  • Doing business better through workforce competency development

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    Even as technology changes, people remain at the center of the process industries. Finding and keeping the right people is becoming more and more difficult, however. An aging workforce is retiring and taking its knowledge with it, leaving businesses to fill the gap with less-experienced personnel. Meanwhile, operations are becoming more complex, and safety and security issues are more important than ever. All of this…

  • Usability, process insights drive new Micro Motion transmitter offering

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    By Keith Larson Emerson Process Management has introduced the Micro Motion Model 5700 Transmitter, a Coriolis flow transmitter designed to translate measurement data into meaningful insight and instruction. The Model 5700 is applicable for a broad range of applications, from liquid and gas custody transfer to simple process control. “The Model 5700 transmitter was developed using Emerson’s Human Centered Design…

  • 3051S pressure transmitter lauded for 'unique to industry' diagnostics

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    Rosemount's 3051S Advanced Diagnostics Pressure Transmitter has been awarded exida's 2014 Safety Award in the sensor category. "The Exchange theme of Inspiring Innovation certainly applies to this product," said Bill Goble, principal partner, exida, in presenting the award to Scott Nelson, vice president and general manager, worldwide pressure products, Rosemount Measurement, Emerson Process Management. "I don't think…

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