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Event Highlights & Feature Sessions
  • Users Exchange Ideas and Experience at Wednesday's Industry Forums

    Wednesday's six Industry Forums gave conference delegates the opportunity to discuss market trends, leading technologies, common challenges, and proven solutions with panels of experts in their business areas. Each forum was comprised of a short presentation followed by a question and answer session. The Chemical forum, moderated by Emerson Global Chemical Industry Leader Peter Cox, discussed how chemical players are…
  • Wednesday's Keynote Offers Tips for “Mental Re-engineering”

    Day two of the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange began on a lighthearted note as author, humorist and creativity expert Guy Browning took the stage Wednesday morning to deliver his keynote presentation, “Mental Re-engineering,” which focused on creativity in business and how to think differently to achieve success. “I've always been involved in creative thinking,” Browning began. “I started as an advertising copywriter…
  • Pharmaceutical Firm Measures Success with Digital Instrumentation

    French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur—the world's largest company devoted solely to the manufacture of vaccines—recently implemented digital instrumentation on the entire process control system at its Neuville-sur-Saône facility. Philip Genthon, senior instrumentation & automation engineer at Sanofi Pasteur, discussed the project this week at the 2013 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Stuttgart, Germany. “Our goals…
  • Removing islands of automation

    In the pharmaceutical and especially the biotech industries it is common to have “islands of automation.” These are a result of the implementation of new equipment, each with their own automation system. These individual automation systems are required because equipment is very specific to the process. This creates complexity when having to integrate this equipment into the overall process control architecture. Torbjörn…
  • Accurate flow measurement improves combustion chamber testing

    “With energy costs running at €100,000/day for the testing of gas turbine combustion chambers, customers need to be sure that the results they are getting are accurate and reliable,” said Christian Fleing, combustion testing technical leader for DLR. At the DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) Propulsion Technology headquarters in Cologne, DLR provides test stands for gas turbine combustion chambers. Customers…
  • Emerson unveils the operations environment of the future

    Senior executives of Emerson Process Management today introduced customers to its Integrated Operations initiative. This new initiative addresses customer challenges that include geographically diverse facilities; the need for streamlined decision-making and easily accessible expertise; and the safe, collaborative co-location of essential personnel. It also helps to improve safety, reliability, energy efficiency and production…
  • INA's Predictive Maintenance Program Solves Problems before They Happen

    As part of a recent modernization cycle, oil & gas producer INA built a total of six new processing units at two of its refineries in Croatia, all controlled by Emerson Process Management's DeltaV TM process automation system and equipped almost entirely with Emerson field instruments. While most of the essential technology was supplied by one vendor, the challenges involved in keeping each of the six units up and running…
  • Peering into the Crystal Ball: The Future of Wireless Field Networks

    Competing protocol standards. IP addressability. Infrastructure security. IT/OT convergence. These are the kinds of things that keep industrial automation network engineers up at night. They're also among the leading concerns for plant managers hoping to make the most of today's rapidly evolving wireless technologies, according to Cisco Systems' Pascal Thubert and Paul Didier, who today presented an informative look at…
  • Advanced Process Control Development on Simulator Enables Real World Success

    Implementing advanced process control (APC) is never a simple exercise. Engineers at the Croatian oil and gas company INA have found a way to take some of the pain out of the process, however, by using the simulation capabilities of Emerson’s Operator Training Solution (OTS) to pretest the effectiveness of a new APC design for one of their hydrocracking units. “The hydrocracker APC is part of a broader optimization…
  • 2014 Exchange Opens Tuesday with Exciting Agenda of Keynotes

    Tuesday's schedule of keynote speakers informed, inspired, and entertained the audience of over 1,000 at the International Congress Centre as the opening general session of 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange got underway in Stuttgart. Board member Francisco Diaz-Andreu (left) welcomed conference attendees and provided a preview of this year's offerings at the Exchange . Roel van Doren , president of Emerson Process…
  • Tuesday Keynote Encourages Next Generation of Engineering Leaders to “Think for a Change”

    If one thing is certain in life, it’s that change is inevitable. However, in spite of the process industry's focus on all things cutting edge, there is one area that is often overlooked but profoundly influences our ability to engineer and build projects that are safe, reliable, and efficient. That area, according to Dave Beckmann, is the way we manage change in our businesses. Mr. Beckmann, an internationally renowned…
  • Business Update Accentuates the Value of Teamwork

    A great company is a company that asks the right questions. Instead of, “What can we sell you?” or “What do you want to buy from us?” a great company asks its customers questions like, “What is your vision for the way your plant should operate?” or “How can we work together to solve your problems?” This kind of collaborative approach to the customer relationship is the essential idea behind the strategic direction…
  • Welcome to Emerson Exchange Daily

    Emerson Global Users Exchange is the industry’s leading user-driven conference, which includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of sessions, and a solutions exhibition that showcases innovative technologies that address safety, reliability, energy efficiency, performance optimisation, projects and lifecycle services. Whether you’re at the event or not, this special event e-mail series will bring you highlights from…
  • What’s Ahead at the Emerson Exchange

    On Tuesday morning Board of Directors member Francisco Diaz-Andreu of Repsol YPF will welcome this year’s attendees to the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange — the second edition of the foremost meeting of the minds in process automation and control system engineering developed specifically for automation professionals in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as well as the rest of the world. Over the next three days…
  • Real-Time Well Testing on Unmanned Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms

    If you’ll be joining us next week at the Emerson Exchange conference in Stuttgart, Germany and in the offshore oil & gas production business, there’s a presentation you’ll want to catch. Emerson’s Jyotsna Joshi, with the Roxar Flow Measurement (RFM) team, will be sharing a case study of the installation of real-time well testing service […] Read the full text.
  • Emerson Exchange in Stuttgart-Are You Ready?

    We are less than two weeks away from the start of the Emerson Exchange conference, April 1-3 in Stuttgart, Germany. If you’re already registered, I look forward to seeing you there. If you haven’t registered yet, consider joining us. I saw a tweet from...
  • Meeting the European Union Energy Efficiency Directive

    March 7 is fast approaching if you want to get the 200 Euro discount to the April 1-3 Emerson Exchange conference in Stuttgart, Germany. One of the presentations you’ll want to catch is on the implications of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive. Emerson...
  • User Testing at Emerson Exchange Stuttgart Conference

    In an earlier post, Human-Centered Design [HCD] in Action, we noted that those skilled in HCD are skilled at methods for observing human experience (looking), methods for analyzing challenges and opportunities (understanding), and methods for envisioning...
  • Emerson Exchange Conference Workshop Videos

    Wow, it was great getting off the grid for several weeks and I’m glad to be back in the saddle here at Emerson Process Experts. One of the things the Emerson Exchange board members did was have a number of workshop sessions videoed from last September...
  • The meaning of Exchange

    What does Emerson Global Users Exchange mean to those who attend? Watch this video to see what those at the 2013 event said. Then start making plans for April 1-3 in Stuttgart or October 6-10 in Orlando -- and join the year-around community at www.EmersonExchange365.com .
  • Vilter vapor recovery unit

    The Vilter vapor recovery unit (VRU) from Emerson Climate Technologies, which helps reduce emissions and lower costs in natural-gas production, was one of many related technologies exhibited at the 2014 Emerson Global Users Exchange. Watch a video about the VRU >
  • Meet the experts

    The final morning of the 2013 Emerson Global Users Exchange featured several “Meet the Experts” panel discussions. Each session gave attendees a chance to ask questions and interact with some of Emerson’s leading technologists. The discussions were too numerous, extensive, and wide-ranging to capture fully in this report, but here are a few highlights. Virtualization for DeltaV Discussion in this session centered…
  • PlantWeb Excellence, Best-in-Track winners fuse all elements for victory

    by Jim Montague Everyone talks about “putting it all together,” but the PlantWeb Excellence and Best-in-Track award winners at Emerson Global Users Exchange 2013 actually do it. CHS Inc.’s small refinery in Laurel, Mt., just completed a nine-year upgrade program that implemented many manifestations of Emerson's PlantWeb architecture and won this year’s PlantWeb Excellence Award. The refinery adopted: DeltaV and…
  • Technology prepared to aid future process workforce

    by Jim Montague The brain drain isn’t coming. It’s here. Veteran operators, technicians and control engineers are eligible or are retiring in record numbers, and the U.S. educational system isn’t training nearly enough replacements. At the same time, many new plants are larger and more complex to run than ever before. “The main question is how can we get this long-time experience into new operators, and also pump it up…
  • Why your boss should want to replace your aging DCS

    by Paul Studebaker You see a lot of issues with your aging--but still functional--DCS, but when you tell your boss that it ought to be replaced, he says, “It’s still working. The plant is meeting expectations and capital is tight, why would I want to replace it?” That’s when you want to be acquainted with folks like John Dolenc, P.E., principal consulting engineer, modernization, and Dr. Douglas White, director, refining…