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  • Reduce Energy Consumption and Achieve Net Zero Goals with Multimedia Utilities Monitoring – Start Small and Scale Up

    Jim Cahill
    Driven by the need to both cut resource costs and minimize their environmental impact, companies across all industries are targeting net-zero strategies and sustainability goals. Monitoring utilities such as compressed air, water, electricity, steam and other gases are important areas to examine for process improvement. Digital resource monitoring with automated technologies allows facilities to maximize energy usage…

  • Reduce Energy Consumption and Achieve Net Zero Goals with Multimedia Utilities Monitoring – Start Small and Scale Up

    Jim Cahill
    Driven by the need to both cut resource costs and minimize their environmental impact, companies across all industries are targeting net-zero strategies and sustainability goals. Monitoring utilities such as compressed air, water, electricity, steam and other gases are important areas to examine for process improvement. Digital resource monitoring with automated technologies allows facilities to maximize energy usage…

  • Ready the Plant for a New Era of Automation

    Jim Cahill
    Boundless automation is creating a new paradigm for enterprise control and automation. It didn’t take long for the rise of the internet to upend the way process manufacturers do business. Over the span of just a few years, plants went from prioritizing a rigid, isolated control system structure to needing ways to integrate across the enterprise to optimize operations. While it still makes sense to ensure each plant…

  • Traceability Across the Entire Drug Development Pipeline

    Jim Cahill
    Recently, as cell and gene therapies have begun to emerge in the life sciences manufacturing landscape, an important concept has begun to draw attention: traceability. However, it is important to remember that traceability was critical long before today’s most cutting-edge therapies began development. Traceability has been essential in the manufacture of nearly every treatment, both in process definition and in product…

  • Simulation Drives Value From Projects Through Operations

    Jim Cahill
    Simulation and digital twin technology has a wide variety of uses that plants can leverage for faster projects and better operations. Recently, Chemical Processing magazine took a deeper dive into those uses, interviewing industry experts such as Emerson’s own Dustin Beebe . Dustin shared some of the many ways digital twin technology can be used as a training and operations testing tool. The process is actually quite…

  • Edge Control Technology Integrates Seamlessly with DCS to Allow Cost and Time-Effective System Upgrade

    Jim Cahill
    Many industries can benefit from an easy, seamless integration of PLC-based technology with DCS, but not all companies know how to approach such an integration. This case study is an interesting example of such an integration that saved a thermal power station substantial money and time. During a re-design of a power plant focused on implementation of a new wet flue gas desulphurization (FGD) solution developed to reduce…

  • Stop Putting Off Modernization

    Jim Cahill
    Modernization. We hear it is happening everywhere, and yet, when we look at our own facilities, a modernization project looks like such a massive task that it is hard to even get started. Even though technologies in the plant may be decades old, some teams continue to run them—sometimes to the point of buying spare parts on eBay —because planning and executing a modernization seems so intimidating. But what if there…

  • Learn How to Meet Your Productivity and Sustainability Challenges – from the Plant Floor to the Cloud – at SPS Italia

    Jim Cahill
    If you’ll be at SPS Italia, May 23-25, add these important stops to your agenda! First, click here to receive your free pass to SPS Italia . Floor to Cloud How can you transform productivity, sustainability, and efficiency? These major industrial challenges are not jobs for the C-suite or the machine edge alone. It requires a new approach – a strategy that reaches from the factory floor to the cloud to achieve your…

  • Industrial Software is the Answer to Your Data Woes

    Jim Cahill
    If there is one thing the experts I work with talk about all the time, it is data . Plants need data. Plants have too much data. Data is siloed . Data is the future. There is really only one constant: data is critical to reliable, efficient operations, but it must be handled properly to be of use. Fortunately, some of the experts out there, like Emerson’s Monil Malhotra , have great ideas how to make this…

  • It’s all in the Interface

    Jim Cahill
    We’ve talked a lot in this space about the way the current personnel shortage is upending process manufacturing. Control rooms are short on personnel and are more reliant than ever on automation technologies to help operators make fast, informed decisions no matter where in the plant they may be. In an article in Process and Control magazine , Emerson’s Mariana Dionisio tackled this new problem vexing manufacturers…

  • The Path to Sustainability – One Critical Step at a Time

    Jim Cahill
    No matter the industry, sustainability is a priority for nearly every industrial company with the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 as a corporate goal for many enterprises. More than one-third (702) of the world’s largest publicly traded companies have net zero targets, up from one-fifth in December 2020. National targets covered just 16% of global gross domestic product (GDP) as recently as 2019. Fast…

  • The Path to Sustainability – One Critical Step at a Time

    Jim Cahill
    No matter the industry, sustainability is a priority for nearly every industrial company with the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 as a corporate goal for many enterprises. More than one-third (702) of the world’s largest publicly traded companies have net zero targets, up from one-fifth in December 2020. National targets covered just 16% of global gross domestic product (GDP) as recently as 2019. Fast…

  • Collaborating for ESG Improvements

    Jim Cahill
    Back in ancient times, when I worked in offshore oil & gas production in the 1980s, the Environmental team rarely interacted with the production automation teams. As regulations around emissions have increased, the need for these teams to collaborate has increased. This is especially true around compliance with methane and other emissions. The author of a recent RBN Energy blog post noted: Discussions around the ongoing…

  • Navigate Uncharted Territory with Industrial Software

    Jim Cahill
    The hydrocarbon industry is rapidly evolving, adapting to support new product demand, increased focus on sustainability , and an increasing need for flexibility. As a result, hydrocarbon process manufacturers have needed to dramatically change the toolbox they employ to support their operations. As Dustin Beebe and Monil Malhotra explain in their recent article in Hydrocarbon Engineering magazine, hydrocarbon manufacturers…

  • At Hannover Messe Learn How Monitoring Utilities Can Help You Achieve Net Zero Goals

    Jim Cahill
    Will you be at Hannover Messe April 17 – 21? If so, don’t miss the thoughtful and useful presentation, “Saving Energy: How Monitoring Utilities Such As Compressed Air Helps You Achieve Net-Zero Goals” by Emerson’s Eugenio Silva, Product Manager, IIoT Applications, on April 21 at 1:45pm at Energy 4.0 Conference Stage, Hall 12, Stand D35. Get your FREE ticket to Hannover Messe now! Industrial energy consumption is a…

  • Better Treatment—For the Earth, and its People

    Jim Cahill
    It can be hard to keep up with the many rapid changes occurring in the life sciences industry these days. In an effort to embrace improved speed to market, sustainability , and quality, life sciences manufacturers are employing a wide range of software and technologies that only ten short years ago might have been considered science fiction. To help filter these many trends and give readers a glimpse into where the…

  • Up Your Productivity and Safety with High Performance HMI Design—White Paper

    Jim Cahill
    In the Texas City Oil Refinery disaster in 2015, 15 people were killed, 180 injured and $1.5bn of damage occurred. A significant contributing factor to the disaster? Poor HMI. The human machine interface was so bad, operators were unable to tell from the HMI that they were continuing to feed fuel into the fire. In that same year, the ISA-101 HMI Design Standard was published. Very concise, ISA-101 provides overall design…

  • Up Your Productivity and Safety with High Performance HMI Design—White Paper

    Jim Cahill
    In the Texas City Oil Refinery disaster in 2015, 15 people were killed, 180 injured and $1.5bn of damage occurred. A significant contributing factor to the disaster? Poor HMI. The human machine interface was so bad, operators were unable to tell from the HMI that they were continuing to feed fuel into the fire. In that same year, the ISA-101 HMI Design Standard was published. Very concise, ISA-101 provides overall design…

  • AspenTech and Emerson Collaborating at the Microsoft Energy Transition Center

    Jim Cahill
    Over at the AspenTech blog , Aspen Technology’s senior director of technology alliances Christa Fitzgibbons shares the news, AspenTech & Emerson Launch New Demo at the Microsoft Energy Transition Center of Excellence . Christa opens the post: AspenTech, Emerson and Microsoft are committed to working with energy and industrial companies to drive progress that advances their sustainability goals and helps them reach their…

  • AspenTech and Emerson Collaborating at the Microsoft Energy Transition Center

    Jim Cahill
    Over at the AspenTech blog , Aspen Technology’s senior director of technology alliances Christa Fitzgibbons shares the news, AspenTech & Emerson Launch New Demo at the Microsoft Energy Transition Center of Excellence . Christa opens the post: AspenTech, Emerson and Microsoft are committed to working with energy and industrial companies to drive progress that advances their sustainability goals and helps them reach their…

  • Sustainability, safety, and maintenance with smart pneumatics

    Jim Cahill
    Smart pneumatics is a system of industrial automation that utilizes compressed air as its primary power source. It is a cost-effective and reliable way to control complex processes in a range of industries, such as food and beverage , automotive , aerospace, manufacturing, and more. Smart pneumatics can be used to control a variety of machines and processes, such as the movement of robots, the flow of liquids and…

  • Sustainability, safety, and maintenance with smart pneumatics

    Jim Cahill
    Smart pneumatics is a system of industrial automation that utilizes compressed air as its primary power source. It is a cost-effective and reliable way to control complex processes in a range of industries, such as food and beverage , automotive , aerospace, manufacturing, and more. Smart pneumatics can be used to control a variety of machines and processes, such as the movement of robots, the flow of liquids and…

  • Preparing for the Holistic Automation Future

    Jim Cahill
    In their recent article in Plant Engineering , Emerson’s Claudio Fayad and Erik Lindhjem share that selecting plant control and reliability technologies is no longer a matter of convenience. Rather, project teams have shifted focus to delivering increased value across the technology lifecycle. The cloud, it seems, has changed everything. Plants today operate very differently than they did just ten years ago, and much…

  • Preparing for the Holistic Automation Future

    Jim Cahill
    In their recent article in Plant Engineering , Emerson’s Claudio Fayad and Erik Lindhjem share that selecting plant control and reliability technologies is no longer a matter of convenience. Rather, project teams have shifted focus to delivering increased value across the technology lifecycle. The cloud, it seems, has changed everything. Plants today operate very differently than they did just ten years ago, and much…

  • Yes, You Can Reduce Your Plant’s Energy Costs Easily and Affordably

    Jim Cahill
    While many functions in industrial plants are commonly automated, the tracking and management of energy remains a task frequently conducted manually. Workers move around with spreadsheets from machine to machine, attempting to capture some semblance of the energy being consumed in a procedure fraught with potential errors and with no way to capture real-time energy overages or to determine when and under what conditions…

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