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Three Strategies to Drive Improved Reliability

Jim Cahill

For high-output industries like Food & Beverage, production downtime stemming from equipment failure can be especially costly. Operations producing soft drinks, juices or beer, for instance, may replace maintenance rounds with sensors and automated data collection for more reliable results, or apply monitoring to its critical climate control equipment like cooling towers or ammonia compressors. A rapid decrease in the…
- 27 Apr 2022
Three Strategies to Drive Improved Reliability

Jim Cahill

For high-output industries like Food & Beverage, production downtime stemming from equipment failure can be especially costly. Operations producing soft drinks, juices or beer, for instance, may replace maintenance rounds with sensors and automated data collection for more reliable results, or apply monitoring to its critical climate control equipment like cooling towers or ammonia compressors. A rapid decrease in the…
- 27 Apr 2022
Three Strategies to Drive Improved Reliability

Jim Cahill

A rapid decrease in the cost of sensing equipment has driven many reliability teams to implement even more automated condition monitoring across their facilities. A wide variety of new technologies are both easy to implement and full of robust features to increase visibility of asset health. There are many ways to plan and implement a condition monitoring program, but across all those options there are a few core strategies…
- 27 Apr 2022
Three Strategies to Drive Improved Reliability

Jim Cahill

A rapid decrease in the cost of sensing equipment has driven many reliability teams to implement even more automated condition monitoring across their facilities. A wide variety of new technologies are both easy to implement and full of robust features to increase visibility of asset health. There are many ways to plan and implement a condition monitoring program, but across all those options there are a few core strategies…
- 27 Apr 2022
Rosemount IO-Link Technology Portfolio – Quick and effortless installation of sensors

Jim Cahill

IO-Link has been hailed as the biggest revolution since the invention of the programmable logic controller. Emerson offers numerous accessories to support IO-Link installations, such as IO-Link enabled level and temperature transmitters, IO-Link software, IO-Link masters, IO-Link USB communicators, and supporting cables. IO-Link Communication Protocol – What is it? IO-Link is a powerful communication protocol…
- 20 Apr 2022
Rosemount IO-Link Technology Portfolio – Quick and effortless installation of sensors

Jim Cahill

IO-Link has been hailed as the biggest revolution since the invention of the programmable logic controller. Emerson offers numerous accessories to support IO-Link installations, such as IO-Link enabled level and temperature transmitters, IO-Link software, IO-Link masters, IO-Link USB communicators, and supporting cables. IO-Link Communication Protocol – What is it? IO-Link is a powerful communication protocol…
- 20 Apr 2022
Rosemount IO-Link Technology Portfolio – Quick and effortless installation of sensors

Jim Cahill

IO-Link has been hailed as the biggest revolution since the invention of the programmable logic controller. Emerson offers numerous accessories to support IO-Link installations, such as IO-Link enabled level and temperature transmitters, IO-Link software, IO-Link masters, IO-Link USB communicators, and supporting cables. IO-Link Communication Protocol – What is it? IO-Link is a powerful communication protocol…
- 20 Apr 2022
Rosemount IO-Link Technology Portfolio – Quick and effortless installation of sensors

Jim Cahill

IO-Link has been hailed as the biggest revolution since the invention of the programmable logic controller. Emerson offers numerous accessories to support IO-Link installations, such as IO-Link enabled level and temperature transmitters, IO-Link software, IO-Link masters, IO-Link USB communicators, and supporting cables. IO-Link Communication Protocol – What is it? IO-Link is a powerful communication protocol…
- 20 Apr 2022
Digitally Transform Corrosion Monitoring in Refining Applications

Jim Cahill

To remain profitable, most refineries are examining ways to reduce costs and boost production, and one of the first points of focus is feedstock cost as purchasing crude oil makes up the majority of refinery operating expenses. Opportunity crudes are often the answer to this matter, but behind the attractive lower price, these crude types have undesirable chemical characteristics such as high total acid number (TAN) and…
- 14 Apr 2022
Faster Tech Transfer Unlocks Speed to Market

Jim Cahill

The rapid development of the COVID-19 vaccine has created a dramatic shift in the way the public and life sciences organizations view the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals. In a recent Q&A with Pharma Manufacturing , Nathan Pettus , president of Emerson’s process systems and solutions business, shared how a move toward more flexibility and modularity in the industry is cutting tech transfer times to drive improved speed…
- 12 Apr 2022
The Benefits of Continuous Corrosion Monitoring Over Periodic Manual Inspection

Jim Cahill

Whilst manual inspection remains a valuable tool for measuring the plant health, this blog post explains the benefits of continuous monitoring over periodic inspection. Turning corrosion and erosion data to into true process insights Uncontrolled corrosion and material degradation undeniably leads to hefty safety, environmental, reliability, and operational consequences. Standards, developed by the American Petroleum…
- 22 Mar 2022
The Benefits of Continuous Corrosion Monitoring Over Periodic Manual Inspection

Jim Cahill

Whilst manual inspection remains a valuable tool for measuring the plant health, this blog post explains the benefits of continuous monitoring over periodic inspection. Turning corrosion and erosion data to into true process insights Uncontrolled corrosion and material degradation undeniably leads to hefty safety, environmental, reliability, and operational consequences. Standards, developed by the American Petroleum…
- 22 Mar 2022
The Benefits of Continuous Corrosion Monitoring Over Periodic Manual Inspection

Jim Cahill

Whilst manual inspection remains a valuable tool for measuring the plant health, this blog post explains the benefits of continuous monitoring over periodic inspection. Turning corrosion and erosion data to into true process insights Uncontrolled corrosion and material degradation undeniably leads to hefty safety, environmental, reliability, and operational consequences. Standards, developed by the American Petroleum…
- 22 Mar 2022
The Benefits of Continuous Corrosion Monitoring Over Periodic Manual Inspection

Jim Cahill

Whilst manual inspection remains a valuable tool for measuring the plant health, this blog post explains the benefits of continuous monitoring over periodic inspection. Turning corrosion and erosion data to into true process insights Uncontrolled corrosion and material degradation undeniably leads to hefty safety, environmental, reliability, and operational consequences. Standards, developed by the American Petroleum…
- 22 Mar 2022
Ready to Own your Virtualization Infrastructure?

Jim Cahill

Over the last decade or so we’ve seen rack after rack of servers disappear as organizations have embraced virtualization technology. Not only does moving to a virtualized backbone reduce equipment footprint, but it also dramatically reduces energy usage to help plants improve their sustainability and efficiency. However, virtualized systems are often complex, making them difficult for operational technology (OT) teams…
- 18 Mar 2022
Anytime, Anywhere Simulation and Engineering via the Cloud

Jim Cahill

In the last five years, simulation technologies have been a critical tool used to drive digital transformation of automated processes. In simulated environments, organizations can provide comprehensive training for personnel and test new control configurations without the safety and production risks of accessing real-world equipment. Many organizations are also turning to collaborative engineering tools to leverage…
- 15 Mar 2022
Digital Transformation for Shutdowns, Turnarounds, Outages

Jim Cahill

Continuously operating plants such as refinery and petrochemical complexes require periodic turnarounds to perform necessary maintenance to restore optimum production. Also known as shutdowns and outages, these events can occur a few times per decade or more, depending on the process. In a Chemical Processing article, Maintenance: Turnarounds Get A New Spin , Emerson’s John Sanders joins a KBC senior leader to share…
- 11 Mar 2022
Remote Monitoring Lays the Foundation for Lights-Out Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

It isn’t news that the global pandemic upended the way we operate our plants. When social distancing trapped our most valuable personnel outside the facilities we rely on, it suddenly meant finding new ways to get critical work done. But the reality is, those changes would have been coming—albeit less quickly—even without the influence of COVID. Retirements and shortages of experienced workers have been thinning out…
- 4 Mar 2022
Reliable Wireless Device Networks

Jim Cahill

Wireless technology has advanced on many fronts—speed, reliability and ease of use to name a few. In a Control magazine article, Wireless just as reliable as hardwiring , Emerson’s Shane Hale shares how this reliability enables the types of applications to increase. Shane is quoted. “We need to debunk the remaining myths about wireless, such as the prejudice that it’s hard to implement and program, lacks reliable…
- 28 Feb 2022
Reliable Wireless Device Networks

Jim Cahill

Wireless technology has advanced on many fronts—speed, reliability and ease of use to name a few. In a Control magazine article, Wireless just as reliable as hardwiring , Emerson’s Shane Hale shares how this reliability enables the types of applications to increase. Shane is quoted. “We need to debunk the remaining myths about wireless, such as the prejudice that it’s hard to implement and program, lacks reliable…
- 28 Feb 2022
Reliable Wireless Device Networks

Jim Cahill

Wireless technology has advanced on many fronts—speed, reliability and ease of use to name a few. In a Control magazine article, Wireless just as reliable as hardwiring , Emerson’s Shane Hale shares how this reliability enables the types of applications to increase. Shane is quoted. “We need to debunk the remaining myths about wireless, such as the prejudice that it’s hard to implement and program, lacks reliable…
- 28 Feb 2022
Process Alarm and Event Data in Non-Traditional Cloud-Based Applications

Jim Cahill

Note from Jim Cahill : Our team at Emerson Impact Partner, Spartan Controls , recently worked with a major oil & gas client to implement this use case of bring DeltaV Alarms & Events data to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud using Emerson’s Plantweb Optics platform —a holistic data management platform unifying Operational Technology (OT) data into actionable information. Background The data available in OT including…
- 17 Feb 2022
Make the most of your reliability workforce

Jim Cahill

Today’s plants frequently have limited personnel but still need to find ways to do more work and meet increasing goals and quotas. This dichotomy frequently causes a problem when it comes to asset monitoring, which is traditionally performed by technicians manually inspecting equipment with handheld devices on a regular schedule. In the current environment, plants are faced with a dilemma: do they reduce the manual rounds…
- 14 Feb 2022
How Industrial Facilities Are Prioritizing Safety with Advanced Location Technology

Jim Cahill

Safety has always been a top priority for industrial facilities, but varying safety regulations, personnel training obstacles, and high implementation costs have presented challenges in creating more encompassing safety programs. From housing complex process equipment to hazardous materials, industrial facilities present unique challenges and more barriers to implementation, preventing these facilities from advancing…
- 27 Jan 2022
How Industrial Facilities Are Prioritizing Safety with Advanced Location Technology

Jim Cahill

Safety has always been a top priority for industrial facilities, but varying safety regulations, personnel training obstacles, and high implementation costs have presented challenges in creating more encompassing safety programs. From housing complex process equipment to hazardous materials, industrial facilities present unique challenges and more barriers to implementation, preventing these facilities from advancing…
- 27 Jan 2022