Emerson Exchange 365

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Digital Tools and Frameworks for Digital Transformation

Jim Cahill

Manufacturers and producers are undertaking digital transformation initiatives across many areas of their businesses—energy & environmental sustainability, production management, people & culture, business insights & analytics, reliability & maintenance, safety & risk management, supply chain management, systems interoperability & governance, and IT security & operations. Their business objectives drive their strategies…
- 1 Jul 2021
Driving Reliability Improvements by Monitoring Assets Plantwide

Jim Cahill

Reliable plant operations begin with healthy assets used in the production process and monitoring their health levels over time as they slowly degrade. In this 4 ½ minute YouTube video, Ensuring Reliability Through Enterprise-wide Asset Monitoring , Emerson’s Alessea Lane describes how technologies in the Plantweb digital ecosystem help to improve the overall reliability of operations to meet production targets, ensure…
- 23 Jun 2021
Podcast: Using MyAssets Digital Tools for Faster Access to Device Information

Jim Cahill

Plants have thousands, or even tens of thousands of assets to maintain – including measurement devices, analyzers, final control devices and more. So how can digital technologies be applied to better identify, size, procure, install and maintain them over their useful lives? In this podcast, Emerson’s Kristin Steiner and Adam Thompson joined me to discussed the MyAssets digital toolset, as one of the components of the…
- 16 Jun 2021
Small Changes Add Up to Big Energy Savings

Jim Cahill

It is impossible to miss the shift toward more sustainable operations—driven by new social and consumer expectations—in nearly every industry across the globe. Chemical producers are no exception, as industry leaders take advantage of digital technologies and expanded access to data to drive performance improvements that simultaneously unlock more sustainable production. But not all improvements have to be big-ticket…
- 10 Jun 2021
Expert Advice for Implementing Analytics

Jim Cahill

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are rapidly changing the way organizations leverage analytics. These systems enable complex analysis that human beings simply cannot perform manually, making it possible to solve difficult problems and identify actionable strategies to improve production, efficiency, sustainability, and safety. Undergirding this analytics solution is a powerful technology stack…
- 8 Jun 2021
Digitally Transforming Water and Wastewater Operations

Jim Cahill

As digital technologies continue to advance, there are opportunities for water and wastewater utilities to digitally transform their operations. In a Water & Wastewater Asia article, Future-proofing the present , Emerson’s Manish Sharma describes how Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies can help in the transformation initiatives. When asked about the implementation process of IIoT technologies, Manish…
- 7 Jun 2021
Data Lakes Drive More Value from Digital Transformation

Jim Cahill

Digital transformation is prompting many organizations to reexamine the way they handle data across the enterprise. A common challenge many organizations face is siloed data. Over the years, as new equipment, processes, and even facilities were added, plants adopted a wide range of technologies. As digital transformation teams begin to gather data from those disparate technologies, OT and IT run the risk of building overly…
- 25 May 2021
Data Lakes Drive More Value from Digital Transformation

Jim Cahill

Digital transformation is prompting many organizations to reexamine the way they handle data across the enterprise. A common challenge many organizations face is siloed data. Over the years, as new equipment, processes, and even facilities were added, plants adopted a wide range of technologies. As digital transformation teams begin to gather data from those disparate technologies, OT and IT run the risk of building overly…
- 25 May 2021
Data Lakes Drive More Value from Digital Transformation

Jim Cahill

Digital transformation is prompting many organizations to reexamine the way they handle data across the enterprise. A common challenge many organizations face is siloed data. Over the years, as new equipment, processes, and even facilities were added, plants adopted a wide range of technologies. As digital transformation teams begin to gather data from those disparate technologies, OT and IT run the risk of building overly…
- 25 May 2021
Practical Steps in Applying Industrial Internet of Things Technologies

Jim Cahill

In an Automation World Article, Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Small Steps or One Giant Leap? , Emerson’s Zach Gustafson shares how: …taking three practical steps can generate short-term wins and achieve long-term success with Industrial Internet of Things technologies. He opens noting how a recent Emerson survey: …shows that more than 70% of companies don’t have a vision for data analytics with a clear…
- 17 May 2021
Practical Steps in Applying Industrial Internet of Things Technologies

Jim Cahill

In an Automation World Article, Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Small Steps or One Giant Leap? , Emerson’s Zach Gustafson shares how: …taking three practical steps can generate short-term wins and achieve long-term success with Industrial Internet of Things technologies. He opens noting how a recent Emerson survey: …shows that more than 70% of companies don’t have a vision for data analytics with a clear…
- 17 May 2021
Practical Steps in Applying Industrial Internet of Things Technologies

Jim Cahill

In an Automation World Article, Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Small Steps or One Giant Leap? , Emerson’s Zach Gustafson shares how: …taking three practical steps can generate short-term wins and achieve long-term success with Industrial Internet of Things technologies. He opens noting how a recent Emerson survey: …shows that more than 70% of companies don’t have a vision for data analytics with a clear…
- 17 May 2021
Bridging IT and OT Systems with Advanced Edge Computing

Jim Cahill

Control architectures can play a key role in bridging the Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) systems required for advancing digital transformation initiatives. In the fourth Design World article in a series on Big Data, Edge controllers bridge OT and IT systems , Emerson’s Derek Thomas explores “how results produced by edge controllers can be securely transmitted to a variety of other systems…
- 7 May 2021
Podcast: Remote and Autonomous Operations

Jim Cahill

In advance of a May 20 webinar, Roadmap to the Autonomous Plant , I had the opportunity to speak with Joe Perino , Principal Analyst with LNS Research . Joe will join Emerson’s Stuart Harris , Group President Digital Transformation and Mart Berutti , Vice President, Digital Transformation. In this podcast, Joe shared with me elements from some of his recent research, On the Road to Industrial Transformation (IX): Remote…
- 5 May 2021
Continuous Listening for More Sustainable Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

I caught wind of a great story about a global manufacturer specializing in nutrition, health, and sustainable living. Emerson’s Tamara Tursijan explained that this company has aggressive corporate goals lowering their carbon footprint, enabling low-carbon energy solutions and advocating for climate action. One area in which they identified an opportunity was in their manufacturing processes that had numerous steam traps…
- 4 May 2021
Continuous Listening for More Sustainable Manufacturing

Jim Cahill

I caught wind of a great story about a global manufacturer specializing in nutrition, health, and sustainable living. Emerson’s Tamara Tursijan explained that this company has aggressive corporate goals lowering their carbon footprint, enabling low-carbon energy solutions and advocating for climate action. One area in which they identified an opportunity was in their manufacturing processes that had numerous steam traps…
- 4 May 2021
Building a Better Digital Transformation Foundation

Jim Cahill

While new technologies connected with digital transformation, IIoT, and Industry 4.0 are exciting and carry great promise, it’s important to make sure there isn’t more you can be getting from what you already have. This is the main point of an Executive Corner column in InTech for April by Sean Sims , vice president for Emerson’s DeltaV platform . In nearly every digital transformation project, one of the first goals…
- 3 May 2021
Utilities Find Small Digital Transformation Steps Lead to Big Returns

Jim Cahill

Digital transformation. It’s a buzzword we often hear but may not fully understand. Despite much interest in this concept, many questions remain around exactly what it is, what it means and, perhaps most importantly, where do you start? “The biggest misconception about digital transformation is that it is an all-or-nothing proposition,” says Mark Hachenski , director of digital solutions for the power and water industries…
- 21 Apr 2021
Digital Transformation Perspectives

Jim Cahill

ARC Advisory Group has a podcast series on Digital Transformation Viewpoints . ARC’s Bob Gill recently interviewed Emerson’s Jonas Berge for his views on technology and digital transformation. They discussed: …how technology developments in areas including wireless process instruments, networks and protocols, advanced analytics apps, augmented and virtual reality, are enabling industrial plants to more easily implement…
- 12 Apr 2021
A Greater Return on Digital Transformation Investments

Jim Cahill

Digital transformation is about more than connecting to devices in the field. Today, we look to technology to redefine the way we work. Digital transformation and a connected workforce help us improve management and control of operations. The intersection of operations and technology was a core focus of IIoT World’s Manufacturing Day. In one panel, Accelerate ROI from your Digital Investments , Emerson’s Mani Nambiar…
- 9 Apr 2021
A Greater Return on Digital Transformation Investments

Jim Cahill

Digital transformation is about more than connecting to devices in the field. Today, we look to technology to redefine the way we work. Digital transformation and a connected workforce help us improve management and control of operations. The intersection of operations and technology was a core focus of IIoT World’s Manufacturing Day. In one panel, Accelerate ROI from your Digital Investments , Emerson’s Mani Nambiar…
- 9 Apr 2021
A Greater Return on Digital Transformation Investments

Jim Cahill

Digital transformation is about more than connecting to devices in the field. Today, we look to technology to redefine the way we work. Digital transformation and a connected workforce help us improve management and control of operations. The intersection of operations and technology was a core focus of IIoT World’s Manufacturing Day. In one panel, Accelerate ROI from your Digital Investments , Emerson’s Mani Nambiar…
- 9 Apr 2021
What you don’t know about batteries can slow you down

Jim Cahill

When was the last time you thought about batteries? Probably when a battery-operated device stopped working suddenly in the middle of something important, right? Yet many wireless devices in your home and around the plant where you work are powered by batteries, and you have come to rely on those devices. Over the next few weeks, we’ll take a close look at batteries used in the plant to power wireless instrumentation…
- 6 Apr 2021
Digital Twin Technology for Bioreactor Control and Optimization

Jim Cahill

At Texas A&M University’s Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center’s 76 th Instrumentation and Automation Symposium , Emerson’s Greg McMillan presented two topics. I’ll recap his Bioreactor Control and Optimization presentation in today’s post and save his Process Effects on Control for a future post. Greg opened explaining how digital twin technology enables Process Analytical Technology (PAT) for manufacturers in the…
- 6 Apr 2021
The Roadmap to the Future of Discrete Automation

Jim Cahill

The next generation of discrete automation is here, and the future is even more exciting. At the Emerson Users Exchange Live 2021 Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) , Emerson’s Derek Thomas and Vibhoosh Gupta provided an overview of Emerson’s PACSystems controllers and industrial PC solutions, outlining recent developments and what to expect in the near future. Here’s how they described their exciting Roadmap presentation…
- 31 Mar 2021