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  • When You Need Super-fast Installation in 115 Worldwide Plants, You Need a Serious Software Partner – Case Study

    Jim Cahill
    A global leader in industrial packaging launched a worldwide search for a software provider that could implement a unified and coherent production supervision and management system in 115 production plants globally. The manufacturer required a system that would allow a targeted investment with sustainable costs and, above all, velocity and installation standard. Another key goal was to obtain easy access to global or…

  • Increasing Demands by Solar Plants for Regulatory Compliance, Efficiency and Productivity Are Met and Exceeded by PACSystems™︎ Control Solutions

    Jim Cahill
    Dealing with outdated legacy systems is a challenge for nearly all industrial companies. In the fast-paced solar energy space, shifting market demands, regulatory requirements and increasing competition drive the need for modern capabilities to meet these new challenges. However, upgrading and replacing key technologies can be time consuming and cost prohibitive. This was the challenge that Nor-Cal Controls, a leading…

  • PACSystems™︎ and PACEdge™︎ Technology Achieve Accurate Carbon Offset Credit Analysis and Reporting for Significant Flare Gas Reduction

    Jim Cahill
    As pressures to maintain profitability in the oil and gas market increase, while the demand for sustainability likewise rises exponentially, taking advantage of carbon credits achieved by reduction in flare gas becomes increasingly attractive. In one notable case, engineering systems integrator Drakken was selected by CarbonAi for a project with a large oil and gas company to engineer an offshore wellhead monitoring project…

  • FEI Foods Increases Production to Meet Worldwide Demand with Movicon.NExT™︎ Platform

    Jim Cahill
    Hello everyone. I’m Ajay Rana and recently, in an article in Food Manufacturing , I had the opportunity to talk about an interesting case study with FEI Foods, Europe’s largest producer of ready-to-eat rice and grain pouches, based in South Wales, UK. I think it has some good information for any plant. Due to demand, FEI Foods’ existing production facilities had been operating at full capacity for several years, which…

  • Modern Advanced Process Control is Easier than Ever

    Jim Cahill
    It likely comes as no surprise that advanced process control (APC) has only gotten better as time has gone by. Old APC software , though very powerful in its own right, was often complex to configure and even more difficult to maintain. That turned away a lot of potential users who simply weren’t ready for the commitment or who didn’t have a staff member with an advanced engineering degree. Fast forward to 2023, and…

  • This Manufacturing Company Tripled Production with a Modular, Highly Flexible Supervisory Software Platform

    Jim Cahill
    Maxa Air Conditioning, a leading air conditioning and heating equipment manufacturing company in Arcole (VR), Italy, experienced a significant rise in market demand which required the company to build a new facility and production lines to meet that increase. Previously, production was limited due to legacy instrumentation and manual processes in heat pump testing that could not assure quality or deliver the required…

  • This Manufacturing Company Tripled Production with a Modular, Highly Flexible Supervisory Software Platform

    Jim Cahill
    Maxa Air Conditioning, a leading air conditioning and heating equipment manufacturing company in Arcole (VR), Italy, experienced a significant rise in market demand which required the company to build a new facility and production lines to meet that increase. Previously, production was limited due to legacy instrumentation and manual processes in heat pump testing that could not assure quality or deliver the required…

  • Floor-to-Cloud Solution for Compressed Air Monitoring Reduces Energy Costs for Major Manufacturer

    Jim Cahill
    Energy costs are always a major issue for manufacturers in all industries, and reducing energy use is a top priority for plant operators because of both environmental and budgetary concerns. A large global consumer packaged goods manufacturer needed to reduce energy consumption and pursue a net zero carbon target. By implementing an innovative solution that could be used in many different applications, the company reduced…

  • Floor-to-Cloud Solution for Compressed Air Monitoring Reduces Energy Costs for Major Manufacturer

    Jim Cahill
    Energy costs are always a major issue for manufacturers in all industries, and reducing energy use is a top priority for plant operators because of both environmental and budgetary concerns. A large global consumer packaged goods manufacturer needed to reduce energy consumption and pursue a net zero carbon target. By implementing an innovative solution that could be used in many different applications, the company reduced…

  • A New Generation of PLCs Takes on Machine Builder Challenges

    Jim Cahill
    PLCs are such time-honored technology that it is easy for users to be lulled into a sense of false comfort that they can simply continue to rely on the same solutions they’ve used for decades. While some PLCs continue to function as solid workhorses, many users, particularly post-pandemic, have learned hard lessons that their traditional control systems aren’t ready to deal with today’s industrial challenges like supply…

  • Movicon™︎ SCADA/HMI Reduces Engineering Time and Costs for Italian Packaging Machine Builder

    Jim Cahill
    For machine builders and systems integrators, anything they can do to simplify their engineering, speed their time to market and differentiate themselves to customers is a significant win. Here’s a brief case study from Emerson customer, Kosme s.r.l. that designs and manufactures a broad range of industrial packaging and beverage machines. Kosme R&D had determined to develop a supervisory system to use in its machines…

  • Movicon™︎ SCADA/HMI Reduces Engineering Time and Costs for Italian Packaging Machine Builder

    Jim Cahill
    For machine builders and systems integrators, anything they can do to simplify their engineering, speed their time to market and differentiate themselves to customers is a significant win. Here’s a brief case study from Emerson customer, Kosme s.r.l. that designs and manufactures a broad range of industrial packaging and beverage machines. Kosme R&D had determined to develop a supervisory system to use in its machines…

  • Movicon™︎ SCADA/HMI Reduces Engineering Time and Costs for Italian Packaging Machine Builder

    Jim Cahill
    For machine builders and systems integrators, anything they can do to simplify their engineering, speed their time to market and differentiate themselves to customers is a significant win. Here’s a brief case study from Emerson customer, Kosme s.r.l. that designs and manufactures a broad range of industrial packaging and beverage machines. Kosme R&D had determined to develop a supervisory system to use in its machines…

  • Movicon™︎ SCADA/HMI Reduces Engineering Time and Costs for Italian Packaging Machine Builder

    Jim Cahill
    For machine builders and systems integrators, anything they can do to simplify their engineering, speed their time to market and differentiate themselves to customers is a significant win. Here’s a brief case study from Emerson customer, Kosme s.r.l. that designs and manufactures a broad range of industrial packaging and beverage machines. Kosme R&D had determined to develop a supervisory system to use in its machines…

  • Your Actionable Analytics from Anywhere

    Jim Cahill
    You may be frustrated with your company’s slow crawl instead of fast track into the digital age, and you’ve even tried a few pilot projects in a kind of siloed effort that never really provided you with any return. Maybe you tried some field automation, but then didn’t have a perfected way to get that data to everyone who could greatly benefit from it; so it got you nowhere on your digital journey, and it didn’t set you…

  • Emerson Augmented Reality – More Benefit at Less Cost in a Short Time

    Jim Cahill
    (Second in a series) Augmented reality is a practical, real-world application that can solve serious problems on the plant floor today, saving a ton of money and creating high ROI. This is a fact that we started exploring in this recent blog, “ Reduce the Skills Gap and Increase Productivity Now with Augmented Reality.” To quote that blog, augmented reality (AR) is suitable for both the manufacturing and process industries…

  • Emerson Augmented Reality – More Benefit at Less Cost in a Short Time

    Jim Cahill
    (Second in a series) Augmented reality is a practical, real-world application that can solve serious problems on the plant floor today, saving a ton of money and creating high ROI. This is a fact that we started exploring in this recent blog, “ Reduce the Skills Gap and Increase Productivity Now with Augmented Reality.” To quote that blog, augmented reality (AR) is suitable for both the manufacturing and process industries…

  • Emerson Augmented Reality – More Benefit at Less Cost in a Short Time

    Jim Cahill
    (Second in a series) Augmented reality is a practical, real-world application that can solve serious problems on the plant floor today, saving a ton of money and creating high ROI. This is a fact that we started exploring in this recent blog, “ Reduce the Skills Gap and Increase Productivity Now with Augmented Reality.” To quote that blog, augmented reality (AR) is suitable for both the manufacturing and process industries…

  • Emerson Augmented Reality – More Benefit at Less Cost in a Short Time

    Jim Cahill
    (Second in a series) Augmented reality is a practical, real-world application that can solve serious problems on the plant floor today, saving a ton of money and creating high ROI. This is a fact that we started exploring in this recent blog, “ Reduce the Skills Gap and Increase Productivity Now with Augmented Reality.” To quote that blog, augmented reality (AR) is suitable for both the manufacturing and process industries…

  • Reduce the Skills Gap and Increase Productivity Now with Augmented Reality

    Jim Cahill
    In industrial plants, probably more than any other enterprise today, the skills gap created by the retirement of old-line experts and the challenge of hiring means that having enough trained and informed people to get the job done is a daily problem. At the same time, the pressure to increase or at least maintain profitability/viability doesn’t decrease, although budgets may. The critical nature of operations makes industry…

  • Reduce the Skills Gap and Increase Productivity Now with Augmented Reality

    Jim Cahill
    In industrial plants, probably more than any other enterprise today, the skills gap created by the retirement of old-line experts and the challenge of hiring means that having enough trained and informed people to get the job done is a daily problem. At the same time, the pressure to increase or at least maintain profitability/viability doesn’t decrease, although budgets may. The critical nature of operations makes industry…

  • Copper Winding OEM Enhances Customer Experience and Flexibility with Movicon™︎ HMI/SCADA – Case Study

    Jim Cahill
    When buying hardware and software for their systems, OEMs need to consider not just which products will do the job, but also those that will make life easiest for their end-user customers. This was the case for copper-winding OEM, Sipro, a winding and assembly solutions manufacturer in Italy. For Sipro, it was critical to make its machines as fast, intuitive and accurate as possible for its end users to operate. The HMI…

  • Better Grid Reliability Starts with Analytics

    Jim Cahill
    As electrical grids get more complex, so too does the task of keeping them online. Grid operators have long had reliability programs, as they are essential to safe operation, but the most effective plants are updating those programs with modern technologies as they are forced to do more with less in the face of changing global market dynamics. At the 2023 Ovation Users’ Group conference , Emerson’s Brian Overton shared…

  • Expanding Monitoring with Wireless Sensors

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Shane Hale presented Using Wireless Sensors to Expand Monitoring without Expanding I/O and Junction Boxes at the 2023 Ovation Users Group Conference. Here is his presentation abstract. Many end-users want to free up operators and maintenance personnel from manual checks that provide little immediate value and want to increase the monitoring of assets to mitigate unplanned shutdowns. However, the cost of wiring…

  • See How This Metro Rail Agency Used PLCs to Transform Ventilation, Control and Energy Management

    Jim Cahill
    While historically, PLCs might have been thought of as “simple machine control,” today’s complex applications speak to the increasing sophistication of PLC/PAC technology as well the rapid growth in the discrete and hybrid marketplace. One such example is the use of over 300 Emerson PACSystems controllers in the tunnel ventilation, building management and energy reduction of 21 underground stations for a metro rail system…

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