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  • Digital transformation in chemical processing: how to start small to scale big.

    Jim Cahill
    The chemical industry is facing a unique challenge: a need for growth along with environmental regulations that each day are becoming stricter and more urgent. Limited resources, an aging workforce, aging equipment: achieving both efficiency and sustainability can seem impossible. But there’s a solution: creating an ecosystem of real-time data and actionable insights. In a word, digital transformation. Unlocking Data…

  • Digital transformation in chemical processing: how to start small to scale big..

    Jim Cahill
    The chemical industry is facing a unique challenge: a need for growth along with environmental regulations that each day are becoming stricter and more urgent. Limited resources, an aging workforce, aging equipment: achieving both efficiency and sustainability can seem impossible. But there’s a solution: creating an ecosystem of real-time data and actionable insights. In a word, digital transformation. Unlocking Data…

  • Digital transformation in chemical processing: how to start small to scale big..

    Jim Cahill
    The chemical industry is facing a unique challenge: a need for growth along with environmental regulations that each day are becoming stricter and more urgent. Limited resources, an aging workforce, aging equipment: achieving both efficiency and sustainability can seem impossible. But there’s a solution: creating an ecosystem of real-time data and actionable insights. In a word, digital transformation. Unlocking Data…

  • Thrive Through Technology Change

    Jim Cahill
    Most of us have experienced significant changes throughout our careers and life. Some of those changes have gone smoother and had significantly better outcomes than others – the single constant about life in our world today is change itself. This makes it crucial to understand all the pieces that are part of any change to have well aligned to make any change a great experience that provides positive outcomes and enables…

  • Thrive Through Technology Change

    Jim Cahill
    Most of us have experienced significant changes throughout our careers and life. Some of those changes have gone smoother and had significantly better outcomes than others – the single constant about life in our world today is change itself. This makes it crucial to understand all the pieces that are part of any change to have well aligned to make any change a great experience that provides positive outcomes and enables…

  • Turn Data Into Action

    Jim Cahill
    Plants need a strong pipeline of data to help them ensure optimal performance. We spend a lot of time talking about how to collate, transmit, and store that data so it is easily accessible whenever and wherever people need it. However, all that strategizing is of little value if the people the plant is delivering information to cannot understand or use the data. Emerson’s Drew Mackley is well aware of this inconsistency…

  • Turn Data Into Action

    Jim Cahill
    Plants need a strong pipeline of data to help them ensure optimal performance. We spend a lot of time talking about how to collate, transmit, and store that data so it is easily accessible whenever and wherever people need it. However, all that strategizing is of little value if the people the plant is delivering information to cannot understand or use the data. Emerson’s Drew Mackley is well aware of this inconsistency…

  • Embracing the edge to improve automation systems

    Jim Cahill
    Industrial manufacturing automation technologies have long been perceived as lagging the technologies available for commercial and consumer applications. This situation was largely by design because mission-critical production demanded proven performance, as opposed to cutting-edge convenience. An Emerson article in the March 2023 issue of Control Engineering , titled Evaluating Edge Opportunities for Industrial Automation…

  • Embracing the edge to improve automation systems

    Jim Cahill
    Industrial manufacturing automation technologies have long been perceived as lagging the technologies available for commercial and consumer applications. This situation was largely by design because mission-critical production demanded proven performance, as opposed to cutting-edge convenience. An Emerson article in the March 2023 issue of Control Engineering , titled Evaluating Edge Opportunities for Industrial Automation…

  • Redefining AI: Turning Analytic Insights into Actionable Intelligence

    Jim Cahill
    Analytics using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) presents a massive opportunity, but also confusion. Where to start? How to start? What models to apply where? What types of problems can analytics solve?   Advanced analytics can transition power producers from a reactive operations and maintenance approach to a predictive or prognostic strategy. This actionable intelligence—built directly into the…

  • Redefining AI: Turning Analytic Insights into Actionable Intelligence

    Jim Cahill
    Analytics using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) presents a massive opportunity, but also confusion. Where to start? How to start? What models to apply where? What types of problems can analytics solve?   Advanced analytics can transition power producers from a reactive operations and maintenance approach to a predictive or prognostic strategy. This actionable intelligence—built directly into the…

  • Redefining AI: Turning Analytic Insights into Actionable Intelligence

    Jim Cahill
    Analytics using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) presents a massive opportunity, but also confusion. Where to start? How to start? What models to apply where? What types of problems can analytics solve?   Advanced analytics can transition power producers from a reactive operations and maintenance approach to a predictive or prognostic strategy. This actionable intelligence—built directly into the…

  • Digital Valve Controller Employs Edge Computing

    Jim Cahill
    Valve controllers play a vital role in industrial processes, ensuring that control valves are positioned accurately under changing process conditions. Building upon fifty years of valve controller improvements, the new Fisher FIELDVUE DVC7K digital valve controller offers unparalleled performance and data analytics, as discussed in my article in the January 2024 edition of Industrial Automation Asia , titled Next Generation…

  • Make the Cybersecurity Journey Far Less Puzzling

    Jim Cahill
    Tackling cybersecurity can often feel like trying to complete an overly complex jigsaw puzzle. Figuring out how all the pieces connect is often a frustrating step. In the worst cases, however, the cybersecurity jigsaw puzzle doesn’t even have edges. And when that happens, it’s hard to even know where to start. Alexandre Peixoto addresses this complex journey in a recent interview at Control magazine . Peixoto shares…

  • Make the Cybersecurity Journey Far Less Puzzling

    Jim Cahill
    Tackling cybersecurity can often feel like trying to complete an overly complex jigsaw puzzle. Figuring out how all the pieces connect is often a frustrating step. In the worst cases, however, the cybersecurity jigsaw puzzle doesn’t even have edges. And when that happens, it’s hard to even know where to start. Alexandre Peixoto addresses this complex journey in a recent interview at Control magazine . Peixoto shares…

  • Simulated Systems Close a Real Performance Gap

    Jim Cahill
    Many plants are facing personnel shortages, but the truth of the matter is that today’s biggest problems can’t be solved simply by finding more people. As organizations tackle more and more complex problems like driving down emissions, increasing efficiency, reducing energy use, meeting ever-changing market needs, and, simultaneously, increasing revenue, they must turn to a more advanced technology stack to empower their…

  • Simulated Systems Close a Real Performance Gap

    Jim Cahill
    Many plants are facing personnel shortages, but the truth of the matter is that today’s biggest problems can’t be solved simply by finding more people. As organizations tackle more and more complex problems like driving down emissions, increasing efficiency, reducing energy use, meeting ever-changing market needs, and, simultaneously, increasing revenue, they must turn to a more advanced technology stack to empower their…

  • What’s so Great About Edge?

    Jim Cahill
    Every market these days is hot with pressure. We hear the same thing from every direction – Successful production needs technology that can provide speed and stronger efficiencies that deliver ongoing return – this is a must-have and no longer just a ‘nicety.’ These same demands are only growing every day for most industries to continue producing positive outcomes and hitting their always-increasing targets and goals…

  • What’s so Great About Edge?

    Jim Cahill
    Every market these days is hot with pressure. We hear the same thing from every direction – Successful production needs technology that can provide speed and stronger efficiencies that deliver ongoing return – this is a must-have and no longer just a ‘nicety.’ These same demands are only growing every day for most industries to continue producing positive outcomes and hitting their always-increasing targets and goals…

  • Strategies for Better Remote Analysis

    Jim Cahill
    It is often said that the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the biggest catalysts of digital transformation in many process manufacturing organizations. Operations and maintenance teams that would never before have considered adding remote systems quickly discovered they were the only way to consolidate resources and keep facilities operational. But, as Brian Dubaskas and Navin Rajashekar share in their recent Automation…

  • Strategies for Better Remote Analysis

    Jim Cahill
    It is often said that the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the biggest catalysts of digital transformation in many process manufacturing organizations. Operations and maintenance teams that would never before have considered adding remote systems quickly discovered they were the only way to consolidate resources and keep facilities operational. But, as Brian Dubaskas and Navin Rajashekar share in their recent Automation…

  • Finding the Value in Control Valve Data

    Jim Cahill
    In a world awash with digital data, many tend to assume that more data equals more value, but the reality is that data only becomes valuable when it is analyzed and acted upon. In my article titled “ Transforming Valve Data into Dollars ,” published to Automation.com in November 2023, I discuss a new software application that converts raw control valve data into actionable information. The evolution of analytics …

  • Finding the Value in Control Valve Data

    Jim Cahill
    In a world awash with digital data, many tend to assume that more data equals more value, but the reality is that data only becomes valuable when it is analyzed and acted upon. In my article titled “ Transforming Valve Data into Dollars ,” published to Automation.com in November 2023, I discuss a new software application that converts raw control valve data into actionable information. The evolution of analytics …

  • Edge Analytics Usher in the Future of Plant Maintenance

    Jim Cahill
    Today’s plant maintenance looks very different from a picture of just 10 or 15 years ago. The tools and strategies that reliability teams have at their disposal have expanded dramatically—from new sensing technologies to comprehensive software solutions to track and trend performance across the enterprise. What has not changed, however, is that reliability personnel have a lot to do. If anything, today’s workers—frequently…

  • Edge Analytics Usher in the Future of Plant Maintenance

    Jim Cahill
    Today’s plant maintenance looks very different from a picture of just 10 or 15 years ago. The tools and strategies that reliability teams have at their disposal have expanded dramatically—from new sensing technologies to comprehensive software solutions to track and trend performance across the enterprise. What has not changed, however, is that reliability personnel have a lot to do. If anything, today’s workers—frequently…

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