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APC Uses Wireless to Automate Operator Rounds and Add Predictive Maintenance

How does Anadarko Petroleum (APC) monitor the head pressure of 70K barrel oil tanks all while saving time & labor costs? Watch Chris Diaz of APC & Terry Folsom & David Penny of Emerson demonstrate their wireless pressure-monitoring solution in this Best of Emerson Exchange 2017 video. 

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  • "if it was easy somebody else would already have done it" - but in the past with 4-20 mA it was not easy, that's why good solutions like this never got done in the past. It was just too hard with hard wiring. Thanks to wireless sensors, many of which are non-intrusive or simply reuse existing process connections so you don't need to create new process penetrations, this becomes so easy to do. So now plants are doing it. Learn more what other plants are doing from this essay: www.linkedin.com/.../what-would-you-measure-cost-nothing-jonas-berge