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  • BASF and Teva Increase Energy Efficiency by Monitoring Steam Traps

    Optimizing energy use helps industrial organizations to increase their profitability while also achieving their environmental sustainability targets. However, identifying and addressing causes of energy inefficiency can be challenging without the right tools and expertise. Emerson provides a broad portfolio of measurement and monitoring solutions and services to help companies establish where energy inefficiency is occurring…
  • Improving Mining Shovel Uptime

    Emerson’s Cristián Doerr presented Increasing the Uptime of a Shovel in a Mining site with the AMS2140 at the 2023 Emerson Exchange Immerse Conference. Here is the session’s abstract. Komatsu is a world-class OEM for mobile mining equipment. They also execute maintenance activities to their fleets of over 70 pieces of equipment in Chile on different customer sites. In a copper mine located in Chile Komatsu performs…
  • Deploying Smart Commissioning During Outages and Upgrades

    Air Liquide’s Craig Spivey, Emerson’s Tinh Phan, and Emerson Impact Partner Puffer-Sweiven’s Salim Jaffer presented Air Liquide Launches an Initiative Around AMS Device Manager at the 2023 Emerson Exchange Immerse Conference. Here is their session’s abstract. Three years ago, Air Liquide was introduced to the immense power of AMS Device Manager by deploying Smart Commissioning. The project did not go as planned since…
  • Increasing Asset Reliability for Sustainability

    At the 2023 Emerson Exchange Immerse Conference, Emerson’s Manuel Arroyo presented, The Path to Net Zero Based on Asset Reliability. Here is the presentation abstract: The transition to a net-zero carbon future requires a comprehensive strategy that includes not only decarbonizing energy sources but also ensuring the reliability of the infrastructure that delivers that energy. The concept of asset reliability provides…
  • AMS Device Manager Data Server | Extended Intelligent Field Device Analytics Without the Aggravation

    As process manufacturing scope and capabilities have grown over the decades, so, too, has the need to carefully deploy and monitor dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of automation assets. Plant personnel rely on measurement and analytical instrumentation, digital valve controllers, wireless devices, and more to help them ensure processes are optimized and to keep operations safe, efficient, and effective. As plant…
  • Driving Reliability Improvements

    A more reliable manufacturing or production facility is a more sustainable facility. Many non-optimum outcomes, such as flaring, reprocessing, waste, and other non-optimum results, can be avoided. When Emerson and Aspen Technology came together to form a global technology and software team, this enabled complementary technologies and solutions to be applied to enterprise-level reliability. AspenTech and Emerson can…
  • Debunking Condition Monitoring Misconceptions

    The personnel landscape of processing plants has changed. Yesterday’s deep bench of experienced personnel has given way to leaner, more nimble groups supporting a wide variety of disparate technologies, often across an entire fleet. But while these teams are often smaller, they are also made up of digital natives—highly technical engineers who are used to constant access to critical information. The best plants are…
  • Debunking Condition Monitoring Misconceptions

    The personnel landscape of processing plants has changed. Yesterday’s deep bench of experienced personnel has given way to leaner, more nimble groups supporting a wide variety of disparate technologies, often across an entire fleet. But while these teams are often smaller, they are also made up of digital natives—highly technical engineers who are used to constant access to critical information. The best plants are…
  • Political Dilemma in the Plant

    Anchovy Rice, Banana Flower Salad, and the Instrument Technician You would think that for an industry as technical and geeky as Process Instrumentation and Condition-Based Monitoring, workplace politics would not be nonexistent right? Well, you would be wrong. In my age of innocence as a younger marketing guy, I learned some interesting lessons in a refinery that is not too far away. I knew we had the best solution…
  • Political Dilemma in the Plant

    Anchovy Rice, Banana Flower Salad, and the Instrument Technician You would think that for an industry as technical and geeky as Process Instrumentation and Condition-Based Monitoring, workplace politics would not be nonexistent right? Well, you would be wrong. In my age of innocence as a younger marketing guy, I learned some interesting lessons in a refinery that is not too far away. I knew we had the best solution…
  • Guardian Digital Experience is an Evolution in Support

    The Emerson Exchange Users’ Conference is all about Emerson users, and perhaps no session better exemplified that sentiment than the Transformation of Guardian presentation on day three. Nina Golder , vice president of Emerson’s Lifecycle Services, shared with the audience that user feedback, requests, and experiences are all behind Guardian’s current evolution from a service portal to a comprehensive digital experience…
  • Guardian Digital Experience is an Evolution in Support

    The Emerson Exchange Users’ Conference is all about Emerson users, and perhaps no session better exemplified that sentiment than the Transformation of Guardian presentation on day three. Nina Golder , vice president of Emerson’s Lifecycle Services, shared with the audience that user feedback, requests, and experiences are all behind Guardian’s current evolution from a service portal to a comprehensive digital experience…
  • Software Simplifies Technology Transfer

    The life sciences marketplace is changing faster than nearly any other industry. Gone are the days when companies focus on a single treatment to drive their entire business. Today’s life sciences manufacturers are challenged to bring new treatments to the marketplace as quickly as possible—a trend that was magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic . As a result, innovation is key today. And innovation requires technologies…
  • Software Simplifies Technology Transfer

    The life sciences marketplace is changing faster than nearly any other industry. Gone are the days when companies focus on a single treatment to drive their entire business. Today’s life sciences manufacturers are challenged to bring new treatments to the marketplace as quickly as possible—a trend that was magnified during the COVID-19 pandemic . As a result, innovation is key today. And innovation requires technologies…
  • Streamlining Proof Testing Procedures

    Click to enlarge Safety instrumented systems (SISs) require periodic proof testing of all of their safety instrumented functions (safety loops) which include the sensor, logic solver, and final element. An out-of-the-box proof testing solution from Emerson, ProofCheck , is available to provide all the aspects of proper SIS testing in a single solution, including field devices, wiring, signal conditioners, safety logic…
  • Streamlining Proof Testing Procedures

    Click to enlarge Safety instrumented systems (SISs) require periodic proof testing of all of their safety instrumented functions (safety loops) which include the sensor, logic solver, and final element. An out-of-the-box proof testing solution from Emerson, ProofCheck , is available to provide all the aspects of proper SIS testing in a single solution, including field devices, wiring, signal conditioners, safety logic…
  • Four Best Practices for Condition Monitoring

    It is easier than ever to store massive amounts of data. The cost of wireless sensing technologies has dropped dramatically, making it much easier to instrument every asset in the plant and ensure that no performance aberration goes unnoticed. However, bringing in all this data carries with it the risk of information floods. If data is collected and stored without a plan, it can easily become overwhelming. To help organizations…
  • Four Best Practices for Condition Monitoring

    It is easier than ever to store massive amounts of data. The cost of wireless sensing technologies has dropped dramatically, making it much easier to instrument every asset in the plant and ensure that no performance aberration goes unnoticed. However, bringing in all this data carries with it the risk of information floods. If data is collected and stored without a plan, it can easily become overwhelming. To help organizations…
  • Driving Operational Performance and Workforce Efficiency Improvements

    Let’s take a quick look at how to boost business performance with enterprise-level software that fully integrates operational technology (OT) data, optimizes operational health and performance, and fosters a more informed and productive workforce. This quick 2:19 YouTube video, Plantweb Optics: Driving Operational Performance and Workforce Efficiency to New Levels , provides an overview of how this application help enable…
  • Innovation Days Showcase Software Solutions to Drive Operational Gains

    Process and manufacturing organisations are increasingly harnessing advanced industrial software technologies to drive their journey to digital transformation and help them achieve their business and sustainability targets. With our extensive portfolio of innovative software solutions and renowned expertise, Emerson is the ideal partner to help companies implement data management and control architectures that provide…
  • Innovation Days Showcase Software Solutions to Drive Operational Gains

    Process and manufacturing organisations are increasingly harnessing advanced industrial software technologies to drive their journey to digital transformation and help them achieve their business and sustainability targets. With our extensive portfolio of innovative software solutions and renowned expertise, Emerson is the ideal partner to help companies implement data management and control architectures that provide…
  • Three Strategies to Drive Improved Reliability

    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…
  • Three Strategies to Drive Improved Reliability

    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…
  • Get Expert Operating Analysis with Remote Valve Condition Monitoring

    Emerson’s Lifecycle Services Business Development Manager John Carlow recently published an article in the March/April 2022 edition of Process Instrumentation. The article is titled Get Expert Operating Analysis with Remote Valve Condition Monitoring . It describes how plants can unleash the power of their installed equipment to avoid unplanned outages by utilizing remote monitoring services. A summary of the article…
  • Get Expert Operating Analysis with Remote Valve Condition Monitoring

    Emerson’s Lifecycle Services Business Development Manager John Carlow recently published an article in the March/April 2022 edition of Process Instrumentation. The article is titled Get Expert Operating Analysis with Remote Valve Condition Monitoring . It describes how plants can unleash the power of their installed equipment to avoid unplanned outages by utilizing remote monitoring services. A summary of the article…