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Cybersecurity for Water Utilities
Jim Cahill
One only has to do a Google News search on cybersecurity to know it is a key concern for businesses across the globe. In a Water Online article, SCADA Cybersecurity: What Every Water Utility Should Do Now To Prevent An Attack, Emerson’s Doug Johnson shares areas of concern and a path for water utilities to […] Read the full text.
7 Jul 2014
Knowledge Sharing at Ovation User Group
Jim Cahill
User group conferences are a tremendous source of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. What’s learned at these conferences can be invaluable as a shortcut to learning what works well, what to avoid, and who has similar interests with whom you can connect. Combined Cycle Journal editor, Bob Schwieger, shared his experiences in an article, Users push tomorrow’s […] Read the full text.
3 Feb 2014
Applying Wireless Vibration Monitoring in Electrical Power Stations
Jim Cahill
In a recent ME Plant & Maintenance article, Wireless Vibration Monitoring –improves reliability and enhances safety (pdf), a rotating machinery engineer describes how his power station used a wireless vibration transmitter to avoid shutting down a turbine producing 200MW of electricity. Online vibration monitoring, running continuously, coupled with analysis tools helps power station personnel to [...] Read the full text…
18 Apr 2013
Updated Foundation Fieldbus Segment Design Tool
Jim Cahill
The diagnostics available in smart instrumentation can help to improve process efficiency, reduce unplanned downtime, reduce maintenance costs, and more. I received word that a valuable tool, the Foundation Fieldbus Segment Design Tool, has been updated to help in the upfront engineering process. The tool is specifically designed to provide a general guide for reducing [...] Read the full text.
13 Mar 2013
Data Integration, Visualization and Analysis in the Water Industry
Jim Cahill
Municipalities feel the squeeze between aging facilities and increasing regulatory requirements. Emerson’s Greg Schirm, a member of the Power & Water Solutions team, highlights ways they are addressing these conditions. It seems that running a treatment plant or even a municipal water system was much simpler many years ago. Today, municipalities are facing numerous pressures [...] Read the full text.
16 Oct 2012
Start with an Integrated Automation Master Plan
Jim Cahill
An Emerson Exchange 365 post pointed me to an article, Weathering the perfect storm, written by Emerson’s Doug Johnson for World Water magazine. The article’s synopsis: Advanced automation technologies can help reduce operational costs, improve efficiency, comply with regulations, and protect against cyber attacks. Doug highlights the many challenges facing municipalities and investor-owned utilities including [...] Read…
28 Feb 2012
Securing Ovation Systems per NERC CIP Standards
Jim Cahill
In the Emerson Exchange 365 community, I saw a post announcing a February 16-17, 2012 Regional Technical Forum for Ovation system users. I got my hands on a few of the presentations, which I hope to share with you over the next few weeks. Emerson’s Mike DeKlavon, a member of the Power & Water Solutions [...] Read the full text.
14 Feb 2012
2011 Emerson Exchange – The Future of Process Management
Jim Cahill
Retired Emerson Marketing VP Dave Beckmann presented The Future of Process Management. His abstract: I will show that the Command and Control management style of the past 100 years is drawing to a close. Increasing complexity in our plants calls for a...
26 Oct 2011
2011 Emerson Exchange Day 2 Recap
Jim Cahill
Here’s a recap of some of the articles, community posts, and tweets coming from Day 2 of the Emerson Exchange in Nashville. ControlGlobal.com Emerson Exchange headlines from Tuesday: Electronic Marshalling Slashes Costs for Sulfuric Acid Maker Emerson...
26 Oct 2011
2011 Emerson Exchange – Wireless Relief Valve Monitoring is Now Possible
Jim Cahill
Wireless devices are finding their way into more and more applications. The abstract from this session is: Monitoring of relief valves is a challenge, detecting when they are “simmering”, or have lifted-off, or if after a lift-off did they re-seat fully...
25 Oct 2011
2011 Emerson Exchange Day 1 Recap
Jim Cahill
Here’s a recap of some of the articles, community posts, tweets, and videos coming from Day 1 of the Emerson Exchange. ControlGlobal.com headlines from Monday: Emerson Takes Aim at Industrial Energy Use Emerson Building Trust, Investing in Technology...
25 Oct 2011
Advanced Biofuels: Why Feedstock Neutrality Matters
Jim Cahill
Should we be picking the winning alternative energy feedstocks right now? Emerson’s Douglas Morris explores this question in today’s guest post. I’d like to start this blog post with a question: When you hear the term biofuels, what typically comes to...
30 Sep 2011
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