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Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Meeting Safety Challenges in Hydrogen Applications
Jim Cahill
Pressure safety valves (PSVs) play a vital role in ensuring the safe operation of industrial processes and equipment by preventing overpressure situations that could lead to serious accidents causing injuries or even fatalities, as well as significant environmental damage. PSVs are particularly crucial in high-pressure hydrogen systems due to the safety challenges associated with hydrogen gas. These challenges include…
29 Apr 2024
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Transforming Production with Fluid Power and Robotics
Jim Cahill
In today competitive landscape, manufacturers are facing lots of pressure to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and keep workers safe. One common solution they rely on, to address these challenges is usually found in Robotics. For example, in the automotive industry alone, more than one million robots are currently utilized. They play a critical role in the transformation of the factory floor, and one element is particularly…
5 Mar 2024
Operations Management Blog:
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…
28 Feb 2024
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Safety Instrumented System Born Digital
Jim Cahill
At the Emerson Exchange Immerse conference, the user community was treated to a presentation on how safety instrumented systems were incorporated into PureCycle Technology ‘s “ Born Digital ” strategy. PureCycle Technologies transforms polypropylene (PP) plastic into a versatile, replenishable resource through a unique purification process that separates color, odor, and other contaminants into ultra-pure recycled resin…
20 Dec 2023
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Streamlining SIS Proof Testing & Operational Workflows
Jim Cahill
Bayer’s Steven Scherich , Experitec’s Ty Murphy , and PROCONEX’s Maury Bayer presented Thousands of Pages Gone. Digital Workflow and Testing with ProofCheck, one year Later at the 2023 Emerson Exchange Immerse Conference. Here is their presentation abstract. Paper & inked signatures are often used to test, document, and perform manual workflow, safety/equipment validation, printing, executing, and maintaining procedures…
30 Oct 2023
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Driving Safer Chemical Manufacturing Performance
Jim Cahill
Safety is consistently among the highest priorities for manufacturers and producers. Critical goals are to avoid safety incidents, keep site personnel safe, protect the community around you, protect the environment as a whole, and improve your corporate financial health. A robust safety culture has many facets, including occupational safety, containment safety, process safety, and functional safety. I caught up with…
18 Oct 2023
Operations Management Blog:
A Best Practice Guide for Implementing Digital Transformation
Jim Cahill
Everyone in industry and business uses the term digital transformation, but there are myriad definitions and meanings behind their casual use of the words. This can be confusing for an enterprise just considering or embarking on its digital transformation journey. Recently in InTech magazine, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts and Emerson’s philosophy on what digital transformation is and how to implement it,…
29 Sep 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
22 Sep 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
13 Sep 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
13 Sep 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
9 Sep 2023
PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog:
Emerson’s PACK EXPO Preview: Trends, Tech, and More!
Deidrea Niece
The upcoming PACK EXPO is almost here, and Emerson is getting ready to showcase its innovative Floor to Cloud™︎ solutions . Our Emerson experts will be available at Booth 6107 to answer any questions you might have about meeting net zero targets, optim...
6 Sep 2023
PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog:
Emerson’s PACK EXPO Preview: Trends, Tech, and More!
Deidrea Niece
The upcoming PACK EXPO is almost here, and Emerson is getting ready to showcase its innovative Floor to Cloud™︎ solutions . Our Emerson experts will be available at Booth 6107 to answer any questions you might have about meeting net zero targets, optim...
6 Sep 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
31 Aug 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
31 Aug 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
24 Aug 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
24 Aug 2023
Operations Management Blog:
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…
22 Aug 2023
PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog:
Copper Winding OEM Enhances Customer Experience and Flexibility with Movicon™︎ HMI/SCADA – Case Study
Manish Sharma
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 an...
27 Jul 2023
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Reducing Emergency Response Times
Jim Cahill
This week at the EHS (Environmental, Health & Safety) Seminar in Galveston, Texas, Emerson’s Michael Machuca had two presentations to give. In today’s post, I’ll cover the first, Digital Solutions to Reduce Emergency Response Time. He opened by noting how response time is critical in an emergency. Injuries are reduced the quicker people are out of harm’s way. Location awareness mustering digital technology can help…
9 Jun 2023
PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog:
Asset health monitoring and data analysis help maximise plant uptime and efficiency
Madalina Miron
Alcino Beirão , digital solutions architect, Emerson Automation Solutions, Europe, describes the complementary software solutions Emerson provides to help organisations optimise their maintenance planning and reduce costs through early diagnosis of th...
23 May 2023
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Guide for Interpreting Hazardous Area Electrical Requirements
Jim Cahill
For U.S. manufacturers and producers, the National Electric Code (NEC) governs how the installation of electrical components in hazardous areas needs to be performed. Here is the history of the NEC from the National Fire Protection Association. In 1897, NFPA 70 , National Electrical Code (NEC ) , set the foundation for—and remains the world’s leading authority on—electrical safety in residential, commercial, and industrial…
28 Apr 2023
Safety Instrumented Systems Blog:
Managing and Protecting Storage Tanks
Jim Cahill
At the 4C Health, Safety & Environmental Conference , Emerson’s Dean Barnes and Mo Fazl presented How to Control and Reduce Tank Vent Fugitive Emissions and Maintenance Costs and Quantify Releases Through Proper Product Selection and Remote Monitoring. Here is his session abstract: Tank venting equipment such as blanketing regulators, thief hatches, pressure/vacuum relief valves and emergency vents are needed to safely…
10 Apr 2023
PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog:
At Hannover Messe Learn How Monitoring Utilities Can Help You Achieve Net Zero Goals
Deidrea Niece
Will you be at Hannover Messe April 17 – 21? If so, don’t miss the thoughtful and useful presentation, “Saving Energy: How Monitoring Utilities Such As Compressed Air Helps You Achieve Net-Zero Goals” by Emerson’s Eugenio Silva, Product Manager...
10 Apr 2023
PAC Systems & Industrial Computing Blog:
At Hannover Messe Learn How Monitoring Utilities Can Help You Achieve Net Zero Goals
Deidrea Niece
Will you be at Hannover Messe April 17 – 21? If so, don’t miss the thoughtful and useful presentation, “Saving Energy: How Monitoring Utilities Such As Compressed Air Helps You Achieve Net-Zero Goals” by Emerson’s Eugenio Silva, Product Manager...
10 Apr 2023
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