Jeff Householder recently posted this article on LinkedIn about Emerson Exchange 2022, so we wanted to share it with our community here as well:
Greetings from the edge! I’m excited to welcome users and friends back to Emerson Exchange this year – live and in-person. After our hard-working virtual events, it will be good to see our collaborators and co-innovators in-person. We’ve been working hard to put together the most relevant and useful program ever that speaks directly to the very real challenges facing industrial markets. Likewise, Emerson has taken some very significant steps in forwarding machine-level technology and the place of the edge in solving industrial problems and we look forward to sharing those with you.
Users and OEMs in a wide range of industrial markets and applications are experiencing many of the same big challenges. The big shift in workforce from one generation to another, trying to enhance productivity with fewer people and less experienced workers, lingering supply chain issues, hackers and security threats, decreasing quality of raw materials, aging infrastructure and so much more pressure industrial plants. While everyone accepts that technology and digital transformation are the solution, finding the bandwidth and budget to implement the changes is a challenge in itself.
That’s where machine level technology and the move to the edge comes in. Affordable, manageable, scalable, and modular, edge technologies and integrated edge and machine level hardware and software make big initiatives like IIoT, Business 4.0, and digital transformation a cost-effective, manageable, day-to-day implementation.
For example, Emerson has not only developed important edge and machine level hardware and software but has natively implemented them into fit-for-purpose packages that reduce time, effort and expertise required to be up and running fast and cost-effectively. Learn more about these pre-integrated packages.
This year has also seen big steps in creating modern, next-generation takes on time-tested technologies, like the remarkable advances in scalability, ease-of-use, connectivity and security offered by the Movicon.NExTTM 4.2 software. This advanced platform helps users solve very specific problems like energy reduction and OEE, adds realistic augmented reality to bridge the skills gap, speeds time to development and connects the widest range of disparate systems, eliminating islands of automation. Get more information on the Movicon.NExT platform.
Another big advance comes in Emerson’s new PACSystemsTM RSTi-EP CPE200 compact PLC series, which offers true open programming for today’s workers, open connectivity, multi-layer security and much more, taking the time-honored programmable logic controller to a whole new level.
We’re offering attendees a wide range of technical sessions this year, detailing the successful implementation of some of these new technologies as well as the innovations of our users. Pack your schedule with these interesting topics:
Emerson Exchange provides a unique opportunity to meet with leaders and experts in industrial automation for learning, sharing best practices and networking. I hope to see you in Grapevine, Texas, October 24-28 – you can register here!