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Optimizing Business Operations via Pervasive Sensing

Jim Cahill

For many plants and production facilities, instrumentation devices measuring the process were limited to just what was needed for monitoring and control due to installation costs and complexity. Wireless instrumentation has opened up the opportunity to add measurements to increase reliability, improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions and increase overall safety. Jonas Berge Director, Applied Technology Emerson’s…
- 9 Dec 2014
Optimizing Business Operations via Pervasive Sensing

Jim Cahill

For many plants and production facilities, instrumentation devices measuring the process were limited to just what was needed for monitoring and control due to installation costs and complexity. Wireless instrumentation has opened up the opportunity to add measurements to increase reliability, improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions and increase overall safety. Jonas Berge Director, Applied Technology Emerson’s…
- 9 Dec 2014
Optimizing Business Operations via Pervasive Sensing

Jim Cahill

For many plants and production facilities, instrumentation devices measuring the process were limited to just what was needed for monitoring and control due to installation costs and complexity. Wireless instrumentation has opened up the opportunity to add measurements to increase reliability, improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions and increase overall safety. Jonas Berge Director, Applied Technology Emerson’s…
- 9 Dec 2014
Implementing Process Analytical Technology and Continuous Process Verification

Jim Cahill

Gary Mitchell Senior Industry Consultant – Life Sciences In the 4:42 video, Life Science Drug Process Development and Manufacturing , Emerson’s Gary Mitchell highlights the changes occurring for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. Gary opens noting how these manufacturers are challenged to respond to new methods for drug process development and manufacturing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is driving…
- 12 Aug 2014
Implementing Process Analytical Technology and Continuous Process Verification

Jim Cahill

Gary Mitchell Senior Industry Consultant – Life Sciences In the 4:42 video, Life Science Drug Process Development and Manufacturing , Emerson’s Gary Mitchell highlights the changes occurring for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. Gary opens noting how these manufacturers are challenged to respond to new methods for drug process development and manufacturing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is driving…
- 12 Aug 2014
Implementing Process Analytical Technology and Continuous Process Verification

Jim Cahill

Gary Mitchell Senior Industry Consultant – Life Sciences In the 4:42 video, Life Science Drug Process Development and Manufacturing , Emerson’s Gary Mitchell highlights the changes occurring for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. Gary opens noting how these manufacturers are challenged to respond to new methods for drug process development and manufacturing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is driving…
- 12 Aug 2014
Implementing Process Analytical Technology and Continuous Process Verification

Jim Cahill

Gary Mitchell Senior Industry Consultant – Life Sciences In the 4:42 video, Life Science Drug Process Development and Manufacturing , Emerson’s Gary Mitchell highlights the changes occurring for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers. Gary opens noting how these manufacturers are challenged to respond to new methods for drug process development and manufacturing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is driving…
- 12 Aug 2014
iOps Projects Require Custom Approaches

Jim Cahill

In a Perspektive Prozessindustrie article, Für iOps-Projekte gibt es keine fertige Spezifikation (pp 16-17), Emerson’s Andreas Fuchs and Ernst Jäger describe the first steps toward integrated operations (iOps). Here is a translation of their interview...
- 18 Jun 2014
Migrating Control System Human Machine Interfaces

Jim Cahill

Control systems are built to last for decades of reliable operation. Yet technology continues to advance at a rapid pace. At the recent Emerson Exchange conference in Texas, Emerson’s Jean Pressly presented To Migrate Or Not To Migrate—DCS HMI Only. Here...
- 8 Nov 2013
Project Management KPIs-the Three Musketeers

Jim Cahill

A blog post by Emerson’s Anand Iyer. The last couple of decades have seen integrated engineering across the globe. Some of this actually started with the Y2K and internet and cloud have been largely responsible for this mode of operation. A philosophical...
- 10 Oct 2013
Process Automation System Design Techniques

Jim Cahill

For an automation project, what design methodology should you follow? Emerson’s Scott Turner provides some thoughts for your consideration. When designing a new control scheme or strategy it is easy to underestimate the amount of design effort required...
- 8 Oct 2013
Meeting a Fast Track Project Schedule with Containerized DCS and OTS for an Rumaila Iraq Project

Jim Cahill

Emerson’s Madhav Kasture shared a case study on how the project team managed and executed a fast track automation project. His abstract: Fast track project schedule for BP Rumaila Iraq was PO to delivery in 16 weeks for 2 DCS systems and blast proof HVAC...
- 2 Oct 2013
Making Emerson’s iCenter Part of Your Project Team

Jim Cahill

Emerson’s Mike Knittel shared how cabinets and field enclosures design and build for DeltaV and Ovation systems have been integrated at centers across the globe. His abstract: Emerson’s integration centers across the world have been reorganized as a single...
- 2 Oct 2013
No more rolling the dice when accessing project cost and risk. Why not try a crystal ball?

Jim Cahill

Emerson’s Gordon Lawther shared ideas in project cost estimation and risk assessment. His abstract: Every company has a method to estimate cost and access risk when compiling a business case. In many instances the data resides in a spreadsheet containing...
- 1 Oct 2013
Gain a Deeper Process Understanding through Batch Analytics

Jim Cahill

Models can help bring understanding to complex processes. In batch manufacturing, one of the benefits from generating models from process history data is the process understanding gained by going through the steps of generating and refining the model. These steps involve reviewing the data to be used in the model as well as examining the results of the model generation. I caught up with Emerson’s David Rehbein , a…
- 12 Apr 2013
Gain a Deeper Process Understanding through Batch Analytics

Jim Cahill

Models can help bring understanding to complex processes. In batch manufacturing, one of the benefits from generating models from process history data is the process understanding gained by going through the steps of generating and refining the model. These steps involve reviewing the data to be used in the model as well as examining the results of the model generation. I caught up with Emerson’s David Rehbein , a…
- 12 Apr 2013
Gain a Deeper Process Understanding through Batch Analytics

Jim Cahill

Models can help bring understanding to complex processes. In batch manufacturing, one of the benefits from generating models from process history data is the process understanding gained by going through the steps of generating and refining the model. These steps involve reviewing the data to be used in the model as well as examining the results of the model generation. I caught up with Emerson’s David Rehbein , a…
- 12 Apr 2013
Gain a Deeper Process Understanding through Batch Analytics

Jim Cahill

Models can help bring understanding to complex processes. In batch manufacturing, one of the benefits from generating models from process history data is the process understanding gained by going through the steps of generating and refining the model. These steps involve reviewing the data to be used in the model as well as examining the [...] Read the full text.
- 12 Apr 2013
Additional Measurements and their Financial Impact

Jim Cahill

I continue to mine all the great presentations from the Emerson Exchange event in Anaheim last fall. Here is a recap of another one, How Much Is Another Measurement Worth?, by Emerson’s Doug White. You may recall Doug from many earlier posts on project...
- 5 Feb 2013
Eliminating Time and Expense in Instrumentation Approval Drawings and Documentation

Jim Cahill

The documentation that is required for automation projects can be quite time consuming to create, update, and maintain over time. I discovered an Emerson Exchange Anaheim conference presentation, Improve Project Productivity with New Documentation ‘Custom...
- 22 Jan 2013
Building Competency through Operator Training Systems

Jim Cahill

Automation technologies can help in making plants more efficient, but only if the operations and maintenance personnel understand how to make effective use of these technologies. For control systems, Operator Training simulators (OTS) are one way to develop...
- 10 Dec 2012
You Already Asked Me That!

Jim Cahill

I recently saw an interesting discussion about the use of consultants. One question that came up was why they seem to ask the same question in slightly different ways or the same question to different functional groups in an organization. Emerson’s Michalle...
- 5 Dec 2012
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 including decaying infrastructure, loss…
- 16 Oct 2012
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 including decaying infrastructure, loss…
- 16 Oct 2012
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 including decaying infrastructure, loss…
- 16 Oct 2012