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  • Saving Time and Money on Plant Shutdowns with Intelligent Servicing

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Scott Grunwald , Director of Shutdown, Turnaround and Outage (STO) Projects–Lifecycle Services When it comes to shutdown, turnaround and outage (STO) projects, maintenance best practices are a plant’s best friend. Shutdown work scopes are becoming smaller with greater emphasis on pre-turnaround and routine pit-stops. Economic uncertainty has led to plant operators looking to maximize efficiency and output…

  • Saving Time and Money on Plant Shutdowns with Intelligent Servicing

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Scott Grunwald , Director of Shutdown, Turnaround and Outage (STO) Projects–Lifecycle Services When it comes to shutdown, turnaround and outage (STO) projects, maintenance best practices are a plant’s best friend. Shutdown work scopes are becoming smaller with greater emphasis on pre-turnaround and routine pit-stops. Economic uncertainty has led to plant operators looking to maximize efficiency and output…

  • Digitally Transforming Turnaround Planning and Execution

    Jim Cahill
    At the recent Emerson Exchange conference, a scenario-based exhibit demonstrated how technology, communications and enabled experts can fundamentally change the massive effort of planning and executing turnarounds, a.k.a. shutdowns and outages . In this 2:39 YouTube video, Digital Transformation Experience – Turnarounds , Emerson’s John Sanders describes scenes from this exhibit and how these projects could be better…

  • Digitally Transforming Turnaround Planning and Execution

    Jim Cahill
    At the recent Emerson Exchange conference, a scenario-based exhibit demonstrated how technology, communications and enabled experts can fundamentally change the massive effort of planning and executing turnarounds, a.k.a. shutdowns and outages . In this 2:39 YouTube video, Digital Transformation Experience – Turnarounds , Emerson’s John Sanders describes scenes from this exhibit and how these projects could be better…

  • Selling Value of Digitalization Projects

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Laurie Ben and James Beall presented How to Sell the Value of Digitalization with MPC at the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. Laurie opened by describing different ways digitalization is described—Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and Digital Transformation to name a few. These technologies can help meet new regulation, keep up with the increasing pace of market changes and address disruptive…

  • Selling Value of Digitalization Projects

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s Laurie Ben and James Beall presented How to Sell the Value of Digitalization with MPC at the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. Laurie opened by describing different ways digitalization is described—Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and Digital Transformation to name a few. These technologies can help meet new regulation, keep up with the increasing pace of market changes and address disruptive…

  • Justifying Your Automation Modernization Projects

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s John Dolenc presented on how to justify your automation project at the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. He shared justification methods to identify operational improvements and estimate the financial impact. He opened on where to look within operations, what data to analyze and how to estimate financial gains. The place to start is finding where the “money” is located in a process unit. An automation project…

  • Justifying Your Automation Modernization Projects

    Jim Cahill
    Emerson’s John Dolenc presented on how to justify your automation project at the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. He shared justification methods to identify operational improvements and estimate the financial impact. He opened on where to look within operations, what data to analyze and how to estimate financial gains. The place to start is finding where the “money” is located in a process unit. An automation project…

  • Better Project Planning with 5 Steps

    Jim Cahill
    In a 2018 Emerson Exchange conference presentation, Five Steps to Better Project Planning, Emerson’s Stephen Bunge , Alan Harris and Som Sreedhar shared key steps they follow to help put projects on the path toward project execution success: reducing total installed cost and lowering project execution risk. The five steps are: Engage Early Vision Alignment Data-Driven Decision Making Bridge the Technology…

  • Better Project Planning with 5 Steps

    Jim Cahill
    In a 2018 Emerson Exchange conference presentation, Five Steps to Better Project Planning, Emerson’s Stephen Bunge , Alan Harris and Som Sreedhar shared key steps they follow to help put projects on the path toward project execution success: reducing total installed cost and lowering project execution risk. The five steps are: Engage Early Vision Alignment Data-Driven Decision Making Bridge the Technology…

  • Helping Engineered Solutions Providers Improve Performance

    Jim Cahill
    Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) play an important role in capital projects by providing modular equipment and processes. They deliver engineered solutions to manufacturers to meet a variety of project requirements, and after commissioning their equipment, these OEMs often give ongoing support through the equipment lifecycle. In return, Emerson offers the measurement devices, final control elements, control and…

  • Helping Engineered Solutions Providers Improve Performance

    Jim Cahill
    Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) play an important role in capital projects by providing modular equipment and processes. They deliver engineered solutions to manufacturers to meet a variety of project requirements, and after commissioning their equipment, these OEMs often give ongoing support through the equipment lifecycle. In return, Emerson offers the measurement devices, final control elements, control and…

  • Planning Turnarounds for more than Maintenance

    Jim Cahill
    A Solomon Associates presenter on reliability benchmarking at the 2015 AFPM Reliability and Maintenance Conference noted that a turnaround is the planned shutdown opportunity to implement a capital improvement project. In an American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)’s CEP article, Turnarounds: Strategic Opportunities to Improve (article excerpt – AIChE membership required for full access), Emerson’s Tim Olsen…

  • Design and Secure Network Communications

    Jim Cahill
    At the 2018 Ovation Users’ Group Conference, Emerson’s Craig McDaniel highlighted practices for effectively designing and securing communications between the Ovation distributed control system and field networks. Craig opened describing the function of a router and net masks as part of the Internet Protocol. The mask identifies what is local to the network and what most go through the router to other connected networks…

  • Design and Secure Network Communications

    Jim Cahill
    At the 2018 Ovation Users’ Group Conference, Emerson’s Craig McDaniel highlighted practices for effectively designing and securing communications between the Ovation distributed control system and field networks. Craig opened describing the function of a router and net masks as part of the Internet Protocol. The mask identifies what is local to the network and what most go through the router to other connected networks…

  • Technology Advances in the Energy Sector

    Jim Cahill
    In an Forbes article, Emerson CTO Says ‘Energy Industry 4.0’ Opens A Plethora Of Business Opportunities , Peter Zornio shares examples of the rapid innovations occurring in the energy sector. Peter noted the changing relationship with oil & gas operators: “Emerson is cognizant of new demands for optimization from oil and gas customers, and my division is changing from being the proverbial ‘automation guy’ to a solutions…

  • Technology Advances in the Energy Sector

    Jim Cahill
    In an Forbes article, Emerson CTO Says ‘Energy Industry 4.0’ Opens A Plethora Of Business Opportunities , Peter Zornio shares examples of the rapid innovations occurring in the energy sector. Peter noted the changing relationship with oil & gas operators: “Emerson is cognizant of new demands for optimization from oil and gas customers, and my division is changing from being the proverbial ‘automation guy’ to a solutions…

  • The Cloud, the Edge and Innovations across the Energy Sector

    Jim Cahill
    Huge amounts of data combined with powerful analytics applications running in cloud environments are beginning to help solve some of the toughest reliability, efficiency and productivity challenges that manufacturers and producers face. Emerson’s systems and solutions business technology vice president, Claudio Fayad shared his insights in a panel, The Cloud, the Edge and future of connectivity, moderated by IHS Markit…

  • The Cloud, the Edge and Innovations across the Energy Sector

    Jim Cahill
    Huge amounts of data combined with powerful analytics applications running in cloud environments are beginning to help solve some of the toughest reliability, efficiency and productivity challenges that manufacturers and producers face. Emerson’s systems and solutions business technology vice president, Claudio Fayad shared his insights in a panel, The Cloud, the Edge and future of connectivity, moderated by IHS Markit…

  • The Cloud, the Edge and Innovations across the Energy Sector

    Jim Cahill
    Huge amounts of data combined with powerful analytics applications running in cloud environments are beginning to help solve some of the toughest reliability, efficiency and productivity challenges that manufacturers and producers face. Emerson’s systems and solutions business group president, Claudio Fayad shared his insights in a panel, The Cloud, the Edge and future of connectivity, moderated by IHS Markit’s Cliff…

  • How to Restore Capital Project Confidence

    Jim Cahill
    At CERAWeek 2018, Emerson’s systems and solutions business president Jim Nyquist shares ways to improve capital project performance The complexity of today’s capital projects for manufacturers and producers makes it more difficult to execute them on time and on budget. Projects are larger, more technical and have shorter project schedules than ever. At CERAWeek 2018 , Emerson’s systems & solutions group president, Jim…

  • How to Restore Capital Project Confidence

    Jim Cahill
    At CERAWeek 2018, Emerson’s systems and solutions business president Jim Nyquist shares ways to improve capital project performance The complexity of today’s capital projects for manufacturers and producers makes it more difficult to execute them on time and on budget. Projects are larger, more technical and have shorter project schedules than ever. At CERAWeek 2018 , Emerson’s systems & solutions group president, Jim…

  • How to Restore Capital Project Confidence

    Jim Cahill
    At CERAWeek 2018, Emerson’s systems and solutions business president Jim Nyquist shares ways to improve capital project performance The complexity of today’s capital projects for manufacturers and producers makes it more difficult to execute them on time and on budget. Projects are larger, more technical and have shorter project schedules than ever. At CERAWeek 2018 , Emerson’s systems & solutions group president, Jim…

  • How to Restore Capital Project Confidence

    Jim Cahill
    At CERAWeek 2018, Emerson’s systems and solutions business president Jim Nyquist shares ways to improve capital project performance The complexity of today’s capital projects for manufacturers and producers makes it more difficult to execute them on time and on budget. Projects are larger, more technical and have shorter project schedules than ever. At CERAWeek 2018 , Emerson’s systems & solutions group president, Jim…

  • Reducing Project Execution Risks for Complex Analytical Systems

    Jim Cahill
    Real-time analyzers play an important role in many process manufacturing operations. Some examples include natural gas custody transfer, combustion efficiency monitoring, combustion emissions component analysis, flowing fluid compositional analysis and more. Not only is the selection of the right analyzer for the right application important, but so is how it is installed and managed to assure accurate and reliable…

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