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  • Loop Tuning Expertise in Your Pocket

    Jim Cahill
    Some of the more popular posts here on the blog involve loop tuning. Our Process Optimization category is filled with more than 150 posts featuring the wisdom of many experienced practitioners. One extremely proficient practitioner and prolific author , Greg McMillan has an updated work on loop tuning, Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide, 4 th edition ( ISA member price ). Greg wrote it for those that get their hands on…

  • Loop Tuning Expertise in Your Pocket

    Jim Cahill
    Some of the more popular posts here on the blog involve loop tuning. Our Process Optimization category is filled with more than 150 posts featuring the wisdom of many experienced practitioners. One extremely proficient practitioner and prolific author , Greg McMillan has an updated work on loop tuning, Good Tuning: A Pocket Guide, 4 th edition ( ISA member price ). Greg wrote it for those that get their hands on…

  • Gain a Competitive Advantage–While Wearing Pajamas

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Jocelyn Sexton Across a variety of industries, manufacturing plants must meet rigorous production goals in order for companies to remain competitive. Especially in today’s economic climate, everyone is looking for the best cost options to make improvements without sacrificing quality. However, endless technology changes and complex processes make it challenging to keep up. Do your engineers know how to…

  • Gain a Competitive Advantage–While Wearing Pajamas

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Jocelyn Sexton Across a variety of industries, manufacturing plants must meet rigorous production goals in order for companies to remain competitive. Especially in today’s economic climate, everyone is looking for the best cost options to make improvements without sacrificing quality. However, endless technology changes and complex processes make it challenging to keep up. Do your engineers know how to…

  • Gain a Competitive Advantage–While Wearing Pajamas

    Jim Cahill
    Author: Jocelyn Sexton Across a variety of industries, manufacturing plants must meet rigorous production goals in order for companies to remain competitive. Especially in today’s economic climate, everyone is looking for the best cost options to make improvements without sacrificing quality. However, endless technology changes and complex processes make it challenging to keep up. Do your engineers know how to…

  • Contrasting Advance Regulatory and Advanced Process Control

    Jim Cahill
    I wanted to bring additional visibility to a great thread in the LinkedIn Process Control group on advanced regulatory control versus advanced process control. The post, So, ARC Can “Replace” APC? is based on a blog post, Advanced regulatory versus model-predictive control . The LinkedIn post’s author draws two points from the blog post: ARC is implemented at the Process Control System level while APC (or MPC …

  • Contrasting Advance Regulatory and Advanced Process Control

    Jim Cahill
    I wanted to bring additional visibility to a great thread in the LinkedIn Process Control group on advanced regulatory control versus advanced process control. The post, So, ARC Can “Replace” APC? is based on a blog post, Advanced regulatory versus model-predictive control . The LinkedIn post’s author draws two points from the blog post: ARC is implemented at the Process Control System level while APC (or MPC …

  • Contrasting Advance Regulatory and Advanced Process Control

    Jim Cahill
    I wanted to bring additional visibility to a great thread in the LinkedIn Process Control group on advanced regulatory control versus advanced process control. The post, So, ARC Can “Replace” APC? is based on a blog post, Advanced regulatory versus model-predictive control . The LinkedIn post’s author draws two points from the blog post: ARC is implemented at the Process Control System level while APC (or MPC [model…

  • Process Automation Knowledge Transfer

    Jim Cahill
    I wanted to share a recap a presentation Eastman Chemical Company’s Danaca Jordan and I did last week at the Emerson Exchange conference. Our collaboration, New Kids on the I/O Block: Transferring Knowledge to Millennials proved to generate quite a bit of discussion and even some raised emotions in the two session in which we presented. Our abstract: As retirement rates accelerate in Western nations, efficiently…

  • Accurate and Reliable Temperature Measurement Webinar

    Jim Cahill
    Temperature measurements can be some of the most critical measurements in many production processes. Inaccuracies can impact safety, quality, efficiency, and reliability. David Anderson Senior Temperature Measurement Engineer Emerson’s David Anderson is holding a webinar on October 14 at 9:00 am US/Central time to offer insight for gaining higher accuracy and reliability in your temperature measurements. He’ll discuss…

  • Educational Reactor Measurement and Control Book

    Jim Cahill
    Last week I highlighted an updated book for process control engineers , Tuning and Control Loop Performance, by Greg McMillan. It’s amazing how prolific Greg is, even in his “retirement” over these past several years. I can only aspire to be so active when my golden years arrive! Process Automation Hall of Fame member, Greg McMillan I mention this because Greg has another book he’s finishing, Advances in Reactor Measurement…

  • Educational Reactor Measurement and Control Book

    Jim Cahill
    Last week I highlighted an updated book for process control engineers , Tuning and Control Loop Performance, by Greg McMillan. It’s amazing how prolific Greg is, even in his “retirement” over these past several years. I can only aspire to be so active when my golden years arrive! Process Automation Hall of Fame member, Greg McMillan I mention this because Greg has another book he’s finishing, Advances in Reactor Measurement…

  • Educational Reactor Measurement and Control Book

    Jim Cahill
    Last week I highlighted an updated book for process control engineers , Tuning and Control Loop Performance, by Greg McMillan. It’s amazing how prolific Greg is, even in his “retirement” over these past several years. I can only aspire to be so active...

  • Educational Resource for Tuning and Control Loop Performance

    Jim Cahill
    Greg McMillan ISA Fellow Process automation hall of fame member Greg McMillan has nearly completed an updated version of the book, Tuning and Control Loop Performance: A Practitioner’s Guide. It had last been updated back in 1994. You may be familiar...

  • Combined Reliability-Centered Course for Instrumentation Technicians

    Jim Cahill
    At a meeting last week with our global consultants, I caught up with Emerson’s Tinh Phan. He shared with me a new course that has been created by the Emerson Educational Services team dealing with how to manage Foundation Fieldbus, HART, and Profibus...

  • Live Classroom Instruction Comes Virtually to You

    Jim Cahill
    Over the past many weeks, we’ve highlighted how communications technologies have made integrated operations, or iOps much more practical. It allows experts to help problem solve over great distances, as if they were at the local site in person. This not...

  • Setpoint Lead-Lag Question and Answer

    Jim Cahill
    I wanted to share this question and answer on setpoint lead-lag, from the Mentoring Engineers discussion group in the Emerson Exchange 365 community. The question: …one of the options you recommend for eliminating overshoot at setpoint changes is using...

  • Question and Answer with the International Society of Automation

    Jim Cahill
    As many of you already know, a top organization in the world of automation is the International Society of Automation (ISA). It has grown out of a U.S. organization formerly known as the Instrument Society of America founded in 1945. For those who may...

  • Fisher Valve and Instrument Howto Videos

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Howto Video on Pneumatic Valve Positioner Mounting, I shared the first in a series of “how to…” videos that the Emerson Educational Services team was developing. Apart from this initiative, my subscription on the FisherControlValve...

  • Howto Video on Pneumatic Valve Positioner Mounting

    Jim Cahill
    I knew when my son went to YouTube before coming to me when he needed to learn how to tie a tie–that howto videos were valuable, easily discoverable, and broadly used. I’ve share examples such as How To Install Micro Motion 9739 MVD Electronic Modules...

  • Engineering and the Olympics: 4 Ways to Win

    Jim Cahill
    Many of the fantastic aspects of the Olympic Games exist with the help of engineering. From stadiums to competition venues, water systems to transportation, engineering has applied skill and expertise to make the Games even better. In fact, the National...

  • Wireless Sensor Network Learning Resources

    Jim Cahill
    In an earlier post, Broadcast Range of WirelessHART Transmitters, Craig Abbott provided some technical considerations for a wireless field device network. I wanted to bring extra visibility to a comment from Emerson’s Jonas Berge, whom you may recall...

  • 5 Reasons Engineers Make Good Marketers

    Jim Cahill
    Engineers have many talents and end up working in many disciplines. Some like me even find their way into marketing roles. In today’s guest post, Emerson’s Lee Rumbles, Director of Marketing for the Oil & Gas Flow Group shares some reasons why engineers...

  • Lambda Control-Loop Tuning Essentials with James Beall

    Jim Cahill
    Chris Womack here again with another guest post. Having trouble with an oscillating integrating process? Have too much variability in a self-regulated process? Need a refresher about the essentials of lambda (λ) tuning? Then check out James Beall‘s workshop...

  • Connecting Temperature Instrumentation to Control Systems

    Jim Cahill
    As technology advances, process automation professionals face a myriad of ways to connect instrumentation and final control elements to their control systems. Some ways include direct wiring, remote I/O, multiplexors, locally mounted transmitters, HART...

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