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Implement & Build Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a ControlGlobal.com article, Plantman Go: The future of asset lifecycle modeling , author Bob Sperber surveys automation suppliers for their views on ways to improve capital…
- 30 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a ControlGlobal.com article, Plantman Go: The future of asset lifecycle modeling , author Bob Sperber surveys automation suppliers for their views on ways to improve capital…
- 30 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a...
- 30 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a...
- 30 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a ...
- 30 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a ControlGlobal.com article, Plantman Go: The future of asset lifecycle modeling , author Bob Sperber surveys automation suppliers for their views on ways to improve capital…
- 30 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a ControlGlobal.com article, Plantman Go: The future of asset lifecycle modeling , author Bob Sperber surveys automation suppliers for their views on ways to improve capital…
- 30 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a ControlGlobal.com article, Plantman Go: The future of asset lifecycle modeling , author Bob Sperber surveys automation suppliers for their views on ways to improve capital…
- 30 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Improving Capital Project Performance

Jim Cahill

When large capital project teams consider the importance of optimizing ongoing operations and asset management in their designs, the results can impact which quartile the manufacturer and producer operates in compared with their industry peers. In a ControlGlobal.com article, Plantman Go: The future of asset lifecycle modeling , author Bob Sperber surveys automation suppliers for their views on ways to improve capital…
- 30 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Effective Compressor AntiSurge Control

Jim Cahill

Centrifugal and axial compressors are at the heart of many production processes. Effective compressor automation and turbomachinery control not only impacts efficiency, but also safety, reliability, production throughput and energy usage. A complete turbomachinery control system consists of measurement devices, high speed controllers, control valves, guide vane drives, turbine governors and more. I spoke with Emerson…
- 29 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Effective Compressor AntiSurge Control

Jim Cahill

Centrifugal and axial compressors are at the heart of many production processes. Effective compressor automation and turbomachinery control not only impacts efficiency, but also safety, reliability, production throughput and energy usage. A complete turbomachinery control system consists of measurement devices, high speed controllers, control valves, guide vane drives, turbine governors and more. I spoke with Emerson…
- 29 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Planning and Executing Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Jim Cahill

Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimizing Maintenance Work Scope for Turnarounds , refineries have had trouble executing these large, complex undertakings on time and on budget. Our data indicate that more…
- 18 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Planning and Executing Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Jim Cahill

Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimizing...
- 18 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Planning and Executing Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Jim Cahill

Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimizing...
- 18 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Planning and Executing Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Jim Cahill

Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimizing...
- 18 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Planning and Executing Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Jim Cahill

Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimizing...
- 18 Nov 2016
Implement & Build Blog: Planning and Executing Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Jim Cahill

Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimizing Maintenance Work Scope for Turnarounds , refineries have had trouble executing these large, complex undertakings on time and on budget. Our data indicate that more…
- 18 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Planning and Executing Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Jim Cahill

Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimizing...
- 18 Nov 2016
Plan & Design Blog: Planning and Executing Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Jim Cahill

Turnarounds, also known as planned shutdowns and outages, are the intense window of time to optimize and fix all the issues to get the process running back to peak performance. According to an Asset Performance Networks study, Benchmarking and Optimi...
- 18 Nov 2016
Improve & Modernize Blog: Looking Beyond Total Cost of Ownership to Return on Investment

Jim Cahill

Automation fundamentally impacts the costs and returns on a production process. When evaluating capital investments for instrumentation and automation, many manufacturers and producers look beyond the initial purchase, installation and commissioning costs to assess the costs throughout the lifecycle of this investment. While this total cost of ownership (TCO) approach improves upon initial purchase costs, it doesn’t well…
- 15 Nov 2016
Improve & Modernize Blog: Looking Beyond Total Cost of Ownership to Return on Investment

Jim Cahill

Automation fundamentally impacts the costs and returns on a production process. When evaluating capital investments for instrumentation and automation, many manufacturers and producers look beyond the initial purchase, installation and commissioning costs to assess the costs throughout the lifecycle of this investment. While this total cost of ownership (TCO) approach improves upon initial purchase costs, it doesn’t well…
- 15 Nov 2016
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: PID Options and Solutions - Parts 2 and 3

Gregory K McMillan

Here we finish up the extensive presentation of how to get the most out of your PID. We start with a look at the contribution of each mode and show how to estimate performance metrics from tuning settings and how excessive integral action and insufficient proportional action create oscillations. The key role of dead time, external reset feedback and different PID Forms and Structures is given. The following key points…
- 2 Nov 2016
Tips for New Process Automation Folks: PID Options and Solutions - Parts 2 and 3

Gregory K McMillan

Here we finish up the extensive presentation of how to get the most out of your PID. We start with a look at the contribution of each mode and show how to estimate performance metrics from tuning settings and how excessive integral action and insufficient proportional action create oscillations. The key role of dead time, external reset feedback and different PID Forms and Structures is given. The following key points…
- 1 Nov 2016
Improve & Modernize Blog: Reliability Consulting and Lifecycle Services

Jim Cahill

At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Sean Sims and Will Goetz teamed up to give an update on the reliability consulting process and the host of lifecycle services to improve operational performance for process manufacturers and producers. Sean opened describing the see-decide-act and how today’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) follow this model. Sensors measuring the process are no longer just…
- 24 Oct 2016
Improve & Modernize Blog: Reliability Consulting and Lifecycle Services

Jim Cahill

At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson’s Sean Sims and Will Goetz teamed up to give an update on the reliability consulting process and the host of lifecycle services to improve operational performance for process manufacturers and producers. Sean opened describing the see-decide-act and how today’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) follow this model. Sensors measuring the process are no longer just…
- 24 Oct 2016