The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (formerly NPRA) are holding a Q&A and Technology Forum October 1-3, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Emerson's Tim Olsen, whom you may recall from earlier refinery-related posts, shared with me that several Emerson folks...
Aaron Crews
Harnessing Your Experts’ Knowledge for Sustainable Competitive Advantage LiveStream
Emerson's David Hyde and Aaron Crews presented, Harnessing Your Experts' Knowledge for Sustainable Competitive Advantage. They describe their efforts to develop a culture of sharing expertise among their TAG organization. Here is the recorded Emerson Exchange...
Reducing Distillation Column Energy Usage
I saw some startling facts in a presentation by Emerson's Pete Sharpe, whom you may recall from many process optimization-related posts. This week he visited The Automation Group (TAG) office in Houston, to discuss distillation and fired heater optimization. I was...
Join the Micro Motion Online Community
Update: The Micro Motion community is now the Flow group within the Emerson Exchange 365 global user community. Join your fellow flow measurement experts there! Part of an organization's willingness to bring their talented folks to the surface, is the organizational...
Can DCS HMI Impact Operator Performance?
So asks one of the liveliest conversations going on the Process Automation Usability Project site. The thread begins with an observation by the Putman Media staff: Many recent accidents have clearly identified the contribution of bad alarm management practices as a...
Hot Cutovers Help Provide Operator Learning Curve Time
Today is the first of two guest blog posts this week. Aaron Crews graciously agreed to write this while I'm goofing off this week on vacation. Thanks Aaron! Jim is a brave soul to hand over the keys to the blog while he's on vacation this week. Hopefully I don't do...
More Thoughts on the Hot Cutover Process
A hot cutover post from several weeks ago featuring Emerson's Aaron Crews prompted a question from another Emerson project professional to Aaron. The question described an upcoming hot cutover project and asked Aaron to share any additional thoughts he had. For those...
Automation System Hot Cutover Requires Careful Planning
It must be one of those weeks where a theme accidentally emerges. This week, it's discovering things to write about courtesy of Twitter. The subject for today's post comes from Aaron Crews, a principal control systems engineer with The Automation Group (TAG). TAG...
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