I caught up with Emerson's Lou Heavner the other day and we traded a few teenager "war stories." Lou is an advanced automation consultant and I've shared some of his expertise in posts over the years. He mentioned he had done a very basic presentation to show the...
I've featured quite a number of experts around Emerson over these past three years. Some categories, like Process Optimization, have more than 50 posts. There is quite a bit of wisdom mixed in all those posts. A few months ago, I was asked by Plant Engineering...
I recently exchanged some emails with Emerson's Sergei Kuznetsov, part of TAG projects organization, and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sergei is principal control systems engineer, certified professional engineer, and has an MSEE degree. He shared with me an...
When I struggle with a technical issue, whether it is hardware, software or just something I'm trying to understand better, I usually start with Google. I'll add as many relevant keywords as I can think of, and add "howto" as one more keyword. The search often returns...
Let's close the week with a short post about energy saving opportunities. The pain of higher energy costs is fresh on my mind with an unexpected trip by car from Austin to Houston and back with gasoline prices now just shy of $4/gallon USD. Back in May, I wrote about...
Continuous manufacturing processes have long benefited from the application of advanced process control (APC) in their processes to improve upon their regulatory control. Batch manufacturing processes have recently been able to take advantage of these technologies. I...
Emerson's Pete Sharpe, an advanced automation consultant, was recently interviewed for a magazine article on the subject of process manufacturers' aging workforce. Manufacturers primarily in North America and Western Europe are feeling this loss of experience due to...
A continuing theme to several of these blog posts is how process manufacturers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency in these times of high energy costs. One way to do this is to optimize the steam required for a distillation process. I caught up with Pete...
One of our popular presenters at the annual Emerson Exchange is Pete Sharpe. I think that like his last name indicates, he is one sharp person, and people generally like hearing him share his expertise. Pete has quite a bit of experience with more than 20 years...
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