When I worked in the offshore oil & gas business many years ago, production platforms typically had low-voltage electrical systems running motors no larger than 480VAC. Over the years as the process sophistication grew and motors with variable speed drives...
Piping and vessel corrosion and erosion typically occur from the inside out, making it difficult to spot problems without some type of ongoing material thickness measurement program. A piping or vessel breach can lead to disastrous consequences, especially in...
As instrumentation and control system, also known as Operational Technology (OT) incorporate wireless and other classic Informational Technology (IT) components, the worlds of OT and IT continue to merge. For control and automation specialists, it means things like...
Author: Craig Abbott Recently, a customer using a non-Emerson hand held communicator ran into problems during FAT. None of the devices they had configured would connect to the Rosemount 1420 gateway whilst other devices, configured by our technician using a 475 hand...
Author: Craig Abbott In March, the inaugural demonstration of our new Distributed Experience Hub was given to members of our global management team. This new initiative enables customers to activate a live video feed for real time support from teams across the Asia...
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 from earlier...
Emerson's Craig Abbott provides some technical considerations for your IEC 62591 WirelessHART field device network. A frequently asked question about the WirelessHART 2.4GHz radio network is "How far can these devices transmit?" Depending on local units of...
Emerson's Craig Abbott provides the analogy of your car's fuel gauge to think about how to manage your plant assets. If you asked a large group of people “How often do you refuel your car?” almost certainly the response would not be as simple as “every Monday...
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