We opened this week with a look at how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is changing the traditional view of information flow through the process manufacturing and production enterprise as defined by the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture developed in the...
Happy New Year and I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are recharged to accomplish even greater heights in 2016! I wanted to share an extremely popular LinkedIn post, 2016: Digital Transformation by Emerson's Jonas Berge. Posted just a week ago, it currently...
Sometimes a good discussion occurs among experts in a collaboration application within the Emerson firewall. Today's post is an example. Emerson's Jonas Berge was asking the global community of consultants and interested parties in refining about the manually operated...
One only has to do a Google News search on the Industrial Internet of Things to see all the happenings around this convergence of digital intelligence, communications, sensing and control. Another term coming from a European perspective, Industry 4.0 is a: …collective...
Across many process manufacturing and producing industries, falling prices are driving the need for increased efficiency and reliability, as well as reduced costs. While optimizing process control can yield gains, so can applying technology to the condition of the...
In an earlier post, Identifying Components then Optimizing Industrial Energy Consumption, we discussed how energy optimization initiatives were affected by what could be measured. Emerson's Jonas Berge added a great comment to that post, which I will share here to...
Yesteryear, energy and water were relatively inexpensive, waste disposal carried little cost, emissions did not incur fines and people willing to work in harsh manufacturing plant and production facility environments were abundant. Today, energy and water costs are...
Process measurement devices are installed where required to monitor, control, and safely shutdown the process. But often, additional measurements combined with the existing ones can help to improve several areas of process operations performance. I saw a chart from...
There are many ways to manage pressure in production processes. A common way for handling over-pressure conditions is through the use of relief valves. Wikipedia defines a relief valve as: …a type of valve used to control or limit the pressure in a system or vessel...
In an earlier post, Considerations for Wired versus Wireless Instrumentation, we provided some guidance on when to consider digital communications-enabled technologies such as Foundation fieldbus and when to consider wireless technologies such as WirelessHART....
Unless your plant or production facilities was recently built, chances are that your process has a mix of automatic and manual control. A common area for manual control are on-off valves used in many general purpose applications such as tank filling and emptying,...
For many plants and production facilities, instrumentation devices measuring the process were limited to just what was needed for monitoring and control due to installation costs and complexity. Wireless instrumentation has opened up the opportunity to add...
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