As wireless technology continues to be used in process manufacturing facilities, those used in control applications are increasing. At the ISA Automation Week conference, Emerson's Terry Blevins, Mark Nixon, and Marty Zielinski authored the paper, Using Wireless...
Mark Nixon
Bridging Color Sciences with Process Automation
I hate to date myself, but I remember the first color monitors coming into process automation operator workstations in the 1980s when I was a young systems engineer. Having a palette of colors was really nice when putting together displays for our operators on...
Making Advanced Process Control Approachable
A recent ControlGlobal.com article, Advanced Process Control Ain't Easy, concluded: The optimal solution is elusive, but perhaps the most promising path is to start with the simplest APC possible, one that delivers an acceptable percentage of theoretical benefits, but...
Taking Process Automation Learning into Your Own Hands
Two questions came together for this blog post. The first was by a young engineer, not too far from a recent engineering degree. He had gained some experience as an instrumentation technician, but had not been able to get a well-paying automation career established....
Terry Blevins and Mark Nixon Honored as ISA Fellows
If you ask many of the people around Emerson whose service with the company is measured in decades, the most likely response you'll hear is that "it's the people". I'm based in Austin, Texas and am surrounded by many of the DeltaV technologists, industry experts, and...
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