Executing capital projects grows increasingly difficult as their size and scope continues to expand. I caught up with Emerson's Kevin Jackson who has witnessed this growth over time. Kevin notes that today 65% of projects over a billion dollars fail. Likewise, 35% of...
The Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture has been a defining architecture for instrumentation, automation, manufacturing operations and business planning and logistics systems since its introduction in the 1990s. In a Plant Services article, What a smart device...
Author: Scott Turner This is the fourth part of my five part series on how to write an effective User Requirements Specification. The topic for this part is the 'Control Philosophy'. The first three in the series include Considerations for Your User Requirement...
Author: Scott Turner This is the third part of the five part series on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification. The topic of this part is 'Scope'. If you missed the earlier two, see Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification and Process...
Author: Scott Turner This is the second part of the five part series on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification. If you missed the first on, see Considerations for Your User Requirement Specification. The topic of this post is 'Process Overview'. We...
Author: Scott Turner In this five-part series, I will be providing guidance on how to write an effective User Requirement Specification. I will try and pull ideas and information from a number of different sources. For example, I have recently asked people through...
For refiners challenged with increasing regulations, blending operations are a major area where automation investments can help meet these regulations and improve operational performance. Emerson's Marcelo Carugo, who leads the refining and petrochemical industry...
A blog post by Emerson's Anand Iyer. The last couple of decades have seen integrated engineering across the globe. Some of this actually started with the Y2K and internet and cloud have been largely responsible for this mode of operation. A philosophical argument...
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