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Optimizing LNG Plant Projects and Process Operations
While the energy markets continue to adjust to the growing supplies of natural gas through increasing shale gas production, project and operational goals around shorter schedules, faster startups, and...
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You Already Asked Me That!
I recently saw an interesting discussion about the use of consultants. One question that came up was why they seem to ask the same question in slightly different ways or the same question to different...
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Building Competency through Operator Training Systems
Automation technologies can help in making plants more efficient, but only if the operations and maintenance personnel understand how to make effective use of these technologies. For control systems,...
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Eliminating Time and Expense in Instrumentation Approval Drawings and...
The documentation that is required for automation projects can be quite time consuming to create, update, and maintain over time. I discovered an Emerson Exchange Anaheim conference presentation,...
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Additional Measurements and their Financial Impact
I continue to mine all the great presentations from the Emerson Exchange event in Anaheim last fall. Here is a recap of another one, How Much Is Another Measurement Worth?, by Emerson’s Doug White. You...
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I’ve been in the process automation business for a long time and met many really great folks. One of them, Fluor Canada‘s Steve Priest, I got to know long ago from his days with Emerson local business...
View ArticleExperiences and Life Cycle Opportunities with Foundation Fieldbus
The Fieldbus Foundation continues to share best practices around the use of the technology around the globe. Emerson’s Jonas Berge alerted me to an Australian Seminar held late last year where he was...
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People, Processes, Technologies for Integrated Operations
Having to do more with less resources seems to be a common issue throughout the process industries. Process manufacturers are re-examining their people, processes, and technologies to look for ways to...
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Avoiding Moisture Variability in Fluidized Bed Dryer Operations
In an earlier post, Trends in Process Analytical Technology and Quality by Design, I highlight a point made in the video, “…PAT methods around product moisture, which projected a $2 million annual...
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Considerations in Foundation Fieldbus Cable Design
The Fieldbus Foundation has an active LinkedIn group where users of this digital bus communications technology share expertise. I saw a recent question [hyperlink added]: i came across a document which...
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No more rolling the dice when accessing project cost and risk. Why not try a...
Emerson’s Gordon Lawther shared ideas in project cost estimation and risk assessment. His abstract: Every company has a method to estimate cost and access risk when compiling a business case. In many...
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Making Emerson’s iCenter Part of Your Project Team
Emerson’s Mike Knittel shared how cabinets and field enclosures design and build for DeltaV and Ovation systems have been integrated at centers across the globe. His abstract: Emerson’s integration...
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Meeting a Fast Track Project Schedule with Containerized DCS and OTS for an...
Emerson’s Madhav Kasture shared a case study on how the project team managed and executed a fast track automation project. His abstract: Fast track project schedule for BP Rumaila Iraq was PO to...
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Process Automation System Design Techniques
For an automation project, what design methodology should you follow? Emerson’s Scott Turner provides some thoughts for your consideration. When designing a new control scheme or strategy it is easy to...
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Project Management KPIs-the Three Musketeers
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...
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Migrating Control System Human Machine Interfaces
Control systems are built to last for decades of reliable operation. Yet technology continues to advance at a rapid pace. At the recent Emerson Exchange conference in Texas, Emerson’s Jean Pressly...
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iOps Projects Require Custom Approaches
In a Perspektive Prozessindustrie article, Für iOps-Projekte gibt es keine fertige Spezifikation (pp 16-17), Emerson’s Andreas Fuchs and Ernst Jäger describe the first steps toward integrated...
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Improving Gas Plant Operational Efficiency
Emerson’s Chuck Miller presents on ways to find efficiency gains in the operations of gas plants. His abstract: Whether you are processing natural gas to create pipeline gas, recover the natural gas...
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Delegation of Control in Integrated Operations
Advancing technologies open up new possibilities to improve manufacturing and production processes. But, one of the great challenges is to revamp the work processes and procedures to best take...
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Early Planning Process for Plant Automation Projects
Whether it is students preparing for a test or seasoned engineers planning an automation project, early planning and preparation improves the odds of success. Congratulations to Emerson’s Laurie Ben...
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