Archive for the ‘Simulation’ Category

System Virtualization Now and Going Forward

Posted in Simulation, Technologies on Friday, November 5th, 2010. No comments yet
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The week of Emerson Exchange was a blur. I’m thankful to have had Emerson folks taking great notes at many of the workshops. David Walker, a manager in the Systems and Solutions Middle East organization, shared his notes on a presentation on virtualization with the DeltaV system. DeltaV product manager, John Caldwell, and DeltaV technologist, [...]

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On-line Process Control Lab Access and Use Deminar

Posted in Education, Simulation on Thursday, May 27th, 2010. No comments yet
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Update and bump: Here’s the link to the recorded version of today’s deminar (download 419Mb): Viewing this content requires Silverlight. You can download Silverlight from http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight3. This Thursday marks the next edition of ModelingAndControl.com‘s Greg McMillan’s continuing Deminar (demo/seminar) series on PID control. Greg will be showing the new, On-line Process Control Lab with Access [...]

Simulation, Expertise, and Knowledge Transfer

Posted in Operator Training, Simulation on Monday, January 25th, 2010. No comments yet
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If you’re involved with simulation in your plant, you may be familiar with Mynah’s Martin Berutti and his blog. In one of his posts, he shares his thoughts on the business benefits, requirements, and steps for building a Virtual DeltaV system with a virtual plant and I/O. Building The Virtual Plant For DeltaV View more [...]

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Bridging the Industry-Academia Gap

Posted in Education, Simulation on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009. No comments yet
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At the upcoming June 10-12, 2009 Automatic Control Conference, Emerson’s Greg McMillan and Terry Blevins will be presenting, Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry. Describing this session, Greg wrote on the ModelingAndControl.com blog: The first semester I taught the Chemical Engineering course “Introduction to Process Dynamics and Control” at Washington University in Saint Louis [...]

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Modeling and Control Analysis Brings Big Capital Savings

Posted in Control Strategies, pH Control, Simulation on Friday, January 30th, 2009. No comments yet
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Wow, what a fast and furious week… I’ll close the week by highlighting a recent article by ModelingAndControl.com‘s Greg McMillan. He coauthors the article, Virtual Plant Provides Real Insights, which appears in the January 2009 edition of Chemical Processing magazine. Greg’s a published author on the topic of pH control and widely known his expertise. [...]

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Process Control Basics for College Engineering Students

Posted in Control Strategies, Education, Simulation on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008. No comments yet
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I won’t spoil the press release in the works about the donation of a DeltaV system to a major university for use by a consortium of universities, but I will share that Emerson’s Terry Blevins was at the university last week. He was there to provide an introductory process control and DeltaV system overview. Since [...]

Applying the FDA’s PAT Initiative in Product Development

Posted in Analyzers, Control Strategies, Life Sciences, Simulation on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008. No comments yet

Interphex2008, the Pharmaceutical and Biotech manufacturing conference is going on this week in Philadelphia. Before Emerson’s Terry Blevins and Mike Boudreau left, they passed along the presentation they are giving on Thursday, March 27. It’s entitled, Application of PAT in Product Development. They are joined by University of Texas at Austin PhD graduate student, Yang [...]

Collaborative Initiative to Accelerate Process Development

Posted in Abnormal Situation Prevention, Life Sciences, Simulation, Variability Management on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008. No comments yet

In the upcoming March issue of BioProcess International magazine, there is a great article by Emerson’s Greg McMillan and Michael Boudreau, Broadley-James’ Trish Benton, and the University of Texas at Austin’s Yang Zang. The article, PAT Tools for Accelerated Process Development and Improvement, describes the collaborative effort between Emerson, Broadley-James, and UT, “…to examine and [...]

Another Automation-Related RSS Feed Joins Us

Posted in Simulation on Friday, March 30th, 2007. No comments yet

In an earlier post about a Mynah Simulation Consultant joining the automation blogging community, I sent a note to Jason Covington who manages their forums and blog expressing my wish that these were RSS-enabled. This meant that I could receive updates as posts were made, instead of having to go visit the site and check [...]

Mynah Simulation Consultant Joins Blogging Fray

Posted in Distillation Column, Operator Training, Simulation on Monday, February 19th, 2007. 4 comments so far

The folks at Mynah Technologies with their Mimic simulation software, virtual I/O network gateways, PLC I/O interfaces and host of drivers for the DeltaV system continue to build conversations through their forums and experts blogs within the forum. Recently Dr. Aleksandr Muravyev a simulation consultant created a Mimic Distillation Modeling package to simplify software acceptance [...]

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