Many plants are facing personnel shortages, but the truth of the matter is that today’s biggest problems can’t be solved simply by finding more people. As organizations tackle more and more complex problems like driving down emissions, increasing efficiency, reducing...
Silvia Gonzalez explores how Emerson Movicon.NExT™ augmented reality (AR) technology is revolutionizing human-machine interfaces (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems. The article highlights how AR interfaces, delivered through devices like tablets and AR goggles, empower industrial operators in various ways. Operators can follow step-by-step instructions, receive training, and access data from hazardous areas safely.
(Second in a series) Augmented reality is a practical, real-world application that can solve serious problems on the plant floor today, saving a ton of money and creating high ROI. This is a fact that we started exploring in this recent blog, “Reduce the Skills Gap...
(First in a series) In industrial plants, probably more than any other enterprise today, the skills gap created by the retirement of old-line experts and the challenge of hiring means that having enough trained and informed people to get the job done is a daily...
Augmented reality (AR) is no longer science fiction. Organizations are using AR tools to transform the way they perform operations and maintenance, ultimately delivering better performance and greater reliability. Emerson’s Anna Velena and Vineesh Kapoor shared their...
A September 24, 11am EDT webinar hosted by Food Engineering magazine (and later available on demand) will explore predictive maintenance technologies to drive greater reliability.
Let's end this week before Thanksgiving here in the U.S. with a vision, "…on how plant managers, operators, and engineers may digitally transform the way plants and teams operate.", with this 3-minute YouTube video, DeltaV Technology for Next-Generation Operations....
At the time of the writing of this post, Wikipedia defined augmented reality as: …an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real-world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple...
Augmented reality—a day in the life of operations is the intriguing title of a 2018 Emerson Exchange conference presentation. Emerson's Aaron Crews, Mary Grace Francisco, and Mark Nixon joined University of Texas Center for Energy & Environmental Resources' Robert...
You may have seen the recent announcement that Google Glass is back as Google Glass Enterprise Edition (EE) designed for workplace environments like ours in the manufacturing space. This technology joins others well established technologies such as Daqri and Gilgamesh...
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