Much of our attention on the rise of renewable energy has been focused on the United States and Europe, but the reality is that a trend toward increasing renewable electricity generation is happening around the globe. Nowhere is that more obvious than in India, where...
SCADA
Remote Monitoring of Critical Machinery Health Using Cloud-based SCADA
Within the ‘digital or business transformation’ stream of the Emerson Exchange EMEA 2024 conference, David Levert, project manager digital maintenance at Tereos, gave a presentation about gaining greater visibility into the health of critical machinery to enable...
How to choose between on-premises and cloud-based SCADA systems
Modern supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems help to optimize the management of ‘big data’. This blog post explains that there are two main types of SCADA system – on-premises and cloud-based – and describes the differences between them and the benefits they can achieve.
Overcoming Cybersecurity Challenges on the Journey Toward Virtualization and Centralization
At the 2024 Emerson Exchange Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, Saudi Aramco’s Abdulmohsen Alahmed and Reenad Almutairi presented Cybersecurity Challenges: The Journey Toward Virtualization and Centralization. Here is their session abstract: With the dynamic nature of...
The Future of Green Hydrogen Blending is Boundless
With the new energy economy come big changes. We all know that energy sources can’t change overnight, so more and more producers and transporters—including those in natural gas—are looking closely at blending as a transitional technology. Today, much of the talk...
Beyond the Black Box: Unlock More Value from Green Energy Assets
There are very few topics getting as much attention today as renewable energy. From expanding wind farms and solar operations to green hydrogen technology, to electric vehicles and their impact on the grid and infrastructure, the face of how we generate and use power...
Break Away from Suboptimal Turbine Control
The days of wind energy as a niche market are long behind us. Today, wind power makes up a growing share of the energy marketplace as corporate, government, and societal pressures for reducing carbon emissions continue to increase. However, meeting the needs of the...
Strategies for Better Remote Analysis
It is often said that the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the biggest catalysts of digital transformation in many process manufacturing organizations. Operations and maintenance teams that would never before have considered adding remote systems quickly discovered they...
Lowering the Carbon Footprint by Optimizing Liquids Pipelines
Emerson’s Jennifer Worthen joins podcast host Jim Cahill to discuss ways to drive more optimized liquids pipelines performance.
Pneumatic Controllers Revived by Flexible, Configurable, Digital Process Controller
Emerson’s Fisher Instruments has been producing its Wizard pneumatic controllers since the 1940s, refining and revamping them every 20 years or so. Along the way, the company produced its electro-pneumatic controllers, and more recently developed its Fisher™ FIELDVUE™ digital pneumatic controllers (DPC). In all, Emerson estimates there are more than 1 million of its pneumatic controllers presently operating.
Emerson: Empowering Digital Transformation from Floor to Cloud™ with Comprehensive Hardware, Software, and Services
In the realm of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturing, where diverse equipment and production lines are the norm, the challenges of connectivity and coordination are ever-present. However, solutions are now within reach. In my September 2023 article for Machine Design, titled “Digital Transformation: Guidelines for CPG Industry Implementations,” I delve into how Emerson’s cutting-edge technologies are revolutionizing the landscape for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators (SIs), and end users by enabling seamless Floor to Cloud™ architectures.
Augmented Reality
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.
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