Dynamic process simulations can be used across the lifecycle of a capital project from early verification studies of process designs to training the operators to prepare to operate the running facility. For offshore oil & gas production facilities these...
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Improving Process Safety through Human Factors Analysis
Wikipedia defines process safety as focusing on: …preventing fires, explosions and accidental chemical releases in chemical process facilities or other facilities dealing with hazardous materials such as refineries, and oil and gas (onshore and offshore) production...
5 Questions for Control System Modernization Consultant MC Chow
Let's continue our 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert podcast series with MC Chow. MC has more than two decades of experience in process automation and safety. He works with process manufacturers and producers to modernize their control and safety systems in order to...
Looking for Process Improvement Opportunities
Author: John Dolenc When looking at justifying a control system modernization through a Return on Investment methodology, improvement opportunities obtained through automation improvements need to be found in the process unit. In this blog post, let's look at how...
5 Questions for Process Control Consultant Mark Coughran
Let's continue our 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert podcast series with Mark Coughran. Mark has decades of experience in process automation and optimization. We've shared some of Mark's experience and client engagements here on the blog. In this podcast, you'll hear...
5 Questions for Oil & Gas Industry Consultant Sudhir Jain
We continue our 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert podcast series with Sudhir Jain. Sudhir has vast experience in consulting with oil & gas upstream, midstream and downstream producers as well as many other process industries. He shares his path to where he's at...
Control Valve Condition Monitoring Connected Services
As sensors and final control elements grow ever smarter with digital diagnostics and communications paths, the need to make sense of this data to improve safety, reliability and efficiency also grows. Not only is improved analytic software required to help spot trends...
5 Questions for Advanced Control Consultant Lou Heavner
One of the new things I want to try here on the blog is a podcast series asking many of our experts five questions. The questions will revolve around how they got started into the field that they're in, challenges faced, spare time activities, and guidance for younger...
Start with Improvement Opportunities in Modernization Projects
Author: John Dolenc It is nice to hear from our customers and read in the literature that it has become important to not just replace obsolete control system equipment, but to also provide operational improvement. For the longest time, I have been puzzled by the idea...
Planning and Justifying the Industrial Internet of Things
One of the key ways to improve operational performance is to reduce unplanned downtime. An ARC Advisory Group blog post, Technology Trends to Watch for in 2017, noted: One of the biggest end user challenges remains unscheduled downtime. IIoT-enabled solutions, such as...
Primer for Chemical Engineers in Control Engineering
Any newly-minted Chemical Engineer will tell you that there remains a large learning curve when entering the process industries, especially if their focus is around controlling the process. Often these new ChemEs have never had classes in process dynamics. In a great...
When to Implement Improvements on Control System Modernization Projects
Author: John Dolenc Many times modernization project justification is made up of several smaller optimization projects that are added together to reach enough financial benefit to justify the project. One of the interesting discussions we have internally amongst the...
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