Statistical Process Control (SPC) has long been applied in discrete manufacturing operations as a predictive diagnostic technology. Statistical Process Monitoring (SPM), the continuous process version of SPC, has been applied less often as highlighted by Emerson's Tom...
Emerson's Tom Wallace completes his series of posts on the impacts of a human-centered design (HCD) approach. In today's guest post, he explores its impact on automation projects. Field devices cost is a small part of overall project cost, however they are typically...
Emerson's Tom Wallace shared some new templates available in the DeltaV control system version 11 or newer to better understand and access advanced diagnostics from smart pressure devices. His abstract [hyperlink added to article]:Advanced pressure diagnostics use...
In our continuing series on why and how technologies developed with a human centered design (HCD) approach, Emerson's Tom Wallace looks more closely at guided configuration and setup as well as leveraging productivity across different device types and protocols....
Emerson's Tom Wallace continues his series on the impact of human centered design on the technologies used by automation professionals. In previous blog posts, I shared some of the science behind Human Centered Design (HCD). In this and the next couple of blog posts,...
Last week, Emerson's Tom Wallace posed the question Are Human-Technology Interactions Solving or Causing Problems? in part one of a two-part series. Today, Tom explores this question by looking at how we learn, how we think, and how this applies to human-technology...
Process automation engineers' decisions impact everything from project cost and schedule, to uptime, throughput, quality, and safety. Instruments and valves connect the physics and chemistry of your process, and the decisions made by your automation systems and...
I had a sneak peak at an upcoming article on human interface design by Emerson's Tom Wallace. You may recall Tom from some of our earlier smart device and digital communications protocol posts. In the article, Tom notes the unrelenting drive to simplify, given the...
I'm always in the hunt for stories to tell, and had a chance hallway meeting with Emerson's Tom Wallace when he was in town a few weeks back. You may recall Tom from some of our posts on HART, Foundation fieldbus, EDDL, and FDT. Some of these posts generated quite a...
I had the opportunity to visit with Emerson's Tom Wallace who was here in Austin recently. I like to joke with Tom that a post I had done with him comparing and contrasting HART and Foundation fieldbus caused such a stir, that it produced one of this blog's highest...
Automation World magazine's editor in chief, Gary Mintchell, wrote a post yesterday on his Feed Forward blog. The post, The Saga Continues - FDT v EDDL describes some of his discussions with people involved in both groups about the relative merits of their respective...
A few weeks back, there was a conversation going in the automation-related blogs comparing HART and Foundation fieldbus. I joined the conversation in this post which included a whitepaper written by Emerson's Tom Wallace. The post caused a few comments and a several...
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