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Rules for Designing Optimal Operator Interfaces
Emerson’s Aaron Crews, Molly Firkins, and Jessica Graham presented, “Rules” for Designing Optimal Operator Displays at the 2012 Emerson Exchange. Their abstract: “How can I design displays in the right...
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Offshoring Control Rooms?
Update: Welcome scadasec Digest readers. Much work needs to be done with cybersecurity technology and work processes before Anand’s vision might be realized. Emerson’s Anand Iyer explores offshoring...
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Rules for Designing Optimal Operator Interfaces
Emerson’s Aaron Crews, Molly Firkins, and Jessica Graham presented, “Rules” for Designing Optimal Operator Displays at the 2012 Emerson Exchange. Their abstract: “How can I design displays in the right...
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Offshoring Control Rooms?
Update: Welcome scadasec Digest readers. Much work needs to be done with cybersecurity technology and work processes before Anand’s vision might be realized. Emerson’s Anand Iyer explores offshoring...
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Selecting the Right Automation Architecture
Creating a safe and secure automation process starts with implementing a well-designed basic process control system (BPCS) and safety instrumented system (SIS). Government agencies and industry...
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Latest Ovation Release Improves Performance, Simplifies Troubleshooting and...
Emerson’s industry-leading Ovation™ platform integrates digitally transformative software and technologies into a unified system that helps customers tackle their toughest challenges. Rick Kephart,...
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Exploring the Future of the Control System
Control systems have been a stable foundation for operational excellence and reliable, repeatable performance in manufacturing for decades. However, just as needs have changed across those decades, so...
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How Good Is Your Operator’s Mental Model?
In the December 2009 issue of David Strohbar of Beville Engineering and Danyele Harris-Thompson of Klein Associates, outline steps for preparing plant operators in their article, Build Operator...
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Ovation Users’ Group – Balancing Change
Emerson’s 2021 virtual Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference opened with Bob Yeager, president of power & water solutions, and Rick Kephart, vice president of technology, sharing a glimpse into the...
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Ovation Users’ Conference – How Collaboration Leads to Success
If there has been one constant topic of the 2021 Ovation Users’ Conference, it has been that change is everywhere, and the message from Monil Malhotra, vice president of North America projects and...
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A More Measured Move to the Pharma Cloud
There is little doubt that the recent explosion in available cloud technologies has been a boon for manufacturing across a wide array of industries. Pharmaceutical manufacturers are no exception, and...
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Defense-in-depth Approach Helps Prevent Unauthorized Changes in Safety Logic
One of the main concerns from users of process safety systems is how to effectively protect the SIS against unauthorized changes of the safety logic. The traditional protection approach is based on a...
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Embedded Tools Drive Better Loop Tuning
Properly tuned loops are critical to efficient, effective plant performance. However, constant changes in the plant environment mean that proportional-integral-derivative (PID) tuning cannot be a...
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Driving Innovation through Democratized Data
More and more companies are digitalizing their operations. After all, collecting data on paper and transferring those records to digital systems is inefficient and subject to error, not to mention the...
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Forecasting the Future of Process Control
Industry is moving away from the traditional model that locks the control system away from any internet connectivity. As Claudio Fayad, vice president of technology for Emerson’s process systems and...
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Ovation Users’ Conference: Reimagining a More Sustainable Tomorrow
Mark Bulanda, executive president of Emerson’s Automation Solutions business and the keynote speaker for this year’s Ovation™ Users’ Group opened the conference with a topic that resonated across all...
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Ovation Users’ Conference: Addressing the Needs of Tomorrow’s Markets Today
Day two of the Ovation™ Users’ Group conference opened with Jaime Foose, vice president of global sales and marketing for Emerson’s power and water solutions business, sharing how Emerson is addressing...
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Emerson Exchange Opens with Boundless Automation
After more than two years, the Emerson Exchange Users’ Conference is back in person in Grapevine, Texas. At the keynote, Mike Allen, chairman of the Emerson Exchange board of directors, opened the...
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Data Defines the Future of Control
We hear so much today about digital transformation, but, as Emerson’s Claudio Fayad explains in his recent article in Processing magazine, digital transformation has been happening for far longer than...
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Reduce the Complexity and Cost of Modernization
One of the most difficult challenges many of today’s process manufacturing plants face is modernization. Operations and maintenance teams know that they cannot drive the best possible performance and...
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