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June 30, 2005
Foxboro Company RTT15-F rev 1 Fieldbus Device Files
Foxboro Company RTT15-F rev 1 has passed the rigorous testing of the DeltaV interoperability labs and the Fieldbus Device Files for use with the DeltaV system are now available in the Fieldbus Device Downloads utility.
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June 29, 2005
Interoperable plant infrastructure built with Foundation fieldbus architecture
In the ongoing commitment to open, interoperable standards as demonstrated by their leadership in standards development including Foundation fieldbus, HART, and OPC, Control Engineering magazine reports how Emerson participated with other automation suppliers in demonstrating the full implementation of an open, integrated FOUNDATION fieldbus architecture at International Specialty Products’ Lima, Ohio plant.
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June 28, 2005
Barrick mine in Peru opens ahead of schedule
Canada’s largest gold producer, Barrick Gold Corp opens their Lagunas Norte Peruvian mine, “well ahead of its planned third-quarter startup.” The successful project incorporates Emerson expertise and PlantWeb technologies including the DeltaV system and AMS Suite software.
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New DeltaV-SmartPlant Instrumentation Integration Whitepaper
This paper, DeltaV-SmartPlant Instrumentation Integration, is intended for instrumentation and DCS project engineering people, who will gain an understanding of how to use the DeltaV—SPI interface and learn what kinds of savings this solution offers. (456KB PDF)
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June 27, 2005
Senior DCS Software Engineer Job Opening
Join our winning DeltaV Team as a Senior DCS Software Engineer!
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - DCS Controllers/RTOS
Minimum Education Qualifications: BS Engineering or Computer Science or graduate degree plus 7 to 9 years of related experience required.
Brief Description of Duties/Minimum Requirements: This position is based in Austin, Texas. The candidate will be part of the development team for the DeltaV Controller software product. The software will be written using C/C++ for execution in an embedded real-time environment. Position responsibilities include the generation of use cases and designs in accordance with the requirements and specifications, code development, unit level testing, system testing, and team leadership. All software will be developed using object-oriented methodologies.
Candidate must have experience in software development, particularly development on embedded microprocessors using a real-time operating system/multitasking. Experience in high-level languages particularly C++. The candidate must have prior experience with the usage of a distributed control system to solve process control applications.
Minimum of seven (7) years experience developing distributed control products using embedded real time mutli-tasking software development techniques.
How to apply: Send email, with "Sr. DCS Software Engineer" in subject line and an attached resume, to Michelle.Paddock@EmersonProcess.com for consideration.
Emerson Process Management is an equal opportunity employer. Check out the complete list of current job openings.
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June 23, 2005
Leveraging the DeltaV Remote Client in both Local and Global Environments
Nick Hankes of Abbott Laboratories will lead the workshop "Leveraging the DeltaV Remote Client in both Local and Global Environments" at the 2005 Emerson Global Users Exchange.
Abbott was an early adopter (beta tester) of DeltaV version 7.3, and as such, had the opportunity to begin using DeltaV Remote Client technology in conjunction with Microsoft Terminal Server Technology in the summer of 2004. The benefits of Terminal Server/DeltaV Remote Client technology were immediately recognized, as Abbott began using this technology over their secure, high-speed LAN to collaborate engineering work on a major capital project between engineering groups in Chicago and Puerto Rico, using the same servers. No need to import/export code. No need to travel (well, almost).
This workshop will highlight the many benefits Abbott Laboratories has realized by implementing a Microsoft Terminal Server/DeltaV (version 7.3) Remote Client Architecture. A DeltaV Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Client network will be demonstrated over a wireless network in the workshop, and the setup of this architecture will be discussed as time permits.
Bring your questions and learn from Nick's experience. Remember to register by August 21st for Early Bird Savings!
Thanks Nick for sharing your expertise!
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June 22, 2005
Principal Software Engineer Job Opening
Join our winning DeltaV Team as a DeltaV Communications Engineer!
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer
Organization/Function: Technology, Austin Texas USA
Minimum Education Qualifications: BS Engineering or Computer Science plus 5 years of directly related experience required.
Brief Description of Duties/Minimum Requirements: The candidate will be part of the Software Development team in the DeltaV Communications and I/O software group. The primary responsibility will be developing communications software for existing and future DeltaV products. The software will be written using C/C++ and C# for execution both in an embedded real-time environment and for execution on PCs in a Microsoft Windows environment. Position responsibilities include the generation of use cases and designs in accordance with requirements and specifications, code development, unit level testing, and system testing. All software will be developed using object-oriented and/or services based methodologies.
Candidate must have experience in software development, particularly development on embedded microprocessors using a real-time/multitasking operating system and Windows based operating systems, including experience in high-level languages, particularly C++.
Minimum of 5 years experience in embedded real time multi-tasking software development and/or experience in Microsoft Windows based software development.
How to apply: Email resume, with "DeltaV Communications Engineer" in subject line, to Michelle.Paddock@EmersonProcess.com.
Emerson Process Management is an equal opportunity employer. Check out the complete list of current job openings.
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June 21, 2005
S88 Redefines Clean in Place Operations
There are two choices available when beginning to develop configuration for Clean-In-Place operations at validated facilities, roll-your-own or a standards-based approach. So what approach should you consider for ease of validation, efficiency of configuration, and software maintenance?
Christie Deitz and Dan Lorenzo of Emerson Process Management along with Sean Stephan of Biogen IDEC weigh in heavily on the side of using the ANSI/ISA-S88 standard as a way to develop re-usable configuration code. Their article was published in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine in a piece titled, S88 Redefines Clean in Place Operations.
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June 20, 2005
2005 Emerson Global Users Exchange Early Bird Savings
Get involved in the global DeltaV community! The 2005 Emerson Global Users Exchange is October 3rd - 7th in Orlando Florida, USA.
Register now and save 25%!
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June 17, 2005
Press Release: Emerson's Digital Automation Chosen to Modernise Several Plant units in Europe's Largest Petrochemical Complex
Two plants already completed with PlantWeb® show productivity gains and reductions in reject rates
Emerson Process Management has been selected by Russian chemical giant Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNH), to modernise the largest petrochemical complex in Europe.
The nine-plant complex is situated in Tatarstan in Western Russia. The SPS Plant (Styrene and Polyether resins) manufactures 60 percent of all the styrene and resins that are basic components of materials for thousands of everyday Russian products. The complex also manufactures nearly 100 percent of the country’s polyether, which is used mostly for plastic auto parts. Some of the process units of the polyether plant are operated as a joint venture with BASF.
Emerson’s PlantWeb digital plant architecture has already been installed and activated in two of the plants, resulting in improvements in productivity and yield, in addition to overall greater reliability.
Because of the age of some of the facilities and the complexity of the processes, production must be continually monitored to ensure high-quality product. Prior to the PlantWeb installations, NKNH plants were controlled by a locally designed system.
“We had to have a very experienced technologist constantly watching over the process,” said Damir Gizatullin, Chief Instrumentation Engineer of the SPS plant. “Since the installation of PlantWeb, we have much better control. Our technologists are able to start up and shut down the plant in fast and automated mode and walk away to perform other duties.”
PlantWeb digital plant architecture enables NKNH to run plants with reduced supervision by delivering more complete and intelligent digital automation, using the latest technologies in field devices and easy-to-use operations and maintenance stations. The architecture continuously monitors the processes and the instruments themselves, providing alerts and guidance when and where needed to enable highest efficiency of those running the plant.
Yield at the polyether plant, which had previously experienced quality issues (due to low precision of batch loading and timing) that resulted in a nearly 5 percent rejection rate, has had no rejections or quality issues since installation of PlantWeb. Batch cycle time was also improved by 2 hours.
PlantWeb digital plant architecture integrates intelligent digital field devices with modular hosts, including the RS3™ distributed control system for the initial project, and the DeltaV digital automation system for current and future projects. Innovative AMS™ Suite predictive maintenance software is included. The field-based architecture is connected by information rich HART® or FOUNDATION™ fieldbus communication protocols, capturing and delivering critical operating information about the instrumentation, process equipment, and the process itself.
Over 95% of all instrumentation was supplied by Emerson and included Micro Motion® Coriolis flowmeters, Rosemount® pressure and temperature transmitters and Fisher® FIELDVUE® Digital Valve Controllers (DVC). The DVC’s were fitted to existing control valves.
Productivity improvements have been made possible on the Styrene plant due to the improved accuracy of the control; this was brought about through the use of the Emerson field equipment including Micro Motion flowmeters and FIELDVUE DVC digital valve controllers. The technologists now feel comfortable filling at a steady rate, knowing that the reactor will fill faster, that the ratio of raw ingredients will be correct and that the product will meet the required quality level. This has enabled a reduction in the time taken to produce a batch from 14-16 hours to 12-14 hours.
All of the field instrumentation communicates via HART digital communications protocol with Emerson’s AMS™ Suite: Intelligent Device Manager software. The AMS Device Manager software is being used by technicians to diagnose device faults within the field equipment, as well as to perform calibration and functional checks. The intention is to expand the usage by carrying out further training for additional technicians; this will enable cost savings in maintenance by implementing predictive maintenance practices.
Emerson won the long-term preferred automation supplier project by providing a total solution, including an open and standards-based technology, quality of staff, overall size and capability, and local presence.
“We are pleased that our global organisation and local Russian engineering support, combined with our innovative technology, are already assisting NKNH with significant operational improvements, and we look forward to even more in the upcoming projects,” said John Berra, president of Emerson Process Management.
An upgrade to the polypropylene plant is the next planned project, with an expected start-up date of mid 2005. Additional projects have been identified and are currently going through the NKNH project approvals process.
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Modernise to Optimise
Shell Deer Park Refinery’s modernization with digital technologies is featured in the April Hydrocarbon Engineering. The article Modernise to Optimise describes the hot cutover of their most critical units, including the catalytic cracker, over to the DeltaV system and PlantWeb digital plant architecture, with no downtime. Shell Deer Park now has the network of predictive technologies in place to improve overall process availability, critical given the limited overall refining capacity in the United States. Emerson served as the main automation contractor for this $125 million project. (204KB PDF)
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June 16, 2005
New DeltaV Four-Monitor Workstation Product Data Sheet
The Four-Monitor Workstation provides a flexible, easy-to-configure operator space using 4 flat-screen monitors. It provides operators additional screen "real estate" for viewing more information about process operations from a single workstation. (1.68MB PDF)
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June 14, 2005
Ethernet/IP for DeltaV Virtual IO Module
Mynah Technologies announces the release of the Ethernet/IP Driver for the DeltaV Virtual IO Module. This driver allows high-speed, high-performance Ethernet integration from DeltaV controllers to Rockwell PLC’s and other plant floor devices that use Ethernet/IP communications.
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June 13, 2005
APACS to DeltaV Transition Product Demo Video
A demonstration of enabling products to easily migrate Moore APACS systems to the DeltaV system.
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June 10, 2005
DeltaV Advanced Batch Product Data Sheet Update
DeltaV Advanced Batch suite contains everything to easily operate your batch process — PLUS the added benefits of automatic historical collection and PC-based phase control. It contains Batch Executive, Batch Historian, and Soft Phase Server. (45KB PDF)
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June 9, 2005
Press Release: Emerson Helps to Keep Persil One of the UK's Leading Brands
DeltaV digital automation system at Lever Fabergé provides more flexibility and improved operations and quality
Emerson Process Management has installed the latest DeltaV digital automation system at the Lever Fabergé plant in Warrington. The new system replaces an outdated Premis Scada Modicon PLC system that was used to control the Persil product lines for the last 15 years. The installation was completed during 2004 and covered the Slurry, Tower and Raw Materials areas of the plant. The DeltaV system is a key component of Emerson’s innovative, proven PlantWeb digital plant architecture.
Throughout its history, Unilever/Lever has continually adapted its products and introduced technical innovations to meet peoples changing washday needs. Since it was launched over 90 years ago, Persil has remained one of the UK’s favourite brands of washing powder. Since the Persil brand participates in a high volume, consumer market, Lever Faberge recognised the need to respond quickly to changes in technology and emerging market trends. The flexibility and adaptability of the DeltaV system enables the company to quickly adjust the existing manufacturing processes or introduce new products as required.
Ian Pickett, Project Manager at Lever Fabergé said, “The Warrington plant is undergoing a significant technological change, and the new DeltaV system will bring a huge number of benefits. These include improved quality of product and processes, reduced waste and rework, enhanced fault finding and configuration, improved reliability and better user interfaces for plant operators and technicians.”
Installation of the new system was straightforward and the project was split into phases to run concurrently with other engineering upgrades. The project was implemented using the Emerson Project Builder Library (PBL). This comprehensive library of standard modules and tools for DeltaV system users now includes modules from over 200 projects. By using modules available from the Project Builder Library, design and implementation time were significantly reduced.
The standard functional design (FDL) specification was used for all the PBL modules. Many of the control modules were generated from Excel based I/O spreadsheets and 80% came from PBL with the remaining 20% being custom written. The project required that some of the standard PBL graphics were customised to look like RS3 system graphics since the operators were familiar with these from other systems on the site.
Two recipes were written to allow maximum flexibility and Lever Fabergé used the Campaign Manager program part of the DeltaV Batch system, to run the process with the minimum number of operator interactions required. Campaign Manager software is an easy to use interface that creates, modifies, and executes entire campaigns of batch executions. It allows users to set up and start campaigns in minutes. Campaign history is automatically stored in DeltaV Batch Historian without any user configuration required.
Ian Pickett concluded, “We are delighted with the performance of the new DeltaV system, the changeover was smooth and detailed planning and input from the operators early in the design stage ensured that the conversion took place without any loss of production. The new batch reporting system is providing a wealth of valuable information and the advanced technologies allow the plant graphics to be accessed from any location using the site’s Intranet.”
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New DeltaV Operator Keyboard Product Data Sheet
Using a Touchscreen flat-panel monitor as the keyboard, the Operator Keyboard provides operators the ability to navigate through displays, respond to alarms and perform control functions. This is done using a familiar keyboard-style interface. (174KB PDF)
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June 8, 2005
Intruder Alert
Your automation system may be more vulnerable to cyber attack than you know. Many of today’s automation systems are built on common off the shelf (COTS) hardware and popular operating systems like Microsoft’s Windows. Viruses, hackers and worms that exploit these systems seem to be everywhere, posing a real risk to safe operations.
So how do you protect your processes from these risks?
Bob Huba in a recently published article titled “Intruder Alert” in Hydrocarbon Engineering provides some answers. (326KB PDF)
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June 7, 2005
Press Release: Emerson appoints Joe Hoare to manage European alliance with DMI that will deliver integrated process and manufacturing solutions for FDA-regulated organisations in Europe
Alliance offers production management expertise, cross platform integration services, compliance workflow software and life-cycle services to reduce product cycle times and realise cost savings
Emerson Process Management has appointed Joe Hoare to manage the recently announced European alliance between Emerson and Decision Management International, Inc. (DMI), a leading provider of paperless workflow and compliance management solutions to pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. Mr. Hoare, based at the Emerson Process Management offices in Cork, Ireland, will manage the Europe focused aspects of the global alliance.
Through this alliance, Emerson and DMI will pursue FDA-regulated automation business through joint sales, product development and marketing efforts. The combined solutions offering will deliver advanced process automation and workflow compliance applications, and will integrate process and manufacturing execution information. This will help manufacturers reduce product cycle times, realise cost savings and comply with cGxP practices.
“The alliance is aimed at extending our automation technology and service offerings into the manufacturing and business operations of the pharmaceutical and biotech enterprise,” commented Joe Hoare. “Ireland, and Cork in particular, is a major centre for new build and plant expansion projects for these industries. Cork has one of the world’s largest installed bases of PlantWeb digital architecture with DeltaV automation systems. These factors make Cork, as well as other Life Science industry centres across Europe, key areas for integrating, connecting and automating the many fragmented computer applications and manual paper based processes that delay production, present compliance risks and reduce profits.”
The DMI technology and service offering is designed for any pharmaceutical application that is regulated by FDA or other Government agencies. Companies operating in this industry often find that the associated administration and documentation required for regulatory compliance results in a huge volume of unmanageable paperwork.
The DMI Compliance Suite of Software Applications is designed for Bulk API, Product Packaging, Cell Therapy and Medical Device manufacturing operations, where global regulatory oversight is required. Companies operating in these areas find that the associated administration and regulatory control documentation results in a large volume of difficult to manage paperwork. Emerson plans to leverage many pre-configured features and functions for these manufacturers, to drive 30% or more cost out of the production operations.
As a .NET framework solution, the DMI Compliance suite has zero software to be maintained on the client user device regardless of whether it is a desktop, handheld or tablet PC. The Windows® Internet Explorer browser detects and adjusts the display of information automatically without an individual custom code for each user device. This represents a 35-40% reduction in the total cost of ownership.
Companies that are interested in the benefits of the Emerson PlantWeb solution and its integration with the DMI Compliance Suite of paperless workflow applications can work with Emerson to identify potential operational bottlenecks. Solutions can then be tailored to budgets and resources, to allow the transition to more operationally efficient methods to take place without major disruption to a facility.
“Emerson will combine its pharmaceutical industry expertise, engineering resources and project management capabilities, as well as its PlantWeb digital plant architecture, with the DMI web-based suite of workflow and compliance software applications,” concluded Joe Hoare. “This package will provide our customers in the pharmaceutical industry in particular, with a real opportunity to save time, reduce costs and sustain regulatory rule compliance.“
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June 6, 2005
Batch Processing Meets the Enterprise
Integration of automation systems with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems has been talked about for years, but there is a lingering belief that the payoff for this work just isn’t there yet. Automation World magazine takes a look at this topic in their May 2005 issue, pointing out several ways that this integration is paying dividends today. The article talks about the benefits of traceability of plant data, elimination of operator errors, batch tracking, cost accounting, and reduction of shutdowns.
Emerson’s Bob Lenich shows how you can effectively gain a week’s production time by avoiding plant problems with this DCS-ERP integration. Read the article "Batch Processing Meets the Enterprise".
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June 3, 2005
DeltaV Dual Monitor Workstation Product Data Sheet Update
DeltaV Dual Monitor Workstation allows you to run your DeltaV Operator Interface using more screen area, driven from a single keyboard and mouse. (313KB PDF)
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June 2, 2005
Rosemount 3095MV rev 1 Fieldbus Device Files
Rosemount 3095MV rev 1 has passed the rigorous testing of the DeltaV interoperability labs and the Fieldbus Device Files for use with the DeltaV system are now available in the Fieldbus Device Downloads utility.
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June 1, 2005
DeltaV Video Case Study: Digital Automation Delivers Results for OUCC
Taiwan's Oriental Union Chemical Corporation (OUCC) migrates to the DeltaV System and PlantWeb architecture for savings and performance in the case study "Digital Automation Delivers Results for OUCC"
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