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October 31, 2007
Press Release: Emerson’s update of AMS™ Suite automates work notification to improve maintenance productivity and operational excellence
New release connects critical asset alerts with SAP and MAXIMO Maintenance Management Systems to streamline maintenance work procedures.
AUSTIN, TEXAS (October 30, 2007) — Emerson Process Management has released the AMS™ Suite Work Notification capability that leverages the predictive intelligence in plant assets to prioritize critical alerts, and automatically generate work orders to enterprise asset management (EAM) systems such as SAP and MAXIMO for instruments and valves, as well as mechanical and process equipment. AMS Suite is Emerson’s family of best-in-class predictive diagnostic software applications.
The Work Notification capability is part of the secure, web-based AMS™ Suite: Asset Portal™ 3.0. A rules and policy engine in AMS Asset Portal determines which alerts should be routed to the EAM system for work notification. Automated work notification streamlines maintenance procedures and eliminates the need to manually create work orders for critical assets. Once work is created, maintenance personnel can access detailed troubleshooting information directly from the work order, significantly reducing repair time and allowing personnel to focus more on their overall operation.
Emerson’s PlantWeb Services helps customers prioritize key assets so work is truly driven by the criticality of operation. PlantWeb Services engineers optimize a user’s AMS Suite applications, including prioritization of assets that will be monitored in AMS Asset Portal, to increase the overall effectiveness of a maintenance program.
”The ability to automate work processes based on asset priority with predictive diagnostics is a key contributor to increasing maintenance and operational efficiency,” said Craig Llewellyn, president of Emerson Process Management’s Asset Optimization division. “Reducing the number of work orders that need to be manually created improves work force productivity and advances operational excellence.”
Emerson’s Work Notification capability leverages the relationship between Emerson and Mtelligence, an industry leader in maintenance intelligence solutions, to connect AMS Suite to EAM/CMMS systems. The work notification capability uses the Open O&M™ (Operations and Maintenance) Initiative, based on MIMOSA standards, to ensure open connectivity for users. Together with Mtelligence, Emerson can connect the work notification capability to standard interfaces.
AMS Asset Portal 3.0 also supports OPC connectivity to allow users to gather information from DeltaV™ systems, other AMS Suite applications, historians, distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, and other applications. Through OPC connectivity, users gain additional visibility to asset health information throughout the enterprise.
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About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management (www.emersonprocess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, pulp and paper, power, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and other industries. Asset Optimization, www.assetweb.com, a division of Emerson Process Management, is a leading worldwide supplier of services and technologies to increase the availability and performance of production assets for improved bottom line results. Asset Optimization plays a key role in Emerson's mission of combining superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services to help customers achieve the potential of their operations. Emerson brands include PlantWeb®, AMS™ Suite, Fisher®, Micro Motion®, Rosemount®, Mobrey®, Bristol®, DeltaV™, and Ovation®.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2006 were $20.1 billion. For more information, visit www.Emerson.com
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October 30, 2007
Press Release: Emerson digitally modernizes aging facilities to create smart, efficient and competitive chemical plants
PlantWeb® technologies increase yield, availability, and make plants easier to operate and maintain
New York, NY (October 30, 2007). At Chem Show 2007, Emerson Process Management is displaying its automation solutions for modernizing and improving operational excellence of existing/aging chemical facilities that must compete in a global economy. Emerson combines knowledge and technology to help customers migrate from traditional and legacy systems to Smart digital plants that increase yield and plant availability while being easy to operate and maintain.
Emerson engineers, designs, and implements modernization of Smart chemical facilities using the PlantWeb® digital plant architecture technologies, including the easy-to-use DeltaV™ digital automation system, AMS™ Suite predictive maintenance software, and digitally networked instruments, valves, and equipment.
Continued innovation has expanded PlantWeb architecture to Safety Instrumented Systems that are integrated for operational advantages while isolated for safety. The most recent PlantWeb innovation is Smart Wireless Solutions that cut the installed cost of measurement points by up to 90 percent, and enable access to performance-boosting data that was previously out of physical or economic reach.
DeltaV software includes a library of pre-engineered SmartProcess Advanced Process Control tools for optimizing units like distillation columns, heaters, boilers, fractionators, and more. A suite of embedded Advanced Process Control applications help identify control performance problems and enable optimizing of throughput.
Control system modernization can proceed at the pace needed to satisfy the customer’s strategy and budget. For example, one of Emerson’s chemical plant modernization projects has proceeded step by step through utilities and processing units over a three-year span. Hot cutover during key stages avoided production shutdown. The resulting digital infrastructure is a platform for continued growth with advanced process control and asset optimization, enabling efficient operations and a predictive maintenance approach. Production has increased, and maintenance costs have been reduced.
Another example involves Biovet, a manufacturer of food additives and pharmaceuticals for farm animals and pets. Replacing the legacy control and instrumentation system with PlantWeb architecture reduced operator walk-around monitoring and manual adjustments, and replaced an outdated paper-based system at the plant. The digital upgrade used FOUNDATION fieldbus networking which centralized operations resulting in 30 percent increase in yield, operating cost reduction of 20 percent, capacity increase of 60 percent, and elimination of unplanned shutdowns.
The innovative new Smart Wireless Solutions from Emerson will be a major boost to modernization and operational excellence improvement. Consider the early application by PPG Industries, who installed and commissioned Smart Wireless instruments at their Chemical Division facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
The PPG plant’s Smart Wireless network uses ten wireless Rosemount® transmitters for pipeline and steam header temperature measurement, which enables operators to watch for cold spots and adjust steam throughput. PPG also plans to use the Smart Wireless solutions to do temperature profiling of the entire plant, enabling load sharing and balancing to maintain superheated steam plant-wide.
PPG has also commissioned eight wireless Rosemount transmitters on the self-organizing mesh for tank level measurements to provide backup of primary radar level measurements, helping ensure level control.
Wireless transmitters allow PPG to install instrumentation that would normally be cost-prohibitive in the plant that covers approximately 765 acres and is dense with pipes, buildings and equipment. PPG estimates installation costs for wired instruments would include near $20 per foot for wiring and conduit. Wireless measurements have the potential to increase process reliability and provide low-cost redundant measurement.
PlantWeb architecture is ideal for modernization; it is an open, standards-based digital automation solution that networks smart instrumentation throughout facilities and uses continuous process and diagnostic information from devices to manage production and health of devices themselves. Wireless capability extends the information collection to the far reaches of the plant or even remote facilities, enabling elimination of any operating blind spots, and leading to improvement of efficiency, throughput and business results.
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About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management (www.emersonprocess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries. The company combines superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Its brands include PlantWeb®, DeltaV™, Fisher®, Micro Motion®, Rosemount®, Mobrey®, Bristol®, Daniel®, Ovation®, and AMS™ Suite.
About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), based in St. Louis, is a global leader in bringing technology and engineering together to provide innovative solutions to customers through its network power, process management, industrial automation, climate technologies, and appliance and tools businesses. Sales in fiscal 2006 were $20.1 billion. For more information, visit www.emerson.com.
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Press Release: Emerson engineers receive Excellence in Documentation award from ISA
Terry Blevins, Deji Chen, Mark Nixon, and Willy Wojsznis recognized for authoring the most outstanding technical paper published by ISA
AUSTIN, TEXAS (October 25, 2007) – Emerson Process Management engineers Terry Blevins, Deji Chen, Mark Nixon, and Willy Wojsznis have received the Instrument, Systems, and Automation (ISA) society's Excellence in Documentation award for their ISA EXPO 2006 technical paper, "Improving PID Control with Unreliable Communications." The annual award, which carries a $1,000 honorarium and plaque, recognizes authors for the "most outstanding" article, technical paper, or other document published by ISA. The award was presented during the ISA's Honors and Awards Gala held in conjunction with the ISA EXPO 2007 in Houston on Monday, October 1, 2007.
Process Automation Hall of Fame member Terrence L. "Terry" Blevins is a principal technologist at Emerson Process Management. Terry has applied his expertise in areas ranging from function block technology in FOUNDATION fieldbus to embedded advanced controls and adaptive technologies in the DeltaV™ system.
Dr. Deji Chen, a principal software engineer with Emerson Process Management, has published numerous technical papers on system diagnostics and wireless communications in process control.
Dr. Willy Wojsznis is a technologist at Emerson Process Management. Terry and Willy were also the recipients of The Ray Molloy Award for authoring the best-selling ISA book, Advanced Control Unleashed. Terry and Willy are prolific inventors at Emerson, each responsible for more than twenty patents in the areas of advanced control and process automation.
Mark Nixon, an innovator and holder of forty patents, is a lead DeltaV system architect at Emerson Process Management.
Also receiving the Excellence in Documentation award were co-authors Professor Aloysius K. Mok and Ph.D. student Jianping Song, both affiliated with the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin.
About ISA
Founded in 1945, ISA (www.isa.org) is a leading, global, nonprofit organization that is setting the standard for automation by helping over 30,000 worldwide members and other professionals solve difficult technical problems while enhancing their leadership and personal career capabilities. Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, ISA develops standards; certifies industry professionals; provides education and training; publishes books and technical articles; and hosts the largest conference and exhibition for automation professionals in the Western Hemisphere. ISA is the founding sponsor of The Automation Federation (www.automationfederation.org).
About Emerson Process Management
Emerson Process Management (www.emersonprocess.com), an Emerson business, is a leader in helping businesses automate their production, processing and distribution in the chemical, oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, power, water and wastewater treatment, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other industries. The company combines superior products and technology with industry-specific engineering, consulting, project management and maintenance services. Its brands include PlantWeb®, Fisher®, Micro Motion®, Rosemount®, Mobrey®, Daniel®, DeltaV™, Ovation®, and AMS™ Suite.
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October 26, 2007
Fieldbuses For Process Control: Engineering, Operation And Maintenance in the DeltaV Bookstore
Fieldbuses For Process Control: Engineering, Operation And Maintenance by Jonas Berge is now available in the DeltaV Bookstore.
This implementation-oriented book provides a clear and concise presentation of how to apply fieldbuses for process control. Based on experience collected from end-users in a wide range of industries around the world, it provides how-to information for all phases of the system lifecycle from engineering to device and strategy configuration, installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, operation, and maintenance.
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October 25, 2007
DeltaV Connect™ Solution for Bailey® Systems Product Data Sheet Update
For improved operator consoles and a platform for today’s digital technologies, DeltaV consoles easily connect to your Bailey systems. (512KB PDF)
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October 24, 2007
Operational Excellence in Pharma
“Oh sure, I’ve heard of Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing, but how am I going to apply those things in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. There isn’t exactly a lot of room for train and error.” Manufacturing in life sciences industries is indeed an exacting science. That said it is possible to improve operations there and approach operational excellence. At least that is the contention of Emerson’s Sathi Kannan, senior manager life sciences and advanced solutions, in his article “Operational Excellence in Pharma” (188KB PDF) published in the June/July issue of Industrial Automation Asia magazine. He outlines practical steps on how to get started on a path to world-class manufacturing results.
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October 23, 2007
Grand Opening of Fibrominn
Congratulations to Fibrominn on the grand opening of their 55-megawatt poultry litter-fueled power plant, the first of its kind in the United States. Located in Benson, Minnesota, Fibrominn uses poultry litter and other agricultural biomass to produce enough electricity to serve 40,000 homes.
Check out KARE TV station's account of the story and note the DeltaV system one minute into the video. Congratulations to Fibrominn on this first!
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October 22, 2007
Biochemical Measurement and Control
Greg McMillan's Biochemical Measurement and Control is now available as an ebook.
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October 19, 2007
Justifying Fieldbus Part I and II
If you think that wiring savings is the way to justify installing Foundation Fieldbus devices, your thinking may be stuck in the distant past. John Rezabek in a two part article titled “Justifying Fieldbus” published in the July and August issues of Control magazine points out that justifying FF devices based on wiring saving is like justifying a PC because you can save paper. It is a good idea in the abstract, but perhaps not the most important benefit derived from PC ownership. So then should device asset management be the key justifying factor? Rezabek points out that most FF devices are almost frustratingly reliable so that is probably a hard sell.
What does he say are the real benefits? John points out that increased process availability through detection and prevention of potential abnormal situations is a real benefit. He also suggests that leveraging easy to use diagnostics will ease the pinch from the projected “brain drain” of retiring baby boomers. Find out more about his thoughts on how to justify FF devices including safer plant operation and more environmentally friendly installation in the articles: Justifying Fieldbus Part I (167KB PDF) and Part II (141KB PDF).
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October 18, 2007
Micro Motion MVD 2000 Series Rev 4 Fieldbus Device Files
In Emerson's continuing commitment to open and interoperable standards, the Micro Motion MVD 2000 Series Rev 4 has passed the rigorous and comprehensive testing of the DeltaV Stress Test labs. Using the DeltaV system's Foundation Fieldbus Device Downloads utility, these fieldbus device files are now available for use.
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October 17, 2007
Plant Messenger Product Data Sheet Update
Plant Messenger is a suite of applications that work together seamlessly to support the exchange of data between Emerson Process Management applications and users and business systems within your enterprise. (181KB PDF)
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October 11, 2007
MTL Instruments F809F Rev 1 Fieldbus Device Files
In Emerson's continuing commitment to open and interoperable standards, the MTL Instruments F809F Rev 1 has passed the rigorous and comprehensive testing of the DeltaV Stress Test labs. Using the DeltaV system's Foundation Fieldbus Device Downloads utility, these fieldbus device files are now available for use.
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October 10, 2007
Plantwide Event Historian Product Data Sheet Update
The Plantwide Event Historian records event information from multiple sources and displays it in an easy-to-use viewer. It also provides you with an overall view of how process events and changes impact different areas of your plant. (868KB PDF)
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October 9, 2007
Safety Instrumented Systems Verification: Practical Probabilistic Calculation in the DeltaV Bookstore
Safety Instrumented Systems Verification: Practical Probabilistic Calculation by William M. Goble and Harry Cheddie is now available in the DeltaV Bookstore.
Starting with a description of the safety lifecycle, the authors show where and how SIL verification fits into the key activities from conceptual design through commissioning. The book not only explains the theory and methods for doing the calculations, the authors also provide many examples from the chemical, petrochemical, power and oil & gas industries.
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October 8, 2007
Brooks 1000 Rev 1 Fieldbus Device Files
In Emerson's continuing commitment to open and interoperable standards, the Brooks 1000 Rev 1 has passed the rigorous and comprehensive testing of the DeltaV Stress Test labs. Using the DeltaV system's Foundation Fieldbus Device Downloads utility, these fieldbus device files are now available for use.
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October 5, 2007
Automation System Modernization Brochure
The Automation System Modernization brochure provides information on how Emerson's digital technologies and global network of engineers and consultants help you design, plan, and implement a path to system moderization. (1.5MB PDF)
For additional information to get started, check out DeltaV Transition Solutions and Legacy DCS Control System Migration Services.
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October 4, 2007
DeltaV Interface for PROVOX I/O Product Data Sheet Update
Upgrade your PROVOX controllers to DeltaV controllers and use your installed PROVOX IO. (308KB PDF)
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