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iOps Command Centers for Oil and Gas Producers
A lot of change is occurring for oil and gas producers. Rapid staffing up to meet the demands of heavy project loads followed by heavy cutbacks of experienced people in the large drop in oil prices...
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Technology Helping Miners Lower Costs to Overcome Low Commodity Prices
Author: Juan Carlos Bravo Over the past several months, news of commodity prices being hit hard due the slowdown of China’s economy has been a common theme. It was refreshing to read positive news...
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Managing Coalbed Methane Wells Feeding LNG Plant
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities require careful pressure management on their incoming gas pipelines. In a recent LNG Industry article, Turn it Up (and Down), Emerson’s Michael Calvert describes...
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From Operators to Cross-Functional iOps Teams
Control rooms where operators monitor and control the process have changed over the years as technologies have advanced. Today with advances in communications technologies, this “room” can extend...
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OTC 2016-Integrated Operations Command Centers
The more quickly experts can respond to changing conditions by interpreting the available information and collaborating with other cross-functional experts, the more safely, reliably and efficiently...
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Offshore Oil & Gas Control Room–Anywhere and Everywhere
The April 30th through May 3rd Offshore Technology Conference (OTC2018) in Houston, Texas will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. Energy professionals and suppliers serving the oil & gas...
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Ovation Users’ Group – Pandemic Challenges and Shift Toward Renewables Drives...
The challenges associated with a shift toward renewables and maintaining business continuity during a global pandemic have resulted in new opportunities that have been a constant topic among attendees...
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Focus on Reliability and Performance to Drive Competitive Advantage
A common power industry theme at the 2020 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference has been the many challenges organizations experience in a shifting environment. The need for maintaining reliability and...
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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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Utilities Find Small Digital Transformation Steps Lead to Big Returns
Digital transformation. It’s a buzzword we often hear but may not fully understand. Despite much interest in this concept, many questions remain around exactly what it is, what it means and, perhaps...
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People, Processes, Technologies for Integrated Operations
Having to do more with less resources seems to be a common issue throughout the process industries. Process manufacturers are re-examining their people, processes, and technologies to look for ways to...
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What to See at the Offshore Technology Conference 2012
This is a big week for some of the major process manufacturing sectors. The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC2012) is going on through tomorrow in Houston, Texas and Interphex 2012 for the Life...
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Remote Monitoring of Essential Equipment
We’ve highlighted the importance of monitoring essential plant assets in several earlier posts. In an upcoming ChemInnovations 2012 presentation, Remote Monitoring of Essential Equipment—An Expert is...
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Remote, Automated Plant Asset Monitoring
Wireless technologies have established their value in process automation. In a MaintWorld magazine article, Remote, Automated Monitoring Keeps a Watchful Eye on Essential Assets 24/7 (pp. 14-16),...
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The Growing Need for Services in Mining
Emerson’s Douglas Morris of the alternative energy and metals & mining team notes the growing role technology and services play in making mining operations more efficient. There aren’t many days...
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Remote Expertise for Essential Asset Management
In the February 2013 edition of Chemical Industry Digest, University of Texas Separations Research Program (SRP)‘s Robert Montgomery and Emerson’s Pete Sharpe and Nikki Bishop authored, Manage...
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Evolving Role to Integrated Business Operator
As we make final preparations for the Emerson Exchange Americas conference in Dallas next week, I wanted to highlight article by Emerson’s Jeff Dymond. The Control Engineering article, The role of the...
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Emerson Innovation Center Grand Opening
Update and bump: Here is some news from the grand opening: Emerson Innovation Center opens in Round Rock – KVUE News (2-minute video) Perry praises Texas business climate at opening of Emerson facility...
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Connecting Remote Reliability Experts with Plant Maintenance Technicians
It’s been a whirlwind two weeks circling the globe—first last week in Stuttgart, Germany for the Emerson Exchange conference and then this week at our office in Manila, the Philippines. I’m back now in...
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Integrated Operations Command Center Graphics Requirements
Jeff Dymond iOps ConsultantBrian Atkinson Lifecycle Care Program ManagerHaving all the expertise required to optimally operate the plant, mill, platform, or other process manufacturing facility on site...
View ArticleLive Classroom Instruction Comes Virtually to You
Over the past many weeks, we’ve highlighted how communications technologies have made integrated operations, or iOps much more practical. It allows experts to help problem solve over great distances,...
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iOps Command Centers Connect Experts Together
The growing need for experience and rapidly advancing high-bandwidth communications technology is driving new thinking among process manufacturers on how they manage their operations. The authors of...
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iOps Projects Require Custom Approaches
In a Perspektive Prozessindustrie article, Für iOps-Projekte gibt es keine fertige Spezifikation (pp 16-17), Emerson’s Andreas Fuchs and Ernst Jäger describe the first steps toward integrated...
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Oil and Gas Intelligent Field and Integrated Operations
Meeting energy production targets is a constant battle for global oil & gas producers. Today, the International Digital Oilfield Conference kicked off in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The...
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Optimizing Business Operations via Pervasive Sensing
For many plants and production facilities, instrumentation devices measuring the process were limited to just what was needed for monitoring and control due to installation costs and complexity....
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Remote Expertise for Metering and Allocation Management
In today’s Wall Street Journal article, U.S. Oil Prices Fall Below $50 a Barrel, it chronicles the continuing decline in oil prices over the past 6 months. This increases the pressure on oil & gas...
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Improving Drilling Operation Safety and Efficiency
Over the past several months we’ve been highlighting the recorded versions from the Well Pad Automation Webinar Series. These have included: Best Practices for Well Pad Automation Key Considerations...
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Remote Vibration Monitoring Case Study
Technology is great for solving problems, especially for complex problems when it’s couple with expertise. But in many cases, the technology and the expertise is separated geographically. Thankfully...
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Reduce Downtime and Protect Your Plant
Jocelyn Sexton Marketing Communications Strategy ManagerBy: Jocelyn Sexton Monitoring a control system can pose many challenges. When dealing with numerous technologies and/or remote locations,...
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Gas Chromatograph and Wireless Network Case Study
Hydrocarbon producers and transporters need to know the composition of the gases and liquids for accurate custody transfer and reliable, efficient operations. Gas chromatographs are often used to...
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Internet of Things in Process Instrumentation and Automation
If you subscribe or follow many of the process instrumentation and automation publications, web sites, and/or social channels, you know that the Internet of Things (IoT), also known as the Industrial...
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Delegation of Control in Integrated Operations
Advancing technologies open up new possibilities to improve manufacturing and production processes. But, one of the great challenges is to revamp the work processes and procedures to best take...
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