Feb
06
The week of January 8th, 2012 I traveled to our office in Costa Rica to teach the 9025 class. This class was created last year by Emerson’s education department to provide training on the basics of process control and instrumentation. The lecture material and student workshops included in the class are based on the book …
Jan
05
The missing piece for success is the center piece of the loop, the PID controller. There is an incredible offering of PID features and options. To help utilize the full potential of the PID, here is a check list as a guide. While the full aspects of the PID capability are book worthy, the following …
Dec
05
At Emerson Exchange, 2011, I had the pleasure of working with Eric Chen, Research Associate, Pickle Research Center, University of Texas at Austin SRP and Willy Wojsznis, Senior Technologist, Emerson Process Management, to host a workshop that addresses commissioning of a skid process that is characterized by a high degree of process interaction. The size …
Nov
28
At Emerson Exchange, 2011, I had the pleasure of working with Frank Seibert, Technical Manager and Eric Chen, Associate Researcher, Pickle Research Center, University of Texas at Austin SRP and John Caldwell, Advanced Control Marketing Manage, and Willy Wojsznis, Senior Technologist, Emerson Process Management, to host a workshop that addresses how data analytics may be …
Nov
24
Over the next year I will be writing a book 101 Ways to a Successful Automation Career. Before getting into specific ways for improving control system design and performance for different types of applications, I stepped back and looked at the more human aspect. I came up with concepts that have personally guided my career. These …
Nov
21
At Emerson Exchange, 2011, I had the pleasure of working with Jay Colclazier, Senior Automation Engineer, CHS Refinery, and Joanne Salazar, Global Marketing Communications Manager, Emerson Process Management, to host a workshop that addresses Online Tools for DeltaV Systems Users. This workshop provides an overview of online tools that Emerson provides to help users collaborate …
Nov
14
At Emerson Exchange, 2011, I had the pleasure of working with Daniel Coyne, Manager, Automation, BP America Inc., to host a workshop on Recovery from a Process Saturation Condition. The workshop addresses the improved recovery from a process saturation condition that is provided by the PIDPlus option of the PID function block in the DeltaV …
Nov
07
At Emerson Exchange, 2011, I had the pleasure of working with Tom Pesek, Marketing Manager, Emerson Process Management to host a workshop on Interfacing the DeltaV control system to motorized actuators. The workshop addresses the use of motorize actuators for valves and dampers. These types of actuators may be preferred for some process control applications. …
Oct
31
In early September, Mark Nixon and I were notified by ISA that we were recipients of the “Raymond D. Molloy Award” presented by the ISA Publications Department. Our book, Control Loop Foundation—Batch and Continuous Processes, sold the most units of any new book published by ISA in 2010. We received this award in the Mardi …
Oct
24
As I noted in a previous blog, Emerson’s education department has established a class (9025) based on the book Control Loop Foundation – Batch and Continuous Processes that I co-authored with Mark Nixon. This is a 4 ½ day class in which most of the key ideas contained in the book is covered in class lectures. …
