Emerson Exchange Immerse 2023

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Alex Solis of CPS Energy discussed how the nation’s largest municipal utility boosted the performance and reliability of its gas distribution system.
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Alex Solis of CPS Energy discussed how the nation’s largest municipal utility boosted the performance and reliability of its gas distribution system.
Oct. 9, 2023
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“AMS Device Manager can always be on, scanning and assessing usage, and sending active status alerts to a list. We now have a one-stop-shop to determine asset health.” Experitec’s Joel Holmes, together with Bayer’s Derek Ybarra, discussed strides Bayer has made to move from reactive to preventive and predictive maintenance of its instrumentation assets.
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Oct. 9, 2023
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“I love the fact that we’re talking about AI assisting humans. Playing the role of assistant is the right attitude.” Intel’s Rita Wouhaybi together with co-panelists from Microsoft, AspenTech and Emerson, discussed the rapidly evolving capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and the role it will play in plant automation.
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Oct. 9, 2023
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“RTMS lets us know when a high-utilization day is likely coming, so we can prepare our equipment and systems to handle them.” Novo Nordisk’s Mikael Johansen discussed how real-time management system software helped to dramatically improve unit productivity and process operations.
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Oct. 9, 2023
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“When you look at all the dramatic climate change events happening around us, it’s clear we need to do something—and fast. But it’s also a great time for engineers who enjoy a challenge.” Emerson’s Mike Train and Peter Zornio took the Immerse keynote stage to discuss the role of automation in achieving industry’s sustainability transformation. But first, they drew a laugh from the crowd as brothers Jake and Elwood “Green”—recycled monikers for a new industrial age based on past musical cameos as the Blues Brothers.
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Oct. 9, 2023
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“Everything that the operator interacts with in the production unit is reproduced in the simulator—it all looks, tastes and smells the same.” GlaxoSmithKline’s Levi Merkel discussed the many beneficial uses of an operator training simulator—many of which have nothing to do with operators.
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Oct. 6, 2023
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“The automation objectives for the CSC’s single-use technologies included having a highly integrated and fully paperless automation solution.” Valspec’s Nimit Amipara, together with Genentech’s Tiffany Button, discussed the ambitious new validation processes that trimmed plant completion from five or more years to only two and a half.
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Oct. 6, 2023
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“We can form cohesive links from the edge to the cloud and provide the data and semi-autonomous systems that users need to optimize their processes.” Emerson’s Vidya Ramnath, together with Nathan Pettus, put the company’s Boundless Automation vision into the context of past innovations during a keynote address at Emerson Exchange Immerse this week in Anaheim, Calif.
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Oct. 6, 2023
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“The ultimate goal is to deliver the completed project in less than 24 months lead time, 50% of the working hours and 85% of the installed costs of the previous facility.” Jacob Grønnegaard of FujiFilm Diosynth Biotechnologies discussed how the company’s unique cloning processes dramatically reduce project execution time, effort and expense at this week’s Emerson Exchange Immerse.
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Oct. 5, 2023

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