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    Hope Industrial Systems' Mike McGraw explains what makes the company unique in manufacturing monitors
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    Hope Industrial Systems has thrived for over two decades by manufacturing monitors and touchscreens for factory floors
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    “Over the past two years, we’ve had $214,000 in cost avoidance and reduced our maintenance rounds by 445 hours.” AbbVie’s Ellen Kaminski on the pharmaceutical company’s savings due to wireless steam-trap monitoring.
    Timely response leads to lower energy costs, smaller carbon footprint plus increased safety and productivity
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    Nutrien’s Andrew Galambos, together with co-presenter Ryley Blyth of Spartan Controls, explained how the company has saved $7.6 million in process downtime through remote monitoring and analysis of valves and other instrumentation.
    Fisher ValveLink and AMS software link up with SpartanPRO Connect and Iris cloud-based analytics to save $7.6 million over six years
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    “It was a two-in-one solution.” Cliff Crawford of Enbridge Gas shared how the Rosemount 770XA Gas Chromatograph helped measure both hydrogen concentration and heating value of hydrogen and natural gas blends.
    Emerson’s Rosemount 770XA Gas Chromatograph helps Enbridge Gas turn surplus electricity into hydrogen
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    “DeltaV Mobile enables Merck to get better business results, streamlining workflows with alarms and notifications.” Merck’s Colleen Frank discussed how DeltaV Mobile promotes best practices across the company’s production sites.
    Encouraged to spend their time on the floor or in the field, Merck’s engineers and operators use DeltaV Mobile to stay in touch
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    “Emerson’s global workforce is propelled by bridging the gap between markets, unmet customer needs, and what our business can deliver.” Emerson CMO Vidya Ramnath spoke to the importance of partnership with the company’s diverse industrial client base.
    Emerson customers speak to Emerson’s partnership in digital transformation, a journey driven by shared purpose and partnership
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    “In the 1990s, a typical process plant might need 100 cabinets. In 2011, electronic marshaling reduced that number to a dozen. Now, everything can be run redundantly on two pairs of servers.” Emerson’s Camilo Fadul on the impact of software-defined control on system hardware requirements.
    Exhibits highlighted new Emerson developments ranging from valves and field instruments to industrial AI, software-defined control and enterprise operations
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    According to Adelino Dias, process systems analyst for Petrobras, one particular alert enabled the company to resolve a pressure safety valve issue in approximately six hours—a dramatic improvement from the six months it would have taken before implementing the LeakSpy project.
    Wireless condition monitoring network pinpoints troublesome valves and steam traps, reducing emissions by the equivalent of 20,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide over six months...
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    A Coriolis flowmeter in use
    The history and evolution of Coriolis flowmeters is a fascinating tale involving the contributions of 40 companies
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    Emerson’s Peter Zornio (left) led a panel discussion on the continuing edge and cloud computing developments that also included (left to right) William Reed from Dell, Zededa’s Padraig Stapleton, plus Brian LaMothe and Rick Kephart, both of Emerson.
    Industry experts at Emerson Exchange 2025 explore how bringing computing closer to data sources is transforming manufacturing
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    “I know these numbers sound big on the instrumentation side, but you have to remember this has never been done before.” Eastman Chemical’s Mike Strickler explained how a DeltaV control system and Rosemount instrumentation helped the company gather the information needed to optimize a new recycling process.
    Specialty materials producer deployed an advanced digital control system and extensive sensor networks at its Kingsport facility as it looks to scale plastics circularity technology...

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