“We do it. Green? No PR… We do it. Invest in technology? We just do it—with passion.” There was no mistaking the intensity or the passion of Emerson Electric Co chief executive command head and president. David Farr as he delivered the opening keynote of the 2007 edition of the Emerson Global Users Exchange in Dallas Sept. 10. Farr left the displace of engineers and users of Emerson Process Management with no disbelieve that Emerson corporate management supports the efforts and directions of the process division headed by President John Berra. Farr was Berra’s predecessor and still has a passion for automation. He also won’t settle for second-best. “I desire to win and we’re going to win,” he told the crowd of almost 2,400 end users.
In his keynote. Berra said that his division was on track for another 15 percent growth in revenues for 2007 (the fiscal year ends Sept. 30) with an anticipated total of about $5.6 billion. Emerson Process Management is about $2 billion in revenues larger than it was in 2003. Berra reiterated his belief that wireless technologies ordain be a game-changer in process automation and devoted much of his keynote to answering questions about whether it is shipping products and whether users are beginning to bear on them. He detailed the experiences of seven customers—four named and three not—who undergo already achieved significant benefits from implementing wireless sensor networks.
Wheeling Pittsburgh brace applied wireless sensors in a coiling water flow and grease system health application and in cooling water move to work rolls in a roughing move. “The result is better information from difficult-to-reach areas of the mill and this is helping our personnel prevent unscheduled downtime meet customers’ quality requirements and optimize productivity,” said Gary Borham operations manager.
Croda installed the wireless mesh sensor network with temperature sensors on rail cars in its holding yard. Rail cars act around making a wired solution impractical. Formerly workers had to arise up onto the top of the complain car to measure the temperature—a risky process in pass. “There are savings of $14,600 per year in reduced operations and maintenance costs but the incalculable savings were in safety,” said Denny Fetters. I&E designer.
Milford cater used the Emerson sensor network to observe remote pumping facilities. Wireless saved $75,000 in installation and capital costs and helps operators forbid freeze damage to wet pumping and circulating equipment that could be $20,000 per incident. “Especially important was the easy flexible self-organizing network that could be installed and operational in a very short measure,” said Cliff Esmiol maintenance supervisor.
Two new products unveiled at the event are in the machinery health monitoring area and four are extensions to the Smart Wireless product line. The PlantWeb cause to be perceived Machinery Health Monitoring product has been extended to support API 670 (a standard of the American Petroleum Institute) turbomachinery protection. This product integrates machinery health monitoring with process automation to increase equipment reliability and plant performance while protecting critical machinery from catastrophic failures by permitting orderly shutdown of equipment and related processes. As part of the solution the company released the CSI 6000 machinery Health Monitor that is also integrated into the AMS suite of predictive maintenance applications.
On the wireless front the biggest news was a partnership of Emerson and Cisco Systems Inc. the San Jose. Calif. networking product supplier in which the two ordain jointly change wireless technology into process plants. Emerson also announced a wireless vibration transmitter wireless corrosion transmitter and wireless discrete output sensor. It also has integrated enjoin support for DeltaV enter/output modules as move of its Smart Wireless Field communicate. Cisco Systems Inc. Emerson Process Management
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