Presenters:
Kelly Albano, Sr. Product Specialist - Emerson
Anthony Gentile, Sr. Marketing Manager - Emerson

As the mobile worker is becoming more popular, wireless protocol connectivity is increasingly important. Emerson has recently released the powerful 5700 transmitter with an option for configuration via a Wi-Fi connection. This connection can be used with ProLink III available for Windows, iOS, and Android. Functionality includes accessing process information, managing configuration, running Smart Meter Verification and other popular diagnostics. Historian files including process variable history, configuration change logs and alert history can be downloaded. After downloading the historian files, the next logical piece of the puzzle is to analyze the data. ProcessViz software makes it easy to visualize process historical files and make a decision on how to improve the process.

Presenters:
Brad Burton, Sr. Product Manager - Emerson
Michael Flesch, Global Product Manager - Emerson

While the vast majority of the pressure transmitters work reliably for several years on end, a few do not perform to customer's expectations. This presentation will provide insight into the most common user-preventable mistakes that can compromise the integrity of a pressure transmitter, straight from Rosemount engineering experts who will share what they have learned through customer field returns and troubleshooting experiences. The presentation will cover the entire lifecycle of the transmitter including tips on how to specify the right transmitter for your application, to installation best-practices for the device, to proper maintenance and troubleshooting tips once the device is operational.

Presenters:
Erika Palomino, Product Manager - Emerson
Anthony Gentile, Sr. Marketing Manager - Emerson

With the fourth industrial revolution coming into full swing, all process automation industries are looking for answers to complete their digital transformation. Many users are looking to implement automated processes that include advanced diagnostics, remote access configuration, full configuration using the display, data historian and a compact hygienic housing solution to make the most of limited available space and valuable real estate.

Presenters:
John Fuller, Director of Advanced Technology - Emerson
Marshall Meier, Director of Engineering - Emerson
Andrew Kravitz,, Sr. Product Manager - Emerson

With Industry 4.0 set to be in motion by 2025, all process automation industries are looking for answers to implement automated processes combined with IIoT and cybersecurity. As part of this revolution, wireless configuration connectivity with Bluetooth for industrial automation solutions will continue to play a major role in increasing productivity, efficiency, and safety. The next generation of Emerson electronics will offer Bluetooth assisting our customers to usher in the fourth industrial revolution by eliminating the requirement of obtaining a hot work permit to interact with devices or the need for additional configuration tools. Bluetooth will minimize the time in hazardous areas and avoiding additional equipment to access devices in difficult to reach locations.

Presenters:
Ryan Leino, Sr. Global Product Manager - Emerson
Roger Morrison, Product Manager - Emerson

Emerson has many new products and capabilities in their temperature measurement portfolio that will be covered in this presentation from transmitter updates to thermowell design calculation software.

Presenter:
Trever Ball, Director of Product Management - Emerson

Current gas quality measurement requirements are driving the need for sulfur analysis parallel to natural gas compositional analysis in pipeline and gas processing applications using a gas chromatograph (GC). The development of Emerson’s new Rosemount 700XA micro Flame Photometric Detector (µFPD) with an enhanced Thermal Conductivity Detector (TCD) along with parallel chromatography allows the sulfur analysis requirement for gas quality to be achieved. This combination can provide measurements from a simple H2S measurement to a total sulfur analysis. Now for the first time, a transmitter-style gas chromatograph can provide the analysis of sulfur compounds as well as energy content of natural gas in a single, compact, transmitter-style analyzer.

Presenters:
Adam Edison, Global Product Manager - Emerson
Ryan Leino, Sr. Global Product Manager - Emerson

This presentation will cover best practices for selecting and installing a temperature measurement solution. From knowing what thermowell, sensor and transmitter to specify and understanding the value of advanced features like diagnostics to installation decisions, these choices can dramatically impact the reliability and performance of your measurement and your process.

Presenter:
Kevin Stultz, Global Product Manager - Emerson

Rosemount has recently launched a new fixed gas platform (925FGD), and open path gas detector (935/936), along with next generation, industry leading flame detectors (975). These products in combination can help keep your employees, facilities, and environment safe by providing an early warning system if a leak or fire were to occur.

Presenters:
Logan Woolery, Product Manager - Emerson
Moazzam Shamsi, Director of Solutions Architect - Emerson

Are you considering an enterprise wide (multi-site) software deployment? When people think about deploying applications on site, they need to decide where the edge compute is going to be located, who is going to be responsible for configuring and maintaining it, and how it is going to integrate with their existing automation architecture. All of this creates overhead requirements on site. Deploying a multi-site solution like the Plantweb Insight IoT Connectivity Solution takes the configuration and maintenance burden off the site teams and allows users to maintain the application from a single location. This type of solution eliminates the DCS bottleneck, as it is not a DCS-centric architecture. This allows users to deploy software applications on demand with minimal engineering effort.

Presenter:
Jimmy Ji, Product Manager - Emerson

As wireless network technology continues to advance, the complexity of existing wireless infrastructure continues to advance with it. The Next Generation of Emerson's Wireless Gateway portfolio allows your site to stay on the cutting edge of technology with enhanced features and reliability. Integral intrinsic safety barriers reduce infrastructure costs and allow seamless integration into existing networks. Enhanced software upgrades provide the latest capabilities such as OPC-UA and latest security features. The Next Generation 781S Smart Antenna allows for increased device count, reducing overall infrastructure needs. Lastly, the 1410S was designed in conjunction with Cisco's IW6300 Wi-Fi Access Point, providing a Wi-Fi back-haul for all of your WirelessHART data.

Presenters:
Connor Oberle, Product Manager - Emerson
Brad Burton, Product Manager - Emerson

The world’s most popular transmitter has just been elevated to address some of the most relevant challenges that users face today with pressure instrumentation. The new capabilities on the 3051 focus on key issues relating to configuration, maintenance, and reliability. These challenges are addressed by improving the ease of use of the transmitter, expanding diagnostics capabilities, and enhancing safety features. The new 3051 capabilities include but are not limited to Bluetooth configuration and maintenance, a backlit graphical display, plugged impulse line diagnostics, and guided proof testing.

Presenter:
David Wright, Product Manager - Emerson

Steam is a vital component of most process facilities but can be extremely challenging to accurately measure, while also being an extremely challenging fluid to accurately measure. There are many steam measurement solutions so choosing the best technology to properly fit your application isn’t exactly straightforward. It can be difficult to choose the appropriate technology. This session will discuss utilizing both Vortex and Differential Pressure flow meters while reviewing the pros and cons for each in steam applications. This will also include customer examples across multiple industries as well as best practices for both technologies.

Presenters:
Michael Olivier, Director of Product Management, Rosemount Temperature - Emerson
Nathan Stokes, Director of Global Product Management - Emerson

Outdated technologies and practices can become obstacles which hinder operational efficiency. Fortunately, advanced pressure and temperature instrumentation can optimize plant performance and enhance safety through improved preventative maintenance, installation cost savings, increased measurement accuracy, and actionable insights for more informed process decisions. This session examines solutions to six common measurement issues which often lead to process upsets or safety risks. Although the causes and effects of these obstacles are different, all can be mitigated or eliminated entirely through the use of advanced pressure and temperature instrumentation.

Presenters:
Trent Jackson, Reasearch Engineer - Emerson
Michael Wyatt, Team Lead of Product Evaluation - Emerson
Shelby Daniels, Product Manager - Emerson

The US EPA has determined that leaking equipment are the largest source of emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and volatile hazardous air pollutants (VHAPs), of which valves are the most significant source of leaks. Today, there are various fugitive emission standards, which are driven by common goals but differ in their approaches. Fisher control valves are designed with features to help users meet stringent EPA and global emission regulations. This session will provide an overview of current Fugitive Emission packing standards, as well as explore their differences, to help users better select and apply product for their application, while meeting regulations and performance targets.

Presenter:
Mike Gromczak, Product Marketing Manager - Emerson

As Single-Use Technologies gain wider adoption in pharma, biotech, and F&B markets, manufacturers and OEMs need process automation solutions to be flexible, interchangeable, and scalable. The ASCO pneumatic pinch valves are ideal for critical life sciences applications, such as single-use bioreactors, chromatography, and tangential flow filtration skids. With a compact, innovative design, and integrated safety features, these valves are perfect for single-use systems. In conjunction with a suite of Emerson products, they ensure interoperability from controls to communication, to devices, and low cost of ownership. The Food & Beverage industry also utilizes pinch valve technology for ease of equipment change over, thus reducing downtime and improving productivity.

Presenter:
Brett Baker, Product Manager - Emerson

In this session, we will review updates and product releases to the current Fisher Instruments and Software as well as introduce next generation products and technology that will join our product portfolio in the near future. Current product update topics include: Instrument product matrix overview, software releases for ValveLink and ValveLink mobile, updates to the L2E level Controller, FIELDVUE DLC3010 Digital Level Controller, FIELDVUE DVC6200 extended low temperature, FIELDVUE DVC6200SIS High Cv. New product topics include: FIELDVUE DPC2K digital process controller and 4400 HART position Transmitter and L2T Level Transmitter.

Presenters:
Marcelo Dultra, Industry Director - Emerson
Clint Schneider, Director of Digital Services and Cloud Strategy - Emerson

Valves are critical elements of your plant operations, as they play a key role in your overall profitability. Your focus is constantly shifting as you maintain safety, production demands, never-ending reactive maintenance, emissions regulations, valve leakage, and overpressure events. Even if there is a strong preference to move towards a predictive maintenance philosophy, you may not have access to expertise to implement a new strategy at your site. Emerson has solutions to digitally transform your control valves, pressure relief valves, steam traps, flame arrestors, isolation, and manual valves – yes, even those valves that you don't think of as "smart"! We can help you integrate technology upgrades into your work practices to increase safety, reduce variability, and minimize downtime.

Presenters:
Mike Manning, National Sales Manager of Gas Transmission - Emerson
John Carroll, Director of Hydraulic SBU - Emerson

For over 75 years, gas-powered actuation has been the staple technology for local, remote, and automatic control of gas pipeline shutdown valves. Still today, the ideal source of power is the available pressurized gas in the pipeline itself because electrical power or compressed area is often not readily available. By design, a gas-powered actuator taps into that power source, but older designs emit gas with every stroke. Recent methane emission regulations and reduction targets have spurred the development of a zero-emission power system designed for high-pressure, gas-powered actuators.

Presenters:
Sam Johnson, Director of Sales - Experitec
Leela Rajana, Global Product Marketing Manager

For many businesses, repairing and replacing equipment can be one of the most time consuming and costly parts of running an operation. In addition, balancing what equipment takes priority during a planned turnaround adds scheduling complexity. The objective of this presentation is to introduce a new repair solution that will help alleviate many of the pains and uncertainties of repairing and replacing a common piece of equipment in your facilities, the control valve. This presentation will discuss a new technology called the Fisher™ easy-e™ Trim Cartridge, which revolutionizes parts ordering, control valve repair, and inventorying parts at your site, all while providing unmatched performance and certainty.

Presenters:
Robert Kodweis, Vice President Sales - Help Lightning
Bob Donalson, Director of Global Services Pressure Management - Emerson
Richard Ritter, Program Manager Digital Valve Services - Emerson

During 2020 - 2022, Remote Assistance utilizing Augmented Reality received a large surge in how it was used as well as the technology that delivered it. In this talk, we will review 4 key WIN public marketing events in which Remote Assistance was used to keep Emerson End User Plants operational across multiple Business units within Automation Solutions. This talk will cover the current and near future hardware/software breakthroughs that will allow end users to connect to Emerson Sales offices for services support.

Presenters:
Erik Liebscher, Advanced Manufacturing Engineer - Emerson
Jan Edler, IIoT Manufacturing Applications Leader - Emerson

EMERSON offers with the AVENTICS AF2 air flow sensor a cutting-edge device that monitors air consumption including data aggregation and the corresponding IIoT connectivity. We provide a preconfigured DX solution environment that aggregates and visualizes the live and historian data from any number of AF2 sensors. The scalable but still comprehensive solution offers for individual users access to improve process understanding and to deep dive on individual consumers to identify leakages and anomalies. With our internal customer from Sissach plant (CH) we present the use case approach, including hardware and software provision, current and future potential value-adds. Initially, undesired consumers were identified that sum up to 20% of the yearly compressed air consumption of the plant.

Presenter:
Sam Tanyous, Lifecycle Services Director - Emerson

Are you tasked with minimizing unscheduled shutdown, operational cost, limiting risk while increasing safety and achieving greater plant profitability? Are you struggling with retiring workforce, fewer specialist and more complex processes? This session will give an update on existing lifecycle services for all Machine Automation Solutions products (PLCs, Industrial PCs, Machine Edition..) and an overview of what is coming in the pipeline that will help you achieve your goals.

Presenters:
Steve Kormann, Lead Engineer - Emerson
Zach Brooks, Technical Manager - Emerson

While BMS projects appear simple, their execution is deceptively tricky. Let us take the surprise out of your next burner project. Join two of Emerson’s burner experts as they go through a list of lessons learned from their time working on boilers, furnaces, dryers, kilns, and other burners for customers all over North America. Pick up some tricks and tips from previous experiences so that you don’t run into the same challenges on your next shutdown. After leading a quarter of Emerson’s burner projects, a handful of common, customer independent issues were observed by the project team. Sharing this information across the engineering group has prevented us from repeating common mistakes and helped us develop best practices that the team can share with you.

Presenters:
Iwan van Beurden, exida
Arshad Muhammad, SIS Implementation Manager – Emerson

The adaptation of IEC 61511 within the process industry is significant. Users perform tasks that include defining conceptual SIF designs and SIL verification for those designs. The conceptual SIF design is then converted to application logic. This manual interpretation and conversion task is now automated, significantly reducing the human error potential. Conceptual SIF designs documented and verified in exida's exSILentia software can be transferred into DeltaV SIS logic with the click of a button. This presentation describes how selections in exSILentia link to application logic and how the configurator can be used to automatically configure a DeltaV SIS system. Lessons learned from use of the configurator for a large oil and gas project will be reviewed as well.

Presenters:
James Beall, Principal Process Control Consultant - Emerson
Ravi Mandela, Sr. Process Control Engineer - Emerson

The shale gas boom has resulted in spawning of NGL trains across USA and has created a lot of interest in running these units efficiently. Emerson worked with MPLX to improve the performance of multiple NGL fractionation trains at their Hopedale, OH facility. The scope of the project is to improve the control performance of three depropanizers, two debutanizers and two deisobutanizers. A combination of regulatory control improvements and DeltaV embedded Model Predictive Control (MPC) provided a great ROI on this high throughput facility with a unique revenue structure. This presentation will provide the implementation details and tips and techniques for a successful APC project.

Presenter:
Rune Reppenhagen, Marketing Product Manager - Emerson

Come and hear about new DeltaV hardware releases and improvements up to v14.FP3. Distributed CHARMs and PK controller were released in DeltaV v14. The Next Generation Remote I/O, the RIU2, has been released and support Series 2 Plus High-density cards in v14.FP3. Distributed CHARMs provides a new way to wire the I/O close to the field device, which increases flexibility, simplifies installation, and reduces wiring, cable tray and labor cost. The PK controller is targeted for skids and standalone applications with 100 to 1500 I/O, but can also be used in DeltaV for traditional process applications. The PK Controller offers native controller connectivity to Ethernet I/O networks and removes latency. M-series High-density cards with screw and mass terminal blocks has also been released.

Presenters:
Mark Nixon, Engineer - Emerson
Wally Pratt Jr., Chief Technologist for HART - FieldComm Group

The HART protocol has been in-use for field-level communication since the ’80s. Over time, HART has been extended to include support for a wide range of applications and device families. In 2007, WirelessHART and HART 7 were introduced, which added support for HART over wireless mesh networks. HART-IP, which was intended to support hosts communicating with WirelessHART gateways, was also included as part of this release. Most recently, with the emergence of the Advanced Physical Layer (APL), there is a drive towards supporting HART-IP devices over APL. This presentation discusses using HART-IP as a secure communication protocol for control applications, asset management, and condition monitoring. The focus will be on control performance for regulatory and discrete control applications.

Presenter:
Gary Adams, Director, Reliability Sales and Services - John H. Carter

Combining deviation from Best-Efficiency-Point (BEP), variability of operation, mechanical and seal health, an overall "heat map" has been developed that provides Operations personnel with a real-time dashboard, and the possible solutions to correct a developing defect. This solution focuses on preventing the defect from occurring by using fundamental physics, design conditions and the equipment's response to its situation.

Presenter:
Richard Pratt, Reliability Management Engineer - Cornerstone Controls

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI). When it comes to vibration analysis, there are often unrealistic expectations both about what AI can do and what we really need it to do. In this presentation, we will break down the steps taken by an analyst doing vibration analysis and how AI works to replicate that process. We will specifically look at the three methodologies commonly used in AI: Rule-based Systems, Statistics-based Systems, and Machine Learning. We will apply the three methodologies to real world case histories looking at how the real data would be evaluated. We will also address the difference between route data, which is highly repeatable, and online and wireless data, which is taken under differing process conditions; and what is needed for AI to be successful.

Presenters:
Moazzam Shamsi, Director of Solutions Architect - Emerson
Michael Lester, Director of Product Cybersecurity - Emerson
Clint Schneider, Director of Digital Services and Cloud Strategy - Emerson

Cloud solutions are no longer uncharted territory for industrial end-users. IT organizations have successfully transitioned on-premise solutions to the cloud for years and have realized the ROI that justifies further action in other spaces, namely OT. OT cloud solutions have some of the same requirements as IT, but the cybersecurity implications of moving data from the plant network to the cloud necessitates additional scrutiny and on-going support. Additional conversations around Private vs Public Cloud will help land on the appropriate deployment. It is also important to determine what functionality needs to live on the Edge, in the plant, where real-time insights need to be actioned to have the highest positive impact.

Presenter:
Laura Chemler, Industry Manager, Sustainability - Emerson

Sustainability today means a whole lot more than it used to. In the past, sustainability has mainly been associated with reduce, reuse, recycle. Today, it’s about cost saving opportunities, meeting new government regulations, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, increasing accountability, and remaining competitive in the current market. Some of these big nebulous ideas are great on paper but challenging to put into action. These are universal challenges for all companies, and we’re here to share how Emerson is tackling sustainability and reducing their GHG emissions with real results. We’ll look at supply chain resiliency, office life improvements, and production changes that end up saving money in the long term. Attendees will be able to apply learnings directly to their business.

Presenters:
Stacy Keeling, Director of Global Education Services - Emerson
Nicole Schissel, Director of Sales Operations - Emerson

Change is an inevitable part of business, whether going through a minor restructure or an organization is embarking on their own digital transformation. Leaders play a critical role in any organizational change and navigating a team effectively through the change can be one of the most significant challenges leaders face. The Human Capital Institute reports that 77% of leaders report their organization is in a state of constant change, but many of these change initiatives fail. The human and financial costs associated with a failed change initiative can slow productivity and instill mistrust in leadership. Having a plan of how to coach employees through change can turn the tide and allow for an outcome where employees understand and embrace the changes within the organization.