Straight Talk from the Emerson Executive Suite

Emerson Process Management extended the pre-dictive intelligence capabilities of PlantWeb

digital architecture with the release of its Smart Wireless THUM Adapter at the 2009 Emerson Global Users Exchange this week in Orlando, Fla. The THUM adapter can be installed on existing HART field instruments to free up diagnostics and process information that previously had been inac-cessible in wired legacy system installations.

“The THUM device now enables all HART de-vices to be wireless,” said Terry Buzbee, president of Emerson’s valve division. “Three or four years ago, our customers did not talk to us about wire-less. We’ve done our hard work where installations are now in place, and we are now very aggressively setting goals.”

Most HART instruments have rich diagnostics and process data, and yet this valuable informa-tion goes unused because older legacy systems are not equipped to receive HART communications. While it is often too expensive and complicated to access this data through traditional wired means, upgrading devices with the THUM Adapter is a way to unlock the valuable diagnostic and process information.

“The Smart Wireless THUM Adapter is a tremen-dous innovation,” said Buzbee. “With all the HART devices in the field, this adapter now makes the de-vices wireless-capable. It allows access to advanced instrument diagnostics and remote management of

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IN TODAY’S ISSUE

Fisher 4320 Boosts Safety

p2 Harcros Chemicals runs succesful beta test.

New I/O Cards Are a Charm(s)

p4 Electronic marshalling cuts hardware.

Emerson Partners for PAT

p5 synTQ software integrates with DeltaV.

New Tools for Daniel Flowmeters

p6 Exclusive podcast explains enhancements.

“Emerson’s management is a bunch of engineers, and we’re from the Midwest,” began Peter Zornio, chief

strategic officer, Emerson Process Management, “and Em-erson’s Chairman David Farr doesn’t mince words either.”

“Yes, it is in our Emerson culture to be very straight-forward,” added Emerson Process Management President Steve Sonnenberg, as his predecessor, John Berra, looked on and nodded in agreement.

Emerson’s top executives took an hour to have a frank dis-cussion about the economy, trends in the industry and the Emerson brand and culture with Control’s Walt Boyes and Keith Larson this week at the 2009 Emerson Global Users Conference in Orlando, Fla.

Boyes started the interview by asking Sonnenberg, “This past year has been more of a challenge than you hoped your first year as Business Leader would be. What do you think your high points and low points have been?”

“Well, the low points have been the economy, of course,” Sonnenberg replied. “When our sales stopped, and or-ders just went off the cliff, that was hard. The high point, frankly, is this meeting. This week I’ve seen our customers getting their confidence back, and we’re seeing signs that projects are getting back on track and that our customers believe the recession is over.”

“Is the economy really recovering, or are we in for a ‘dead-cat bounce’?” Boyes asked.

“We’re recovering,” Sonnenberg said. “We’re at the bottom in the housing market, the banks are stable again and custom-ers are waking up. Of course, if I really knew the answer to that, I’d be a very rich man. Nobody predicted the start of this thing either. But I don’t think there’ll be a ‘dead cat bounce.’”

“There is a ‘triple witching hour’ going on right now,” Boyes said. “We have a low dollar, very-cheap credit and the price of oil is staying reasonably high. Do you see the oil and gas companies taking advantage of that trifecta to take some of those very large dollar value projects off the shelf and begin procurement?”

“Yes, that’s exactly what we’re seeing,” Sonnenberg said. “The oil companies are looking at the price of steel and knowing that the price of oil is going to go up further, and they’re trying to time exactly when they should make these investments, and we’re starting to see projects.”

Boyes asked, “One of the lynchpins of every automation company’s offerings has become the provision of ‘decision-support systems’ to make up for the lack of experience of most new employees in the process industries. Yet studies have shown that decision-support systems can actually degrade per-formance rather than help it. What is Emerson doing to make human-centered decision-support systems really work?”

“Well, there’s a basic knowledge requirement that is needed for decision-support systems to work,” Zornio said. “I would hope that providing that level of knowledge would be done by somebody like ISA. That’s where ISA could be making its most significant contributions.”

“There’s a part of the puzzle that is very centered on the individual plant, though,” Control’s Larson pointed out.

“Yes,” John Berra said, “which is why we’re seeing a push toward having simulation alongside the control system and, regardless of how long you’ve worked there, you’re being re-quired to use the simulator on processes and problems that don’t occur often.”

“Like pilots do,” Boyes said. “Exactly,” Berra replied.“Do you think that Emerson and other companies will

find themselves forced to do basic training and outsource technicians and operators?”

“Most of our customers don’t want to outsource staff,” Berra said. “They want to keep that in-house.”

“The refineries have been supporting schools such as Lee College in Baytown, Texas,” Zornio said, “and the paper industry used to run its own school before the industry cra-tered in the U.S., so it may come again.”

“Emerson hasn’t jumped on the sustainability band-wagon as hard or as publicly as some of your competitors and your owner-operator customers have. Is there a reason for that?” Boyes asked.

“It’s cultural,” Sonnenberg said. “We’re really very matter of fact, and the fact is, everything we do is about sustainability. That’s what automation is. It’s very easy to buy a bunch of green shirts and a palm tree and go to ex-hibits touting how green you are, but in the final analysis, our customers are very smart, and they can see through stuff like that. It is better to do, and say later.”

“And we’ve been doing sustainability for many years,” Berra added.

“The increasing maturity of wireless opens up some sig-

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“During a slowdown, our customers have time to think, to

consider what these new products will do for them and

to plan their next moves.” Emerson’s John Berra (left) and

Steve Sonnenberg offered their take on the economy,

sustainability and the future of wireless.

Pragmatic Project Management Requires Focus to Avoid CreepMost engineers, technicians and operators lavish atten-

tion on their process monitoring and control systems. However, the people that install and operate these facilities often are neglected or ignored by supervisors, contractors and each other.

The Industry Forum on Engineering addressed these is-sues this week at the 2009 Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando, Fla. They also presented a variety of advice and procedures from the Project Management Institute’s A Guide Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK).

“A project can be doomed from the beginning if it doesn’t have a good scope and isn’t planned adequately,” said Jim Carlins, PE, PMP, president of Carlins Technology Inter-national LLC. “A well-conceived project has a well-defined scope, a process to manage change and an in-depth under-standing of project risks and how to deal with them.”

Carlins explained that PMBOK stresses five process groups and nine knowledge areas, and then cross-refer-ences them to create a map that engineers, contractors and managers can use to accomplish better project manage-ment. The five process groups are initiating, planning, ex-

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Touting successful beta tests at customer Harcros Chemicals in Kansas City, Kansas, Emerson Process

Management announced expansion of its Smart Wireless solutions family with formal release of the Fisher 4320 wire-less position monitor at a Monday press conference during Emerson Global Users Exchange 2009 in Orlando, Fla.

Emerson Process Management’s network of Fisher wire-less position monitors helps Harcros Chemicals monitor valves previously unconnected to the plant’s control system. Fisher 4320 position monitors are components of Emerson’s Smart Wireless family, and they change project economics since they represent only 10% to 20% of the installed cost of a wired solution. The wireless monitor installs and com-missions quickly, providing users with a cost-effective way to access the information.

“Most process plants have situations similar to Harcros

Chemicals,” related Emerson’s Terry Buzbee, president of Fisher. “They might have hundreds or even thousands of valves that are not connected to the control system be-cause of high wiring costs. These valves therefore provide no feedback on their actual positions, even though incor-rectly positioned valves represent a significant cause of safety-related incidents.”

Harcros uses manual valves for sampling, directing, injec-tion and extraction processes at the chemical production fa-cility. Many of the valves are in remote, hard-to-reach loca-tions too costly to access with wires. “Monitoring them was a difficult process, requiring operators to enter hazardous areas or climb ladders to check the valves’ state or position,” added Buzbee. “Searching for an easier, safer way to monitor valve performance, the managers at the Harcros site installed the new Fisher 4320 wireless position monitors.”

Before handing the presentation off to Lloyd Hale, director of manufacturing at Harcros, Buzbee explained that the Fisher wireless position monitors can be integrated easily with an Em-erson Smart Wireless Gateway and AMS wireless configura-tors to form a Smart Wireless network communicating with the site’s existing DeltaV digital automation system. The self-organizing wireless network passes signals along to the gate-way, bypassing obstructions as needed. Frequent performance updates occur without any involvement by the user..

Reporting on the Harcros tests, Hale explained that the Harcros facility has documented numerous benefits from the wireless instrument applications, and total savings were far beyond the direct cost reductions of a “no wires” instal-lation. “This was about eliminating mistakes and increasing safety,” Hale said. “Wireless valve position monitoring en-abled us to reduce inadvertent emissions and bad batches, as well as avoid the high costs of rework, clean-up and lost material. Eliminating these costs—up to $25,000 per inci-dent, not including fines—is a good thing for our plant.”

Hale explained that the new Fisher 4320 wireless commu-nicating position monitor can be used to monitor the posi-tion of any valve anywhere in the plant. The easy-to-install wireless instrument provides frequent, wireless updates about the valve’s position while reducing the time and risk associ-ated with visual inspections. “At Harcros, worker safety is a primary concern, not only because of the location of the valves, but also because of the toxic chemicals the valves con-tain and control,” stated Hale. “The facility uses propylene oxide and ethylene oxide for its processing operations, and exposure to either one can irritate a person’s eyes, skin or re-spiratory tract. Leaks involving toxic chemicals can also re-sult in expensive fines.”

Hale explained that sample and drain valves, for example, are opened and purged before and after each batch. Some product could be released or leaked during this process, and a new batch begins every eight to 16 hours. “Adding twenty-two wireless position monitors to these isolated, manual valves enabled Harcros personnel to identify inadvertent emissions before they could result in costly fines or production delays,” reported Hale. “Downtime, rework, clean-up and disposal can cost the facility up to $25,000 per incident. The wireless moni-tor units helped us avoid three ‘product release’ incidents, sav-ing at least $75,000, not including fines.”

“We also are considering Emerson Smart Wireless tech-nology for tank-level management, rail-car monitoring and a host of temperature, pressure and flow applications at our Kansas City site,” concluded Hale.

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“Wireless valve position monitoring enabled us to re-

duce inadvertent emissions and bad batches, as well

as avoid the high costs of rework, clean-up and lost

material.” Lloyd Hale of Harcros Chemicals discussed

the use of wireless position monitors to report the

status of previously uninstrumented valves.

New wireless solutions abound in the Smart Wireless Pavilion at the 2009 Emerson Global Users Exchange

in Orlando, Fla. “We have a complete wireless portfolio,” said Dan Carlson, wireless marketing manager at Emerson. “People are solving problems, not just collecting data.”

The pavilion separates the technology into solutions for plant operations and field network solutions. “Our wireless field network is based on the WirelessHART standard,” said Greg Huey, Emerson wireless product specialist. “Not one radio can do everything you want. The wireless plant net-work is based on 802.11. With these applications you can have mobile workers who can walk in the plant environ-ment with a handheld, or you can have wireless video or infrared cameras.”

While PlantWeb allows engineers to detect process and equipment problems even before they occur, Smart Wire-less solutions extend PlantWeb’s predictive intelligence into areas previously out of physical or economic reach, open-ing the door for new possibilities in process improvement by extending the life of assets, optimizing process unit ef-ficiency, minimizing maintenance and meeting safety and environmental goals.

The products featured in the pavilion include a full spectrum of tools to fulfill all wireless network needs. The AMS Suite asset management solution allows for intelli-gent management of devices. It streamlines wireless device configuration and calibration management, automatically documents all device activities and provides real-time in-formation for predictive diagnostics.

The new Smart Wireless THUM Adapter makes any HART device wireless to enable transmission of formerly isolated diagnostic data. “There are over 26 millions HART devices installed out there,” said Huey. “A lot of that infor-mation is trapped. The THUM Adapter allows you to get all of the information out of them.”

The Rosemount 3051S wireless series is a scalable plat-form that provides a foundation for integrated pressure, flow and level solutions, allowing customized maintenance-free performance, functionality and process connections.

Rosemount 848T wireless temperature transmitters provide measurements in high-density applications for process monitoring and asset management. “The four independently configurable input channels create a wireless temperature transmitter you can put any place,” said Carlson.

CSI 9420 wireless vibration transmitters enable vibra-tion monitoring on fans, pumps, compressors, gearboxes and motors. “It provides 24/7 monitoring,” said Carlson. “A million-dollar motor can fail just like the $10,000 motor.”

Rosemount 6081 pH transmitter can be mounted in haz-ardous areas for cooling water, environmental or effluent/wastewater monitoring.

The TopWorx 4310 wireless position monitor can detect linear and rotary movement using non-contact technology with limit-switch feedback. It can be used to monitor the on/off status of equipment such as valves, sliding stem regu-lators, displacement and float level sensors and relief valves.

The pavilion also featured a brief presentation of the use of wireless control, enhanced by Emerson’s enhanced PID algorithm, in a distillation column at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus at University of Texas and in a bioreactor at Broadley James.

“A customer is not going to change its business just because it’s included wireless control,” said Carlson. “But there’s no application that isn’t represented by measurement.”

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“People are solving problems, not just collecting data.”

Emerson’s Greg Huey demonstrated the full range of

instrumentation solutions that are now part of the Smart

Wireless family.

New Field Communicator

The 475 Field Communicator extends beyond simple device configuration

functionality to provide advanced device di-agnostic and troubleshooting capabilities in the field and on the bench so users can work more efficiently.

The 475 Field Communicator includes a full-color user interface; The ability to store up to 1,000 device configurations and trans-mit them wirelessly with Bluetooth; quick boot-up and fast operating time; a lithium-ion power module that provides days–not hours–of battery life; universal support for all HART, WirelessHART and Foundation fieldbus devices; and the ValveLink Mobile application that enable in-field idiagnostics and results transfer to the AMS Suite.

A few less screws here and a few less wires there might not seem like that big an improvement, but every pro-

cess control engineer and technician knows they can mean a lot less labor and expense—or a lot more if efficient mate-rials and methods aren’t used.

Such is the potential of DeltaV Characterization Mod-ule (Charms) I/O cards (CIOCs) for electronic marshal-ling unveiled this week at the Emerson Global Users Exchange in Orlando, Fla. The company began taking orders for Charms I/O cards in September and will begin shipping in mid-2010.

“Traditionally, wires and signals coming in from the field are screwed to a terminal strip in a marshalling cabinet and then cross-wired on the back side from the strip to I/O points on the controller card,” said Andre Dicaire, DeltaV’s product manager. “This meant three sets of screws—one to land on the strip, another to wire to the I/O card and a third to hook the I/O card to the controller terminal. This was convenient for controls manufacturers, but it’s very hard on the users. So we recently asked ourselves, ‘What if

we landed the field wiring on the strip and did the analog-to-digital converting right there with a single-channel I/O card, and then come out with a digital signal that could go right from the I/O card to a cloud of controllers. That would eliminate two-thirds of the physical connections that users usually have to do.”

This was the initial idea for Charms I/O cards. How-ever, it was only recently that analog-to-digital (A/D) technologies became small and affordable enough to make one-channel I/O cards practical. “Traditional I/O cards do signal interface and communication bus func-tions together, but we split them,” explained Dicaire. “This means a Charms I/O card can sit on the strip, col-lect individual signals and immediately distribute them to the controllers. Besides functioning as a signal con-verter or interface, Charms I/O cards also allow I/O sig-nals to be sent to up to four different controllers. So if you need to change to another controller, you can just specify it without having to rewire to a different control-ler or add more cards.”

The real difficulty is 10% to 20% of a project’s cost can come from late wiring changes, and this can delay a proj-ect by one or two months at the end, said Dicaire. “Also, the typical I/O card has eight or 16 channels that are grouped together for the same type of signal, but the field wiring on the marshalling strip has a mix of analog and digital signals, and so it can be very hard to get the right signals to the right cards,” he added. “As a result, the risk is overloaded or under-loaded controllers, so users always have to buy extra to make sure they have enough. The also have to cope with late changes from their custom-ers, such as changing wiring from altered tanks or limit switches to transmitters, or finding they need to make other changes when they test the controllers.”

Unfortunately, the risk of over- or under-loaded con-trollers meant that users didn’t just have to buy too many controllers, but they also had to find added space for them and their associated I/O devices.

“Users can just land their multi-core cables in order, each signal tells what it is, and so the users can simply in-sert a Charm I/O card for that signal type, whether it’s ana-log, digital, input or output,” said Dicaire. “It doesn’t mat-ter what a device is because there’s an appropriate Charms module that can take its signal, convert it and put in on the bus. For example, if a user already has a mix of signals, but wants to add their first RTD, then they can just wire it in, plug in the right Charm module, and they’re done.”

In general, Charms I/O cards mean users don’t have to rewire their I/O nearly as much, don’t have to buy as many I/O cards, and don’t need to manually reassign I/O to differ-

ent controllers. “Now, it can be just a quick point and click. Users can reassign up to 50 signals in a matter of seconds. This used to be a three- or four-day job,” said Dicaire.

Another key feature of Charms I/O cards is they also have a HART channel and model that comply with the new HART 7 protocol. “This means users can pull and update their HART data in about 0.5 seconds, instead of the 5-6 seconds that it used to require,” added Dicaire.

Charms I/O cards also comply with DeltaV Version 11 and will comply with its future versions. “Charms I/O cards change the game because of the huge amounts time they can save for users,” said Dicaire. “For example, some users could cut their wiring time in half. The need for many wiring changes, especially late wiring changes, will effectively go away. This could enable some users to com-mission their applications one or two months earlier.

Charms I/O Cards Simplify Signal Wiring for Users

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A wireless signal has no way through obstacles.It will just bounce around.

At least the smart one will.

Emerson’s Smart Wireless is the the secure, robust, self-organizing WirelessHART™ network

that’s as easy to use as it is smart. Whether it meets a permanent obstacle or a temporary

barrier, the self-organizing network automatically routes the signal around it. Smart Wireless

is not just flexible, it’s dependable – proven to deliver greater than 99% data reliability. To

find why you should rely on Smart Wireless from Emerson go to EmersonProcess.com/SmartWireless.

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Start bouncing signals today. Smart Wireless Field Starter KitYou can specify how many and what combination of devices you want.

Call 1-800-999-9307 or go online to EmersonSmartWireless.com/FieldKit

The real difficulty is that 10% to 20% of a project’s cost can come

from late wiring changes, and this can delay a project by one or two

months at the end.” Supervised by Chief Strategic Officer Peter Zornio,

Emerson’s Duncan Schleiss, vice president, platform strategy, demon-

strates how single-channel Charms make it easy to accommodate late

changes in project specifications.

nificant new possibilities for new ways to use sensors and new algorithms, like the new PID for Wireless,” said Boyes. “With the addition to the mix of the trend toward smaller, less-expensive sensors—nanosensors or, as I’ve called them, lick n’ stick sensors—do you see this as an-other coming game changer?”

“First,” Sonnenberg said, “you have to remember that there’s more to a transmitter than just the transducer. I’ve seen lots of companies try to enter the industrial wire-less market without any knowledge of how to design en-closures, user interfaces or gain approvals, and they just don’t last.”

“But there are opportunities to do things with sen-sors that further improvements in wireless will enable,” Sonnenberg continued. “You just have to realize that most of the cost of a transmitter is in the housing, not the transducer.”

“You’ve released some impressive new products here this week,” Boyes said. “The new DeltaV S series with elec-tronic marshalling makes products out of marshalling cabi-nets and pre-wired junction boxes for the first time. You’ve made definite improvements in device screens with hu-man-centered design, and you’ve shown the astonishing XI as you’re calling OPC.Net. Why bring out these new prod-ucts in a recession?”

“It’s always nice to have significant new products to talk about,” Zornio said.

“The reason is that our customers have time to think, to consider what these new products will do for them and to plan their next moves,” Sonnenberg said. “When times are good, most of our customers are really too busy to look at new things. This gives them the opportunity to consider the future.”

Driven in part by the demographics of an aging popu-lation, pharmaceutical companies continually strive

to do more with less, says Saroj Patnaik, director, life sci-ences, for Emerson’s global industry solutions group. The pressures for lower-cost drugs are diverse, he explains, and come from lower-income seniors and from the movement to reform healthcare in U.S. “We need to help life sciences companies increase the throughput of their facilities, mov-ing more batches through the same equipment to drive costs down.”

A key facilitator of throughput improvements will be the industry’s adoption of process analytical technology (PAT), which, in essence, entails the application of process under-standing, instrumentation and process modeling in order to produce batches of predictable and repeatable quality. Rather than the “old” way of producing pharmaceuticals,

which prescribed doing everything exactly the same way every time—then testing the end product to see if it came out okay, PAT implies real-time, in-process measurements of product characteristics together with model-based inter-actions in order to end up with the desired product quality--batch in and batch out.

Emerson Process Management, in order to bring a fully featured PAT solution to its life sciences customers, entered an alliance with Optimal Industries to implement the com-pany’s synTQ software on a global basis. synTQ integrates with a broad range of analytical instruments and laboratory information management systems (LIMS), as well as with Emerson’s DeltaV digital automation system. Importantly, synTQ allows life sciences companies to implement any of a variety of third-party process models—they’re not con-strained to use DeltaV’s native model-based control algo-

rithms. “You can pick your analyzers, and you can pick your control model,” Patnaik says.

“Emerson now has a full PAT solution,” Patnaik stressed, adding that the partnership has born its first fruit: a pending implementation at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.

Alliance Brings PAT Solution to Life Sciences

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A wireless signal has no way through obstacles.It will just bounce around.

At least the smart one will.

Emerson’s Smart Wireless is the the secure, robust, self-organizing WirelessHART™ network

that’s as easy to use as it is smart. Whether it meets a permanent obstacle or a temporary

barrier, the self-organizing network automatically routes the signal around it. Smart Wireless

is not just flexible, it’s dependable – proven to deliver greater than 99% data reliability. To

find why you should rely on Smart Wireless from Emerson go to EmersonProcess.com/SmartWireless.

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Start bouncing signals today. Smart Wireless Field Starter KitYou can specify how many and what combination of devices you want.

Call 1-800-999-9307 or go online to EmersonSmartWireless.com/FieldKit

Emerson’s PAT solution for life sciences companies

integrates synTQ functionality (in green box) with

Syncade and DeltaV capabilities.

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In an announcement this week at Emerson Exchange, and in a “podcast exclusive” on ControlGlobal.com,

Emerson Process Management’s Dan Hackett announced major enhancements to both hardware and software for Daniel’s Model 3804 multi-path ultrasonic oil and gas custody transfer flowmeters.

“We’re widening our industry lead in ultrasonic flow measurement technology by providing new flow dynamics intelligence that enables easy access to expert flow analy-sis, alerts operators of flow disturbances, and suggests cor-rective actions to take,” Hackett said. “The new version 1.7 firmware provides continuous flow analysis and gener-ates actionable alerts to identify not only abnormal flow profiles, but also upstream blockage, deposit build-up in the meter and the existence of liquid hydrocarbon in gas.”

Hackett continued with more features, saying, “The firmware also provides real-time AGA 10 speed-of-sound (SOS) calculations. These calculations reduce measure-ment uncertainty by comparing AGA SOS calculations with the meter-calculated SOS.”

Hackett explained that differences in SOS can indi-cate possible upstream process upsets, and can validate the integrity of the ultrasonic f low meter, gas analysis and analog measurements. The new software includes a Baseline Viewer.

All diagnostic information delivered from the meter can be viewed with Daniel’s enhanced Customer Ultra-sonic Interface (CUI 5). This Windows-based software application allows users to configure the meter, view f low profiles and actionable alerts, record log files, trend

data and troubleshoot installation problems. The meter’s Ethernet compatibility enables multiple users to moni-tor the meter and access real-time data remotely.

“Daniel’s custody transfer f low meters are PlantWeb-

enabled and provide process alerts in real time through the PlantWeb network,” Hackett said. “Our advanced di-agnostics also can be accessed by AMS Intelligent De-vice Manager using enhanced EDDL functionality. So users can interact with our f lowmeter either in the con-trol room or shop using AMS, or they can use the Model 475 Field Communicator at the instrument itself.”

“That’s not all the news we have to announce today,” Hackett continued. “Our new extended-range, high- temperature transducers are designed for use in temper-atures -58 °F to +302 °F, or -50 °C to +150 °C.”

Hackett went on, stating, “This makes Daniel Model 3804 the ideal choice for a wide variety of challeng-ing, heated crude oil refining applications. And our new high-viscosity transducers will extend the viscosity range of the Daniel liquid ultrasonic meter to 1,000 cen-tistokes (cSt) with Reynolds numbers above 10,000 to ad-dress an even greater variety of applications.”

“What we fully expect,” Hackett said, “is that the ad-dition of the high-temperature and high viscosity trans-ducers will allow site managers the possibility of stan-dardizing on Daniel Model 3804 ultrasonic meters across a wide range of process environments and have access to a more cost-effective and viable alternative for high-temperature and high-viscosity applications such as refining of heavy vacuum oil, naphtha and kerosene.”

You can listen to Dan Hackett and Control’s Walt Boyes talk about applications and the new product en-hancements to the Daniel Model 3804 in the podcast at http://tinyurl.com/ycd66n3.

New Tools Extend Applications for Daniel Ultrasonic Flowmeters

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Customer Ultrasonic Interface (CUI 5) software for

Daniel’s Model 3084 ultrasonic flowmeter allows users to

configure the meter, view flow profiles and actionable

alerts, record log files, trend data, and troubleshoot

installation problems.

ecuting, monitoring and controlling, and closing. The nine knowledge areas are project integration and eight types of management—scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk and procurement.

“Some projects fail because of scope creep, which in-cludes unplanned project scope changes, and due to un-foreseen project risks that weren’t identified,” said Carlins. “The response is to prevent new tasks from stealing project resources and better plan for risk events before they occur.”

Manuel Garcia, PE, associate director of the Construc-tion Industry Institute, reported that CCI studied its owners, contactors, suppliers and academic members, and found that people in organizations resist new practices. “People are re-luctant to buy in and they go into wait-and-see mode or are just neutral to new practices,” said Garcia. “The project or change’s champions are enthusiastic, but they often lack a clear vision for implementation, and they haven’t prepared

for the implementation tasks. The greatest barrier is that they don’t secure staff acceptance of the change, and they also don’t know how to expand their new practice beyond a first implementation to the rest of the organization.”

Carlins explained that successful projects begin with scope management, which includes planning to describe

how scope is defined, verified and controlled; scope verifi-cation for a formal acceptance process for completed deliv-erables; and change control.

Garcia added that advocates of new practices must con-sider what impact their change will have on existing pro-cesses, corporate structure and culture and on their business model. They also must audit and update their findings. “In-troducing change is like climbing a staircase,” he explained. “You start with a needs analysis, prepare to introduce the change, then initiate it and grab low-hanging fruit to get a win that will prove the value of the idea.”

“Scope changes will occur, so you need to plan for them as much as possible,” said Carlins. “They need to be re-viewed within the project scope. Is this change required for

project success? What is its impact on the project’s goals or product functionality? What is its impact on the project’s bud-get and schedule, and does the project have a sufficient contin-gency allocation? Accepted changes need stakeholder sign-off and project manager review and, preferably, approval.

Carlins added that another essential element of project man-agement is risk management, which consists of planning, risk identification, qualitative risk analysis, quantitative risk analy-sis, risk response planning and risk monitoring and control.

Next, a risk assessment (RA) table is developed that in-cludes risk description, potential of occurrence and prob-ability; risk quantification, impact potential and probability rating; and risk responses, an action plan and whether to accept and how to avoid, transfer or mitigate those risks.

Pragmatic Project Management (continued from pg.1)

“A project can be doomed from the beginning if it doesn’t have a

good scope and isn’t planned adequately.” Jim Carlins of Carlins Tech-

nology shared the secrets of successful project management.

Emerson Process Management recognizes the significant contribution that Mark Bennett of Bayer MaterialScience has made to the development of the Guardian

Software Update Deployment Service. As a result, software updates automatically can be identified, delivered and deployed to DeltaV systems in the customer’s enterprise, dramatically reducing the effort needed to implement needed security and other sys-tem updates. Bennett worked with Emerson personnel to help clarify service require-ments and is instrumental in conducting initial field trials.

Specifically, Bennett devised and documented a Bayer-field-proven method to de-ploy anti-virus updates and Microsoft security updates in a DeltaV system using Sy-mantec Endpoint Protection Manager (SEPM) and Microsoft Windows Server Up-date Service (WSUS). The solution speeds software deployment, minimizing system exposure to attack and saves the tedious effort required to handle this task manually.

Emerson announced at the 2008 Exchange a new service in the Guardian Road-map session that automatically delivered approved customer updates over the Inter-net. The service minimized manual effort and its associated lag time to identify and obtain required updates. That service was independent of manual or automated deployment.

This “intersection of ideas” at last year’s Exchange contributed to Emerson’s subsequent development of addi-tional software to allow a fully automatic bridge between Emerson’s update delivery service and Mark’s WSUS up-date deployment method. This new software also moves DeltaV system hot fixes from the Guardian delivery service to the WSUS server for rapid deployment.

Emerson is grateful to Bayer for Mark Bennett’s thought leadership and efforts, which clarified the need for a comprehensive automated update solution.

Bennett Recognized for Development Contribution

EXCHANGE REPoRTER

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Loops in manual mode due to poor-performing rotary valves require constant operator

attention. And they cost you process efficiency. You can expect better control from the

new Fisher® Control-Disk™ valve from Emerson. The Control-Disk valve has double the

control range of traditional butterfly valves to allow control closer to the target set point,

regardless of process disturbances. You can keep your loop in automatic mode. With low

maintenance requirements and availability to ship in two weeks, it’s time to put a

Control-Disk valve in your loop. Visit www.Fisher.com/bettercontrolEE to watch an

anianimation video or download a brochure.

If you’ve paid for automatic control valves,none of your loops should have to be in manual mode.

There must be a better way.

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devices and monitoring of device health. This can give an economical opportunity to efficiently gather data from multivariable devices. It also means people don’t have to be sent into the field.”

THUM Adapter is a WirelessHART device that can be retrofit on almost any two- or four-wire HART device without special power requirements to enable wireless transmission of measurement and diagnostic informa-tion. Devices with THUM Adapter operate as compo-

nents of Emerson’s Smart Wireless self-organizing field networks, delivering field intelligence to enable improve-ments in quality, safety, availability, operations and main-tenance costs.

The Smart Wireless THUM adapter extends predic-tive intelligence to new areas throughout the plant, open-ing the door for a vast range of process improvements in-cluding gaining access to advanced diagnostics through AMS Suite, enabling enhanced valve capabilities, re-motely managing devices and monitoring health, mak-ing any HART device wireless, and gathering data from multivariable devices

At the Chevron Phillips chemical plant in Sweeny, Texas, the Smart Wireless THUM adapter is enabling extra capabilities for Micro Motion Coriolis flowme-ters that are used in fiscal accounting of product trans-fer between Chevron Phillips and an adjacent petro-leum refinery.

“The required proving for fiscal transfer flowmeters is time-consuming and a big expense for the plant,” said Stephen Fair, instrument measurement planner at Chev-ron Phillips. “To ease this issue, we plan to confirm our ability to extend the time intervals between meter prov-ings by trending data from the Micro Motion meter veri-fication tool against data from proving reports. Adding to the extended interval savings, use of the Smart Wireless THUM Adapter on the remote flowmeters is making it possible for us to launch meter verification from the plant control room rather than making trips to the field. The adapters will also act as repeaters for other devices being added to the wireless network.”

THUM Adapter(cont’d from pg.1)

“The THUM device now enables all HART devices to be

wireless.” Emerson’s Terry Buzbee introduced the Smart

Wireless THUM (two devices shown), a new, bolt-on

adapter designed to liberate the underutilized diagnos-

tics in millions of installed HART devices.

Vaaler Award Winner Announced

Mark Rosenzweig, Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Pro-cessing magazine, presented Emerson Process Man-

agement’s Lara Kauchak, Director of Global Temperature Marketing, and Matt Behrns, Senior Market-ing Engineer for Global Temper-ature Marketing, with the 2009 Vaaler Award for the new Rose-mount 848T Wireless temperature transmitter.

The Rosemount 848T Wireless was launched this past year and is part of Emerson Process Manage-ment’s Smart Wireless solutions.

Winners of the Vaaler Award are chosen from the entries received by the Chemical Processing Editorial Board, which

consists of technical professionals with diverse responsibili-ties and from a variety of industry sections.

The winning Rosemount 848T Wireless device is a four-input WirelessHART device and was chosen for its major contri-bution toward more effective and efficient plant operation in the chemical industry.

Chemical Processing’s Novem-ber issue will feature a cover story on the 2009 Vaaler Award.

For more information about the Rosemount 848T Wireless, visit the Rosemount Booth at the Technology Exhibit at Emerson Exchange or browse to www.Rosemount.com/848T.

The day Larry found himself buried in hisplant’s work processes.

Feel familiar?

Meeting production and regulatory demands, along with the sheer volume of manual work and data entry, can beoverwhelming–keeping you from effectively optimizing your operations and slowing your plant’s production. Not good—just ask Larry1.

Syncade Smart Operations Management Suite helps you work smarter. By replacing paper-driven operations withan electronic manufacturing system, the Syncade suite increases plant-wide operational efficiency by integratingwork activities with real-time information, assuring consistent production is performed right the first time. Result: Larry can now focus on what’s important–increasing productivity and profitability.

Make sure to cath the Syncade presentations and see it in action in the exhibit hall.

www.EmersonProcess.com/Syncade. 1Larry is a fictional character and any resemblance to you or any of your plant personnel is purely coincidental.

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