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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:04:00 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Emerson Process Management's latest launch is based on a wireless mesh network architecture, a self-organizing technology composed of sensors on instruments that transmit to a gateway, which integrates with Emerson's AMS Suite, the predictive maintenance and asset optimization aspect of PlantWeb.
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| Keywords: | Emerson Process Management, field device measurement, wireless mesh network, predictive maintenance |
Rarely does an executive of an industrial automation company appear at ease, confident, even giddy when it comes to the competitive landscape, but that's exactly the posture that John Berra, president of Emerson Process Management, takes these days. "Business is great," he beamed during a recent meeting with Managing Automation at Emerson Global Users Exchange, the company's annual user conference. "Order run rates are 19% to 20% above last year, shipments are 15% [above last year's]... and we have a lot of momentum going into next year." Berra's excitement stems not from what he says is double-digit growth in major product segments, or the accolades that underscore the company's customer-centric philosophy -- such as a leadership award from Frost & Sullivan for customer service in South East Asia, or a reader's-choice award from Chemical Processing magazine as the "Best Technology Provider" for the third consecutive year. Rather, Berra is an engineer at heart, and his company just made a technological leap in field device measurement that would make the most rigid plant manager a little weak in the knees. [Click to continue] |
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