| Abstract: | Emerson's recent Global Users Exchange focused on the benefits of integrating wireless technology with the company's process management offerings. |
| Keywords: | Emerson Process Management, Emerson Smart Wireless, Smart Wireless, WirelessHART |
Emerson Process Management used its annual Global Users Exchange in late September - during which 2,500 attendees gathered at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, D.C. - to extol the virtues of wireless technology, both within the plant and in the enterprise at large.
At a press conference at the start of the event, six Emerson customers described how the company's wireless products have made a positive contribution to their operations. Panel member Natalia Kroutikova, technology leader at oil and gas giant BP, said her company is using Emerson's Rosemount wireless transmitters to monitor suction, discharge pressures, levels, flow, and temperatures throughout a tank farm at its R&D technology center in Naperville, IL. BP has also expanded its deployment of wireless transmitters and installed an Emerson Smart Wireless gateway at its Cherry Point, WA, refining facility, the site in 2006 of the first industrial wireless mesh network field trial.
Another customer, specialty chemicals manufacturer Croda Inc., received the most creative application award in Emerson's Smart Wireless Innovators contest. Croda's winning application, anonymously judged by a panel of end users, involved temperature measurements in moving rail cars at Croda's Mill Hall, PA, plant. Denny Fetters, instrument and electrical designer at Croda, estimated the company has saved $14,000 annually in reduced operations and maintenance costs, although, he said, the biggest gain was in safety, as the wireless equipment eliminates the need for employees to physically scale the moving rail cars to make measurements.
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