Emerson Digital Experience Center Helps Manufacturers Realise Safety, Productivity and Sustainability Improvements

Emerson has launched its Digital Experience Center – an interactive training environment showcasing the company’s extensive range of advanced automation solutions. Manufacturers and process industry users visiting the center in Ede, the Netherlands, can gain hands-on experience with transformative digital technologies and learn how they provide actionable insights, helping to achieve improvements in relation to safety, productivity, reliability and sustainability.

Emerson has an industry-leading portfolio of automation solutions for digitising operations and processes across a broad range of industries. The new center hosts live demonstrations of many of these technologies, including the DeltaV Distributed Control System operating a diverse range of industrial measurement and control applications. These modern, advanced technologies are helping bring Emerson’s Boundless Automation vision for a next generation architecture.

Boundless Automation aims to liberate siloed data, eliminate operational blind spots, and unleash the power of analytics software to help identify opportunities for accelerating plant performance improvements. This begins with an intelligent field, utilising advanced sensors and devices along with innovative connectivity solutions such as Bluetooth, WirelessHART and 5G that seamlessly transmit data from a broad range of measurement applications. The center highlights various examples of these applications, including:

• Non-intrusive wireless corrosion detection systems that enable safer, more profitable operations by continuously monitoring for pipework metal loss.

• Wireless acoustic measurement sensors that help to reduce energy usage and emissions by detecting leaks from steam traps or pressure relief valves.

• Sensors that increase safety by monitoring the condition of highly reactive and flammable chemicals in portable storage totes.

The Digital Experience Center complements the existing flow training center at the Ede facility and utilises an operational flow loop that simulates real world applications in a live but safe environment. Visitors will learn how to reduce the complexity, time and cost of integrating additional sensors without impacting their existing control system architectures, using software deployed on edge PCs or in the cloud.

“Our new Digital Experience Center is a world-class facility offering a hands-on interactive environment that can simulate real-world manufacturing conditions,” said Phillip Bond, vice president of Emerson’s measurement business in Europe. “The center facilitates learning, experimentation and simulation, enabling manufacturers and process industry users to discover how our latest digital solutions deliver greater visibility into multiple aspects of their process, helping them to identify significant performance gains.”

The Digital Experience Center supports Emerson’s goal to drive performance improvements through the implementation of advanced automation technologies and digital transformation strategies. This aspiration is central to the company’s sponsorship of the forthcoming NAMUR Annual General Meeting in Neuss, Germany, where Emerson experts will explain to industry leaders how modern automation solutions empower companies to optimise their production facilities.

News release from Emerson, 06/11/2024

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