Control Amplified: The Process Automation Podcast

Among the most significant impacts of the latest generation of artificial intelligence tools is the ability to quickly make better decisions with the data industrial enterprises already have on hand. They’s also helping to fill the human resource gap, effectively replacing years of on-the-job experience. One company leading the way in this charge is Honeywell Process Solutions, and Control’s Keith Larson caught up with Sharan Ragar...

In today’s world of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and emerging artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, there’s a growing need to share operational technology (OT) data from supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and integrate it with the business information typically found in information technology (IT) systems. Much of this data originates from legacy control hardware performing dedicated functions th...

If there's one trend underlying the ongoing energy transition, it's the emergence of electricity as a primary global standard of generation, exchange—and storage as well. In this podcast, Control's Keith Larson talks with Jill Pestana, founder and CEO, Pestana Solutions; JR Klein, battery manufacturing engineer, Honeywell Process Solutions; and Mike Sanders, senior advisor at Avicenne Energy, about how battery manufacturers are res...

Variable frequency drives, or VFDs, have long offered the opportunity to boost the energy efficiency of rotating equipment such as pumps and fans. But when VFDs are fully integrated into a plant’s control system architecture, new levels of plantwide optimization are possible. Control’s Keith Larson caught up with Chad White, leader of the North America sales organization for Danfoss, and Raj Nara Yanan, product manager for Honeywe...

Highly accurate and versatile, Coriolis flowmeters have become standouts for mass flow measurement, particularly for complex applications in the chemical, energy, life sciences and oil and gas industries. Micro Motion ELITE Coriolis flowmeters have been continually redefining what’s possible for flow measurement, and Control talked with Jana Andreas, Senior Global Product Manager at Emerson, about how they’re reinvigorating the po...

By their very nature, the metals, minerals and mining industries have often set the standard for jobs that are at once remote, dirty and dangerous, and as such are facing a particularly acute shortage of workers as Baby Boomers retire. But new cutting-edge technologies such as AI are poised to change that outlook, according to Derain Pillay, global vertical lead for the MM&M markets with Honeywell Process Solutions. Control’s K...

Supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) play a critical role in collecting process data from across distributed systems and making it available across an organization. But what if you need to share that data beyond your firewall? What are the keys to doing so efficiently and safely?

In this episode of Control Amplified, editor in chief Len Vermillion talked with Chris Little, media relations directo...

Most proprietary and closed automation systems are 20-30 years old and quickly becoming obsolete. However, by bridging information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), open automation can help lead industry into a more secure future.

A collaboration between Schneider Electric and Intel focuses on the integration of Intel Policy Engine technology with Schneider’s EcoStruxure Automation Expert. The collaboration is an exa...

SCADA applications are responsible for far more than facilitating real-time process monitoring and alarm management. The process history they compile over time is critical to providing the data-driven insights that industry relies on when optimizing their systems to control costs, maximize uptime and increase the life of infrastructure. Modern SCADA systems must ensure data is safe, relevant and easily shareable with a company’s ow...

Every control system on the factory floor needs reliable monitors, touchscreens and related products to keep their operation running efficiently. For the last 25 years, Hope Industrial Systems (HIS), based in Atlanta, Ga., has been at the forefront of manufacturing monitors and supplying them quickly to customers all over the world. How did the company succeed, so it can celebrate its 25th anniversary? Mike McGraw, president of Hop...

While uncertainty over tariffs and inflation confuses the industrial sector, we wondered how the industrial processing market is affected. To get answers, Control editor in chief Len Vermillion talked with Connor Lokar, senior forecaster for ITR Economics, to try to make heads or tails of the situation.

While some processing business might be fretting over the escalating trade war the U.S. has engaged in with Canada, Mexico and Chi...