Accelerating Digital Transformation

Emerson Exchange Virtual Series

Accelerating Digital Transformation

February 2 - 11, 2021

Optimize Plant Operations with Intuitive Automation Systems and Services

February features Emerson’s intuitive and scalable distributed control system solutions to simplify complexity and improve reliability. You’ll get deep-dive perspectives and the latest insights from leading automation experts on how to control, optimize, and power your operations.

Gain insight into featured technologies such as DeltaV, Ovation, Syncade, and our Lifecycle Services solutions that enhance system and plant performance. Join as we highlight the latest knowledge and tools to optimize operations in the Life Sciences and Power and Water industries.

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Delivering control and safety systems to help provide a safer, more environmentally efficient manufacturing process
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Make Intelligent Decisions Faster

Our control systems allow your people to seek positive solutions quickly and reduce the pressure of compressed timelines.  Predictive intelligence also keeps your people safe when hazardous situations may occur.

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Increase Safety Integrity and Improve Process Availability

Our safety instrumented systems continuously monitor the status of your plant’s safety devices and diagnose the health of the entire safety loop – dramatically reducing your risk.

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Optimize Your Investment

Partner with Emerson to design and execute a long-term lifecycle strategy to improve your plant reliability with better insight into system and equipment health. Access the right expertise and training to strengthen plant performance, achieve your business goals, and improve your ROI.

Featured Events

8:00 AM

Keynote Session
Speed to Market

Jim Nyquist and Claudio Fayad will discuss and demonstrate how agile organizations are adapting their projects and operations to increase speed to market to meet customer demand. They will also explore the importance of agility and strategies for accelerating innovation and speed to market. 

Roland Smith has over 20 years of biopharmaceutical experience and is currently responsible for design, development, and deployment of digitized processes for supply chain, manufacturing, quality, technical development, and facilities for Moderna. He will be sharing his experience leading the digital transformation of pharmaceutical manufacturing at Moderna which safely brought a COVID-19 vaccine to market in record time.

8:00AM - 8:30AM CST

8:30 AM

Product Roadmap
DeltaV Roadmap

The DeltaV Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) harnesses many innovative technologies in an easy, intuitive, and interoperable way to deliver optimized automation solutions for multiple process industry applications. This session explores the recent advances in the DeltaV ICSS platform, presents the future roadmap for seamless integration and best-in-class control, analytics, and decision support capabilities, and how these elements can be deployed to deliver cost-effective, secure, and sustainable automation to deliver key business outcomes.

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST

Product Roadmap
Ovation Roadmap

The Ovation™ automation platform seamlessly integrates digitally transformative software and technologies that help customers in the power, water and wastewater industries tackle their toughest challenges.  Join this session to learn more about our roadmap of future innovative enhancements that will continue to deliver secure, sustainable solutions with the scalability and flexibility sought by our customers to meet diverse application requirements and help adapt to changing power and water landscapes.

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CST

9:30 AM

Product Roadmap
PSS Lifecycle Services Roadmap

Maintaining your systems on your own is hard work and ever-changing as you embark on your digital transformation journey. Learn from the Emerson team how you can not only maintain your systems using our best in class services but also how to improve the reliability of your automation assets and drive improved performance of your operators and processes as a whole. Let Emerson help you to future-proofing your investments and positioning yourself to take full advantage of new technologies that are being released every day.

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM CST

10:15 AM

User Case Study
Increase Efficiency and Reduce Cycle Time by Replacing Manual Sampling

In this presentation, you will be able to experience some of the key components that make the overall cybersecurity solutions portfolio for DeltaV systems. From the out-of-the-box features within DeltaV to the layers of protection including DeltaV-tailored McAfee solutions, this presentation will provide a quick but in-depth experience into how a DCS reference architecture can comply with the industry-accepted cybersecurity standards such as the ISA/IEC 62443 series.

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CST

Product Roadmap
DeltaV SIS Roadmap

This roadmap presentation will provide an overview of the different DeltaV SIS features introduced in v14. Learn how Emerson continues to innovate with improvements for safety applications. This session will also explore upcoming product developments for v15 and beyond.

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CST

11:00 AM

User Case Study
Secure Architecture for DeltaV Systems: Collaborative Design and Implementation

An American pharmaceutical company will present their experience of trying to justify an internal project to secure their manufacturing systems while respecting the vendors' recommendations of provided system components. This is a real example of a type of activity being adopted by more asset owners lately that are defining policies and procedures with a global reach while trying to use state-of-the-art technology to protect their systems against cyber-attacks.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CST

11:45 AM

Meet the Experts
Guardian Support

In this live session, Guardian Support experts will share tips, best practices, and answer your questions. Have you ever wondered how the System Health Score is calculated? Our experts will focus on specific examples where customers like you have successfully driven meaningful risk reduction as measured by the System Health Score. Do you know how to use GSUDS? The Guardian experts will explain the use of this applet to simplify your approach to patch management and reduce your KBA overload. What's coming next for Guardian? We will also share a forward-looking roadmap. Come prepared with questions and let us help you maximize the value of Guardian to drive your Operational Certainty strategy.

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM CST

8:30 AM

User Case Study
Invista uses State-Based Control to Digitally Transform Operations

INVISTA, a global chemical manufacturer, is digitally transforming its facility operations using state-based control (SBC) and digital twin simulation to drive more autonomous and safer plant operations. INVISTA will discuss the successful implementation of SBC on their CP1 process at the Asia Pacific plant. INVISTA partnered with Emerson for the selection, justification, design, and implementation of SBC. Experts assessed the plant’s assets to select which unit operations were candidates for SBC and determined the appropriate level of automation to maximize value. For the selected unit operations, Emerson worked with INVISTA to develop and implement the detailed design, using Emerson’s digital twin solution. The same approach was extended for additional sites in the US.

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CST

Industry Forum
Power Industry Forum: Strategies for Tomorrow’s Utility

The Power Industry is looking at new digital technologies to improve reliability, reduce costs, and increase the operational flexibility of its plants and fleets.  One method utilities are exploring is the consolidation of multiple plant operations into a single remote operation center.  The panelist will lead the discussion on the benefits and challenges of moving towards this type of operational model. Attendee participation is most welcome!

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CST

9:15 AM

Product Roadmap
Life Sciences Roadmap: L3 Operations Management Overview

The session will provide some specifics on the Level 3 targets for Life Sciences technology development and deployment, including Syncade and Bio-G.

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CST

10:15 AM

User Case Study
Diversity and Inclusion: Beyond What the Eye Can See

Diversity and Inclusion have become a buzz-phrase in recent years. It is used throughout corporate governance, recruitment material, and every social media platform available. The exterior of such a simple phrase resonates strongly with diversity groups that promote gender, race, and age inclusion. However, looking deeper into this phrase leads to a world full of diversity beyond what the eye can see. Sexual orientation, language, religion, social status, and more all contribute to what makes the world’s biggest organizations the most innovative and successful. By embracing, engaging, and enhancing diversity and inclusion at all levels, organizations can begin to acknowledge that the differences among them are perhaps are what makes their group stronger.

10:15 AM to 11:00 AM CST

Emerson Spotlight
Introduction to OSI Digital Grid Solutions

Open Systems International (OSI)—a recent Emerson acquisition—provides a software platform for electrical utility, oil & gas, and pipeline applications. This session will explore the broad suite of applications available on OSI’s monarch™ platform. These applications include electrical utility solutions for generation, transmission, and distribution management; gas distribution and other oil & gas applications; enterprise and plant historian and analytics; and web-based and mobile graphical user interfaces. 

10:15 AM to 11:00 AM CST

Industry Forum
Life Sciences Industry Forum: Tech Transfer

Life Sciences Industry Forum on Tech Transfer:  Session will provide an overview of the challenges, opportunities, and solutions surrounding the digital transformation of the Life Sciences Technology Transfer business process.  Panelists will provide interactive commentary on how their companies are addressing Technology Transfer problems to help accelerate the drug discovery pipeline.

10:15 AM to 11:00 AM CST

11:00 AM

Industry Forum
Life Sciences Industry Forum: Modular Plug and Play

Life Sciences Industry Forum on Process Analytical Technologies:  Session will provide an overview of the challenges, opportunities, and solutions surrounding embedding analytical measurements in-line to provide real-time quality measurements and the option for closed-loop quality control.   Panelists will provide interactive commentary on how their companies have applied PAT today and are looking at how to make the applications easier and more repeatable.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CST

8:30 AM

Meet the Experts
Life Sciences’ Forward Direction

The session will provide an overview of some of the key development programs covering a variety of Emerson product lines that are focused on providing specific functionality and value to Life Sciences manufacturing automation users.  Areas such as modular plug and play, embedded process analytical technology modeling, electronic technology transfer, and facility throughput optimization topics will be covered.

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CST

Product Roadmap
Operator Performance Roadmap

The session will highlight new advancements in Emerson's Operator Performance solutions including Alarm Management and DeltaV alarming updates, AgileOps v3 product update, Advanced Operator Displays and DeltaV Live Readiness, Control Room Design, and Operator Staffing.

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CST

9:15 AM

Product Demonstration
Understanding How the Power and Water Cybersecurity Suite Can Simplify Security Management

This session will include a live demonstration of the new features available in the latest Power and Water Cybersecurity Suite release including the use of the Dragos Platform for network intrusion detection, and how these tools can help to simplify security management and compliance.

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CST

Product Roadmap
Control Performance Roadmap

This session will highlight new advancements in Emerson’s Control Performance solutions including State-Based Control services for autonomous operations, DeltaV Loop Service, improved Control Performance Assessments, SmartProcess enhancements, Aspen DMC3 to DeltaV interface, and new services offerings for Aspen GDOT.

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CST

10:15 AM

Product Demonstration
DeltaV Live & Advanced Operator Displays

DeltaV Live is Emerson’s modern, built-for-purpose operations experience with state-of-the-art graphics development and operations platforms. The HTML5 runtime environment was designed for today’s high-performance operator requirements and supports industry standards and best practices. Launched in December 2018, this new DeltaV HMI helps address the challenges faced by users when configuring, maintaining, and operating their plants. Visit this session to learn about how DeltaV Live can improve your operations with a live demo!

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CST

User Case Study
PK Controller: Air Luquides Modernization Secret Weapon

Air Liquide has a vast array of industrial assets requiring upgrades as well as greenfield applications. Control system installed base is varied and are often tough to support without expensive support contracts or staff increases, which are often hard to come by. The flexibility and versatility of the PK controller are a natural choice for migrating PLC and small standalone specialty controllers given our experience with Emerson and the DeltaV Platform. This presentation will cover our typical use cases as well as our standard approach to consistent, supportable systems in our vast fleet.

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CST

11:00 AM

User Case Study
Standardization of Duke’s Security Program Management

This case study will provide a look at how Duke Energy has adopted Emerson’s Power and Water Cybersecurity Suite across all their generation sites to help standardize security program management and simplify the process of maintaining cybersecurity at generation power plants across more than 30 sites. 

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CST

11:45 AM

Meet the Experts
Control Performance, APC/Analytics

Chat with Control Performance experts on the wide variety of Advanced Control tools and services that Emerson has to offer including Loop Tuning and troubleshooting, Advanced Process Control, and Model Predictive Control. In addition, learn how Emerson's alliance with AspenTech provides the latest advancements in APC software, including Aspen DMC3 and Aspen GDOT.

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM CST

8:30 AM

Industry Forum
Life Sciences: Continous Manufacturing

Life Sciences Industry Forum on Life Sciences Continuous Manufacturing:  Session will provide an overview of the challenges, opportunities, and solutions involved in rolling out continuous manufacturing lines in Life Sciences.  Panelists will provide interactive commentary on how their companies are addressing automation of continuous manufacturing lines as the industry transforms away from dedicated large stainless steel facilities.

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CST

Meet the Experts
Water/Wastewater Industry Trends

Digital transformation is changing how the municipal water & wastewater industry approaches water conveyance and treatment. In this session, we will be highlighting the trends in the municipal water & wastewater industry and the new technologies emerging to support these initiatives.

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM CST

9:15 AM

User Case Study
The DCS Journey at DC Water’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant

DC Water embarked on their DCS journey more than twenty years ago with a thorough evaluation of control system vendors before awarding it to Emerson. This presentation will review how the Blue Plains advanced wastewater treatment plant's DCS project has succeeded in being sustainable, has seen continued growth, and supported the expansion of additional processes and optimizations for over 20 years.

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM CST

9:15 AM

User Case Study
Practical Tips for Creating Inclusive Workspaces to Promote Innovative Thinking

Diversity and gender inclusion are critical for business performance and company culture: research shows that diverse and inclusive companies are more innovative, report higher rates of employee satisfaction, and financially outperform other companies (by as much as 15%!). With women now earning 50% of STEM degrees but only representing 29% of the STEM workforce, companies have access to a largely untapped talent market. However, many women face unique challenges in the workplace; in the first ten years of their careers, as many as half leave the STEM field. In this session, we'll explore some of these challenges and give practical tips for how women AND men can be engaged in fostering an inclusive company culture that ultimately improves teams' productivity, innovation, and success.

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CST

11:00 AM

User Case Study
DeltaV Virtualization: Delivers Performance and Savings

Three DeltaV systems at S-Chem connected through zone servers were due for an upgrade during a scheduled turnaround. Custom remote mounted workstation solution was not only difficult to maintain but was expensive. Multiple solutions were evaluated and DeltaV virtualization solution was selected to replace existing conventional workstations. This selection was based on higher availability, lower cost of ownership, cybersecurity, and ease of maintenance. After more than 2 years in operations, DeltaV virtualization has delivered more than expected results through zero downtime and substantial savings from a total cost of ownership perspective.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CST

Industry Forum
Life Sciences: Process Analytical Technologies

Life Sciences Industry Forum on Process Analytical Technologies:  Session will provide an overview of the challenges, opportunities, and solutions surrounding embedding analytical measurements in-line to provide real-time quality measurements and the option for closed-loop quality control.   Panelists will provide interactive commentary on how their companies have applied PAT today and are looking at how to make the applications easier and more repeatable.

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CST

11:45 AM

Industry Forum
Life Sciences: Cell & Gene Therapy Automation Approaches

Life Sciences Industry Forum on Cell & Gene Therapy Automation Approaches:  Session will provide an overview of the challenges, opportunities, and solutions surrounding integrating and automating cell & gene therapy manufacturing lines.  Panelists will provide interactive commentary on how their companies are addressing the automation of Cell & Gene Therapy equipment.

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM CST

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