Digital centre to help manufacturers' improvements.

Interactive learning environment shows how advanced automation solutions deliver actionable insights to accelerate operational performance improvements

Emerson has launched its Digital Experience Centre – an interactive training environment showcasing the company’s extensive range of advanced automation solutions. Manufacturers and process industry users visiting the Centre – located within Emerson’s manufacturing facility in Ede (NL) – 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 Centre 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 Centre 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 Centre complements the existing flow training Centre 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.

Opening the Digital Experience Center (left to right): Guido Wink, Vice President Europe Systems, Marlies Kock, General Manager Benelux, Phil Bond, Vice President Europe Measurement Solutions, Phillipp Strauch, Vice President & General Manager DACH.

“Our new Digital Experience Centre 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 Centre 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 Centre 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.

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