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To reach your objectives, we make sure asset information is properly collected and enriched with the knowledge of our consultants.” Jon Dietz = ‘Maintenance Constant cst teen ape Endress+Hauser (21) {goendress com/us/asset-management-capabilities People for Process Automation CONTENTS: as Departments. (09 EDITOR'S PAGE 21 RESOURCES Beam me wp Cybersecurity Youve boon my inspiration uti takes se of eal A moni sie to web-hosted papers, tui, experts to deliver he mods. videos and other educational mater 10 CONTROL ONLINE 35 DEVELOP YOUR POTENTIAL. (ur most recent, valuable and popular affeng at Calculation of measured waives Conta om Opti the conversions bsneen sence signals and process variables. 12. FEEDBACK Help align ecaton and indus, Wants rea-woid 36 ASK THE EXPERTS cyber nigh; Gutenberg your facts straight Pressure regulator fail position How can seu presse regulating ves 14 OTHER VOICES bo mado total eased? Reasons to consider using an MV ‘A main instrument vendor contact can consoldate 38 ROUNDUP and contol potent probes. “Temperature and pressure Recent and nerestng products uncer the 16 ON THE BUS topic ofthe month Patches the doe retus Ureracng operating ysioms nas educa the to ‘39 CLASSIFIEDIAD INDEX ‘quency of unwelcome vst. 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MY coleague and the editor of Pant Services re ‘cently reminded me tat when interviewed hi {ortho , tld rim the most portant hieg was {hat he relly loved the ope—ndustia maints- nance and asset management. He dit need to knowl about, but he should care about and telat os reads who doit for a ving. Wien | ined Contain 1993, | had an MS in metalugcal engineering and 10 yeas exser fence in manufacturing, but! knew very tle about ‘auiomation and corte, the process industries, ‘or even ow to make a magazine. Over the next deca, enjoyed leatring the deli of how you ‘about engheetng isting and inning Irsrurmants and corals. 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(SA, AICHE, ASME, nd IEEE are members of FAC tough tet pattcipation nthe American Automatic Ccorirl Counc) ‘Survey data wil help academe stuctre the contol course to help rattow the gap. Sofer, we have 354 responses but ony 46, ae from indusin We need a much greter artcpaion rat from incest to support ‘meaningful and credible resus. This is an invitation fo reader to pxo- ‘ide input. Patcipate inthe FAC Control ucaon Survey at ipo skitacsn ‘cox pp. And, encourage your colleagues to ao conrbute tothe suey. The suney wilco in early spring, but dort wat nl hen, The complete survey may eke 10-15 minutes. Rests wil be publicly avalabe, and wil be used fo enhance con ‘tol education worldwide ‘fama member ofthe IFAC commtize, and te chair is Atanas Serbez,profs- so, chemical ngncering, Rose-Hulman Insitute of Tecnoiony. RUSSELL RHINEHART rents prissr, Channa State Urwesty sre com Wants real-world cyber insights Regarding tho “Unlove” bog of Aug 19 uwarcontolgobal convbogshn- fetleredconto-syslem-cyberncident utng input toa playbook on-onto ‘jste-cyber incident ivestgatons2/, this article f essential 2 rehash ofthe some past electrical system and ity cy besacurly incidents that Joe Weiss as boon taking aout fr years. The arike bandies arund te term tinct con- trlsyters” (CS), bul maybe except fr ‘mentioning the ion incident ad some Pipotne incidents, doesnt provide any Information about obesecurty incients in probably the gest segment of ICS in Ready tor ee Industry, wich is in efinrios and other potochomical plants. | oop hoaring about how wuerabe these systems are sup posed in be, but no real examples oxcapt {or Tron ave been forthcoming. "tke to hear about eat-fenceents where DCSs, PLCs and fil instruments (4 ICS) in eineres and other pero- ‘comical plants have boon successfully cyber attacked, how it ocurred and haw iRwas dne, so that I can ful and better Uundorstan the teat an row ig be courtared. Maybo Wois coud prowdo a future article discussing tis in more cota. WILLIAM (BILL L. MOSTIA RPE TBA Felon TU FS Ener Gutenberg your facts straight In case no one else noted ther, | have 2 fow corrections for your column, *No ‘escape rom revolution” (Oct "18, p. 50, ‘www controiglotal.comvartices/2019/ no-escaping revolution: 1 The Gutenberg ible was tne fist use of etal moveatle type, not wood, 2. 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Rap Se Mare sotaseidt rac oumsesion ert re gr ts Me scot agra as Ma er er bene se ihe Rectager sag oom ranren Soporte femora wer tsetse Faron ais ae & Te TE (orate ame Mew <0 Oleg a 1.800.344.4539 Digih-K [aor ae Ola OTHER VOICES JRSON KNUTESON ee present mareng Endesstouse SUZANNE CHEBAT ona manage assoc Reasons to consider using an MIV ‘A main instrument vendor contract can consolidate and control potential problems. ‘THE classe dation of main nsumert vender 2 (MI) contact placod wan a singe inst ment specials partner to provide oa solution fora proc, including vales,Encress+Hauser has takon MIV and main vale vendor (MV) nate oe MIVis@ concept founded on solid business. 3, principles of costa risk reduction, scheduled ‘savings and improvement on manual, cumber- some, taditonal pojct methods. I's about providing solutions to challenges ou customers face, and in some instances are not even aware 6, and providing the solutions and services nat ‘nay dt know they needed, We nave creatad aneffectve, measurable, concise ana process ven way for the valve and instrumentation scope that ako alan wih compressed project, schedules and time savings, reducing cost and ‘sk o our customers We, asa company, have but onthe MIV concept to itarentate and augment mare vale to al parte and stakoodes involv in a project. We've taken our years of exceronce of ‘working on projects, and adapted the concept {0 meet our customers needs onan inghidual =, lovl wate continuing to mos the concept to continuously improve the process and mest specie projet nae. From fed to operation, cur customers work with one parnero ensure consistany, leverage purchasing from multiple ples, elign whon the proc! imsine shits, 201 ambigulles, and provide a oa solution fr thet projet. ‘Some companies have simiar offerings, but not all that offer MIV as a service can effectively expedite and execute al the aspects thal are ded, ‘Top 10 reasons to consider MIV 1. Customers woul ke to speed markt ac cess fo their product. Success impleman- taton ofan MIV project uring constuction can significantly reduce time-o-marke fora 7. new product. Customers want to maga isk during peo ‘ects, The MV takes on he rskassocated ‘wth execution performance, documentation rework, lost feat, estan eors in orden, and space tization [MIV manages and executes toa compressed Project schedule by pretizaton across all suppliers, OEMs and contractors based on ject pers. When and 2s projects shit, tho MW must tay labo and aio to accom- ‘modate the project changes. As schedules and plans change, eng ale to adapt ina lmely manner wtrout skipping 2 bea sox. pected and isa must ‘The Mis the single pont of contact for every ‘stakelotder mvc in the process. It pro- ‘ides one vantage point to conto, manage and report projet progress. When the cus tomar, EPC an ther vendors have questions, ‘thoy contact the MV. Simply is Ky for tho customer, ‘Yaatioal mzthods Ineude a sow, cure ‘sume, manual process wn ng ead tines. The MV improves efficiency an consocstes rts, and decreases time imested bythe customer’ procurement department by rec ing total numberof purchase odes, quot- ‘ions, invios and resources, The MI reduces. ‘customer procurement staff requements by ‘wanserting tne procurement and qual tasks torts, ‘Managing documentation for each ins ‘mant and vv canbe overming The [MLV manages all docurentaton digtaly and ‘transmis it trough one location as neces Stated bythe projet When W's needed, ts ‘organized and in one plac, Customers want to make sure they rece ingthelr instrumentation and ates, and waver om want to know at what price, The MIV consbdates reporting, analysis and auditing of pricing projctwide, Knowing the status ofthe projects rica for stakeholders “The MIV produces and dsrbutes customized, consolidated Project reporting to al stakenodes 9. The MIVreceies, erties and valetes each tg and its ‘ocumeniation against select, projeckspeiic needs, I ensures consistent tgsingo all tems for the cect, en- bling confidence in raceabity o engineering and design specications. 10. Customers want an expect quay work. The MIV mainains the abity to imploment, adhere to, and folow rigorous proj- oct quay contol standards. How Endress+Hauser manages an MIV ‘One crtical area where our expertise ads value is we can ‘execute and expedite more effectively because of our 60-plis ysars of manulacturing experience, and because we bring {o the table a mri of solutions to suppbersto help them ‘horton lead times. We ad value tothe process by working wth our suppliers to help improve thei lead times, We take necessary steps and ations to ensure ems are in conor- ‘mance before instalation, 1 mere 2 nancontormance issue, it idontiied during our rigorous receipt ortication, and wo \workto gett corrctad before toms ao installed. Onco evar: ‘hing fs ordered and shipped, we do onsite services, startup and commissioning. Although the peojct Seems compete, we dor just wa away, we colorate unt he plant sup and running prope. We've worked on MIVIMIYY projec ranging from 50 to 40,000-pus lags an soe key benefits meniioned by EPCS ‘and castors canbe summed up in tes catego: 1, Accelerated project ramp-up/motizaion 2 Contol rhe project, effecive execution during the project 3. Easeot startup IF you think about everything EPCs and customers must propre in oder to execute and expedite a project, most ofthe time, resources, project timeline and budget become chal- lenges that hold up project progress. Having an MNV partner accelerates project ramp-up ime. Depending onthe sizeof ‘2 project what can somtimes take a company six months to ‘align and propar, would take us just a few wooks. EPCs and Customers aren't only getting an MV, they're receiving all the resources that come with the people suppor, technical and wena com OTHER VOICES as 1, Reducod tim to markt 2, Rsk management 3 Soedule manogomont 4 Communication and callaboratin management 5, Optimized sup chain 6. Coniteny a documentation 1, Commercial (cast) management 8 Status opoting 4. nspectioneciptvertication tagging 10. Quality management engineering support, know of processes tools ait space for executing and expedting Think about some ofthe projects you've worked on. What cnalenges and shits occurred during the project? How dit ‘hose affect the project's timeline, budget and people? Were the challenges handled in an efficient manner? How many sakehoders di you have? Wasi easy communicating back and fort between the stakeholders andthe other parties to the project? The MIV’s responsiblity isto manage pirization of he projet. Wnen he project shits, ine EPC and customer ‘communicat tothe MI, and the MV takes car of to rest, Including expoating and reportng. The MIV ports back to tho EPC and customer. One sine paint of contact acting and ‘managing the communication ofthe projact reduces complox- fy of the entre proc. Simplifying startup forthe customers key. Before any in struments installed, we check it for conformance. We mek sure our customer has all necessary documentation, including drawings, or each instrument and vate, Wo align schedules ‘and provide pre-commissoning and startup support. This en sures instruments and valwes are working propery, ard our customers’ process and wil run efficent. ‘ter beng part of projects wih inefficiencies, we knew there had to be beter way to execute prect, and we made tour ‘mission o improve the process. Working wih our customers and EPCs on projects has enabled ust come up wth new ways to ‘meet, achieve and surpass our customers expectatons. Inthe end, cur customer successes are or suncesses, and weeny paring wih our customers to tackle changes, stramine thai processes and erceed gral. 20 Fo at intxmaton i was ares. COMMAN Se 8 ie 3 tps mutbere7HoMtai ‘ON THE BUS a JOHN REZABEK contutng tr We don’t want to make a bet we can't afford to lose, but at the end of tthe day, we really don’t want to be Windows: systems administrators. Patches the dog returns [Upgrading operating systems hasn't reduced the frequency of unwelcome visits. DO you have tends rrltons who insist on binging tne cog o your use round the na ays? Even it youte an aim ve, he srup- ‘in, distraction and special accommodation for ‘an unfair, undisciplined and poteniy de structive citr—he yu trying to enjoy your human guests—can be especially unwelcome ‘That's about how I eel when “patch Tuesday” ‘ols around forthe Wevdows operating systems in conta ystems and supporting infrastructure. Put down some newspaper. ‘And with he obsolescence of Windows 7 and ‘Servet 2008, an tne eras tcktown of Win- owes systems in pursuit of ISA Secure System Assurance (SSA, you may nd that Patches" sheds, stinks and has become a more burden some and annoying guest than eve. en though our DCS aod ts programs and services are fom the same supp, the programs themselves arin many ways separate and ine- Penden. The operator itrtace and contguation tool ato thir cnn ting: tre engineering interface ‘or configuring, compling and dowrioading con ‘ool and fled device configurations is another. ‘There’ the asset management sys and as- soriod otter appeaions or ae lagnostes, (0PC applications, alam anal, advanced con- ‘roth mana is substantia ‘are unsingon Windows. We rly on our ‘jsloms supple to vt the myriad and routine M- sof patches and ensure allo thr numerous state proucts—some from hid parties ke ‘Aeron o OSisat—contnue to uncon rab. ‘And sil sometimes, we have to rll back a Miero- sot securty update to eta function tke OPC or ‘alarm management to function post Patches. ‘Subseribing to ou DCS supplier's ongoing sup- pot ofring nites us toa tof wet testa) patches we might need. Sometimes isnot obvi- us whether one needs a specif patch—Pow many bores ae runing SQL 20147 If you read the actual KBA (Microsoft's discussion ofthe wulnerabily being addressed), you may wonder at attack vector out realy chasing. Were ‘ruta dened one ofan engineer’ mast Valued tots, tne aity io assess wher ass real and severe enough to endure te touble. We ont want to make a bet we can ation to ose, boutat the end ofthe day, we realy dont want to be Windows systoms administra. ‘Then the numberof ther utes and acti ties that equite a Windows PO—analer system maintenance, ladder loge fr PLCS inluding safety ystms), continuous omissions montor- ing stom (CEMS),trborachiney, mobo _worker—is ot getting smaller. Typically, none of these are canned to business network ar the Internet where ty might get patches push 0 them automaticaly. That’ prcbably ntl bad, since the mission of supporting safle and ficient production of saleable product is ou core duty (not sending amas o invoices) ut, i youre religiously patching the DCS toil cybersecu- rity duties, pow man ofthese ancilry machines ‘ae languishing? We wete stocked afew montis ‘agp when we watched our instr gas supplier's PLC ntrtao boot upon Windows 2000. Egad. Now we've isa the DCS to Windows 10 ‘and Server 2036, and wining athe prospects ot ‘moving otter PCs io the ne-obsoote OS, ensuring applications and engineering os are compat- ie (and backwards-compatbie to the controls appliances they serie), whether new hardware 'snaeded, and how or wheter Heanses wil vans- fer tothe new platform, On the DCS, SSA group poles and lnckdown measures mean more com- ly for previous outne tasks ike mapping a shared civ. t's only been six weeks, and already six new patches are avalable (mandate?) —three for various versns of SQL alone. Nonetheless, we'eadonishad by our corporation and our ‘supplier to keep everything up to date. Wie we'e laying down newspaper forthe un- ‘welcome Patches, ft's hope thes ti ime to ursue the ackancement of cur process contel and monitoring system. Lnvortunaty, there's no ‘er hep to look ater Patches, and as usual the lousy mutt cant be tin his kennel, 2 senvcctroyshdom MQTT and open SCADA The publish/subscribe protocol is getting what it needs to go industrial. MESSAGE quouing tet tansport MTT), ‘developed in 1999, & a publstvsuserbe mos- ‘sage ligntweigt protocol based on TOP tat is now te most commonly used messesing protocol above HTTP. The teerence architectures very ‘imple, andis based on cloniserve. The lent is _pnerally a sensor that ‘publishes te information {othe serer (boker that receives the infra: ‘ion and dispatches i othe subsenbers. MATT protocol uses a many-to-many paradigm, andthe broker decouples the pubisher to the subscriber and acs 3 3 message router with every messaRe discrete chunk of data, opaque othe broker (MGTT’s publshersubscriber model enables c- ents to communicate one-to-one, one-to-many ‘ad many-o-one. ‘ery messages published to an adress, oon a atopic. Cents may subscribe to al Ail topics. Every cent subscribed fo atopic re- ceives every message pubised tothe topic. The MQTT specication doesnt cate any parteuar “Topic Namospace, nor does ictata any parteu- lar payload data encoding though MATT topes ‘xe hierarchical, hea fing system (e.g, sles, ‘vlunarowrcorecte). Wdcards ae allowed when regstrng a subscription (bu nt when ubishing, thus allowing whole hierarchies to be observed by clients. MATT suppots tes quality of service levels “fr ane forgo” *dolvred atlas once,” and “delivered exacly once” To prevent excess trac, MATT clens can registra custom “ast wil and testament” massage, snt by the broker when a device knownay disconnects MATT also ras support or persistent messages stored on the broker, When pubishing messases, lenis may request thatthe brokar preserve the massage. Only the most recat persistent mes- ‘sage's stored. When a cent subscribes toa {opie ary persistent message wile sent to the cent However, une a message queue, MQTT brokrs dont alow persistont messages to ack Up inside the server MATT brokers can require username and pass: wena co ‘word authentication om cents to connect, and ‘wensure privacy, tne TCP connection may been crypt with SSLITLS. ‘Asa machine--machine (M2M-oiened c= {ocol, MATT s designed o be ghwett and it has two drawbacks for very constrained devices: ‘very MTT clent must support TCP and, therefore, always holds 3 connecton open tothe ‘broke, which can bea problem in high-packe- ‘ossfeomputing envgenmeont + MQTT topic names are often log stings, which ‘make them impractical fr 802.15.4 industrial ios eoorments. “These shortcomings ae adessd by MGTT- SN, which defines a UDP mapping of MATT and ‘ads broker supper! or indexing tic names. MATT san 051 Application Laer (Layer 7) Me HTTP, and a. cart, requis tagarg such _35 HTMLor XML for web pages to represent the \ala, MATT for SCADA appicatons have Spark lug, which provides an open speciation for how odgo-of network (EON) gatoways or nat [MATT onabled end doves and MATT applica ‘ions communicate bitrectionaly, ‘Te Sparkplug speciation defines an MATT “Topic Namespace, payad, and session stata management eppicable othe SCADAAIGT mar et. To meet these requremens, the specication Is based ona Iighivelg, bandwidth, low-latony payload encoding acitcture ‘The above standards areal avaiable and open, ‘it Sparkpug from Carus Link Sohn, whe Ectpse Foundation (wiwecpse og has re leased an open-soutce implementaton of MATT WITHOUT WIRES as ‘Son Propet Monge, lenvomaopancma.ca Shortcomings are addressed by the MQTT-SN protocol, which defines a UDP. mapping of MGT and adds broker support for indexing, topic names. IN PROCESS —— Rockwell Automation Fair extends reach Partners, young innovators, technical advances and social responsibilty highlight 2019 event in Chicago {AS ito usa information onertoad at ‘Automation Flr wast enough, Rockwall ‘Automaton (wen rockwellauiamaton, com) surpassed isa a Aulomaton Fal 2019 with even mare nus end-user presentations, traning and technical ses- ‘Sons, and exhib for an everwidening ‘cide of participants. Staged at Moor rick Plcein Chicago on Nov. 20-21, this years eon hosted almost 20,000 aterdees from more than 40 countries, wo experienced more than 150 exhibis ‘and mare than 95 technology sessions. *wereduco compet, duce risk ‘and achive better results with compre honste, enerprsa-wide experts,” said Ble Moret, CEO, Rockwel Automation. “Ths fundamental lsring event.” PSUG and partnership Before te 27h econo the ar even ‘opened, Rockwell uioratin Hels Pro ‘ess Solos User Group (PSUG) eet- Ing utter about 1,000 attends pre- owed tho July 2020 reas of PlntP, ‘arson 5, which wil farther enable process cents, soy operators, and o- ze preguction and support Mey. ts ty onus i ctu nate aja, 2 duced oct, automatic gross, n= hanced anal and EC 62143 cyberse- cary, as well as a concurrent lurch wih ‘wo naw procas contol CompactLogie 15380 for si appcatons and ContoLogi 5585 for DCS appli, Paral with PSUG, Rockwell Auloma- ton also staged is Perspectives media day before the far kicked of, where Moret unveed is new partnership wih ‘Accenture (www accenture com), rep- resontad by Mika Sut, group chi ‘executive, Accenture Digital. Rockwell ‘Autoration and Accents Incustry XO ‘item up to dveop a dgialotering {wolp industrial clnts move beyond exising manufacturing soutions to rans- {form their entre connected enterprises ote the open novation ap proach,” expand Sulit. This colabo- ‘ation wil alow companies to lok 2055, supply chains in adation to in te plant, enables optmizaton across he factory, the supa cain and the enterprise” The parneshi is ao expected to lt hens leverage the Indus item of “Things (oD), and nas aad ykded a prototype fr supp chain management ‘hat deers supplier cost optimization and an improved ably to tack exact product movemans. Rockall Auto ‘on wil provide industrial automaton technology and darn experts, inca Ing FactryTak oxatonSute oT st wae, ad anatis soon. wi a0 bing network services ane operatonat {technology security, as wel 2s appicaion evelopment, staan, nlesraton and supp. Accenture wl provide enter prise business ane technical capabilities, inctuting consulting, analyics,appication ‘deebpmert, ser nlagration, change managemont and suppor. Kids win ‘Make It’ challenge “The Prspectnes event also featured the wero Rockwall Autmatons "You Make I chaenge, which inated young inventors in June osubitideas to salve big preblems. The thre frais, Mi- ‘hae! wibotne, Louisa Wood and Makai ‘Sammuels-Paige, worked wth Rockwell ‘Automation mentors to refine thei ideas ‘and prepare har presomtatons. They ‘were alo init to present that projects at Automstion Fa. ‘Wood won the You Make It prize for har sump pump monitoring soluten tat apples predictive maintenance to help basements stay dry Her system employs mmachinedearning algorithms partnered ‘with local weather dat, whic ls the ‘jst adapt to each instalation, and predict when a pump wil veriow or ‘when pars ae helt fal POWER PARTNERS Blake Maret, CE, Rockwall Automation, ‘and Mike Suc, group chi xt, Accenture Dig celebrate the launch of thai ims taming upto deviop ctl manutaturing, connerted energie and supa optimization solutions. In adaiton, Mara Kasparan, excutve doctor of Edosia (wwwedosianutton. (fg), oportod tha the ralntrtion-gt- ing nonprofits using automaton to trans Term cagabities. Scaled production in 2016, expan sry ren 15,000, ‘9 ttn 85,000 sq, and automating rocesses that increased is out rom {3,000 metic tors fod :25,000 matic tons, aswel as achieving another 20% eapacty increase this year. "We went rom very manual processes to automated processes” exptaned esparian, who regrted tht workers reiousty dumped 50-b bags into mix. €e, but now one-ton bags ate ade Into dosing hoppers. "wih ou now duction equipment, we stared using Rockwell Autamation’sPantPAx DCS for batch-pocess contol” For completo covrago of Rocka Auto- ‘maton Fat 2019, vst wnw-contosobat ‘comeatces 2019 e-em automate fr avers om IWIM winners call for inclusion Nesly 20 honorees and 80 wstors other at the MxD manufacturing ne novation contr in Chicago on Oct. for the second annual nluantal Women in Manufacturing (WIM) awards banc, Beyond awards presented by te NM progam and Putman Meda, he event featured a presentaton by Enn Guth, ios Dep. of Commerce and Economic Development, io presented proce ‘mato from the Sate of inal recogni ing WIM and ts team ‘The lunch was aso highend by pana discussion moderated by Chie tie LaFave Grace, co-founder of IM 2d managing eo of Plant Sorvces ‘magazine. Thelneup nuded: Chanda row, 2019 1M honeeee and CEO ot xo, Kate Rome, 2019 NIM hanee ‘2d president ct Reme Grinding Salis, 2nd Nicole Wiggins, corporate drs ‘and incuson leader at Navistar. The anal focused on creaig dese, nora {ie and effete werforces, and encrs age and gro future women in scence, ‘cnnoogy,enginerng and math (STEM scipnes and industries. “Dont assume your reality is someone 505 said Wiens. “Cuivate a res ‘onships—women or men—and dot be ‘one oF he women who Ist suppering ‘ther women” Wiggins shared now Nav Star supports dversy, including bringing people in and helping them grow. "We conduct unconscious-bias traning make people more aware.” Brown note leas need to encour _age inclusion and it up those who may not be heard. “You have to creat sate ‘paces for women tobe head” said Brown. “Gelting othe table is one sue. The secon i, ence women are siting at the table, how are thay heard? When Im ina meeting, i call onthe more diverse {ots try fo make tas easy 28 possible {oc the less-privleged to be heard.” ono agsoed tha, "it's about encour ‘asing people, Teng them, "You'ehere forareason Speak un! son POWER LUNCH IN PROCESS as ‘panel discussion on deveosing more des, innaatve and fective workforces during the ‘stcond annual ifn! Waren in Manufacturing (IM) awards inch includ (0) Kala Rom, INP 2019horree an preset, Rome Grinding Solutions; Chandra Brow, TWIN 2019 haoree and CEO, MeD; cole Wiggins, erprae sly and incluso leader, Navistar; and marae Cristie LaFave Grace IM ofc and managing edt, Pant Serces magazine ‘and Plantsences.com, ODVA enhances EtherNet/IP ‘ODA report Doc. 2 that t's pubished ‘enhancement its EtherNetP specif ‘ealon to iniagaie NAMUR NE 107 dag ost for process automation nt CIP Pa a rum ow ad tee yo wil be OK. On Inwatner nang, iP os low reamim ow and teers) you have Select ve vein ner Fan ei uric "revoasascon |: The option sonst a regular al-lsed sumac corral vt witha pneumatic conrol- lo. Tisarangemant could proba be sed to hand the ledowm in one stop, and would fall sed on ls oft. UNTER VEGAS, PE rogas@avesoutersn cor Dropping pressure wit a sovere service con trol vale (nota se regulating pressure vale) "rom 125 bag amost 1,875 pg) o 50 ba a most 760 psi), 60% dop is aicuk because _atrim loss coefficient (factor of about 16 sre uied. | dont think any se-esulating pressure valves can do that. servers om ASK THE EXPERTS es ‘TABLE 1: USUAL FAILURE POSITIONS OF THE DIFFERENT DESIGNS OF PRESSURE REGULATORS ‘So-oporaodpesuc-atng rogues weownstoam bead Closes Poperatdto-petegutor sas pans pans ses Pleated unlatng ogultor Preaek about the ss cooticert a crite hoe, typicay 15 at he mos, na you FIVE WAYS TO AVOID CAVITATION lee about 1615 o 10 stages es ot ts tesa east oop 125 hi tag At eee resent wih he best ofthc wd, ha tad ies sha the resus te ‘even ile cages te macmurn n= ety ber of slags that any contol ve menutac- eee fuer can mpement because the rumbe of Sage ilo cages lec bythe se ithe he tinge Jeuhaveto spit eacty what medium wl Furtherro, the india resstancos cf fal pone faa sna iar. nthe sages in series within control vale dow case of set regulating pressure vale, power ‘2 up in artetc progression to form the fa the upstream process presse ss, ‘vera rim ss coe, but gaomet- wh ral ala tha pulse ine presse tic pogesson approaching an asympaic 10s (ch ean aso be duo to upstean po- limit. tn ctor words, 10 stages of dil: ‘98s pressure bs or tbe bust. ith an ac- hole cages in series dont ve us an overall _cumutor‘aa haul, dependirg on your loss coetfeient (or resstance) of 101.5 or raquterments) any valve can be esignd to 15, uta number substantial less than 15, falclasad or fal open, However, dnt know suchas 1 or 12, depencingon the ze of _anyselF-esuating pressure vals) having {he hole in each stage, {ai-closed functionality yt. | wouldnt say they Dropping pressure ftom 50 bara (almost doit exis. Please sous futher wih yout "750 psp to 5 bag amost 75 psig) Seven __process engineer on engineering, not eom- more oficult because thts 90% drop, mercial equrements frst. was aso a senior ‘and seven frtne away fom the erical instrument engineerin one stage of my cater. pressure drop ln (ich is about 50%, ‘GERALD LIU, PENG. ‘depending onthe nature of your process me- gaat vgstan.cs dr). have experianced in faing a problem ‘of steam pressure cop rom 600 psigio 50 ‘A: Se-regulating pressure regulators are sg the vibration ofthe valves owing mechanical devices and hence do rot have ‘hock waves inthe vabe ex, eventual ren- 2 fa-safe feature. The best you can do to darig to vas permanent shut To gve address th particular concerns to install you a iea of proper con engineering, ‘safely refi valves (SRV or PSV) immedi- {o vent steam from 80 psig atmosphere, _atey downstream ofthe pressure regulator ‘contol vake wih 36 Sages of tesstance Hence, you can install an SR wih a splat Isroqutod (not in drild-holo cages, butin of SL. bag aftr the fist regulator and a soc- tigh-angotunsin disc) to cope wih noso ond SRV witha selpont of 5.5 barg ator the ‘eauiaios. [dow think any ordinary sel second regulator. ‘equating pressure va can drop 50 bagi Anew dovice saab ra ITTBarton, ‘Sarg. 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GREG: We tend o veoo he expertise needed in istrument and electrical UE) constuction to make sue automaton systems can perform up thems defined by the design. | have act of war stories rom when | was in BE construction, The chemical company I went to work fr right cut of school had & department in corporat engroering that was IKE Design and Construction wth about 200 engneets and technicians. ‘Constuction was rarely contracted out back then, and each majr plant had at east one LAE corstructon engnear stationed onsite. Enginoas ‘woul rnsfer back and fr between corpo ‘ate design and plant construction assignments, creating syneray. Design an constuction en- ‘ners partcipated in checkout, wator batching and commissioning, nding out stand what lit work. ike Laspisa ters ists on the cn tution scope of work needed based on 37-ps years wortng inthe instrumentation and contro {1809 csciine, including 32 years as lead V&C engineer or manufacturing pant staff ers nee. Mike's goats are very sia o mine n tes, of wanting to share our knowlege, often lsrned ‘he hard way, help automation engineers do hat’s best, Mite, whats the purpose a contractor IC scope of work (SOM)? MIKE: An 120 contractor SOW must provide an accurate dascription of althe work needed in the fold to have a systom roacy fr commission- ing, including all constraints and requirements. | prefer detailed scope, isting the standard 14 tasks an highighting any special instal lation, alton or modification task. It so holp to clarity IC-relatod work that may bo done by other contractors (ninefvessel device instal, contol and power wing) if nanated by ‘he electrical contractor; device receipistorage; piant technician vs contractor device caltra- tion; and specialty work fe, fiber or network wich instalation and configuration, et. Modiication/etroft projects need acktional de- scrition to convey demo work and staging, of phased instalation equeements. A good SOW ‘wi esut in receiving soi contractor bids, minimizing bidder omissions andlor infated es limates due to misinerprettions or guesswork, and subsequent construction. phase cost sut- pisos or squabbles rer extras. GGREG: Have you seen any deficient contractor scopes in your creer? MIKE: Unfortunately Ive seen more than a ew OWS with deficiencies. They it provide ‘enough description ofthe work to cay or com- plomentthe scope attactents (eg, drawings, specications, reference documents, 0). They iit any special work requirements, and were very vague in general Why would any ‘me ink tis would be adequate fr selecting a contactor or obtaining an accurate cost forthe ‘constuction phase? Ive come acrss a ew r3- sons fr engineering fms choosing a bare-bones ‘SOW appoacr: 1 tttakes more engyeering time to creste ade tailed SOW. The amount of time estimated for ‘SOW preparations ften criticized during the ‘oques-or quote (FO), bid. jroparaton phase bythe engineering fms project manager. 2. Atalse bel that making a vague SOW wil ‘benefit he project by geting the contractor to Include werk that was nt clearly fined or {te in my experiance ths has never worked ‘out wel Fighting withthe contactor over extras

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