Emerson Process Management’s DeltaV digital automation system, featuring electronic marshalling with the characterisation modules (CHARMs) technology, has been widely adopted by oil and gas, refining, and chemical industry customers, strongly supporting business growth for the past two years. Emerson Process Management, a business of Emerson, achieved USD 7.9B in sales in fiscal 2012, an increase of 13% from fiscal 2011.
The DeltaV system offers unprecedented flexibility and cost savings for some of the world’s biggest and most complex projects, as well as transforms and streamlines automation practices that were developed based on technology limitations that existed more than three decades ago. The technology was developed initially for offshore platforms, which come with space and weight limitations and are open to last-minute automation design changes that routinely result in high costs and expensive delays. The sophisticated technology provides an innovative solution to replace a long-standing industry approach that did not provide the needed flexibility for today’s highly complex and challenging projects. The simplicity and enhanced flexibility accommodates late project changes, eliminates hardware and helps customers reduce field rework, minimising costly schedule delays.
CHARMs technology, the heart of electronic marshalling, has already logged 1 billion operating hours at more than 300 sites.