One sure sign that Fall is arriving, other than the return to school is all the conventions that are scheduled during September through November. The busy season always seems to be the Spring (April through mid-June) and then again this time of year. The following “big three” are the ones most people think of this time of year.

Yes, Virginia, there is life after Emerson Exchange. ARC Advisory Group is ramping up for a three-fer come next February--in Orlando. (Where else?)

Here's the news release:

ARC 2010 Orlando Forum to Co-Locate Multiple Programs in a Common Venue

http://www.emersonprocess.com/exchangelivenews 

Emerson announces the new DeltaV S-Series, live at 1:00 pm Eastern Time. 

Speaking to a packed meeting room, with an overflow crowd in the doorway and standing in the hall, Emerson’s Keith Bellville, DeltaV engineering tools and productivity

product marketing manager, took attendees at Emerson Exchange on a tour of the new look and feature set of DeltaV 10.3’s engineering tool suite.

Think Differently and Become an Automation Leader Who Steers Towards Success

When Dave Beckmann retired from Emerson Process Management as senior vice president, marketing in 2003, he knew he wanted to give something back to others. Part of that repayment occurred today at the 2008 Emerson Global Users Exchange, where he urged the capacity crowd to think differently and become the leaders who will steer the course to success.

“My co-presenter, William (Butch) Taggart from Murphy Oil could not be here, because he’s cleaning up the damage Murphy Oil suffered from Hurricane Ike, and his own house,” said Emerson’s Sean McCormack, of the Emerson Hydrocarbon and Energy Industry Centre, in Calgary, Alberta, “so I’m going to do the presentation for both of us.”

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Unifying and Integrating Automation Practices

"We aren’t integrating to SAP, and we aren’t doing MES, but we are doing an integration project,” said Joe Musiak, associate director of global automation for Biogen Idec, as he began to detail his company’s ambitious, multi-site integration plans. Biogen makes multiple biologic products in plants in Massachusetts, North Carolina and Denmark and, “We needed to be much more flexible,” Musiak said.