Getting the best value from your automation projects
Get the best value from your automation budget and deliver superior project performance by eliminating cost, reducing complexity, and adapting to changing business conditions.That’s how we help our customers achieve top quartile performance. It’s an approach built on industry expertise and success.
From small to mega projects, we have expertise in all aspects of project planning, design and implementation. Wherever you are in your project cycle, we can help you achieve your automation vision.
Project Phases
Appraise
Whether you're planning a new facility or upgrading an existing one, it's essential to identify the right business drivers, evaluate emerging technologies, and ensure alignment with your company’s strategic goals.
In today’s complex and highly integrated automation projects, often involving multiple stakeholders such as owners, engineering contractors, and suppliers the risk of budget and schedule overruns increases. Emerson’s Visioning service helps mitigate these challenges by working closely with your team to develop a clear, unified vision that builds organizational consensus, improves forecasting of costs and risks, and ultimately justifies investment.
Pre-FEED
Effective capital projects start with strong early planning, particularly in the pre-FEED phase, where key elements such as project strategy, stakeholder alignment, purpose, justification, and timing are defined. Being well-prepared at this stage is critical to the success of your next automation project. Identifying the right stakeholders and ensuring alignment with business objectives lays the foundation for selecting the right technologies that drive performance.
Emerson can partner with your team to deliver comprehensive conceptual engineering and feasibility services. Our senior consultants bring hands-on experience and a proven track record to help you justify advanced automation technologies and integrate them into a high-performance architecture, reducing risks, avoiding missed opportunities, and ensuring your project meets its goals.
FEED
Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) is a critical phase that translates project strategy into clear, actionable tactics by establishing standards, roles and responsibilities, and specifications to guide successful project execution. A well-executed FEED plan ensures that your team is aligned and prepared, with key elements of the detailed design already completed and documented.
With Emerson’s support, you’ll gain deliverables such as functional design specifications, a preliminary project schedule, a roles and responsibilities matrix, a project execution and training plan, as well as a commissioning or cutover plan, laying a strong foundation for predictable and efficient execution.
Data Management Services
Optimize your business operations, create enterprise wide collaboration and increase your manufacturing performance.
Modernization and Migration Services
Ensure success in achieving your modernization process and business objectives for legacy systems and plant automation.
SIS Functional Safety Consulting
Ensure conformance with the IEC 61511 Safety Life Cycle, through Safety Instrumented Function design and application.
Execute
As your Main Automation Contractor (MAC), Emerson takes full responsibility for all automation aspects of your project, managing risks across the entire lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, commissioning, startup, and ongoing operations. Working closely with your EPC, Emerson can co-locate engineers with plant personnel, contractors, and suppliers to streamline communication, integrate processes, and ensure alignment on standards, rules, and conventions.
All execution activities follow a unified Engineering Framework, applying consistent methodologies and terminology across disciplines to deliver a fully integrated automation solution—encompassing system hardware, software, licensing, process control, safety functions, and cabinet hardware—ensuring your project is executed efficiently and exceeds expectations.
Integrated Project Management Office
Experienced PMO experts provide the business practices and management infrastructure critical to automation project success.
Remote Virtual Office
Emerson’s Remote Virtual Office collaboration platform provides secure, reliable, distributed engineering of automation projects.
CTO
Configure To Order (CTO) Cabinets reduce cabinet design engineering, have short lead times, and decrease system footprint.
Operate
The previous four phases—Appraise through Execute—highlight Emerson’s Systems Project Execution Services capabilities. This fifth phase—Operate—is best described by our Operational Certainty and Lifecycle Services web pages. Click here to be redirected to that page.
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