Emerson Process Management Opens Nearly $70 Million Innovation Center Near Austin, Texas
01/30/2014
This facility is the global headquarters for Emerson’s automation systems and project services business, which helps customers safely, reliably and profitably operate facilities in industries such as oil and gas, refining, chemicals, power, life sciences, food and beverages, and metals and mining.
“No other facility in the world can do what our new Emerson Innovation Center can do,” said Jim Nyquist, President of process systems and solutions for Emerson Process Management. “We have the brightest minds in the industry developing world class automation technologies and collaborating with customers to imagine, plan and execute their vision of future operations to deliver breakthrough performance.”
The Emerson Innovation Center in Austin is comprised of several world-class disciplines under one roof:
A technology and product design and support center, providing engineering and development for the company’s DeltaV digital automation system and DeltaV SIS Safety System.
The first-ever Emerson Integrated Operations (iOps) Center where customers can explore new ways of managing remote operations and of enabling easier collaboration by experts located anywhere in the world.
Emerson Process Management’s Human Centered Design Institute, an industry-leading consulting and engineering practice that drives usability-based design into all products Emerson Process Management designs and manufactures. By designing products that are easier to use, customers gain improved worker effectiveness and lower the requirements for specialized knowledge in their workforce.
An interoperability and testing lab in which Emerson tests both its own products as well as competitors to ensure safe, reliable and robust operation.
The Life Sciences Industry Center that provides consulting, engineering and project management expertise to support pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers.
Educational Services where more than 2,500 customer personnel gain product, technology, and operational skills on the latest technologies.
The company’s Project Management Office that aligns and integrates the company’s best practices, processes, systems and metrics for global project execution.
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