Smarter Facilities, Stronger Futures: Automation & Reliability Tech Day

• Understand the capabilities of Asset Management solutions (featuring AMS Device Manager)
• Key building blocks for the foundation of plant reliability
• Main drivers of where reliability success needs to come from

Presenter: Tinh Phan, Global Sales Enablement Specialist at Emerson

Tinh Phan joined Emerson in 2000 and brings over two decades of experience supporting industrial customers. Based in Austin, Texas, Tinh has deep expertise in DeltaV Technology Smart Communication Buses, including HART, WirelessHART, DeviceNet, and HART over Profibus. He specializes in DeltaV and AMS Device Manager implementations and integrations, with a strong focus on reliability services that drive effective plant asset management. He is passionate about promoting best‑practice utilization of AMS Device Manager, AMS Trex, and AMS Optics to help plant maintenance teams improve productivity and operational performance.

Learn more about enterprise-level asset performance management and reliability platform for simplified data management, predictive maintenance and automated workflow orchestration.

Featuring the AMS Optics platform.

Presenter: Drew Mackley, Director of Sales Enablement, Emerson Reliability Solutions at Emerson

Drew Mackley is based in Emerson’s Knoxville, TN. facility which is the America’s distribution center for Emerson Reliability Solutions and CSS business units. Drew has 32 years overall with Emerson’s reliability business, listening to customer suggestions and working with technology team to incorporate those ideas and bring new predictive maintenance hardware and software products to market to address customer needs. In the recent 10 years, Drew has been leading the sales enablement team, supporting global sales personnel introducing new technologies to customers like automating portable vibration rounds, next gen. software, cloud hosted SaaS offerings, AI / ML analytics, asset performance management, and critical asset monitoring and protection.

Emerson is world renown for their innovative products, so come find out about the future direction of control systems and what’s new with DeltaV. 

Learn about how you can leverage your existing system to optimize your operations (aka Operational Certainty) and enable your digital transformation.  Also learn how DeltaV improves automation projects (aka Project Certainty) by eliminating costs, reducing complexity and providing the ability to accommodate late project changes.

Presenter: Paul Castro, Solutions Specialist at Lakeside Process Controls.

Paul Castro is a Solutions Specialist based in Mississauga, Ontario, with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. For the past 13 years at Lakeside, Paul has worked closely with customers and partners to help them gain actionable insights, optimize system performance, and drive better business outcomes. He brings a practical, customer-focused approach and a deep understanding of industrial environments.

APC projects are known for their quick payback and relatively low capital investment requirements. However, achieving and sustaining that value can pose several challenges. This session will guide you through the process of deploying APC throughout your facility for the first time. We’ll also cover how to unlock additional value by coordinating your APC controllers and how to maintain it to ensure its continued delivery of value for years to come.

Presenter: Ian Ignatiuk, Solutions Consultant, Industrial Software & Applications at Spartan

Every operation today is facing similar pressures to do more, go faster, hit higher targets, all while experiencing the largest turnover in experienced personnel in many generations. We will explore how a Digital Twin can help your plant to achieve these goals, while helping to smooth the challenges of staff turnover. The session will include an overview of what a Digital Twin is, how it can be used to help you, and some example cases to define the value customers like you have uncovered with a Digital Twin.

Presenter: Dan Ogden, Solutions Manager - Laurentide/Atlantic Controls

The AMS Machine Works v2.2 session will include a live demo and a forward‑looking software roadmap, showcasing how the platform is evolving toward a more scalable, workflow‑driven machinery health solution. The demo will focus on a few key enhancements— such as AMS2140 support, adaptive speed management, and simplified machine‑train configuration—to illustrate reduced engineering effort and improved diagnostic confidence. The roadmap will then outline upcoming releases and priorities, highlighting how v2.2 serves as a foundational step toward advanced reporting, deeper analytics, and automation capabilities in future versions.

AMS Machine Works is Emerson's next-gen machinery health software that is the successor to the legacy AMS Machinery Manager software. Emerson has been rapidly developing and releasing version updates to the AMS Machine Works software along with a migration tool for migrating AMS Machinery Manager install base customers.

Through these version updates AMS Machine Works software now provides customers a platform for comprehensive vibration monitoring of their entire plant from critical equipment to essential to balance of plant by integrating online monitoring, edge analytics, wireless vibration and portable vibration into a single database.

Emerson still has a very active roadmap planned for AMS Machine Works for additional efficiency and analytics tools like: alarm tuning, AI analytics, advanced reporting, alarm notifications, etc.

Presenters:
Drew Mackley, Director of Sales Enablement, Emerson Reliability Solutions at Emerson
Curtis smith, solutions specialist at lakeside process controls

Check out demos on Asset Monitoring (Machine Works), Advance Process Controls, Digital Twin solutions, and more in the afternoon!