Emerson Ovation Maxson task force tri-monthly meeting
Date: 2026 03-March 18
Projects
- RDP via Airwall 110
- Alarm Rationalization
- Geotag every sensor
- Identify a process and necessary equipment
- Quick and dirty
- Engaging our CoM ArcGIS team
- Identify a process and necessary equipment
- System documentation plan
- Start With BioRem
- Points organized by family / grouping
- Inventory of all Emerson equipment #inventory
- What are all the forms of representing the system?
- How can we best add this to our hexagon system
- What asset management have they senor work with other customers
- BioRem and Lagoon Blowers Sensor Accuracy Project
- What is covered under the Evergreen for maintenance, including corrosion and obsolescence
- Ongoing integrator involvement
- Ovation DROP 217 3.3-> 3.8 upgrade missed during Evergreen (cerca 2024)
- Pete said
- In disinfection building there is a panel that still have Ovation 3.1.1 on it
- Functioning control system
- Need historical documents regarding router control.
- Matt Dannemueller said
- There is a PM guide
- We need to better leverage our SureService Contract (the maintenance contract has a bank of days)
- What is the transition like for the new graphics? Will this be painless? Is there a graphics translation tool?
- Workshop to team the new graphics.
- Identify Emerson assigned technical liasons
- Guillermo Abreu
- Jack Matheney
- Ankur Gangwar
- Brian Luciew
- Eric Zadai
- Ask directly - which of you can be our key technical point person?
- Revisit 10 year contract and scope of work
- Field work
- Improvements
- Security patches
- Brian Delancy said
- We need another call for planning future work
- CSI / blower machine health replacement project
- Review disparate projects with CDM and tie it together
- Harvey will ammend the contract for this extra service.
- Because Emerson equipment might be under the CDM purview, but not under our contract.
- Rather than ammeding the contract, we can handle it with Task Orders, to add on more cost to
- Brower
- Asked for a training course OV10 to come on site for new trainees
- New HMI graphics are coming down the pipe, like it or not
- DMZ
Documenting the Emerson System
- Leveraging Emerson backups and exports
- Conversion to Markdown vault
- Leveraging Control Sheets
- Point lists per system
- Equipment and miantenance requiremens of all equiepment Emerson has issued us.
- We want a clear maintenance and expected replacement plan for all equipment acquired from Emerson.
- We want an existing list of all SCADA equipment and the related PM's/
People
- Jack Matheney was the Emerson project manager for the BioRem project
- Don Hudgins
- Mike Brower
- Clayton Bennett
- Henry Nakayama
- Garth Egbert
- John Abrera
- Matt Dannemueller
- Harvey Woodall
- Brian DeLancey
Is the Ovation system isolated or integrated in terms of asset tracking.
Concise representation for meeting agenda for 2026 03-March 19
- Discuss plans for how we can hit the ground running once we have the Airwall 110
- Identify the ongoing Emerson team - who is our number one technical point person and Emerson-side project owner?
- Get a copy of the PM guide
- Alarm rationalization
- System documentation improvement and Hexagon EAM integration
- Ask Emerson: Please share success stories about various asset management integrations that you have seen.
- Identify CDM Smith projects that were disparate and not fully integrated into Emerson documentation.
- Groupings by system for questions like: "What are all the IDCS and alarms associated with X system?"
- Discuss the terms of our ten year contract. (2021 - 2031)
- Training on-site for trainees, OV10
- Expectations for HMI 4.0 and for next Evergreen
- Ovation DROP 217 3.3-> 3.8 upgrade missed during Evergreen (circa 2024)
- Stantec as Integrator