Emerson's Jim Cahill's posterous

Syncade Roadmap

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Here at Emerson Exchange 2009, Emerson's Bob Lenich presents the Syncade smart operations management direction. This software resides at level 3 of the ISA95 model.

The Documenting, Control, and Archiving (DCA) manages the flow, approval, storage of documents. At its heart, the Syncade software manages workflows electronically.

The Syncade software has broadened from its roots in Life Sciences to address more of the process industries. Bob points to key differences with other operations management software is it's zero-client architecture, integrated data model and graphical class-based workflow development.

Equipment tracking workfow is improved with procedures able to be kicked off by events. Material and order management increases flexibility to manage shipping process. Also more web services are exposed to connect with higher level planning systems.

Improvements in personnel qualification management include decertification processes if skills atrophy over time.

In recipe authoring and electronic batch records, some usability improvements include better views across multiple orders.

Uh oh... All this phone blogging and tweeting this morning has used up my battery. Next stop--off to get battery charger. Twitter hashtag: #EMRex

How to Use Posterous.com For Emerson Exchange

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Deb Franke and I have started to rehearse our presentation, Gamechangers: How to Thrive in Chaos, to make sure we have our A-Game at the Emerson Exchange Technical Conference (Sept 28-Oct 2).

Last Friday, I shared how you might consider signing up for Twitter, and ways you can use it to improve your experiences at events like the Emerson Exchange. For our presentation, we’ve landed on using the Twitter tag, #DebJim . If the last sentence was like seeing an unfamiliar foreign language, follow the link in the first sentence of this paragraph.

One of the recent developments in the world of social media is a site called posterous. It’s a site/service where you can use your camera phone or computer to email pictures or videos and communicate these with others. It also connects with other services like blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, etc.

My test was going to be to have a colleague take a picture of Deb and me preparing our talk with my Smartphone, thumbing out an email on it with the picture as an attachment, and emailing it from my Emerson email address to post@posterous.com. I set up an account there and connected it to the Emerson Process Experts blog, my @JimCahill twitter account, my Flickr account, and my YouTube account. If I take a picture and attach it, it is saved in Flickr, a post is generated on Emerson Process Experts, and a Twitter tweet goes out.

Attaching a video is similar but sends it automatically to YouTube instead of Flickr. That’s a lot of things happening for just sending an email with an attachment!

I did say “was going to be”… Since I somehow forgot my phone today, the picture was taking with a regular digital camera. I loaded the SD card into my PC and am using my PC Outlook email to attach the picture and email it to post@posterous.com .

I hope this test is successful, because I’d like to be able to take pictures and do quick posts all week at the Emerson Exchange to bring the action to those not able to join us. Fingers crossed!