Discover SpartakusTech APM, the intuitive platform that links asset health to maintenance strategies. Whether you're a small growing business or a large global enterprise, this innovative all-in-one solution has been designed to help you greatly optimize your operations.

This four and-one-half-day course is for process control engineers responsible for configuring graphics in the DeltaV Live operator interface. This course teaches basic options through advanced configuration topics. This course is designed for process and process control engineers responsible for obtaining key production data, maintaining, configuring and troubleshooting a DeltaV system with the DeltaV Live user interface.

Join us for an exclusive webinar on Optimizing Oil & Gas Field Work through Digital Transformation, where we'll delve into the transformative power of GoCanvas software. Discover how this indispensable tool enables you to easily capture and manage your operation's business data and information anytime, anywhere.

Novaspect is presenting three Fisher Control Valve, DVC, and ValveLink classes on August 15, 16, & 17, 2023 at the Novaspect Training Center in Chanhassen, MN: • Control Valve Maintenance • Basic DVC Setup & Intro to Control Valve Troubleshooting with ValveLink • Advanced Control Diagnostics with ValveLink For more info on the three Control Valve and Maintenance technical training classes at the Novaspect Training Center in Chanhassen, MN from August 15, 16 & 17, 2023, download the detailed FLYER. Attendees receive a discounted price for attending multiple classes: $750.00 for One Class $1300.00 for Two Classes $1900.00 for Three Classes

Novaspect and Fisher Controls are pleased to invite you to join our two-day trip to the Emerson Innovation Center in Marshalltown, Iowa. The Emerson Innovation Center is a 136,000 square-foot state-of-the-art $30 million educational, research, and testing facility, designed to help customers tackle the toughest engineering challenges facing today’s process manufacturing and energy industries.

Novaspect was recently featured in Ethanol Producer Magazine, shedding light on the implications of cybercrime for the ethanol industry. Check out the comprehensive article "Squaring Up Cybersecurity" where our cybersecurity expert, Spencer Banister, delves into strategies for identifying latent cyber threats. Discover how Novaspect stands poised to bolster your OT cybersecurity protocols.

A Practical Approach To Valve Maintainance: Your plant has many different valve types that control and protect your processes. Our experts will review the basics of how these valves function and share some tips and tricks to maintain and repair them. Our goal is to give your team confidence about what is needed to keep your assets operational and increase your plant availability.

Digitalizing Material Traceability with TrakSYS™ Webinar: Want to make being audit ready as simple as possible? TrakSYS™ can help. Protect consumers, your brand, and your bottom line. Traceability in Production is Critical to Protecting Consumers and your Brand. For regulated plants, recording, tracking, and tracing the genealogy of raw materials, Work-in-Process (WIP), and go-to-market products is essential to regulatory compliance. Of course, a traceability solution can do more than help you comply with regulations; when traceability data is providing real-time transparency, it can help you proactively limit the impact of any quality problem before the product is shipped.

Companies are searching for how to cover the maintenance and project tasks within their company with the same or less amount of people, while providing good work and home balance. The challenge many face is an exit of experience from the field with little or no options for back filling. At the same time, we all know that maintenance and reliability has a direct impact on safety, environmental, and the bottom line. Keeping your people out of harms way, making sure that problems are identified before a release, and driving down maintenance costs by driving up reliability are key expectations.

CLASS IS FULL The simulation is intended for anyone involved in: ● Performing Maintenance and Reliability Task ● Managing a Maintenance and Reliability Team ● Maintenance and Reliability Engineering ● Planning and Scheduling Maintenance and Reliability Task ● Problem eliminations ● Driving downtime down and increasing uptime and improving OEE

Novaspect and Fisher Controls are pleased to invite you to join our two-day trip to the Emerson Innovation Center in Marshalltown, Iowa. The Emerson Innovation Center is a 136,000 square-foot state-of-the-art $30 million educational, research, and testing facility, designed to help customers tackle the toughest engineering challenges facing today’s process manufacturing and energy industries.

BlueMarvel EMIS provides realtime awareness of energy usage and overconsumption across your industrial operation. Energy streams considered include WAGES (Water, Compressed Air, Natural Gas, Electricity, and Steam) but can incorporate additional, complementary energy streams as well as other consumable resources.

These three-day courses are designed primarily for technicians responsible for installation and maintenance of natural gas regulators. Emphasizing hands-on training, courses teach students to install and adjust regulators; 1106 covers troubleshooting issues in the field. Topics: • Self-Operated Regulators • Pilot-Operated Regulators • Overpressure Protection -- Series Regulation -- Monitors -- Slam-Shut Options • Regulator Failure Analysis • Installation Guidelines

Global software developer of eschbach’s Shiftconnector®, a digital enterprise platform for process manufacturing, expands its relationship with Novaspect, a provider of local resources and technical expertise, to provide additional services to an ever-increasing customer base in North America.

This 4-day course is for instrumentation technicians responsible for all areas of managing and ensuring the reliability of instrumentation in the plant process including startup and commissioning, normal operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting. The hands-on workshops with AMS Device Manager along with DeltaV will address areas relating to the instrument technician's daily tasks.

This two-day AMS Device Manager User’s Group is intended for long-time users and customers just starting with the software. It is a unique opportunity for users to share best practices and successful implementation strategies to fully leverage predictive diagnostics, configuration management, and calibration tools.

Coming Soon: AgileOps™ Webinar. Sign up today for this DeltaV learning opportunity. See how new functionality in Emerson’s AgileOps improves automatic alarm mapping with DeltaV, providing consistency and reliability to the control system by keeping it optimally configured for the process state. The AgileOps Suite includes a master alarm database, advanced alarm shelving, dynamic alarm management, safety system monitoring, and more. Two webinar dates available to register online: June 14 or June 16, 2022.

A Practical Approach To Understanding Automated Valve Isolation & Actuation. Ask the experts to find the perfect solution for your valve automation needs. Whether you are considering an electric, pneumatic or hydraulic powered valve actuator; if the design is linear or quarter turn, manual or automated, our experts have the right technology and product specs to fit your operation. Ask them for answers and discover the wide range of choices at our Isolation & Actuation University.

Check it out: Watch a demo of our new MODULA automated storage system at Basswood in Schaumburg. The big benefit to customers of our using this system for inventory: It makes filling their orders faster and makes our records more accurate; so we know exactly what we have in stock and can pick it and ship it the same day.

Control Valve Reliability Forum: A primer on safe, reliable, and smart valves: You are invited to attend an informative presentation from Novaspect and Emerson about industrial control valve instrumentation reliability. We will be discussing how to leverage FIELDVUE™ digital valve controller technology in your operation. You will gain valuable guidance on utilizing the latest technology for effectively managing your control valve population during turnarounds and outages. Throughout the forum you will have the chance to meet Fisher® product experts and ask questions relative to your daily plant challenges.

This course is for engineers, technicians and others responsible for the selection, sizing, and application of control valves, actuators and control valve instrumentation. This three-day course reviews design and operating principles of control valves, actuators, positioners and related accessories. It describes the sizing and selection methods for a broad variety of control valves assemblies. Students will solve several demonstration sizing and selection problems using Fisher Specification Manager and published materials, plus participate in equipment demonstrations and hands-on workshops.

This course provides an overview of the DeltaV Control Network, M- and S-series hardware, and software applications. Upon completion, you will be familiar with the hardware and be able to perform troubleshooting techniques. This four-day course focuses on the hardware components that make up the DeltaV system: M-series controllers and I/O, S-series controllers and I/O (including CHARMs), and DeltaV Smart Switches. Using a combination of lectures and workshops, you will learn how to use operator and diagnostic tools to identify and locate hardware-related fault conditions. Workshops provide the opportunity to disassemble and reassemble the M- and S-series hardware and return the system to an operating state. If your systems include bus technologies such as Foundation Fieldbus, we recommend courses 7030, 7032, or 7037. The 7018 course satisfies the prerequisite requirement for these bus course (except 7032).

This course provides an overview of the DeltaV Control Network, M- and S-series hardware, and software applications. Upon completion, you will be familiar with the hardware and be able to perform troubleshooting techniques. This four-day course focuses on the hardware components that make up the DeltaV system: M-series controllers and I/O, S-series controllers and I/O (including CHARMs), and DeltaV Smart Switches. Using a combination of lectures and workshops, you will learn how to use operator and diagnostic tools to identify and locate hardware-related fault conditions. Workshops provide the opportunity to disassemble and reassemble the M- and S-series hardware and return the system to an operating state. If your systems include bus technologies such as Foundation Fieldbus, we recommend courses 7030, 7032, or 7037. The 7018 course satisfies the prerequisite requirement for these bus course (except 7032). CLASS IS NOW FULL

Lubrication is a small portion of maintenance spend, yet is has a HUGE impact on maintenance costs. Join us for this opportunity for free expert advice, the latest technology, and useful real-world experience. Subject matter topics include: ■ Tools for controlling contamination of lubricants.  ■ Setting up assets for maximum life and performance from clean, proper lubrication. ■ Five reasons why point-of-care (on-site) oil analysis makes sense. ■ Minilab solutions for industry -- popular choices. ■ Point-of-care oil analysis for industrial data management: best practices.

Regulator University Presentations Include: Regulator Fundamentals Self-Operated and Pilot-Operated Regulators Installation and Troubleshooting Overpressure Protection Fuel Gas and Process Gas Solutions Pressure Reduction In Steam Systems Tank Pressure Management Systems Topics Covered: Terminology Operational Fundamentals Trouble Shooting & Fuel Gas Solutions Tank Pressure Management Codes & Standards Regulator Sizing Maintenance & Reliability

Optimizing quality can significantly improve your bottom-line. Register now for our upcoming webinar, and tune in while we discuss how a real-time quality management solution can help you uncover the root causes of poor quality.

Novaspect and Fisher Controls are pleased to invite you to join our two-day trip to the Emerson Innovation Center in Marshalltown, Iowa. The Emerson Innovation Center is a 136,000 square-foot state-of-the-art $30 million educational, research, and testing facility, designed to help customers tackle the toughest engineering challenges facing today’s process manufacturing and energy industries. See the home of the world’s largest “Flow Lab” enabling valves to be tested in real-world plant conditions to ensure production reliability, efficiency, environmental compliance, and safety before being installed at a customer site.

It’s crucial your digitalization initiatives deliver measurable results in key areas so that you can optimize production, ensure reliability, enhance safety and cut energy costs across your operations. To realize these outcomes, your data infrastructure needs to not only be secure but also efficient and sustainable. The question many are considering is what do we need to do today to ensure that we can scale to meet our data needs two years, five years, and beyond?

Join us to gain insights from industry leaders who are embracing Environmental Social Governance initiatives and embarking on a journey to zero emissions. This webinar will deliver actionable insights and current best practices to enable the next steps in your ESG journey. You will learn how EQT’s approach to ESG is setting the standard for change throughout the industry, and gain insights into the solutions being implemented across Canada to reduce emissions. The environmental leaders sharing insights during this learning session include: • Toby Rice, President & CEO, EQT • Robert G. MacCuish, P.Eng, CEO, CanadianEagle This webinar is sponsored by Emerson Impact Partners from across North America. REGISTER TODAY!

Novaspect has developed a “hands on” Vibration Instrumentation Training course. This course is centered around the operation of standard vibration transducers along with the application of these transducers for measuring machinery protection parameters. Coming to Schaumburg and Chanhassen training locations.

Eschbach offers Shiftconnector, a highly functional Plant Process Management solution providing manufacturing companies numerous benefits as they digitally transform. The Shiftconnector solution keeps operators organized to efficiently manage the routine but, more importantly, it provides the foundation to allow them to effectively address the non-routine. Shiftconnector also supports structured shift handover, ensuring complete transfer of contextual knowledge regarding the non-routine from one operator to the next. A safe and efficient plant results from a workforce that shares contextual information of what is occurring currently and what has occurred in recent shifts. Please join us for a Webinar on June 3, 2021 as we provide an overview and demonstration of how Shiftconnector can be an essential element of PPM and your Digital Transformation.

Watch a brief video tour of the Mandan, ND, Novaspect Panel Shop where skilled technicians design, assemble, and test industrial control panels made to order for Bakken region oil & gas customers.

Coming May 5: Track and Trace Materials From Supplier To Finished Goods -- More Effective Inventory Management Using Real-time Data. With the potential of significantly impacting your bottom line, achieving optimal inventory and material management requires hyper efficient communication between all of the departments involved in the manufacturing process. Register today. Download our white paper now,

Novaspect has officially partnered with PARSEC in distributing the TrakSYS Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software platform. Membership in the Partner Program is based on meeting specific requirements and qualifications which must be met annually. Based on their achievements, Partners may attain progressively higher levels of qualification and certification.

Plantweb Optics Analytics is an out-of-the-box operational data analytics platform that converts large quantities of diverse data into actionable knowledge. It provides diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics solutions for an endless number of use cases, addressing real time performance across your assets, processes, lines, units, areas, sites and enterprise.

Register for our webinar now, and learn how creating a living, visual layout of the MES solution will enable users and architects to continue to grow, refine, and gain real-time feedback from their implementation for years to come.

It’s now official: Novaspect has been certified as a Great Place To Work®: We congratulate our employee-owners for their dedication to serving our communities and customers with our culture of passion, candor, and teamwork.

Novaspect has release two significant enhancements to their website: a Customer Portal for viewing service and account records, plus, a new customer software tool: ARMR (Asset Reliability Maintenence & Reporting) .

Novaspect will be hosting this exciting new software webinar online for one hour (1:00 to 2:00 PM), Thursday, October 22 for its customers who are looking to move to the next level of digital transformation. When it comes to scheduling, many manufacturers rely solely on manual systems or ERP-based solutions. While those systems can help create master production schedules at the start of the month/week – they often lack the ability to account for (and thereby adjust to) real-time variables such as customer demand, inventory levels, asset (human and machine) availability, and historical asset (machine) performance.

Novaspect and Stover Controls Announce Merger: Novaspect President Joe Simchak (left) and Stover Controls President John Dawley shake hands after signing the merger contract recently at the Schaumburg, IL headquarters. The merger brings together two leading regional process automation companies, both Emerson Impact Partners, to further enhance their ability to solve complex problems with local, reliable, and seamless automation solutions plus associated services.

Novaspect has been accepted into the Parsec™ partner program. The Parsec partner program ensures manufacturers worldwide have access to experts in the implementation and management of solutions based on TrakSYS™, its web-based manufacturing operations management software platform. The pressure to increase quality and productivity, while reducing costs, has manufacturers seeking a deeper understanding of trends and patterns. TrakSYS aggregates data from multiple sources to deliver real-time, actionable intelligence for significant quality and productivity improvement – while leveraging existing assets, resources and infrastructure.

Novaspect has been named a finalist in a national award for Employee Plan Sponsor of the Year. Located in Schaumburg (IL), Novaspect, Inc. not only has an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and gives a generous 6% match to participants in its 401(k), but it has other benefits, such as a student loan repayment program and unlimited paid leave. In August 2018, the company unveiled its student loan repayment program, whereby it pays all employees with eligible loans $100 a month, up to a lifetime maximum of $10,000. The award is given by PlanSponsor magazine.

Global software developer eschbach, the provider of Shiftconnector® digital manufacturing software for the pharmaceutical, chemical and food manufacturing sectors, announces a new partnership with Novaspect, a leading provider of automation solutions to process industries. The extended IT solution offering will ensure that Novaspect’s customers can quickly benefit on their digital transformation journey towards IT/OT convergence.

This Life Sciences.Now webinar series will provide direction and updates on key manufacturing operation initiatives to improve operational certainty, deliver cost effective quality and regulatory compliance and accelerate the product development pipeline.

Three Emerson Technology Quick Talks Coming Soon: Advanced Control Valve Sizing: Outgassing (June 3); Fisher FIELDVUE Diagnostics Overview (June 10); and Environmental Compliance Solutions (June 17)

Coming Soon: Emerson Technology Quick Talks: May 20 and May 27; two sessions each (morning & afternoon). Exotic Alloys 101; and Reducing Control Valve Fugitive Emissions. Sessions are only 45 minutes long. Register Online Today!

Fisher online webinars bring the experts to your desktop. Be sure to register for two Emerson Technology Quick Talks: Control Valve Sizing and Selection; and Remote Assistance for Lifecycle Services. Both brief introductions (45 minutes) cover practical tips and real-world applications of the latest technology from the Fisher valve experts.

Novaspect, a leading provider of automation solutions and services to process industries, is pleased to announce the launch of its new, responsive website to serve and support local business. Created with the user experience in mind, the site offers improved functionality and access to product and service information, enabling customers to connect with experts and those who want to learn more about the dynamic and evolving automation industry.

Ask us about our customized training courses designed for your operation and personnel.

Virtual Learning Emerson’s Virtual Classroom delivers real-time value-based Instructor-Led Training to customers’ desktops with full access to software systems. Students connect directly to classroom based machines for the entire class! There is no travel required which means fewer expenses for our customers. Class takes place in a live online training room using a teleconference bridge.

Update on Novaspect classification as "essential infrastructure services" in territory states.

Novaspect’s Commitment To Community & Customers: From Novaspect President Joe Simchak. As the threat of COVID-19 Coronavirus continues to evolve, I want to reaffirm Novaspect’s commitment to the health and welfare of our communities, customers, employees, and partners. MORE...