AUSTIN, Texas (Jan. 30, 2014) – Emerson Process Management held the grand opening of its Emerson Innovation Center - Process Systems and Solutions in Round Rock, Texas, near Austin. This 282,000 square-foot, nearly $70 million facility will be the global headquarters for Emerson’s automation systems and project services business, which helps customers operate facilities in industries such as oil and gas, refining, chemicals, power, life sciences, food and beverages and metals and mining. This new Emerson Innovation Center is the third globally. The Emerson Innovation Center in Marshalltown, Iowa, develops and tests flow control applications and technologies. The company’s Emerson Innovation Center in Pune, India focuses on software application development. The Emerson Innovation Center in Austin is comprised of several disciplines under one roof:
- A technology and product design and support center, providing engineering and development for the DeltaV digital automation system and DeltaV SIS Safety System.
- An 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.
- The Emerson Process Management Human Centered Design Institute, a consulting and engineering practice, is also based in Austin.
- 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 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.
- Lastly, the company’s Project Management Office (PMO) aligns and integrates the company’s best practices, processes, systems and metrics for global project execution.