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John Wesley Emerson and David Nelson Farr- Two gems of Emerson Process Management

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Industrial sectors all over the world adapting the digitalization and automation processes. In fact, it is the need of the present situation for any business to thrive with advanced technologies. Also, to stand out firm and to continue the success, the industrial approach needs to be modified with changing time. For that, Emerson is the perfect example of such an industry all over the world. Because the company rises as a regional manufacturer and today, it is a powerhouse of global technology solutions.

Emerson, previously known as “Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company” is a pioneer in adapting the altering innovations. Also, by changing the business strategies with changing times, Emerson stands out as powerful as it was over 100 years back. The company is at the highest peak of success with its miscellaneous business segments. Presently, it’s one of the business segments known as Emerson Process Management taking the firm to the next level.

Emerson Process Management

Emerson is one of the successful industries in America as well as all over the world. Today, it’s 8 separate divisions deliver the best services in various fields. Includes, Network power, Motors, Appliance solutions, Industrial automation, Climate technology, Tools, storage solutions and Process Management.

It is best known for its delivery of revolutionary technologies, services, and solutions. Being the pioneer in the unification of technology and engineering. Also, best known for many advancements in the industrial, and commercial solutions. For example, cost-cutting, improvised safety measures, reduction of energy emission, and many more.

Emerson Process Management is an essential part of Emerson for decades. In fact, it is one of the leading companies to grab customers around the world.

The backstory of the Emerson

Two Scottish orphans, Charles and Alexander desired to start a mechanical-electrical production unit. In 1890, they met John W. Emerson who at the end of the meeting became a principal investor for their project. Hence, Emerson’s great contribution resulted in the foundation of “Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company”. It established in late 1890 at St. Louis, Missouri.

Previously, the company was a regional electric motors and fan manufacturer. Which turned as a provider of leading global technology solutions.

John Wesley Emerson- Founder of Emerson

John Wesley Emerson, the lawyer, war commander, and judge who then help in the foundation of the company known as Emerson. Today, the same company is a renowned business firm in America. Let’s discover the journey of J. W. Emerson, a professional lawyer who turns out as Emerson Electric Manufacturing company’s founder, and president.

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Early Life

He was born at Pepperell, Massachusetts on 26 July 1832 to the Rosannah Ellen and Willam Emerson. At a young age, he spent most of the time in Pennsylvania. Where he went to Iron City College. Later, he attended the University of Michigan for his graduation in law. William M. Moffatt was his mentor during his law education. After that, he practices and served as a lawyer in Ironton, Missouri.

John as an American War commander

He served for the nation on the battlefield in the 19th Century. John was Volunteer assistance at the Battle of Richmond in 1862. Then he achieved the rank as Colonel and Major. During the last years of service, he served as the war commander of the regiment through the end of the battle.

Later Achievements

After the service in the war, he comes back as a lawyer at Ironton. He also appointed as judge of the 15th Judicial circuit court. John served for the Eastern District, Missouri for the next 4 years. In 1890, he invested the 50000 dollars in an electrical and mechanical start-up of two Scottish persons. These company then named after him as Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company. Also, he worked as the first president of Emerson for two consecutive years.

Later Life

During the last days of life, he became the civil war historian and contributed in writing a history of wars he attended. He rests in peace on 20 June 1899 in Ironton. John W. Emerson belonging to a completely different profession became the founder of a huge industry of the present era. Today, the company aims to deliver the multi-faceted requirements of diverse industries.

Current successes of Emerson Process Management

One of the segments of Emerson i.e., Emerson Process Management provides miscellaneous quality process control products and services. PlantWeb, DeltaV system, and PROVOX system are three main process control services of the company. These systems alter the economics of process automation. Because it delivers dependable control solutions with solid investment returns. Ultimately building the proven paths for future technology.

Recently, Emerson added two IIoT based solutions to PlantWeb to improve the data analytics platform, for the management of wireless network infrastructure in the industry. The company continually growing as one of the biggest manufacturing as well as process management firms in the world. Surely, the renovative ideas and policies of the company’s CEO help the embellishment of the company further. David Nelson Far, the chairman, and CEO of Emerson EMR proved that the longstanding company can be stand out firm, with the strategy advancement and implementation of new technology.

David Nelson Farr – CEO of Emerson

He started his career at Emerson more than 35 years back. Currently, he is the CEO of Emerson Electric Manufacturing company. But before acquiring the post, he served many roles for the company. He was manager of investor relations, corporate planning vice president, President of ridge tool division and served many such roles. His continuous efforts and dedication to the company finally awarded him the position of CEO in 2000.

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Personal Life

David Nelson Farr was born in 1955 in the US. He completed his graduation in Chemistry at Wake Forest University in 1977. After that, he pursued an MBA in 1981 from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. In the same year, he started his journey as an intern at Emerson Electric company. After working with the company for a long time he acclaimed the position as CEO.

Achievements

In 2000, Farr was named as one of the top 25 Managers. Also, in 2004 he was on the list of 100 best corporate citizens. He served as a campaign chair for the United Way of Greater St. Louis. Where he contributed to raised the record-breaking amount of 68.8 million dollars to help people of st. Louis.

In 2009, he was also named as one of the best CEOs in America in the electrical equipment and multi-industry. Over 35 years of contribution and leadership of Farr welcomed the best for the company.

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Jay Rogers : The Founder of Local Motors and Inventor of First 3D Printed Electric Car

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There have been startups based on daily needs and also on the pain points people go through every day. But sometimes, it is the question of life and death, and the safety of people. There are many such examples of startups that are inspired by the people’s safety, and one such startup is Local Motors, that have a great story behind it.

Local Motors was founded by Jay Rogers in 2007 and have its headquarters situated at Phoenix, Arizona. Local Motors is a car manufacturing company that builds its autonomous cars with the help crowdsourcing.

Before starting up Local Motors, Rogers was a Marine in the US navy. But even before that, he was a confused young lad, who did not have any idea what would be the best career choice for him. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in banking and was about to opt for an MBA for his post-graduation when he met a fellow from the same MBA batch, who had also been a marine.

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Influenced by that person, Rogers, in 1999, joined the U.S. Marine Corps. He served as a marine for seven long years and went through random experiences. He was posted in locations, including Iraq. In 2004, when he was appointed in Iraq, he lost one of his fellow officer and friend, Brent Morel while riding a Humvee. Rogers found it stupid to deploy a Humvee in Iraq as the vehicle have a heavy engine. Again in next couple of years, he lost his another friend due to the failed landing of a Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter.

These incidents hit Rogers hard, as he found out that these two vehicles were the best vehicles built in America. Still, these were not smart enough to save human lives. After seven years of his service as a marine, Rogers returned to complete a degree in business from the Harvard University, to give a direction to his new startup that was inspired by the sad incidents happened in his life. He wanted to start a company that would create smart vehicles to help people with their needs.

Rogers studied the business models of various car manufacturing companies, and what they all were doing was not customer-focused. He had a different approach, through which he wanted to build customer-oriented vehicles. So he thought of building a unique open-source micro-factory for rapid manufacturing.

But without investments, it was not possible to build a company, and then the products. So he approached the investors from the silicon valley, but for his disappointment people were more interested in investing their money in the already famous companies like Tesla. But without losing hope, Rogers raised a $10 million with the help of his family, friends and a few investors.

But the amount was not sufficient for both designing and developing the product. But Rogers again came with a unique solution. He opted for crowdsourcing the design concept for the company’s first product, offering $20,000 for the winner. An art student won the competition, and in 2009, based on the same design, Rogers launched the Rally Fighter, the first Local Motors product and a souped-up, fibreglass-chassis dune buggy made to run in the desert. The car was a massive success. A total of 20 units of this desert crawler was sold in the same year.

Since the launch of Rally Fighter, the basic business model of the company includes designing, engineering and manufacturing of automobiles open source, such that the designers are welcomed to submit their designs, and the community votes and selects the winners. Even though a single winner is chosen for the design, the community members can suggest improvements for the same. For Rally Fighter only, 35000 designs had been submitted by designers.

Rally Fighter was a giant desert truck, so now Rogers wanted something that would be suitable for the general public. On the arrival of the 3D printers in 2014, he opened a challenge for the Local Motors’ employees as well as for the community members to make the world’s first drivable 3D-printed automobile. 200 designers participated in the challenge, and Strati became the world’s first 3D printed electric car. The car was manufactured in 44 hours and in front of a live audience at the International Manufacturing Technology Show in McCormick Place, Chicago.

Though the car was not powerful enough, it set new technology standards. It gave Rogers the confidence of building something new. A few months later, Local Motors was invited to Berlin’s Urban Mobility Challenge, to build an emission-free minibus. Again Rogers notified all its 200,000 in the community for the designs for a $20,000 top prize. The design of a 24-year-old Colombian industrial engineer, Edgar Sarmiento, was finalised for the challenge and Olli was manufactured. The 8 to 12 seater minibus, Olli, was manufactured in the partnership with IBM.

Olli was demonstrated on Facebook Live of Berlin’s Urban Mobility Challenge. People were quite impressed with the design and the capabilities of the vehicle. So the company received $1 billion in financing from Florida-based Elite Transportation Services (ETS) for Olli. The company also received funding of $20 million from Texas-based Xcelerate.

The company is looking forward to embedding the autonomous driving and artificial intelligence to the new models of Olli. For bringing the new technologies to Local Motors, the company has partnered with International Business Machines Corp.’s Watson program for artificial intelligence and also with Robotic Research LLC.

Currently, Jay Rogers is serving the company as the CEO.

Tesla to Bring Support For YouTube Along Next Update to its In-car Software

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Tesla has always brought something different for its users. This time, the company reported that it will be bringing YouTube to the central screen of its Tesla cars, soon. The company’s founder and CEO, Elon Musk, during a Q&A session held at the E3 event in Los Angeles, revealed that the company has been working towards hosting video streaming on the central infotainment screen of the Tesla cars since past one year, and YouTube will be the first video streaming service coming to it.

Last August, Musk responded to a Twitter request about bringing video streaming to the Tesla cars’. In the tweet, Musk had indicated that the streaming service will come along with the ‘Version 10” of its in-car software. Currently, Tesla cars are running the ‘Version 9’ of the software on its infotainment screen. At that time, Musk did not give any names on which streaming service it would be, but during the Q&A, Musk clearly mentioned YouTube as one of the video services for the central screens of the Tesla cars.

The company has already offered games and has been hosting “Easter eggs” on the central screen of the cars, and this will be the first time that any of the automobile company will stream YouTube over its cars’ infotainment screens.

Along with YouTube, Bethesda’s Fallout Shelter will be joining Cuphead, Missile Command, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, and Centipede as one of the games to be played on the big central screen of Tesla cars.

Though people are questioning the need of videos and games on the screen of a car, the company has clarified that the owner or the passengers of the car will only be able to see the videos or play the games while the car is parked. In most of the cases, people only sit inside a car when they are charging it at the Supercharger stations. This way, now the passengers and the drivers will enjoy their time through YouTube and video games, at the charging station while waiting for their cars to get fully charged.