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Being responsible for a production, process or transportation facility, you will be well aware of the importance of ensuring that your plant balances and that export quantities, import quantities or allocations are properly accounted for. Under measure and you could be giving away valuable product and hence profit. Over measure and you short change your customers, potentially damaging your reputation. There may also be tax implications; either positive or negative.

For those companies and individuals operating in countries affected by the Sarbanes-Oxley act of 2002 there may be serious implications resulting from mis-measurement; at best resulting in financial penalties and at worst long jail sentences.

As a senior manager or executive, you may not need to know all the technical details of how you measure your throughput, allocations or balances. However, you do want to rest assured that your measurement uncertainties are optimised; your systems, procedures, operations and maintenance comply with partner and regulatory authority agreements and that you can demonstrate compliance and transparency. In short you want to be able to sleep at night.

You need a company that you can trust and rely upon to make sure all of these eventualities are covered. That company is Emerson.