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Presenting ARC's Thirteenth Annual Orlando Forum

Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Sustainable Manufacturing

February 2-5, 2009 - Orlando, Florida

Over 450 Attendees Discuss Sustainability at ARC's 13th Annual Orlando Forum

The initial focus of ARC’s 13th Annual Orlando Forum was on sustainable manufacturing strategies as they relate to environmental performance and resource management. However, the recent economic downturn (a major topic of discussion wherever manufacturing people meet) has expanded the focus to also address strategies for the bottom line business sustainability of process and discrete manufacturing companies. As came up repeatedly during Forum presentations, the two are clearly related. This is because many of the technologies and approaches that can help today's manufacturers address sustainable manufacturing issues - energy consumption, carbon emissions, resource management, and so on - also allow manufacturing enterprises to reduce their manufacturing costs and compliance costs, both of which are prerequisites for business sustainability in today's challenging economic climate.

In his opening remarks, Andy Chatha, ARC’s President, commented that the manufacturing industries are experiencing unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, lack of credit, and lack of demand. According to Chatha, automation companies appear to be doing better than most, largely because automation is a project-driven industry, and there are still projects in the pipeline. The electric power industry is another bright spot, since the need for power continues to grow, albeit at a somewhat slower rate than in recent years.

Andy Chatha, ARC Chatha then went on to present what ARC believes are the top ten technology trends in manufacturing, many of which represent key enablers for both business and environmental sustainability. At the top of the list, were virtual servers, virtual commissioning, virtual machines, and other virtual plant concepts, all of which offer significant opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.

In his concluding remarks, Chatha stated that there are opportunities that will enable the US economy to emerge stronger and more vibrant from the current predicament. Examples include: The World Economic Forum now ranks the US number 1 on the Global Competitive Index, US political leaders are becoming motivated to create more manufacturing jobs through infrastructure spending, US companies have superior supply chain and logistics management capabilities, newer technologies such as PLM and Virtual Plant are now available to help manufacturing companies become more competitive, and, finally, the US ‘innovation machine’ will help US companies create lower cost products and processes.

View from the EPA: Sustainability Makes Good Business Sense
In his informative and well-received general session presentation, Dr. Alan D. Hecht, Sustainability Director at the US Environmental Protection Agency, explained that over the last five years people have gotten the message that environmental sustainability is important; now the challenge remains to make it operational. According to Dr. Hecht, this requires appropriate science and technology, regulations and/or policies, and business buy-in. Another key trend he's seeing is the recent convergence of sustainable business strategies and government policies. This is because unsustainable development increases risk and sustainable development adds to the bottom line for US businesses.

According to Dr. Hecht, the EPA's role in promoting sustainable manufacturing and making it operational is to mandate and regulate, facilitate, partner, and endorse appropriate practices. Dr. Hecht cited a partnership with Dow Chemical as one example of how the EPA and private industry can work together to help make sustainable manufacturing operational. Dr. Hecht concluded his presentation by encouraging Forum participants to obtain a copy of the EPA's "Manufacturing for the Future" booklet, available from the EPA website, and reminded Forum participants that they can all contribute to making sustainability operational by adopting green business strategies.

Cisco's Best Practices for Sustainability
According to Angel Mendez, Senior Vice President of Customer Value Chain Management at Cisco Systems, sustainability is a unifying topic; one that brings competitors together to develop and implement best practices. Cisco is building sustainability into everything the company does. It has developed seven key best practices intended to make sustainability operational throughout this large global company. These are:

Deploying effective collaboration technologies (such as Cisco's own TelePresence real-time tele-conferencing technology)
Establishing governance for internal alignment
Taking a holistic view (including sourcing, manufacturing, and sales)
Identifying key areas of impact (environment, social, etc.)
Aligning strategy externally across your supply chain
Creating an action plan for each area of your business (product design, sourcing/manufacturing, packaging, transport, reverse logistics, etc.)
Setting sustainability metrics and process parameters (using the same rigor as you would use for operations)

In his closing statement, Mr. Mendez made the following recommendations: start with internal alignment; embrace collaboration and communications technologies; recognize that manufacturing is not an island (it is important to look at "cradle to grave" for the products that you manufacture, particularly recyclability); make sustainability everyone's responsibility, share ideas; and finally, don't just "comply;" be a leader. Because ultimately, according to Mendez, "sustainability is smart business."

BASF's Three Pillars for Energy Efficiency
According to Franz-Joseph Kersting, European Automation Coordination Team Director at BASF, European climate policy focuses on significant, across-the-board reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, increased use of renewable energy sources, and increased energy savings in energy consumption — all to be achieved by the year 2020. As a result, among other sustainability initiatives, BASF, the world's leading chemical manufacturing company and one that obviously takes its environmental responsibility very seriously, has placed a major focus on increasing energy efficiency across its global manufacturing operations.

BASF's specific goals include reducing emissions of specific greenhouse gases by 25 percent by 2020 (compared with 2002) and increasing energy efficiencies in production by 25 percent by 2020 (compared with 2002). According to Kersting, BASF's "three pillars" for increasing energy efficiency are the company's energy verbund, modern combined cycle gas turbine power plants, and energy-efficient processes. Kersting explained that both process control and electrical engineering contribute to increased energy efficiency at BASF to help improve both environmental and business performance. He provided several tangible examples of how improved process control can contribute to reduced energy consumption. BASF has implemented a site-wide steam network (including the company's power plants), enabling heat recovery within the plants (e.g., in thermal separation and reactors). This required some apparatus innovation (such as divided wall columns and reactive distillation), and is supported by automated start-ups and shutdowns, plantwide control and coordination of optimization and process automation, and a higher degree of automation for more complex processes.

In his concluding comments, Kersting explained that, to achieve maximum energy efficiency, it's important to focus on the total cost of ownership (TCO) across process development, engineering, and operations and that different tools are needed over different phases.

The Forum's general session concluded with a very interesting CEO panel Q&A roundtable discussion. During this session, Dennis Sadlowski of Siemens, Shuzo Kaihori of Yokogawa Electric, and Christopher Curtis of Schneider Electric each took turns answering a variety of different end user questions from the audience pertaining to environmental and business sustainability.

Sustainability Manufacturing General Session Q&A Panel

Topics

Monday Workshops: Track 1

Server Virtualization Workshop: Learn How You Can Lower Costs Using Hot Virtualization Technology
Virtualization of computing environments has brought significant value to business systems over the last few years and is now ready for use in manufacturing applications. This session will provide an overview of virtualization technology and discuss how it can benefit manufacturing applications such as process automation and operations management.

Automation and Plant Performance Benchmarking (By Invitation Only)
The Benchmarking Consortium members will meet to continue discussion of metrics and how they are benefitting from the data. In addition, several new performance metrics will be discussed.

End User Networking and Hot Issues Discussion (By Invitation Only)
This session is devoted to end user networking and compiling a list of hot issues forum attendees are currently facing. Forum speakers and panelists will be encouraged to discuss potential solutions for the hot issues of interest to attendees.

Monday Workshops: Track 2

Packaging Operations and Machinery Needs Workshop
This is a continuation of the 2008 workshop for users and technology providers to discuss their needs and how ARC may help in this effort through research, thought leadership, and other support activities.

PLM and Virtual Commissioning Workshop
This workshop will provide users with the opportunity to participate in discussions about emerging PLM needs and requirements. Among these are virtual commissioning, an emerging technology area that offers companies significant opportunities to save time and reduce costs. Although suppliers are providing much better digital manufacturing products and users are beginning to reap benefits from the technology, the term virtual commissioning remains confusing and un-attainable for most users. This workshop provides its participants an opportunity to learn what virtual commissioning is really about, what its benefits are, what users must do to successfully execute virtual commissioning, and what digital manufacturing tools suppliers must provide users to be successful in this area.

2009 Business Environment and Trends Discussion
ARC will present our research findings related to current economic climate and market trends.

Monday Workshops: Track 3

Establishing Guidelines for Creation and Handover of Asset Information for O&M
The need to improve processes around the creation and handover of O&M asset information was a hot topic at ARC’s recent Asset Lifecycle Management Forum in Houston. Owner/operators, EPCs, service providers, and vendors expressed their frustration with the current situation and jointly called for the development of industry guidelines. ARC fully supports this call for guidelines around this critical issue. This workshop will bring together all of the interested parties and facilitate a discussion to identify the key issues that need to be addressed, the best way for the many associated stakeholders to work together to address these issues, and a strategy to accelerate development of the badly needed guidelines.

Following is the general agenda for the workshop (please refer to ARC Insight #2008-52EMPH for a discussion of the issue and objectives):

What Is AIM for O&M?: A presentation by ARC defining the scope and elements of AIM within the Owner/Operator.
What Is the Problem and How Can Guidelines Help?: Presentations by Owner/Operators, EPCs, and others regarding the problems they are having in the creation and handover of asset information needed to support a good AIM for the O&M environment and how guidelines could help to resolve them.
Next Steps: A facilitated discussion to aggregate the issues/ideas presented and to incorporate ideas from other attendees. The focus of the discussion will be on achieving consensus regarding the mission and scope of a program to develop needed guidelines and the best way to manage, staff, and support a program to develop the necessary guidelines and drive their adoption across Owner/Operators and EPCs.

Tuesday AM Sessions

Current Business Drivers and Trends
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt is everywhere right now. What should your business strategy be for the next few months? How should you manage through these dynamic and turbulent times? Andy Chatha will kick off this forum with a brief discussion of current economic environment and technology trends.

Winning Strategies for Sustainable Manufacturing
Sustainability is more than just the latest fad in manufacturing or supply chain. High impact sustainability programs can improve yields, preserve scarce resources, while reducing energy and other operating costs. ARC analysts will discuss some of these solutions in this session.

Government Policies and Business Strategies Converging on Sustainability
Sustainable development fosters policies that integrate environmental, economic, and social values in decision making. Dr. Hecht will discuss how business strategies and government policies are converging on sustainability.

Strategies and Best Practices for Sustainable Manufacturing
Cisco is widely recognized as a leader in sustainable business practices. Angel Mendez, who oversees the company's extended value chain from sourcing and manufacturing to customer service, will share lessons learned from Cisco's experience for designing and executing on a strategic, sustainability framework that delivers meaningful impact to the corporate bottom line and to customers.

Process Control and Electrical Engineering for Improving Energy Efficiency
BASF has a voluntary goal to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 and is prepared for a binding 30% reduction should other industrial countries such as the US commit to taking similar steps. Mr. Setzwein will discuss how BASF is planning to achieve these energy efficiency goals.

Tuesday PM Sessions: Track 1

Server Virtualization for Software Applications
Virtualization of computing environments has brought significant value to business systems over the last few years and is now ready for use in manufacturing applications. This session will provide an overview of virtualization technology and discuss how it can benefit manufacturing applications such as process automation and operations management.

Strategies for Energy Management and Sustainability
Projects in the process industries are driven by value creation. It is not always obvious where the value of a project for sustainability is, however. Improvements in energy management, among other projects, will be discussed during this session.

Next Generation Solutions for Energy Management
Minimization of energy usage complements sustainability objectives. Typically energy not used improves the environmental impact of operations. Three 15 minute presentations followed by a 45 minute panel discussion will focus on the issue of energy management and its influence on sustainability of operations.

Tuesday PM Sessions: Track 2

Strategies and Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing
Sustainability initiatives can produce superior results in both manufacturing and supply chain as well as lead to an environmental friendly, greener footprint. Greg Gorbach will discuss strategies and solutions that can help you achieve superior results through sustainability initiatives.

Innovation, Manufacturing Design, and Sustainability
The design and innovation process can have a major impact on sustainability. Using the right tools is critical for effective and more rapid product innovation and global specification management. In this session, learn to better understand how manufacturing designs impact the environment, and sustainability implications for formulation and specification management.

Wednesday AM Sessions: Track 1

In-Plant Mobility Solutions
This session will discuss how mobile workers can be connected to work processes to ensure the accuracy of their work. Being connected with up-to-the-minute status of equipment and process will help improve not only productivity, but also process availability and utilization.

Latest in APC and Plant Optimization
Advanced Process Control (APC) is an often used tool for process improvements in the process industries. APC and optimization are likely to be turned to in the quest for sustainability as well. This session discusses the latest in APC and optimization from the application of the tools themselves as well as building on a solid foundation for applying these technologies.

DCS Migration Best Practices
Process automation system migration remains a huge issue for end users as they deal with an in-creasingly older installed base. In terms of sustainability, older systems can significantly hamper end user efforts to reduce maintenance costs, get a handle on power management, provide appro-priate documentation and traceability for regulatory requirements, and much more. How can end users develop a cost effective migration strategy that addresses the need for sustainability in manufacturing at the same time? This session will begin with three 15-minute presentations followed by a 30 minute panel that will discuss these issues, success stories, and lessons learned from some key end users.

Wednesday PM Sessions: Track 1

Sustainability through Field Networks
This session will discuss how field networks can improve the overall sustainability of the manufacturing operation.

Wireless in Manufacturing
This session focuses on wireless technology on the plant floor. A panel of end users and suppliers will discuss their field experiences followed by a moderated Q&A session with the audience and ARC. Questions to the panel are expected to include not only ones about the technology development, but also about the overall theme of the forum - sustainability - and how wireless technology can help this.

Field Device Strategies for Sustainability
Pumps present a major opportunity to improve sustainability. Control valves selection and application is also an opportunity and must be purchased in light of pumps being used. The presentations and panel discussion will focus on contributions that field devices make toward plant performance and sustainability. Other sustainability projects could entail reducing energy consumption, reducing waste, reducing releases to the environment, reuse of waste for cogeneration and others that not only reduces their carbon foot print but also improves their operational efficiency or reduces cost, which in the long run will improve sustainability.

Wednesday AM Sessions: Track 2

Sustainable Manufacturing Requires Track and Trace
The food and beverage, home and personal care, and other fast moving consumer goods industries (FMCG) continue to experience increasingly rapid change, limited resources, greater business risk, increasing regulations, and more complexity in every aspect of their business and manufacturing operations. The first presentation in this session will highlight the state of the industry and how manufacturers are responding to manage costs, mitigate business risk, increase product quality due diligence, and drive sustainable innovation and speed to market.

The tremendous increase in counterfeit and contaminated drug, food, and other consumer products across the globe plus the impact it has on even authentic and non-contaminated product has created the need for improved product tracking and tracing and even electronic pedigree of drugs and other products that can have a serious effect on human and animal health and safety. The second presentation will examine how pervasive it is, why it continues to grow, and what government and business are doing and should be doing to better secure the supply chain.

Operational Excellence for Sustainability
Manufacturing production operations is the first place one would expect to be able to improve sustainability. This is where a large portion of the energy and water is consumed, and waste and emissions generated. Most manufacturers already place a premium on production efficiency, but sustainability requirements will up the stakes even more. Plant floor software to enhance scheduling, remove constraints, ensure product quality and maintain brand value, update new performance metrics, and enable better green decision making are key to achieving OpX in the new regulatory environment.

Wednesday PM Sessions: Track 2

Packaging for Sustainability
Tremendous advances in packaging materials and design are being made that improve business performance, increase brand value, and increase consumer convenience and product quality assurance. Manufacturer and retailer “green packaging” initiatives provide a major portion of the opportunities to reduce waste, reduce the carbon footprint, and utilize more environmentally friendly material across the entire manufacturing and retailer supply chain. Some progressive machine builders working independently with packaging material suppliers are in the forefront of this effort.

Packaging Innovations Drive Machinery Innovation around the World
Machine builders will discuss their innovative machine technology and business strategies that are allowing them to expand their markets globally rather than just locally and allowing them to meet the growing expectations of their increasingly global client base and changing consumer needs. This is an opportunity to gain some insight into the reasons these builders have been and are able to grow their export business.

Thursday AM Sessions: Track 1

The Digital Plant: Optimizing Asset Lifecycle Performance
ARC will present their Asset Information Management model to help attendees understand this evolving strategy.

The Human Factor - Training and Certification
Even with the downturn in World economies, having properly skilled personnel is of paramount importance. This session will discuss strategies for maintaining and improving skill levels for manufacturers in the automation profession discipline.

Power and Automation Integration
Do you know how much power different areas of your plant are using at different times? The energy savings potential in your plant could be substantial. Being able to combine electrical and automation provides both energy conservation opportunities and better control of assets. However, determining who should have access to this data and the work processes around it require some consideration. Two speakers and a 45 minute panel discussion will discuss experiences and practices that work to this subject.

Thursday AM Sessions: Track 2 OMAC

PackML: Ready for OEM Prime Time
The objective of this session is to describe the benefits of PackML and share that P&G is serious about deploying it on their packaging machines. Topics will include the software challenges all of us face, what is PackML, the business needs and drivers, and results P&G has seen from deployment of PackML. Also included will be an update on Tech Report (TR88.00.05) PackML standard definitions for operations management functions being developed by the OMAC packaging workgroup.

PackML Case Studies
Leading machine builders and automation technology providers will discuss how PackML is helping them improve their business and meet the growing needs of their packer clients.

OMAC Machine Tool Working Group: Status and Plans 2009
This presentation will discuss the OMAC Machine Tool Group's response to present economic and industry conditions. Difficulties involving the selection and implementation of new technologies in machine shops will be discussed. Specific OMAC MTG activities in this area will be outlined, and opportunities for participation will be presented.

Adaptive Machines
In principle, the concept of adaptive machining is relatively straight forward, but in practice there are innumerable considerations to take into account when seeking to implement a solution. Specifically, there are two perspectives in the industry with regard to improving production quality as well as increasing machining throughput. The European and North American markets consider solutions which allow the machine tool to adapt to material (process) variations whereas the Japanese will attempt to better control the variability in the process. There is no clear answer to which approach optimizes the production processes, however what is clear is that the market for third party adaptive solutions is expanding. While the market for adaptive control solutions has continued to expand over the last eight years, what appears to be the case are that the implementations are not turnkey in nature. Applying a solution requires engineering support to ensure that the application is appropriate for the available technology. However, more importantly, once the technology is deployed in an application the machine operators are relying upon these solutions. As part of our due diligence in developing the results, we have interviewed suppliers of adaptive controllers, tool monitoring, and computer numerical control systems.

Agenda

Following is the schedule for the Forum.

Monday, February 2

Forum Opening Day Sessions
	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4
1:00 PM	Server Virtualization Workshop: Learn How You Can Lower Costs Using Hot Virtualization Technology Rob Aleksa, Procter & Gamble Bob MacDonald, Procter & Gamble Michael Sarli, ExxonMobil Whit McConnell, ExxonMobil Sam Youness, Microsoft Bob Mick, ARC	Packaging Operations and Machinery Needs Workshop John Blanchard, ARC Sal Spada, ARC	Establishing Guidelines for Creation and Handover of O&M Asset Information (2-6 PM) Peter Staines, Bechtel Jim Humphries, Fluor Cliff Pedersen, Suncor Energy Sid Snitkin, ARC Ralph Rio, ARC	Press Announcements
3:00 PM	Automation and Plant Performance Benchmarking (By Invitation Only) Scott Pforr, BASF Dick Hill, ARC John Wason, ARC	PLM and Virtual Commissioning Workshop Greg Gorbach, ARC John Blanchard, ARC
4:30 PM	End User Networking and Hot Issues Discussion (By Invitation Only) All end user attendees Dick Hill, ARC John Wason, ARC	2009 Business Environment and Trends Discussion Larry O’Brien, ARC Craig Resnick, ARC
6-9 PM	Registration and Welcome Reception with Hors d’Oeuvres

Tuesday, February 3

7 AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
7 AM	Yokogawa Breakfast (Open to end users, media, and Yokogawa partners)
Sustainable Manufacturing General Session
8:30 AM	Current Business Drivers and Trends Andy Chatha, ARC Advisory Group Winning Strategies for Sustainable Manufacturing Greg Gorbach, ARC Advisory Group
9:00 AM	Government Policies and Business Strategies Converging on Sustainability Alan Hecht, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
9:30 AM	Strategies and Best Practices for Sustainable Manufacturing Angel Mendez, Cisco Systems
10:00 AM	Break
10:30 AM	Process Control and Electrical Engineering for Improving Energy Efficiency Franz-Josef Kersting, BASF Germany
11:00 AM	Q&A Session with Supplier CEOs & Morning Speakers (All questions will be asked by the end users in the audience) Dennis Sadlowski, Siemens Energy & Automation Christopher Curtis, Schneider Electric Shuzo Kaihori, Yokogawa Electric Japan
12:00 PM	Lunch
12:00 PM	Emerson Process Management Lunch (Open to end users, media, and Emerson partners)
	Track 1	Track 2
1:30 PM	Server Virtualization for Software Applications Whit McConnell, ExxonMobil Bob MacDonald, P&G Bob Mick, ARC	Strategies and Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing Greg Gorbach, ARC
2:00 PM	Strategies for Energy Management and Sustainability Steve Doublett, GE Corporate Cliff Pedersen, Suncor Energy (retired)	Innovation, Manufacturing Design, and Sustainability Scott Ballantine, Microsoft Packaging Matt Haugh, BigToys
3:00 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Next Generation Solutions for Energy Management Nazoor Baig, Detroit Edison (retired) J.D. Tate, Dow Chemical Matthew Metz, SKF Mike Brown, Matrikon Trevor Knittel, Yokogawa Juli Iacuaniello, SKF	Innovation, Manufacturing Design, and Sustainability, continued Richard Batton, JohnsonDiversey Steven Vidakovic, Pfizer Ted Balderree, Autodesk Don Richardson, Microsoft Jeff Boehm, Invention Machine
6-10 PM	Hard Rock Nights Reception (Gourmet food, specialty cocktails, and live entertainment) Sponsored by Siemens

Wednesday, February 4

7 AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
7 AM	AT&T Breakfast (Open to those interested in Manufacturing Industry Solutions from AT&T)
	Track 1	Track 2
8:30 AM	In-Plant Mobility Solutions Tony Anderson, Reliant Energy Charles Mohrmann, Invensys/Wonderware	Sustainable Manufacturing Requires Track and Trace John Blanchard, ARC
9:00 AM	Latest in APC and Plant Optimization Bob Wang, ExxonMobil Tom Fiske, ARC Thomas Alloway, NOVA Chemicals	Operational Excellence for Sustainability David Klante, MillerCoors Wes Frierson, Oracle Ed Willhite, Schneider Electric
10:00 AM	Break
10:30 AM	DCS Migration Best Practices Jeff Vincent, Newfoundland Labrador Hydro John Bryant, Arkema Joe Kenny, Precision Engineering Steve Deschamps, NOVA Chemicals Betty Naylor-McDevitt, Invensys Mark Taft, ABB Mike Vernak, Rockwell Automation Ken Keiser, Siemens	Operational Excellence for Sustainability, continued Brian Bate, Ball Aerospace Jim Schultz, General Mills Rick van Dyke, Frito-Lay Greg DeLaere, VIA Information Tools Judson Plapp, Intercim Mike Yost, GE Fanuc
12:00 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Sustainability through Field Networks Wil Chin, ARC	Packaging for Sustainability Tom Egan, PMMI
2:00 PM	Wireless in Manufacturing Harry Forbes, ARC Julia King, Procter & Gamble Craig Dupler, Boeing Alan Weldon, Hunt Refining Joy Weiss, Dust Networks Steve Lambright, Apprion Bob Karschnia, Emerson Andreas Somogyi, Prosoft Jeff Becker, Honeywell	Packaging Innovations Drive Machinery Innovation around the World Michael Senske, Pearson Packaging Systems Peter Delain, Optima Packaging Machinery Ulf Leineke, MediSeal
3:00 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Field Device Strategies for Sustainability Wil Chin, ARC Chris Stubbs, Genentech Paul Pulicken, BP Harry Sim, Cypress Envirosystems Claude Walton, Siemens	Packaging Innovations Drive Machinery Innovation around the World, continued Robert Hattin, Edson Packaging Machinery William Chu, Wexxar Packaging Peter Fox, Delkor Systems Joe Faust, Douglas Machine John Kowal, Schneider Electric ELAU Markus Sandhoefner, B&R Doug Burns, Rockwell Automation
5:30 - 8 PM	Cisco Systems Evening Reception
5:30 - 8 PM	Mitsubishi Electric Evening Reception

Thursday, February 5

7 AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
	Track 1	Track 2 - OMAC
8:30 AM	The Digital Plant: Optimizing Asset Lifecycle Performance Sid Snitkin, ARC	PackML: Ready for OEM Prime Time Rob Aleksa, Procter & Gamble Rick Van Dyke, Frito Lay
9:00 AM	The Human Factor - Training and Certification Jonathan Love, Newcastle University David Patterson, ISA
9:30 AM		PackML Case Studies Michael Senske, Pearson Packaging Systems Rob McGreevy, Invensys/Wonderware
10:00 AM	Break
10:30 AM	Power and Automation Integration Larry O’Brien, ARC Doug Johnson, Emerson Mark Taft, ABB	PackML Case Studies, continued
		OMAC Machine Tool Working Group: Status and Plans 2009 David Odendahl, Boeing
		Adaptive Machines Sal Spada
12:00 PM	Forum Ends with Boxed Lunches

Executive Speakers and Panel Participants

The following executives are among those who presented or participated in a panel discussion at this Forum.

Rob Aleksa
Section Head, Corporate Engineering, Procter & Gamble
Rob has worked with Procter & Gamble for 31 years. His assignments include health and beauty care, snacks and beverage, baby care, and corporate engineering. Rob's expertise is in machine control, process control, and MES systems. He has led the Corporate Machine Control section since 2000. Rob also sits on the OMAC Board of Directions with the position of Vice Chairman and is the external P&G sponsor of PackML through the OMAC Packaging Workgroup.

Tony Anderson
Senior Systems Analyst, Reliant Energy
Tony is a Senior Systems Analyst in Reliant Energy’s Generation Analytics and Data Solutions group. Tony joined Houston Lighting and Power, now known as Reliant Energy, in 1997 and has had various roles throughout their IT organization. His current responsibilities include implementation of the IntelaTrac application and framework, maintenance of the OSI PI infrastructure, and support of PI bolt-on applications such as Smart Signal and ECG E-Notification.

Nazoor Baig
Director of Engineering, Detroit Edison (retired)
Nazoor is a retiree from Detroit Edison, a subsidiary of DTE Energy. He worked in the utility industry for approximately 30 years, starting as an engineer at Monroe Power Plant and working in various capacities including Director of Operations, Director of Engineering, and also served as Acting Vice President of Generation. Nazoor was also the Chief of Business Migration Leaders for Enterprise Business Systems, where all the financial, supply chain, human resource, and work management systems were converted across DTE Energy. In the past year, he has been consulting in the electric utility industry, and has started a solar energy company.

Ted Balderree
Industry Manager Consumer Products, Manufacturing Solutions, Autodesk
Ted is responsible for overseeing and developing Autodesk manufacturing solutions strategy and positioning for the consumer products industry. He has nearly 17 years of industrial design, digital design implementation, and computer modeling and graphics experience, including work for blue-chip companies such as Qwest Communications, Ford Motor, and Daimler Chrysler. Prior to joining Autodesk, Ted was Nike's Footwear Digital Studio Director, where he managed the implementation of digital design initiatives within footwear design.

Scott Ballantine
Packaging Project Manager, Microsoft
Scott has over 25 years experience in consumer, electronics, telecommunications, military, and space packaging. A member of the Structural Packaging Development team, he currently project manages the software packaging development for the OEM, Consumer Home Productivity streams, Windows One Care, Expression, MapPoint, Streets and Trips, Office Mac, and Server products. Previously, Scott led packaging development for the commercial, licensing, programs, and education product streams. He is a member of Microsoft’s Environmental Council, driving efforts on environmental and sustainability concepts into packaging and supporting efforts related to new product development using eco-friendly concepts.

Richard Batton
Packaging Manager, JohnsonDiversey
Richard leads the sustainability program for packaging at JohnsonDiversey, where he is responsible for packaging innovations, commercialization, product lifecycle management, operations, and general management in addition to sustainability. He joined the company in 2002 leading the development of corporate packaging strategy and guidelines and playing an integral role in the launch of their RTD program, a recyclable closed loop system for dispensing concentrated cleaning products. Richard is also involved with sustainability initiatives, including the development of an EcoScoring system for packaging, a Geographic Environmental Management System (GEMS), and environmental impact calculators that have been successfully used to highlight competitive advantage of environmental selling points of packaging used at JDI to generate new business.

Mike Brown
Vice President Solutions, Matrikon
Mike has 20 years experience in performance improvement solutions in the process industries. He has extensive experience with strategic process control solution consulting to achieve optimal plant performance. Mike works with Matrikon's professional services teams and industry domain experts to ensure effective delivery of Matrikon solutions.

John Bryant
Engineering and Maintenance Manager, Arkema
John's career in the automation field started by providing technical support for various industrial clients throughout the southeast U.S. and Puerto Rico. In 1996, John joined Ciba Specialty Chemicals as an automation engineer. He also worked with Mitsubishi Polysilicon during their major expansion with responsibilities that included process control systems, instrumentation, and high voltage systems for CVD reactors. In 2002, John joined Arkema's chemical manufacturing facility where he is responsible for all capital projects and maintenance activities for the site.

Doug Burns
Sustainability Lead, Rockwell Automation
Doug heads up Rockwell Automation’s sustainability initiative for services. He has been with the company for 23 years, holding several positions in Sales and Marketing. He started with Allen-Bradley in 1985 as the Area Manager for Drives and Motion Control. Next, he was the Commercial Marketing Manager for the Motion Control Group. Doug began working with OEMs or machine builders, when he became the Industry Business Manager for Food, Beverage and Packaging in 1995. Doug started up Rockwell Automation’s OEM program directing an organization of 120 machine experts as the Director of Global OEM Programs from 2000 - 2007.

William Chu
General Manager, Wexxar Packaging (a division of Pro Mach)
William has more than 20 years engineering and manufacturing experience in the packaging, aerospace, and heavy equipment industries. He has been instrumental in advancing the Wexxar and Belcor product lines, implementing sophisticated software tools for manufacturing and design, and establishing effective systems for quality and inventory control.

Christopher Curtis
President and CEO, North American Operating Division, Schneider Electric
Chris joined the Schneider Electric North American Operating Division in June 1993 as Director of Industrial Marketing. In 1995, he was promoted to Vice President of Mid-Atlantic Sales. Chris became Director of OEM Marketing in 1996 where under his direction, the company’s OEM sales grew by more than 20 percent. Chris was named Vice President of Marketing for the North American Operating Division in 1998 where he was responsible for developing and implementing the business strategy to serve residential construction, commercial and industrial construction, OEM, and strategic accounts. In 2002, he became President of Schneider Electric Canada. In 2003, he served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Services, was promoted to President of Schneider Electric USA in June 2006, and was named President and CEO of the North American Operating Division in 2008.

Greg DeLaere
President & CEO, VIA Information Tools
Greg has been working with plant software for the last 23 years. In 1988, he founded VIA and focused development and service activity on "lot of one" track and trace, error proofing, and packing systems. The company now has a variety of MES products, all built on the flexible Man-IT Business Atoms platform. Traditionally, VIA has served the automotive tier one supply base, and has more recently developed applications for the medical device and food processing industries.

Peter Delain
Sales Director, North America Consumer Products Division, Optima Packaging Machinery Group
Peter has over 20 years of experience working in the paper and packaging industries with companies such as MRM/Elgin and Bemis. For the past 6 years has been the Sales Manager for the Consumer Products Group at Optima. Based in Germany, Optima's focus is primary packaging of product with divisions in the pharmaceutical, non-woven, and consumer product markets.

Steve Doublett
Leader, Datacenter Strategy/Global Infrastructure Services, General Electric
Steve has over 33 years experience in the IT industry commencing with Rolls Royce in the UK and the last 25 years with GE. His career at GE has spanned several business units and responsibilities including managing multi-national service delivery and technical teams, European Datacenter consolidations, application project leadership, and managing some of GE's largest datacenters. Steve is a certified Six Sigma Quality Black Belt and has worked for the GE Corporate business for the last 15 years in a variety of leadership roles culminating in responsibility for GE's datacenter strategy in relation to technology, tools, standards, and processes.

Craig Dupler
Technical Fellow, Boeing
Craig has been with Boeing for 25 years. He specializes in strategic planning of core network services in the Information Technology organization. His current projects include the IT architecture for supporting SCADA systems, Network Location Services (NLS) or RTLS, applying the principles of lean to IT product and service definition, and several long range IT strategic planning issues.

Tom Egan
Vice President Industry Services, Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI)
Tom focuses on technologies in support of PMMI’s PACK EXPO trade exhibitions plus conference programs to aid members’ business pursuits. As staff liaison to multiple professional committees including OMAC, he is involved with technical and commercial issues of interest to all PMMI member companies. His team plans and organizes several PMMI packaging conferences on both packaging market trends and technical issues which are an integral element of the education initiative for packaging operations professionals.

Joe Faust
CP&S Electrical Engineering Manager, Douglas Machine
Joe began his controls career twenty years ago as an engineering consultant to a multi-national corporation in the processing industry. In 1993, he transitioned into the primary and secondary packaging industries. Today, Joe is a member of the Douglas Machine Inc. team. First, as part of the Research & Development team and, most recently, promoted to CP&S Electrical Engineering Manager. He is a member of the OMAC (Open Modular Architecture Controls) Group and ISA. He contributed to OMAC PackML, PackTags, and PackAL standards and presented control technologies at OMAC events held during Pack Expo trade shows.

Peter Fox
Director of Sales, Delkor Systems
Peter began his career working in household consumer products with Lehn & Fink and Drackett Products. He transitioned from the consumer products industry and spent ten years with Kraft Foods and Pillsbury. While employed at Kraft, Peter was a two time Superior Achievement Award winner. In 1999, he joined Delkor as Sales Manager. During his tenure at Delkor the company has grown at an annual rate of 25% earning a spot in Deloitte and Touche’s “Minnesota fast 50” for three consecutive years.

Wes Frierson
Director of Product Strategy, Oracle
Wes is Director of Product Strategy for Oracle's PLM for Process solution. He began his work in PLM at Prodika in 2003 working in both product design and consulting roles and helped to evolve the product and develop its customer base. Since Prodika's acquisition by Agile and then Oracle, Wes has led product strategy for the solution. He has extensive experience in the consumer goods and retail industries and has consulted globally with industry leaders such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, Tyson, and McDonald's.

Robert Hattin
President, Edson Packaging Machinery
Chairman, Canadian Manufacturer’s & Exporters Association
As President of Edson Packaging Machinery, Rob focuses on rapid development of global machinery platforms with Schneider/ELAU, to participate in emerging markets for automated packaging and production lines. Prior to Edson, he was a senior manager with an advanced robotics firm, having built the world’s largest material handling robots. Prior to that he spent 11 years with Westinghouse involved in their power generation, switchgear, and electronics divisions. Rob is currently serving a 3 year term as Chair of CME – Ontario, which advocates policies and designs programs to promote advanced manufacturing in Canada.

Matt Haugh
Director Sales and Marketing, BigToys
For the past decade, Matt has held a variety of marketing and business development positions, primarily in the high tech sector at companies such at Microsoft, Xerox, Adobe Systems, plus a couple of startups. Matt made the move to manufacturing and BigToys a year ago.

Alan Hecht
Director for Sustainable Development, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
On detail to the White House, from 2001 to 2003, Alan was Associate Director for Sustainable Development at the Council on Environmental Quality (2002-2003), Director of International Environmental Affairs for the National Security Council (2001-2002), and White House coordinator for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. In 1999, he received the US President's Rank Award for Meritorious Service - the highest award given to career US civil servants.

Roger Hoyum
Project Development, JDI Contracts
Roger has 21 years of experience in engineering and project management. He began his career with LTV Steel Mining Company and later transferred to Cleveland Cliffs as a process automation engineer responsible for large scale integrated automation projects. In 1993, Roger accepted an engineering position with Minnesota Power and was responsible for several major capital improvement projects. In 2003, Roger founded JDI Contracts, a management and technical consulting firm.

Doug Johnson
Director of Global Energy Management, Emerson Process Management
Doug is responsible for business development and applications related to energy management across all process industries. His background includes experience in nuclear and conventional power, industrial energy, water & wastewater treatment, aerospace, and defense. He has held a variety of positions in business development, project management, applications, sales and marketing, and manufacturing.

Shuzo Kaihori
President, Yokogawa Electric
Shuzo joined Yokogawa in 1973 and went on to hold a succession of leadership positions in the engineering, sales, systems marketing, field instruments, and service business divisions. Starting in 2000 he spent five years as President of Yokogawa Corporation of America, and then returned to Japan to head Yokogawa’s industrial automation business. In 2006 he was appointed to the Board of Directors and in the following year became Yokogawa’s President and COO. Since April of this year he has been President and CEO. He also has served on the boards of the FDT Group (2005–07) and the Fieldbus Foundation (2006–07), and has been a trustee of The Japan Petroleum Institute (2006–07). He currently sits on the boards of the Engineering Association of Japan, the Manufacturing Science and Technology Center, and other industry and technology organizations in Japan.

Ken Keiser
Migration Marketing Manager, Siemens Energy & Automation
Ken's migration primers and case studies have been published in Chemical Processing, InTech, and other publications. He has an extensive career in the process automation industry. Before Siemens, he was employed by ABB where he worked on migration strategies for legacy systems in the utilities industry.

Joseph Kenny
President, Precision Engineering
Joe's career began with the U.S. Dept. of Defense providing technical support, primarily in communication engineering, around the world. After six years with the Dept. of Defense he spent six years in the engineering consulting business as an automation engineer. In 1994, Joe founded Precision Engineering Inc. (PEI) and has been president since its inception. Joe’s primary responsibilities at PEI include managing the engineering activities of the company as well as providing project management. Projects include chemical plants, refineries, gas plants, automobile plants, discrete manufacturing plants, water treatment plants, and waste water treatment plants.

Franz-Josef Kersting
Director Instrumentation and Electrical Power Supply BASF
Franz-Josef has been with BASF for 22 years. He is responsible for the technical expertise of automation and electrical engineering for BASF projects worldwide. This includes all areas of process control, automation technology, process analytical technology, field device technologies, and electrical technologies. Franz-Josef began his business career as an advanced process control engineer and maintenance manager for chemical plants. He has over 25 years of experience in project engineering, maintenance and service management.

Julia King
Process Control Engineer, Procter & Gamble
Julia has 19 years of experience in control systems technology and 5 years experience in quality management. In her current position, she recently replaced all Ethernet cables with wireless radios for P&G's liquid detergent and fabric softener lines.

David Klante
Vice President, Engineering and Packaging, MillerCoors
Dave is responsible for strategy development and oversees the following areas within MillerCoors' eight major breweries and the two Leinenkugel’s breweries: environmental, utilities, sustainability, safety, facilities engineering, operational and process flexibility, and capital project management. In addition, Dave oversees the strategic requirements necessary to ensure the innovation, design, and speedy introduction of new packaging processes and materials. Prior to the creation of the MillerCoors joint venture Dave held positions as Vice President Packaging, Brewery Manager for the Milwaukee Brewery, Operations Manager in Milwaukee, and Packaging Manager in Eden, NC. Dave began his Miller career in 1990 at the Milwaukee Corporate Center in the corporate engineering division.

John Kowal
Global Marketing Manager, Scheider Electric ELAU Packaging Solutions
John represents Schneider Electric/ELAU in PMMI, IoPP, OMAC, and ISA. He serves on the Dean’s executive council for Purdue University Calumet in support of their new mechatronics in packaging engineering technology program. John is responsible for identifying packaging trends and issues that can be solved through automation technologies. He recognized very early that sustainable packaging would require innovation in packaging systems. He has been an active proponent, author, and speaker on topics that include international standards, integration of package design with packaging machinery, and bridging the education gap in rapidly evolving packaging automation technologies.

Ulf Leineke
Electronic Engineering Manager, Research & Development, MediSeal
Ulf has twelve years experience as a software engineer and manager for German-based packaging machine builder, MediSeal. MediSeal specializes in advanced packaging machines for the pharmaceutical industry. At MediSeal, Ulf has focused on designing user-friendly HMI and motion control software for the company’s highly flexible, high-tech servo-driven machines. Prior to working at MediSeal, Ulf served as an electronic engineer with Phoenix Contact in Germany.

Jonathan Love
Director Integrated Graduate Development Scheme in Process Automation, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University
Jonathan has a variety of experience and expertise in the analysis, design, development, and operation of instrumentation and control systems as used for the automation of plant in the chemical, process, and oil industries. His early academic career involved lectureships at Huddersfield, Leeds and Sheffield Universities. His industrial experience consists of periods working as a commissioning engineer for Akzo Nobel (formerly Courtaulds Ltd) and as a control engineer for Honeywell Process Solutions (formerly KBC Process Automation). He is currently Principal Automation Consultant for BP Exploration and Production. He is author of the Process Automation Handbook published by Springer in 2007.

Angel Mendez
Sr. Vice President, Customer Value Chain Management, Cisco Systems
Angel leads a global organization of over 11,000 employees who are responsible for helping enable Cisco’s growth and innovation through industry leading supply chain management practices. This includes supplier management, manufacturing and product operations, advanced sourcing, reverse logistics, manufacturing technology, corporate and supply chain quality, demand management and planning as well as customer service. A 24 year management veteran, Angel joined Cisco in 2005. Prior to Cisco, he served as Sr. Vice President of Global Operations for PalmOne, where his operational excellence and transformation program fueled the company’s turnaround and return to profitability. A graduate of General Electric’s Manufacturing Management Program, he served 11 years with GE in increasingly responsible manufacturing and supply chain management assignments.

Matthew Metz
Six Sigma Deployment Champion, SKF
Matthew has been with SKF for 21 years, holding a variety of managerial positions including production engineering, production management, continuous improvement, health and safety, and Six Sigma Black Belt. As Energy Coordinator, Matthews’ focus has been to apply Lean Six Sigma methodologies and tools to energy conservation projects such as air compression, lighting, HVAC, motors, etc., to support sustainability targets.

Rob McGreevy
Director Portfolio and Industry Solutions, Invensys/Wonderware
As part of the Global Product Management team for Wonderware, Rob is responsible for defining and executing an expanded business strategy serving the manufacturing and infrastructure markets. Rob comes to Wonderware with over 15 years of experience working in the software business with a focus on manufacturing and industrial applications serving markets such as water, food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and medical device manufacturing. He has held positions within sales, product marketing, and business management for various companies within the SCADA HMI, Historian, and MES markets.

Charles Mohrmann
Vice President of Sales, Invensys/Wonderware
Charles has over 25 years experience serving clients in the process industries. He has expertise in several fields including reliability, software, IT services, and process automation. He joined Wonderware Mobile Solutions (formerly SAT Corporation) from McKinsey & Company where he served Fortune 100 clients in the oil, gas, and chemicals industries as a management consultant. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mohrmann held senior management positions with SAIC, Gensym, Honeywell, and Compressor Engineering.

Betty Naylor-McDevitt
Director DCS Business, Invensys Process Systems
Betty recently celebrated her 36th anniversary with Invensys Process Systems (IPS). Her career at IPS began as an applications engineer, responsible for the implementation, testing, and startup of many large client projects for the chemical, oil, and gas industries. She was later Development Manager for the introduction of the I/A Series DCS system. At present, Betty manages the Marketing division for the Invensys Process Systems DCS Business.

David Odendahl
Model Based Definition Engineer, Boeing
David has worked in the development, application, and support of factory automation equipment since 1981. His primary emphasis has been on CNC machining. He has been involved with the development and application of STEP-NC since 2002. David presently works for Boeing on the 787 program. He is developing and implementing strategies for utilizing CAM data on the manufacturing floor.

David Patterson
Director of Corporate Relations, ISA
David works with companies who are interested in their employees becoming ISA Certified Automation Professionals (CAP). He has nearly 30 years of sales, business development, and solution promotion experience including software work for companies such as Union Carbide, Siemens, and Lockheed Martin.

Cliff Pedersen
Manager Product Production Processes, Suncor Energy (retired)
At Suncor, Cliff was accountable for all process control and real-time applications used in plant operations for the entire company. With the company for over 20 years, he was responsible for advanced process control applications, real-time process optimization, major reinstrumentation projects, and information technology. Previously, he worked for Shell Canada Products as a Staff Engineer and supervised systems development in the Process Computer Applications Dept. Prior to that, he was with Imperial Oil Enterprises as an Applications Engineer and a Project Engineer and pioneered some of the first multivariable constrained closed-loop computer control.

Judson Plapp
Vice President Marketing and Strategy, Intercim
Jud is responsible for leading corporate strategy development and execution, providing support to business development and sales activities, communications, and media relations. As Intercim’s former VP of Operations, Jud’s expertise covers pre-sales consulting, business process, product functionality, and integration. Prior to joining Intercim, Jud was employed by Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he managed enterprise application development and integration, including supply chain integration on both a local and global scale.

Don Richardson
Director, Global Innovation and PLM Industry Strategy Business Architecture, Platform and Solutions Group, Microsoft
Don is directly responsible for defining Microsoft's business strategy to address Innovation Management and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) markets. In addition Don manages a team of industry solution managers responsible for identifying and developing solution strategies for multiple industries. His team also works with leading Global Independent Software Vendors (GISV’s) to architect and develop solutions that take full advantage of the Microsoft® Operating System, Server System, Office System, and other core Microsoft technologies such as the Microsoft® .NET programming platform.

Dennis Sadlowski
President & CEO, Siemens Energy & Automation
Dennis has executive responsibility for the company’s strategic direction, operating performance, and marketplace success. He is a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Dennis is responsible for all staff functions, subsidiaries and business operations including the sales organization and seven operating divisions: Automation & Motion, Electronic Assembly Systems, Metal Technologies, Postal Automation, Power Conversion, Power Distribution & Controls, Process Solutions and Residential Products. Following 17 years of industry experience with GE and Thomas and Betts, Dennis joined Siemens in July 2000 to lead the Power Distribution Infrastructure & Controls Division.

Markus Sandhoefner
International Sales Manager, B&R
Markus has a multinational background in automation for over 14 years. He grew the business of Wittenstein Motion Control as product and key account manager for high performance servo solutions. By joining B&R’s automation team in Austria in 2001, he has been engaged with OEM machine builders to realize sustainable machine solutions on the basis of highly flexible and efficient automation systems. Markus worked in the US for over five years as Industry Segment and Sales Manager, before returning back to B&R’s Austrian headquarters as International Sales Manager. Markus has been an active member of the OMAC packaging workgroup for over 6 years.

Michael Sarli
Plant Automation Technology Program Leader, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Mike manages the Plant Automation technology portfolio, including the R&D program, broad deployment strategies for new technology, intellectual property management, and relationship management with major automation technology providers. Prior to his current assignment, he held a number of technical, supervisory, and management positions within ExxonMobil Research & Engineering and several of its predecessors since joining Mobil in 1975. He holds over 30 U.S. Patents in the area of petroleum refining and has authored or co-authored eight technical papers on various aspects of refining technology.

Michael Senske
President & CEO, Pearson Packaging Systems
Michael joined Pearson Packaging Systems in 1997 and has held a wide variety of positions including Director of Business Development and Vice President of Sales & Marketing. He assumed the role of President in January 2003. Prior to Pearson, Micahel worked in the Product Support Services division of the Consumer Division Unit at Microsoft.

Chris Stubbs
Senior Director, Corporate Facilities Services, Genentech
Chris is responsible for maintenance and site engineering at Genentech's South San Francisco facility. One of her key focus areas includes integrating risk-based maintenance principles and practices across the enterprise to achieve and sustain Class A certification and then moving the organization forward to world class status. Prior to joining Genentech in 2005, she worked at Merck and Company for 22 years, in various capacities such as engineering, quality, supply chain, maintenance, and business administration. She is actively involved in NSBE and participates on the Board of Corporate Affiliates (BCA). She also serves on the Student Development Committee of ISPE and is a member of SWE.

Mark Taft
Group Vice President, Process Automation, Global Control System Business, ABB
Mark has been with ABB over 27 years. Prior to his current assignment, Mark was Senior Vice President, Global Systems Marketing. In addition he held management positions with ABB serving the pulp & paper and chemical industries in general management, sales, operations, and engineering. Mark has extensive international project execution experience on many customer project application engineering and plant commissioning assignments. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Fieldbus Foundation.

J.D. Tate
Scientist, Process Analytical Technologies, Dow Chemical
J.D. leads technology development in the Process Analytical R&D group at Dow, where he has oversight responsibilities for identifying gaps and opportunities for on-line measurements and control. Before joining Dow, he worked as a Scientist at Sparta, Inc. where he led research efforts involving optical biosensors for commercial and defense applications. J.D. is recognized as an expert in on-line spectrometry, where his team has installed hundreds of analyzers used to monitor important industrial processes.

Rick van Dyke
Group Manager, Control & MES Systems, Frito-Lay
Prior to joining Frito Lay, Rick worked for Procter & Gamble for 15+ years in a variety of engineering positions in the different global business units and corporate engineering. While at P&G he was an active member of OMAC. He has been the PackConnect leader for the last 4+ years and is now the Chairman of the OMAC Packaging Workgroup (OPW).

Steven Vidakovic
Associate Research Fellow, Supply Chain, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pfizer
Steven's experience spans aeronautics, defense, industrial research, medical devices, informatics, and business management. For the past seven years at Pfizer, he initially led the Analytical Research and Development initiative focused on automation. He currently leads the team deploying the latest PLM system for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) for technology transfer between R&D and manufacturing. Steven is currently on the Board of Directors for the Association of Laboratory Automation.

Jeff Vincent
Manager Thermal Assets, Holyrood Thermal Generating Station, Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro
Jeff has worked for Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro for 15 years specializing in thermal generation automation and control. He has managed multi-million dollar controls design projects including DCS migration upgrades, steam turbine governors and excitation, power distribution, boiler controls tuning, burner management systems, and performance monitoring. In his current role he is responsible for the strategic implementation of all maintenance, upgrades, and projects at a 500MW oil fired thermal plant to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the entire facility.

Bob Wang
Senior Engineering Advisor, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Bob has been working at ExxonMobil for over 31 years and has had several technical management positions including Lab and Pilot Plant Automation, Instruments and Analyzers, Electrical Engineering, Technical Computing, Advanced Process Control, Multi-Variable Constraint Control, and On-line Blending. His current emphasis is in the technology and work process that will improve the overall process automation hierarchy. His previous position was Section Head for both Dynamic Simulation and Advanced Process Control groups.

Alan Weldon
Technical Services Manager, Hunt Refining
Alan currently has responsibility for process engineering, project engineering, and process control at Hunt Refining’s Tuscaloosa refinery. During Alan’s 25 year career he has worked for various companies in the chemical, pulp & paper, and oil industries where most of his time was spent in the process control field. Prior to his employment with Hunt Refining, Alan was President of Procon Technologies, a consulting company specializing in process control optimization.

Edwin Willhite
Facility Manager, Schneider Electric
Edwin has over 20 years of manufacturing experience. He has facility responsibilities for five Schneider locations and is the subject matter expert for energy within the Schneider Electric North American Operating Division. These responsibilities include supply and demand side energy management, energy reporting, and Schneider’s carbon footprint.

Innovations Showcase

New industry solutions for manufacturing were showcased at the Innovations Showcase. This was an excellent opportunity for executives to assess the potential for emerging applications in production management, interoperability, digital manufacturing, process improvement, asset management, operations management, supply chain synchronization, and more. Exhibits have application scenarios for attendees to see how emerging technologies are applied to help solve issues in the manufacturing industries.

The Showcase is open during the Monday Evening Reception and during breakfasts, breaks, and lunches. It is held adjacent to the forum where refreshments are served.

Previous Attendees

The following companies have attended recent ARC forums:

3M
ABB
Accenture-Brazil
Activplant
ADCO Manufacturing
ADM Company
Air Products & Chemicals
AirSprite Technologies
Align Technology
Amcor PET Packaging
Anheuser-Busch
Apriso
Aramco Services
Aspen Technology
ATAN Automation Systems
BASF
Bayer
Boeing
Bosch Rexroth
Bose
BP Oil
Braskem
Bristol-Meyers Squibb
BWX Technologies
Cargill
Caterpillar
Celanese Chemicals
CH2M Hill
ChemTech
Chevron
CIDX
Cisco Systems
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Commercial Vehicle Group
Conectiv Energy
CSIA
Corning
Chrysler
Curtiss-Wright
Cytec Industries
Dassault Systemes
Dearborn Electronics
Degussa
Dell
Dofasco
Douglas Machine
Dow Chemical
Dresser-Rand
DuPont
Eastman Chemical
Eaton
ELAU
Eli Lilly
Emerson Process Management
Energizer
Endress + Hauser
Exxaro
ExxonMobil

FDT Group
Ferrous Resources
FIATECH
Fieldbus Foundation
Flowserve
Fluor
Ford Motor
Frito-Lay
GE Aircraft Engines
GE Fanuc
Genentech
General Dynamics
General Mills
General Motors
Goldman Sachs
Goodyear
HART Foundation
Hatch
HCL Technologies
Hercules
Hitachi
Honda
Honeywell
Huntsman Chemical
Husqvarna Lawn Care
Hydraulic Institute
IBM
Idexx
Intel
ILS Technology
Infor
Infosys Technologies
Intergraph
International Paper
Invensys Process Systems
ISA
ITT Goulds Pumps
John Deere
Johnson Controls Automotive
Kraft Foods
Kumba Resources
LCRA
LibreStream Technologies
Lockheed Martin
Lyondell Chemical
Lubrizol
Manhattan Associates
MARKEM
Merck & Co.
Medtronic
Metso Automation
Microsoft
MIMOSA
Mitsubishi Electric
Modern Materials Handling
Morgan Stanley
NAMUR

National Center for Mfg Sciences
Nestle Purina PetCare
Nissan
NIST
NOVA Chemicals
Northrop Grumman
Okuma America
Omron
OPC Foundation
Open Applications Group
Oracle
OSIsoft
Pavilion Technologies
Petro-Canada
Petrobras
Pfizer
Philip Morris
PMMI
Procter & Gamble
RA Jones & Company
Reliance Life Sciences
Rockwell Automation
Rolls-Royce
Sabic Petrochemicals
SABMiller
SAP
SASOL
Saudi Aramco
Schneider Electric
Shell Chemical
Shell Global
Siemens
Solectron
Suncor Energy
Tata Consultancy Services
TenAsys
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tesoro Petroleum
Teva Pharmaceutical
The Stanley Works
Thermo Fisher Scientific
ThyssenKrupp
Toyota Motor
Tuthill
Unilever
VALE
Vought Aircraft Industries
Washington Savannah River
Weyerhaeuser
Wipro Technologies
Wonderware
Worsley Alumina
Yaskawa Electric
Yokogawa

Location

The Forum is held at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida.

Rosen Centre Hotel
9840 International Drive
Orlando, Florida 32819
800-204-7234 or 407-996-9840
www.rosencentre.com

Attendees should make their own hotel reservations. Reservations can be made on-line or by calling 800-204-7234. ARC has contracted a reduced rate of $180, based on availability. When making reservations, please specify that you will be attending the ARC Forum.

The hotel is located 15 minutes from Orlando International Airport. (For directions and map: www.rosencentre.com/Location/Location.htm ) Transportation options include Mears Transportation or local taxi. Reservations to the airport using Mears must be made 24 hours in advance at the Guest Services desk. The hotel is also conveniently located near many of Orlando’s attractions: 1 mile from Sea World, 5 minutes from Universal Studios, and 10 minutes from Walt Disney World. The Rosen Centre’s Guest Services will gladly arrange attraction tickets and transportation, golf tee times, tours and more. The Rosen Centre offers complimentary daily shuttle services to Sea World and Universal. In addition, the I-Trolley (www.iridetrolley.com, 407-354-5656) makes popular stops all along International Drive. There is an I-Trolley stop across the street from the Rosen Centre.

Please contact Orlando's Visitor Information Center at 407-363-5874, www.visitorlando.com, for information regarding current events in Orlando. For discounted attractions in Orlando, please visit the Orlando Convention Aid website. Their on-line travel guide offers discounts to restaurants, golf, attractions, nightlife, shopping, and more, including making dinner reservations for you. A coupon book will also be available at the hotel when you arrive.

Golfing Opportunities During Your Stay
Shingle Creek will provide a discounted price for 18 holes of golf for all ARC Forum attendees. Please mention "ARC Advisory Group" when reserving tee-times to receive the discount ($119). This discounted price is available January 31 - February 6. Free transportation from the Rosen Centre to Shingle Creek is available (see Towncars in the Valet Area).

Shingle Creek
9939 Universal Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32819
866-996-9933 or 407-996-1559
shinglecreekgolf.com

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