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Special E-Show Daily edition from Matrikon Summit 2007

ControlGlobal.com

The editors of CONTROL report on the presentations, case studies, panel discussions, demonstrations and networking events at this year’s technology conference for industry executives, process control engineers and other professionals held this spring in Chicago.

• Winning the Red Queen’s Race
  Dr. Dave Shook, Matrikon’s Chief Technical Officer, began his opening address by explaining the Red Queen's Race
• BA Energy Builds Oil Sands Upgrader with Matrikon Suite
  Kevin Melnyk, general manager at BA Energy’s Heartland Upgrader is creating a company and a control system at the same time.
• On Track with Innovation
  Jamie Errington, of Human Centered Solutions LLC, talks about modern operator interfaces.
• How to Achieve Operational Excellence
  Michel Ruel, president of Top Control, Matrikon’s teaching division, preaches excellence.
• Seeking Best Practices
  Matrikon’s Mik Marvan, a voting member of ISA SP18.02, explains the new ISA alarm standard.

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Headlines from May 9, 2007

• The bottom line on bottom line automation
  Mike Brown, Matrikon’s vice president of technology, opened the second day of Matrikon Summit 2007 with reflections on the drive towards a business-centric view of process automation.
• Seeing your way through to fleet optimization
  DTE’s technological specialist John Kapron told the audience attending Matrikon Summit 2007 in Chicago that visualization works!
• Innovation, best practices and optimization
  Matrikon’s Alarm Mik Marvan concluded the session on alarm management at the Matrikon Summit 2007 showing how Matrikon’s Alarm Management System can help companies implement best practices.
• Quicker plant testing and modeling
  Greg Kautzman, a process control engineer at a refinery, reported at Matrikon Summit 2007 the need to address the maintenance challenge associated with time consuming and expensive conventional plant step tests.
• Now for the real-world scenarios
  In yesterday afternoon’s breakdown sessions at the Matrikon Summit 2007, two Matrikon users outlined the challenges and results of their implementations of Matrikon products.

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