Headlines from May 9, 2007
- 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.
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.