This year's ISA Process Control & Safety Symposium scheduled from November 9-12 in Houston will feature three acclaimed keynote speakers, extensive technical program and valuable training courses.
The technical program has been a collaboration of seven ISA technical divisions—Process Measurement and Control, Safety and Security, Chemical and Petroleum, Communications, Education, Pulp and Paper, and Management. Anyone attending will gain the latest insights, news and trends in process measurement and control—particularly in the chemical and energy processing and other key process industry sectors.
Conference sessions will cover the critical issues in instrumentation, safety, security, communications, control systems, pulp and paper, advanced control and simulation.
Here are some of wide-ranging topics to be covered:
- Procedural automation
- The NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Safety Instrumented Systems
- KPI Lifecycle for process control
- Big Data
- Data analysis and historization
- Smart manufacturing
- IACS cyber risk assessment
- The future of manufacturing
- Wireless networks
- Virtualization – A powerful tool for process control
- Performance-based gas detection system design
- Wireless for safety applications
- Toxic gas detectors for Shelter In Place (SIP)
- Defining and exchanging Key Performance Indicators
- Big data systems/analytics/readiness
- Upgrading your calibration program
- Industrial advances in wireless control
- How to beat your startup date
- Manufacturing enterprise solutions for process industries
- Panel asset management
- Metrics that matter
- Artificial intelligence in process control
- Reliability in measurements: Common misconceptions in calibration management
- The Internet of Things (IoT) and Manufacturing
The three acclaimed keynote speakers are: Dr. Maurice Wilkins, Dr. Lloyd F. Colegrove and Paul Gruhn.
Dr. Wilkins is the vice president of Yokogawa's Strategic Marketing Center, and will lead "30 Years of Experience—Is there an App for that?" His keynote presentation will examine recent workforce trends, the differences between the Boomer and Millennial generations and their expectations; and how standards and technology can help Millenials gain the experience needed to close the so-called "skills gap."
Dr. Colegrove's is the director of Data Services and Fundamental Problem Solving at the Analytical Technology Center within The Dow Chemical Company, and his keynote is titled "Tomorrow's Analytics Today—Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence in Dow M&E." It will highlight how Dow Chemical is leveraging Big Data to transform chemical manufacturing data to information, then knowledge, then wisdom.
Lastly, Gruhm who is Global Process Safety Consultant at Rockwell Automation will present "Process Industry Accidents: Lessons Learned the Hard Way and How to Avoid Them". The presentation will feature a collection of videos, photographs and stories to review lessons learned from previous accidents and how to best avoid any future accidents.
