Notes from the Opening General Session of the 2006 Invensys Customer Conference Ginny Brunell, President of Invensys Process Systems North America, and one of the highest ranking women in automation, introduced the beginning of the Invensys Customer Conference, bringing together four user groups, Foxboro, Avantis, SimSci Esscor, and Triconex. Enjoying the reversal from the … [Read more...] about The Invensys Vision
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Chris and Don's Fireside Chat…
Chris Lyden and Don Clark have been around. They've worked for the other guys. Now they are part of the bull-moose brain trust that Invensys has put together to help them survive the coming decade. Some of the others are Peter Martin and Hesh Kagan. All old automation guys who've been there, done it, and given the smelly old tee shirt to goodwill long ago. At a special press … [Read more...] about Chris and Don's Fireside Chat…
From the department of "Andy Chatha Speaks!"
Andy Chatha, CEO of ARC Advisory Group, incidentally, Control's partner in drafting the Top 50 Companies report for the December issue which is already available online, gave a rousing speech about the great benefit of asset management which he called "Driving operational excellence trhough collaboration and interoperability." Andy noted the manufacturing squeeze: --increasing … [Read more...] about From the department of "Andy Chatha Speaks!"
From the department of "on the cutting edge…"
Carl Sisk, BP's program manager for their Field of the Future program talked about the goals and challenges BP has faced trying to integrate the data from exploration, well drilling, upstream production and downstream distribution chain, and described the pilot program they've been running in partnership with Yokogawa at the Wamsutter, WY gas field. The field is 50 miles on a … [Read more...] about From the department of "on the cutting edge…"
Matt Arcy on the User Group
Matt Arcy, the chair of the user group, who is from Chevron Texaco's Richmond engineering facility, cracked, "John Bowron is going to get it. He stuck me behind Uchida-san, and nobody can top that." Arcy went on to describe how the Yokogawa North American User Group works, and to introduce the board of directors. … [Read more...] about Matt Arcy on the User Group
