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2008 Workshops

The schedule for all Workshops and Short Courses will available on the Emerson Exchange website beginning in early July.  A Personal Scheduler tool will also be available at that time, allowing attendees to plan and create their personal conference agendas. The Personal Scheduler must be used by registering attendees wishing to reserve a place in the Emerson Educational Services Course offerings.

As of May 7th, below are the approved Workshop abstracts
(subject to change):

To download a printable Excel file containing a list of all approved workshop abstracts as of May 7, 2008, click here.

Track Session ID Title Abstract Type Presenter Name Presenter Company Co-Presenter Name Co-Presenter Company
Asset Optimization 164 Designing, Implementing and Optimizing an Asset Management Program in the Canadian Oil Sands. This presentation will focus on the demands of designing and implementing a maint. Management program that provides asset optimization, and increases the focus on predictive technologies.  All with an increased focus on optimizing alarm management within DeltaV and Plantweb architecture.  The result is better understanding of the impact of every asset on Plant operations . Workshop John Hill EPM - -
Asset Optimization 280 Early Detection of MV Cable Problems Improves Overall System Reliability Medium voltage cable construction has evolved from expensive paper insulated lead cable to more economical plastic insulation materials.  This development brought new savings and new insulation life hazards.  Traditional maintenance and testing methods are no longer adequate.  This presentation discusses the change in testing and evaluation processes to meet these new cable technologies.  Workshop Clifton Kirby Electrical Reliability Services - -
Asset Optimization 281 SEL Relay Upgrade and Integration This abstract describes one project utilizing SEL (Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories) equipment to upgrade existing protection, replace malfunctioning control equipment and provide integration capabilities for local and remote monitoring and control. Workshop Thor Lunde Electrical Reliability Services - -
Asset Optimization 283 Bechtel Corporation Pre-Commissioning and Validation of FF Segments Improves Start-up Large complex system projects are looking for methods to reduce the start-up and commissioning time of FF installations. This workshop will describe specific tools and methods that have been developed to shorten startup and commissioning time of both standard stick built projects as well as modular built systems. Workshop David Brown Bechtel Corporation - -
Asset Optimization 286 Electromechanical Relay Replacement: Real World Examples A general overview with real-world examples where aging electro-mechanical relays were upgraded to modern, microprocessor based relays providing new and innovative application solutions for electrical asset management and system diagnostics in industrial and power plant installations.   Workshop Lee Bigham Electrical Reliability Services Jim Olkowski Schweitzer Engineering Labs
Asset Optimization 297 Chevron Gains Better Control Of Field Devices And Is More Proactive Using AMS Device Manager Chevron’s Harfleur plant in the North of France now uses AMS Device Manager to receive predictive diagnostics from more than 30% of the transmitters and valves in the facility.  We have experienced better control over the assets, which has lead to increased availability and asset performance. Workshop Benoit MONTJARDET CHEVRON - -
Asset Optimization 420 AES Reduces Boiler Fuel Costs by $20/Hour After Implementing AMS Performance Monitor AES Warrior Run operates a ~180 MW Power Plant.  AES wanted to determine two things: 1) the optimal mix of waste coal to premium coal to feed the boilers; and 2) the consequent impact on the efficiency of the continuous circulating fluidized bed (CCFB) boiler.  AMS Performance Monitor helped AES save ~$20/hour in fuel costs to operate the boiler using an optimal fuel mix. Workshop Ed Juliano AES Warrior Run Plant Richard Drake EPM
Asset Optimization 425 How Monitoring Equipment Performance Reduced Fuel Consumption by 2% on a Pipeline Gas Turbine Northern Natural Gas operates a fleet of GE Frame 3 Gas Turbines to deliver gas to key Midwestern U.S. locations.  

AMS Performance Monitor was used to supplement extensive on-site expertise to quantify the success of planned maintenance with regard to recovering lost efficiency.  The paper will detail the findings and analysis that resulted in saving $80/hr in avoided excess fuel usage

 
Workshop Mark Kramer Northern Natural Gas Palmyra Site Richard Drake EPM
Asset Optimization 435 Formosa PetroChemical Gains Predictive Maintenance with AMS™ Device Manager With 4500 on-line smart field devices sending real-time diagnostics to AMS™ Device Manager, our staff throughout the Formosa PetroChemical plant in Taiwan have the information needed to prove predictive maintenance works.  We are saving manpower on calibration, doing a better job of valve maintenance, and detecting field device problems early so we avoid unexpected plant upsets. Workshop Kuanru Lee Formosa PetroChemical Johnson Wu -
Asset Optimization 439 Using Portable Maintenance Tools to Complement Host Based Asset Management Configuration, calibration, and troubleshooting of  HART and FOUNDATION field bus devices  often requires being in the field with a portable, intrinsically safe

tool such as the 375 Field Communicator.  Still, other maintenance operations can

best be done remotely using an Asset Management System.   This presentation addresses how these two methodologies can complement each other.

 
Workshop Alan Dewey EPM - -
Asset Optimization 443 Shell’s Vibration Monitoring Program Delivers Improvements By Migrating to AMS Machinery Manager Customer Pending: Our Vibration Condition Monitoring (VCM) program, covering more than 2000 machine trains, delivers strong improvements over the previous program that had been in place for more than 20 years.  Emerson helped us make a smooth transition to AMS Machinery Manager over a 2 month period, without disrupting ongoing monthly routes and analysis. Workshop Arief Shalahuddin EPM - -
Asset Optimization 446 Integrating AMS Asset Portal to improve reliability for world class efficiency and productivity Former Ameriven employee (now Emerson employee) shares his experience in developing a world class facility.  The last step for highly competitive companies is to optimize cost and productivity. AMS Asset Portal provides tools that are fundamental for plant management and reliability specialists to achieve these goals by providing a single unified view of how assets are performing in an enterprise. Workshop Luis Naranjo EPM - -
Asset Optimization 449 Maximizing the value of AMS Device Manager Customer pending: At SECCO China’s Acrylonitrile plant, our staff had a vision to become world class in our maintenance processes.  Through a combination of Emerson technologies and the services of experts from Emerson’s global network, the vision is now realized and plans are in place to increase the value of predictive diagnostics. Workshop Eddie Yong EPM - -
Asset Optimization 460 Using Device Diagnostics to Drive Work Orders in your SAP/ MAXIMO System Can Save You Time and Money By utilizing device diagnostic information you can save valuable time and money when using this functionality to create work notification in your SAP/MAXIMO system.  This presentation will highlight how to turn information that comes from the device to drive work notifications in today’s most popular systems and help you improve your maintenance practices and efficiency. Workshop Amy Davidson EPM - -
Asset Optimization 463 How to Define a Maintenance Strategy and Rationalize PAM Technology During DESIGN in a FEED Project Maintenance efficiency is usually not the highest priority of a design requirement during a new project.  But it is important and beneficial to include asset management at the front end of a project.  PlantWeb Services DESIGN yields an optimized Maintenance Strategy Blueprint matrix during the FEED process. The deliverable is much higher maintenance efficiency as a part of the detailed design. Workshop Augie DiGiovanni EPM Bill Broussard EPM
Asset Optimization 471 How ADM Used a Structured Approach to Get The Most Out of AMS Device Manager ADM Peoria site installed a $30m new compressed alcohol unit with a lot of new instrumentation.  The unit is ~20 minutes away from our site office.  We chose that project to utilize AMS Device Manager to help us manage and plan maintenance on ~200 transmitters and valves. Our presentation covers the steps we are taking to move our focus away from being mostly reactive (currently ~70%). Workshop Dave Mossman ADM Todd Schools EPM
Asset Optimization 485 Use Wireless Vibration Technology to Identify Developing Faults and Avoid Process Interruptions The CSI 9420 Wireless Vibration Transmitter integrates easily into your DCS and provides insight into developing faults that can go undetected using conventional walk-around techniques.  This discussion describes the wireless deployment at a major refinery with a focus on vibration monitoring, and highlights an example of how the CSI 9420 helped to avoid an unscheduled process interruption. Workshop Mike Medley (& pending customer) EPM - -
Asset Optimization 488 How Xcel Energy uses machinery health information for faster and safer turbine startup Presentation on how Xcel Energy is integrating turbine Machinery Health with process control information for operators to improve the reliability and performance of critical turbines. Workshop Deane Horn EPM - -
Asset Optimization 492 Case Studies of CSI 9205 Machinery Health Transmitter Use in a Paper Plant and Metals Process Plant The ability to monitor important machinery in an industrial setting is crucial to avoiding unscheduled downtime.  Vibration, temperature and speed data acquired simultaneously is essential to predicting mechanical failures. More importantly, that data must be effectively communicated to both the operator  and maintenance personnel responsible for the production line.  Workshop Stewart Bowers EPM - -
Asset Optimization 520 Maintenance Strategy RCM Reduced Work Effort At Georgia Pacific-Monticello Georgia Pacific has enacted a rapid transformation initiative to align organizational focus to various critical business processes. The Monticello mill has made an effort to streamline the maintenance activities on three mill areas. The effort resulted in a significantly lower man-hour effort to achieve the same or better maintenance and uptime. This session details the Asset Reliability process. Workshop Lynell James Georgia Pacific Bill Broussard EPM
Asset Optimization 522 Optimizing Process Availability and Maintenance Costs Through On-Line Condition Monitoring Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation is investing $1 billion to meet the needs of the global polycrystalline silicon industry market. The increase in critical rotating equipment required to support the expansion requires HSC to employ an on-line condition monitoring strategy to facilitate condition based maintenance of its production assets and further its site wide PdM strategy.  Workshop Gary Weber Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation Doug Ayers Cornerstone Controls
Asset Optimization 533 How Smurfit Executed INSTALL / IMPLEMENT on AMS Device Manager Smurfit Stone had some new equipment recently installed with ~400 new instruments.  They performed a 400 tag IMPLEMENT at this site and have INCORPORATE scheduled to complete in August.  The IMPLEMENT was performed on the sites’ Evaporator Set, Digesters, and Power Plant.  All of these areas are critical to mill operation as the mill moves from reactive to predictive and planned maintenance. Workshop Curtis Nellis Smurfit Stone Todd Schools EPM
Asset Optimization 538 Bridging the Gap Between Operations and Maintenance with the CSI 9420 Wireless Vibration Transmitter Using the Rosemount 1420 wireless gateway, wireless vibration data is available to both operations and maintenance personnel. Plant operators can receive machinery health data into their DeltaV control system from the CSI 9420 wireless vibration transmitter, while maintenance staff receive the same data into their AMS Suite: Machinery Health Manager software.   Workshop Jason Schemmel EPM Todd Reeves EPM
Asset Optimization 542 WE Energies Streamlines Work Processes by IMPLEMENTing AMS Device Manager We Energies used the Emerson PlantWeb Services expertise to IMPLEMENT AMS Device Manager. The IMPLEMENT services helped to optimize alerts and streamline work processes. Workshop Todd Gordon WE Energies Bob Vigansky We Energies
Asset Optimization 543 Make DeltaV a Window to the Health of Your Turbines, Compressors, and Other Critical Assets Plant operators need visibility to the vibration data from critical equipment such as turbines and compressors. The ability to bring online machinery health data from a CSI 4500 Machinery Health Monitor and CSI 6000 Machinery Health Monitor into the DeltaV control system is now possible using Modbus communications.  Workshop Kevin Steele EPM Jason Schemmel EPM
Asset Optimization 549 Utilization of Wireless Communication Technology with Intelligent Device Manager Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation a polycrystalline silicon producer was challenged with large plant expansions and incorporating 2 off-line IDM systems into one 10,000 tag on-line IDM system with 13 server-clients. HSC chose to employ wireless communication to allow Maintenance and Reliability Teams to gather process and diagnostic field device information to further the site PdM strategy. Workshop Grant Hilger Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation Steve Bullock Cornerstone Controls, Inc.
Asset Optimization 556 Hemlock Semiconductor Utilizes HART Over PROFIBUS Interface with AMS Device Manager Hemlock Semiconductor has utilized the HART Over PROFIBUS Interface to access HART data over a PROFIBUS network for online asset management in AMS Device Manager.  They were able to implement AMS Device Manager without installing multiplexers. Workshop Gary Banks Hemlock Semiconductor Doug Ayers Cornerstone Controls
Asset Optimization 569 How to use diagnostics from existing smart devices to develop a condition-based maintenance program  Sempra’s new LNG terminal wanted to take advantage of diagnostics in smart devices to create work notifications in MAXIMO. By combining the embedded diagnostic information, AMS Suite Work Notification Service, and the MIMOSA Interop Server from Mtelligence, they created an early warning system to trigger proactive work orders when equipment problems are detected to help prevent equipment failures. Workshop Paul Rahilly