The Chairman's Message

This is the official web page of the Fisher-Rosemount Systems Users Group. If you are a member, welcome to your web page. If you’re not a member, look around and see what you’ve been missing. Each month we will be posting information about the user’s group and highlight a member of the user board of directors. The board is comprised of user representatives from each of the Fisher-Rosemount product lines (RS3, PROVOX, and DeltaV). Throughout the year we will be adding information to make your web page more helpful. So don’t be bashful and tell a board member what you want to see!

I have just received the numbers from our Austin meeting and we broke all previous records. We had 620 in attendance. That’s an increase of 51% from what I thought was a great meeting in Atlanta. Of that group there were 450 of us end users. That’s a lot of customers that Fisher-Rosemount listened to. We kicked off this year’s meeting with a Plant Web seminar that was attended by over 135 on Sunday and concluded Wednesday with the AMS user’s group drawing over 125. In between, we heard Fisher-Rosemount’s direction and participated in over 80 workshops, breakout sessions, industry seminars and short courses. Our evenings were filled with the product showcase featuring 27 complementary suppliers and 28 DeltaV demonstration stations located throughout 30,000 ft² of floor space. One evening we were treated to a good OLE Texas rodeo. We all had a great time at the meetings and the rodeo wasn’t bad either. However we’ll not discuss the cow chip tossing contest.  

But we will show you a picture of it!

We will have our first board meeting November 13^th back in Austin. The first item on our agenda will be to review your comments about the Austin meeting. You were asked to fill out surveys and board members solicited information about what you liked and did not like about our meeting. We will review this information and begin working toward an improved meeting next year. As we plan the agenda for New Orleans we will strive to give you more of what you liked and correct the areas not up to your expectations. If you were unable to get your ideas to us at the meeting please feel free to contact me or any other board member with your suggestions. It will be difficult to top the success of this past gala event in Austin but if you the users tell us what you want to see and hear we will do our best to top it.

Since I failed to contact a board member while in Austin for this first month’s board member highlight, I will begin by introducing myself. I am David Montgomery. I have the privilege of being the chairman of the users group board of directors. My formal training was from Auburn University as a Chemical Engineer. I have been using Fisher-Rosemount products in the process control field for the last 28 years. My away from the job interests range from building 1/35 scale models of WWII armored fighting vehicles to assembling full size replicas of Shelby Cobras (can’t afford the real thing).

Upon graduation I began work with Monsanto in Decatur Alabama. Along the way I have served short terms in Pensacola Florida and St. Louis always migrating back to Decatur. In 1997 the chemical businesses of Monsanto split away and became Solutia Inc. My first work assignment began with a project installing the AC² family of panelboard mounted TL-101 controllers. Since then its been the full product line ranging from a DC² CP-212 using PROVOX as a configuration language, to the full PROVOX family of Data Concentrators, MUXes, IFCs, and UOCs. In 1996, I was fortunate to be part of the original DeltaV product release. We installed DeltaV serial number 0001-0001-0001 on a semi-works plant producing acrylic fiber. I have seen a lot of products come and go and am very excited at what the future holds for us in the process control field. I look forward to hearing from you throughout the year and meeting y’all in New Orleans next September. My e-mail address is jdmont@solutia.com.

David Montgomery
Chairman

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