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* New track/subjects
Business Management - subjects might cover:
- Improvements in business operations
- Business Intelligence
- Manufacturing Execution System (MES) integration
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integration
- Managing regulatory compliance
- Business cases for investing in automation
- Investing in people to sustain manufacturing assets
- Automation life cycle management
- World class manufacturing - Driving culture change through proven processes (Six Sigma, TPM, etc.)
- Cost accounting and the fundamentals of project justification
- Asset Management - Developing and using metrics to manage asset performance
- *Career development and team building
DeltaV/Ovation & SCADA System Applications - subjects might cover:
- DeltaV and Ovation applications and control strategies
- Integration of DeltaV with Non-Emerson Systems
- Integration of DeltaV with other third-party applications
- DeltaV cyber security applications
- *SCADA applications using Open Enterprise and/or ControlWave, FloBoss or ROCs
Instrumentation Applications - subjects might cover:
- New technologies and their use in analytical, flow,
level, pressure and temperature measurement applications
- Solutions to difficult instrumentation and
measurement applications
- Custody transfer applications
- New technologies and their use in flow measurement applications
- Fieldbus applications
Valve Applications
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subjects might cover:
- Best practices in selection and installation of
Emerson control valve/actuator and regulator offerings.
- Use of new or existing Emerson products to solve
severe service, regulatory or unique applications.
- Applications involving the use of digital
positioner offerings.
- Valve, regulator and actuator maintenance
activities including management of predictive, outage and day to day
activities.
Asset
Optimization / Maintenance and Reliability - subjects might
cover:
- Justifying a predictive maintenance program and
technologies, and quantifying ongoing benefits
- Designing, implementing and optimizing an asset
management program
- Work processes to leverage predictive diagnostics
within daily maintenance activities
- Successful programs for improved equipment
reliability
- Planning and executing turnarounds
- Experience with diagnostic tools and techniques
- Compliance with regulatory requirements for plant
assets
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Safety
Instrumented Systems
- subjects might cover:
- Successful integrations of Emerson systems and
Safety Instrumented Systems
- Update on SIS regulations and technology
- Role of smart instruments and valves in Safety
Instrumented Systems
Project
Management and Engineering Tools - subjects might
cover:
- Projects using Emerson's PlantWeb technology and/or
services
- Project workflow optimization / improvements
- Engineering tool solutions (SPI)
- Reducing capital or engineering costs
- Simulation
- Improving access to process information
Control
System Modernization
- subjects might cover:
- Migrations of existing systems (Emerson &
non-Emerson) to latest Emerson systems & platforms
- Cost savings using migration tools
- Installation methods that reduce overall
conversion/configuration time
- Human factors influencing control systems design
- Control room ergonomics
- Development of plant and technical personnel
Process
Optimization
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subjects might cover:
- Advanced process control technologies
- Loop performance auditing
- Use of embedded loop monitoring, model predictive
control and/or neural nets
- Optimization - where to start & how
improvements are sustained
Emerson
Product / Service Updates- Emerson only, subjects might cover:
- Overview of new products or services
- Update of recent product enhancements
- Examples of how newly released products and
services can benefit the end user
Wireless
Applications
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subjects might cover:
- System and instrumentation applications
- Portable operator interface or handheld
applications
- Security
- Cost benefits and ROI
*PlantWeb Implementation - This track is intended to highlight plants or companies which have implemented a PlantWeb strategy, including:
- digital-capable devices that provide field intelligence using onboard microprocessors, embedded software, and open-standard communications
- open communication standards linking field intelligence, systems, and applications in a plant-wide network
- DeltaV or Ovation automation systems that make the most of PlantWeb's predictive intelligence
- Consolidated valuable asset information collected using AMS Suite technologies
Submittals should include some of the following PlantWeb benefits:
- reduce project risk
- reduce operations and maintenance costs
- lower your project cost
- improve product quality
- shorten your overall project schedule
- increase throughput
- improve availability
- optimize safety, health and environmental compliance
- reduce cost of energy and utilities
(Note: if you wish to be considered for the PlantWeb Excellence Award, you must submit your paper in this track)
Click here for more information about PlantWeb Excellence Guidelines
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