ADVANCES 2019 PREVIEW KEEP UP WITH ADVANCES IN AUTOMATION
This year’s IChemE’s Advances in Process Automation and Control Conference takes place in Manchester from the 18th - 20th November and will explore best practice and emerging technologies in the fast-paced world of industrial automation and control
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sk anyone who's been before and they'll tell you that the Institution of
Chemical Engineers’ Advances in Process Automation and Control conference is a great place for professionals to review good practice, lessons learned and the latest developments in process automation and control. This year’s conference will take place on 18th-20th November in Manchester. Over the last 40 years there has been
continual growth in the use of automation and control technologies in process manufacturing. This has ranged from increasingly reliable and low-cost sensors, digital field networks, control and shutdown systems, process historians, model-based optimizing controllers, manufacturing information systems to enterprise resource planning systems. These technologies have clearly enabled
higher process performance, reduced operating risk and improved staff productivity, but the pace of change can be daunting. So where can you go to
trained, what they will be trained on, the use of augmented reality, and the role of artificial intelligence in daily plant operation. Cyber security is another one of the key
who will share their process automation and control knowledge and experience. Speakers will include Brian Parsonnet,
the CTO and founder of Seeq, a Seattle company which aims to close the gap between advancements in data and computer science, big data and machine learning and the software available to engineers and plant employees. Parsonnet will address the challenges facing machine learning and AI as new technologies to improve process
Advances 2019 offers a mix of oral presentations, poster presentations, plenary speakers and workshop sessions which will give attendees the inside track on technological change
issues facing the industry today. Operators may use IT and business solutions to improve their cyber security, but they need to be applied as part of a holistic approach incorporating people, process, procedures and technology. How can this be done? There is much guidance available but there is no established relevant good practice in the UK. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently released updated guidance that seeks to provide a basis for regulation of cyber security in the process industries. Nic Butcher, HM Specialist Inspector (Electrical, Control & Cyber Security), HSE, will discuss the basis for this guidance, and how it will be used for regulation of cyber security risk management. An expert on process automation,
‘This is an exciting time in process automation and control. The
transformation journey is accelerating with more capable electronic and software platforms and new algorithms’
explore the implications of this explosion of data, technology and innovation that's coming your way? Advances 2019 offers a mix of oral
presentations, poster presentations, plenary speakers and workshop sessions which will give you the inside track on these changes. The conference will help delegates understand what’s happening now and what the next big change will be. Attendees will hear from specialists and industry peers working in all sectors
manufacturing performance and suggest some approaches for overcoming them. Process plant operators, as we know
them today, have slowly been becoming extinct since the 1980s. David Strobhar, founder of Ohio-based Beville Engineering, knows why and will show how automation has, and will change, the nature of the process plant operator. He will outline potential new tools and training that the change will require, including shifts in how operators are
Professor Jonathan Love, a founder member of IChemE’s Process Management and Control special interest group, thinks of himself as an industrialist in academic’s clothing. He is the author of the Process Automation Handbook and has spent 25 years of his career delivering the Partnership in Automation and Control Training Process Automation MSc. He will share some of the lessons he has learned and talk about practising what he preaches. This is an exciting time in process
automation and control. The transformation journey that many companies have been on for decades is accelerating with more capable electronic and software platforms and new algorithms. These trends will impact the process industries and enable further performance improvements and help mitigate loss of expertise. They will also contribute to improved sustainability of these industries. Advances 2019 is the place for process automation and control professionals to go to understand these changes. Focussing on practice, our emphasis for this conference is new technologies, new solutions to old problems, and the new challenges faced by the process industries. Advances in process automation and
Attendees at Advances 2019 will have the opportunity to share and develop their knowledge of process automation and control, make new contacts, meet like- minded professionals and foster new collaborations
control will drive improvements in safety, production results and working capital and reduced emissions. To make the most of this revolution, you need to understand it, which is where a trip to Advances 2019 could help.
Advances 2019
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