5th Yokogawa User Conference
Keynote Speakers
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Wednesday 23 June
Dr. Werner Kreuz, Vice President - A.T. Kearney Is operational excellence the key to success and to competitiveness for European companies? Many industry leaders – and especially politicians – say: “The crisis is over”. But is the crisis really over or do we ran into significant more trouble in the future? Will low cost countries endanger the competitiveness of European production companies ? How can European companies react to this challenge? Is “Operational Excellence” the solution for European companies or is it “Innovation”, or both? A.T.Kearney has conducted two comprehensive studies in the last years: “Value Creating Growth” and “Fabrik des Jahres (Factory of the Year)” – the results of these studies will hopefully provide some new perspectives, how European companies can survive and continue to be profitable in the future in spite of the aggressive competition from low cost producers. Dr. André Overmeyer, Project Director – Merck-Serono Two companies, three languages, four cultures Even though we like to see engineering projects often as purely technical and we deal with numbers, figures and facts, the so called soft factors have a significant influence on the performance and success of these projects. The performance depends on the essential human factor as collaboration, team work and communication. This is even more valid for the integration of the key engineering partners and technology suppliers. The presentation will introduce the Merck Serono Project “Large Scale Biotech Production”, the currently worldwide biggest investment projects building a biotech production plant at the shore of Lake Geneva in Vevey, Switzerland. In detail the project strategy, organsiation and cooperation with our process automation partner Yokogawa is explained as well as the special challenges in team building, project culture and organization are touched. Thursday 24 June David Godinaud, - Saint-Gobain, France The Iceberg Theory – How to drive engineering improvement through a distributed control system excellence program David Godinaud, head of Global Engineering, will explain how Saint-Gobain Glass used their DCS to implement engineering efficiency throughout the project as well as from one project to another and why this method based on standardization and a close partnership with Yokogawa enable not only direct savings and benefits for projects themselves, but also operation excellence during the life time of the plant. Mervyn Currie, Senior Control Engineer, BP Exploration Safety always No 1! Safety instrumented systems play a role in managing hazards at oil and gas industry facilities. An inherently safer design approach seeks to minimise hazards at source, then apply passive safeguards before active safeguards such as safety instrumented systems are considered. This should mean that fewer safety instrumented functions and lower safety integrity levels are required. Sometimes there are no alternatives, e.g., for overpressure protection of pipelines. Layer of protection analysis and calibration to the BP risk matrix are outlined. Successful implementation of safety instrumented systems requires strong commitment to competent people and ownership of SIS performance throughout the lifecycle. Dipl. –Ing. Wolfgang Albert, Evonik Benefits of Automation - How can automation improve the efficiency of production plants With sophisticated automation procedures it is possible to reach a significantly higher efficiency level in chemical production plants. These objectives can be reached in a short period of time and by means of moderate funding. The cost / benefit ratio is usually excellent. After a short definition of “The Automation Complex”, i.e. which automation areas are addressed in this presentation, several examples of real and already proven implementations are described to show some very important fundamentals the applied concepts are based on, like process knowledge, simplification and robustness. The two automation areas concerned in this context are process control and process management. In the control environment the benefits of applying model based control as a replacement of PID-control are emphasized. In the management area the importance of Process Information Management (PIM) is lined out. With PIM and especially the applications and evaluations based on this information improvement potentials can be identified which again form the starting point for well-directed optimization efforts. Concluding some challenges which can be encountered during the implementation of automation concepts are depicted. Jiri Tobola, Sales and Technical Director, Invea-Tech, Czech Republic Anomaly detection for distributed control and information systems - abstract will follow – Ron Weaver, Labware Integrated LIMS systems This presentation will review the latest capabilities of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) with particular reference to LIMS in the process industries. We will discuss the key features and benefits of a modern LIMS for manufacturing and R&D – and with a particular emphasis on the benefits of integration with complementary major business applications such as Yokogawa Exaquantum. We will also highlight some of the highly successful joint projects we have undertaken with Yokogawa. Dieter Rehklau, LyondellBasell Migration to Yokogawa system - abstract will follow – Jan Vanneuville, Total Refinery Antwerp, Belgium Integration and migration legacy systems - abstract will follow - |
