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Technical Conference Agenda: March 24

The one-day technical conference will cover various topics related to maximizing controller performance, process optimization, control system upgrades, and safety and security. Presentations in the morning will focus on reducing energy consumption, PID controller tuning, and performance monitoring. The afternoon will include a keynote on realizing automation benefits, and sessions on control system upgrades, economic justification of modernization, and production line efficiency. The day will end with presentations on strategic proof testing, standards for building management systems, and lessons from industrial cyber security incidents. An evening networking event at a local brewery is also planned.

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Technical Conference Agenda: March 24

The one-day technical conference will cover various topics related to maximizing controller performance, process optimization, control system upgrades, and safety and security. Presentations in the morning will focus on reducing energy consumption, PID controller tuning, and performance monitoring. The afternoon will include a keynote on realizing automation benefits, and sessions on control system upgrades, economic justification of modernization, and production line efficiency. The day will end with presentations on strategic proof testing, standards for building management systems, and lessons from industrial cyber security incidents. An evening networking event at a local brewery is also planned.

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Agenda for Technical Conference - Wednesday, March 24


_________________________________________
8:15 – 8:30 AM Welcome & Introductions
8:30 – 10:00 Maximizing Controller Performance _________________________________________
• Reducing Energy Consumption by Monitoring Controller
Performance _________________________________________
George Buckbee, Expertune
• Demystifying PID Controller Tuning for Desired _________________________________________
Performance and Robust Stability
Jeffrey Arbogast, American Air Liquide _________________________________________
• Is your control Loop better than my loop? Performance
monitoring at five similar TiO2 plants _________________________________________
Arshad Jamil, DuPont
_________________________________________
10:00 – 10:30 Break, Exhibits, and Networking
10:30 – 12:00 Process Optimization _________________________________________
• Simulation of Model Predictive Control for a Coal Fired
_________________________________________
Power Plant
Phillip Schnelle Jr; DuPont, and Paul Fruehauf ;
Fruehauf Engineering Services, Inc. _________________________________________
• Process Economic Optimization. The Ultimate Goal of
Process Control _________________________________________
Dave March, Rockwell Automation
_________________________________________
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch in Cafeteria (included)
_________________________________________
1:00 – 1:30 PM Keynote Presentation
• Realizing the Benefits of Automation and How to Get _________________________________________
There with Qualified Control System Integrators Robert
Lowe, Executive Director, Control System Integrators _________________________________________
Association (CSIA)
_________________________________________
1:30 – 3:00 Control System Upgrades
• Transitioning the Corbalis Water Treatment Plant’s _________________________________________
Control System
Joshua Gelman and Eric Silverman; CDM
_________________________________________
• Economic Justification of Plant Modernization Using
Automation,
Alex Habib, Automation Consultant _________________________________________
• The Impact of PLC Program Architecture on Production
Line Efficiency: Case Study of a Control System Rewrite _________________________________________
George Walters; Walters Controls and Eric Bryla;
NexCtrl Inc. _________________________________________

3:00 – 3:30 Break, Exhibits, and Networking _________________________________________


3:30 – 5:00 Safety and Security _________________________________________
• Strategic Proof Testing
William Goble, exida LLC _________________________________________
• Incorporating performance and prescriptive based
standards for BMS _________________________________________
Charles Fialkowski, Siemens Industry Inc.
• Safety and Security What Went Wrong? A Study of _________________________________________
Actual Industrial Cyber Security Incidents
John Cusimano, Security Incidents Organization

5:30 – 7:30 Networking Event at Twin Lakes Brewery


Networking Event

Please join us for an evening networking event at the Twin Lakes Brewery (Greenville,
DE), a microbrewery committed to becoming energy independent and preserving
America’s rich brewing tradition. They will be conducting tours of the facility and
tastings. Cost is $20 at the door.

Twin Lakes Brewing Co.


4210 Kennett Pike
Greenville, DE 19807
(302)-658-1826
[Link]

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