PlantSuccess Newsletter
Volume
II, Issue 13
5/23/02
Dear Subscriber:
The recent regional PlantSuccess conference at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake drew the largest audience for this intensive series. We were not surprised; thanks to all who participated.
Terry Leigh, Global Maintenance Resource Center Leader, Dow Chemical, set the stage with a great presentation: Business Drivers for Reliability Centered Maintenance in a Global Environment. He was followed by voices of experience and success with applications ranging from document and data management by Deborah Deats of BP, to a system for substantially improved plant turnarounds by Larry Faucheux of Vulcan Chemicals and Steve Campbell of CDI Engineering Group, to a report on a portion of FIATECH’s LCDM project by Deb McNeil of Dow Chemical, to Bruce Pollard of Lyondell Chemicals describing and demonstrating technologies that will be common in future plants and Harry Leith of ExxonMobil lending his excellent presentation skills to helping all of us understand that we can do something to improve plant security.
In a short period of time, PlantSuccess has built an important reputation for outstanding presentations. The Houston speakers met all expectations and contributed to lively discussions as well. The presentations can be downloaded at http://www.plantsuccess.com/
The final conference in this series is June 5th, co-located with A/E/C SYSTEMS 2002 at the Anaheim (Calif) Convention Center. We have another excellent roster of speakers and hope all of our readers in southern California will be able to join us there.
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PlantSuccess Regional Conference
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Co-located with A/E/C SYSTEMS |
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Room 205 |
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Anaheim
Convention Center |
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Anaheim,
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Asset
Productivity and Protection |
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Wed., 5 June |
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7:00 – 8:00 |
Registration and Continental
Breakfast – Solutions Marketplace |
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8:00 – 8:05 |
Welcome and Introductions --
Carl Howk, Chairman, PlantSuccess, LLC |
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8:05 – 8:25 |
Ric Jackson, Director, FIATECH, Building
a Comprehensive, Industry- |
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Wide Technology Agenda and Delivering
on It |
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8:30 – 9:45 |
A/E/C SYSTEMS Keynote: Buddy
Cleveland, Senior VP, Bentley Systems |
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Inc. and Phil Bernstein, VP
of Building Industry Division, Autodesk Inc. |
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Ripple Effect: Technology considerations,
solutions and developments for |
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effective collaboration and
communication throughout the asset lifecycle. |
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9:45 – 10:00 |
Beverage Break – Solutions
Marketplace |
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10:00 – 10:45 |
Manager, Engineering Design
Section, County Sanitation |
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Districts of LA County and
Vince Kleppe, Owner, The Prizm Group |
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3D Laser Scanning: Working for
Waste Water Treatment |
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10:45 – 11:30 |
Bob Yang, Technical Consultant, Parsons
Infrastructure & Technology |
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Group, Asset Management:
Plant Life Cycle Information Management |
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11:30 – 1:00 |
Buffet Lunch – Solutions
Marketplace |
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1:00 – 1:45 |
Dean Findley, Regional Director, IPA North
America |
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Achieving Excellence with Small
Plant-Based Projects |
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1:45 – 2:30 |
Ed Anderson, Senior Associate, LEAN Project
Consulting |
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A Winning Combination: LEAN
and Engineering IT |
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2:30 – 2:45 |
Concluding Remarks |
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Sponsors -- Bentley Systems
Inc, J.D. Edwards & Company, A/E/C |
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SYSTEMS International, FIATECH,
Chemical Engineering magazine. |
Visit
http://www.plantsuccess/ to register online
and to obtain additional information. If you have any questions, please call
770-565-3282.
All paid
attendees, not currently subscribers to Chemical Engineering magazine,
will receive a 1-year complimentary subscription.
Regards,
Carl Howk.
Chairman
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·
Moving an Emerging Market
into the Mainstream
The Executive
Viewpoint from an important and comprehensive study by the Aberdeen Group
regarding the implication of a slowdown in IT growth:
“Suppliers no longer can rely on users indiscriminately purchasing every new hot technology that hits the market. This fact is particularly sobering for suppliers in emerging markets, where widespread adoption of an entire product category still hangs in the balance.”
And the claim: Market validation, rather than competitive positioning, is the primary concern for suppliers in emerging sectors.
In our view, the successful user – YOU – is the driver in today’s IT market. READ MORE
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Good people, not necessarily
good technology, make for good e-business.
As reported by The CIO Executive Research Center,
that principle and using IT to improve worker collaboration and productivity,
highlighted talks between technology executives at the Fourth Annual MIT Sloan
e-business awards and conference in Cambridge, Mass. READ MORE
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