PlantSuccess Newsletter
Volume III, Issue 18
27 August 2003
Dear
Subscriber:
In a short
period of time, PlantSuccess has built an enviable reputation for outstanding
content – actively moderated sessions addressing the successful implementation
of engineering IT and the resulting improved performance of process plants. For
ten conferences in the past 4 years, PlantSuccess has recruited 100 speakers
from 50 companies – all innovative managers with industry leaders, addressing
the owner-operator’s business drivers, work processes and integration
requirements. All sessions deal with issues important to the process industry;
a lively discussion is guaranteed.
Many of our
sessions utilize multiple experts and provide a valuable contrast in viewpoints
with consistent results. Recent examples include:
Dennis Brandl, industry consultant and technical
chair for the World Batch Forum,
writes: “Integration of manufacturing systems with business systems has been a
challenging problem, but it has become more important as companies start
optimizing their supply chains and move to more responsive manufacturing
strategies. The ISA SP95 committee working on the ISA 95 Enterprise/Control
System Integration standards has been working on this complex problem for the
past six years. The ISA 95 standards are designed to aid manufacturing
companies in their integration of their enterprise systems and their
manufacturing systems.”
The 5th
annual PlantSuccess features a session on this subject of great interest with
the title: Why Adopt ISA-95 as the Interface Standard for Plant Floor
Integration. The moderator is John Wason, vice president, ARC Advisory Group -- a leading industry
consulting organization. Wason will give us the background and set the stage
for the need for this standard and will be followed by Keith Unger, Rockwell
Software, ISA-95 Committee Co-Chair, with a statement on the progress and
goals for this group.
True to
PlantSuccess, the focus of this session is presentations by senior managers
with two industry leaders, both strong supporters of standards, Dow Chemical
and DuPont. Eric Cosman, process automation architect, will speak to the Case
for Employing ISA-95 and Ray Walker, alliance manager, will
address Using ISA-95 as a Measuring Stick for Comparing Suppliers.
Join us for
PlantSuccess Northeast 2003, 15 – 16 October at the PHL Airport Marriott,
for this discussion of ISA-95 and so many other topics important to meeting the
demands of excellence in process plant operation.
Join our
sponsors, AVEVA, Ivara Corporation, IT-GlobalForum.org, Skire Inc, The Shaw
Group and ReliabilityWeb.com
– the most complete source for information on plant operations and maintenance
available on the Web. In addition, this site is the personification of its
owner, Terrence O'Hanlon, a strong supporter of PlantSuccess and one of the
most energetic people I’ve ever known.
Visit www.PlantSuccess.com for more
information, to review agendas from previous conferences and to download any of
the very popular presentations.
Best
regards,
Carl. Howk,
Chairman
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Current
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Harvard
Business School professors, McFarlan and Nolan, respond to Harvard Business
Review editor-at-large, Nicholas G. Carr, author of the opinion piece "Why
IT Doesn't Matter" published in the May 2003 issue of HBR.
“In no other area is it more important to
have a sense of what you don't know than it is in IT management. The
most dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either had no idea of
what they did not know, or from those who pretended to know what they didn't.
Couple not knowing that you don't know with fuzzy logic, and you have the
makings of Nicholas Carr's article.” READ MORE.
A team of
consultants have penned an interesting article on companies and corporate IT
for the current issue of the McKinsey Quarterly.
“Business and IT managers at some
leading companies have been working together to change the way information
technology supports the enterprise. As a result, they have cut the cost of IT,
made it easier to change the business, avoided the constraints of inflexible
support systems, and increased the participation of business leaders in the
management of IT.” READ
MORE.
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