PlantSuccess Newsletter
Volume IV, Issue 3
Dear Subscriber:
Five years
ago, I knew what I wanted this new conference to be like but I didn’t have a
name. It came to me in the middle of the night and this time I had paper and
pencil on the nightstand. PlantSuccess is the perfect name, because of our
focus on the process industry and the word “success.” We have recruited many of
our industry’s most successful managers as speakers, attendees and sponsors and
made stories of successful implementations of engineering IT available for
downloading to hundreds of people designing and operating process plants around
the world.
In that
ledger with the heading that reads: PROBLEM or SOLUTION, we are pleased to be
part of the solution. We play a small part distributing knowledge and
experience regarding engineering IT and its impact on business derivers, work
processes and integration requirements; we are grateful to all of those who are
a part of this community. I frequently get positive reports on the opportunity
we provide to managers to share their stories of success and on the
contribution these stories have elsewhere. There is still a long way to travel.
We will
take another step, 22 April at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake
with PlantSuccess Gulf Coast 2003. We will continue the theme “Best
Practices Driving Plant Performance;” Tom Jefferson, Bayer’s Director of
Production and Technical for Polymers IS will be keynote.
As keynote,
Jefferson follows a long line of successful executives from DuPont, Rohm and
Haas, Bayer Corp, Dow Chemical, Air Products and Exxon. These presentations are
among the most popular for downloading. Jefferson will “set the conference
table” for another roster of outstanding speakers.
If you like
to be with and learn from successful people, join us in Houston in April and visit
us often at www.PlantSuccess.com for
more information.
Carl Howk,
Chairman
770-565-3282
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Chemical Industry Calls
for Increase in Natural Gas Supply
The global recession took a toll on the chemicals and other
capital-intensive industries; another major problem is looming with the
continuing absence of a comprehensive energy plan, a gas supply shortage and
rapidly rising prices. The current political environment and the presidential
election are likely to delay the solution to this problem.
CEO’s from major chemical companies (all active in the American
Chemistry Council) call for, “ a concerted national effort to conserve
energy, federal action to expedite drilling permits, royalty relief for
deep-well drilling, and the creation of a political consensus to open promising
new areas for responsible natural gas production.” READ
MORE.
Ten Technologies
That Refuse to Die
Last
Newsletter we cited “10 Emerging
Technologies That Will Change Your World.” In this issue, from the same source, MIT’s
Technology Review, we look
at technology from a new (perhaps old) perspective and consider technologies
that refuse to die and are found in products ranging from analog watches to
Fortran. READ MORE.
What
You Can Learn from the 25 Most Influential Leaders of Our Times
From Knowledge@Wharton, under the heading
Leadership and Change. Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel, won the No. 1 position; the list also
includes Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, John Bogle, Jeff Bezos, Jack Welch and
Oprah Winfrey. We can all learn from those who have been as successful as
these leaders. READ
MORE.
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Full links to Volume IV, Issue 3 Newsletter articles:
2. http://accnewsmedia.com/docs/1500/1414.pdf
3. http://accnewsmedia.com/site/page.asp?TRACKID=&VID=1&CID=253&DID=974
4. http://www.techreview.com/articles/scigliano0204.asp
5. http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/emerging0204.asp
6. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&ID=931