Management Path
The challenges that engineering and automation management professionals face are unique and carry great responsibility. Management issues and concerns will be specifically addressed and woven into each of the Technical Tracks through the Management Path as defined by PathFinder.
Follow the Management Path at ISA Automation Week and attend sessions covering topics both technical and operational aspects such as regulations, required shutdowns and its procedures and legal implications, enterprise integration, Smart Grid technologies, and more. The Management Path will also provide sessions related to workforce development issues, such as building development programs for automation professionals, how to use technology to educate the new automation professional, project management, to name a few.
View the Management Path at ISA Automation Week:
- Next Generation Energy Management Using Smart Grid Technologies and Tactics
Tuesday, 5 October 10:30 a.m.
Track:
Path(s): Management
The majority of publicity concerning the Smart Grid has covered new Smart Meters and future applications that target the consumer market. A great deal of research and development has been undertaken to make electric power consumption visible to the consumer, and thus more controllable. - Educating the Automation Professionals—Are Our Colleges and Industry Doing Enough?
Tuesday, 5 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Human Asset Optimization
Path(s): Management Academia/R&D/Scientist
A panel of college professors and automation leaders will discuss educating the next generation of automation professionals. How are we educating our future Automation Engineers? Are our colleges filling the need and developing young adults who have all the needed skills? Should industry leaders be doing more to prevent the expected future shortage of qualified automation professionals? - Convergence of Standards and Organizations
Tuesday, 5 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Wireless & Networking
Path(s): Engineer Management
Field Device Integration (FDI) and what it means for the the cooperation of organizations and the convergence of standards. - What are Users Doing to Secure Their Industrial Control Systems?
Tuesday, 5 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Security
Path(s): Engineer Management
This panel session offers attendees a glimpse into what practices end users have been successfully implementing as part of their industrial control systems security programs. With the advancement of ISA-99, emergence of regulatory requirements such as NERC CIP, and an increase in research and development into securing industrial controls systems across many industry sectors, this session offers insight into effective practices using real lessons learned. Panelists from various companies will present an overview of their scope of practices and experience, and will then debate and take audience questions and comments. - EPA Regulations
Tuesday, 5 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Environmental
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
Moderated session on future regulations that are in the works. - Identification of Required Shutdowns—Procedures and Legal Implications
Tuesday, 5 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Management Academia/R&D/Scientist
Open Q&A with a panel of end users, safety consultants, and legal authorities discussing the process of identifying required safety instrumented functions with a focusing on PHA & LOPA as a design tool and legal implications. - Safety Field Bus for the Process Industry
Tuesday, 5 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
Open Q&A with a panel of experts representing different “bus” communication technologies available for use in the process industry. - Alarm Management Best Practices
Tuesday, 5 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Automation & Control
Path(s): Engineer Management
Industrial alarm management has emerged as an important plant controls operator support tool. Properly applied, alarm improvement efforts will result in better plant operations, safer production and reduced plant maintenance costs. The three papers in this session discuss good engineering practices in the implementation of an alarm management system. - Leverage Maintenance and Operations Information to Recover Hidden Costs
Tuesday, 5 October 1:30 p.m.
Track:
Path(s): Management
Despite the potential benefits of improving the collaboration between maintenance and operations, initiatives consistently fail with high degree of predictability due to the lack of measureable benefits. However, the sharing of key information between maintenance and operations can improve production availability and utilization leading to reductions in asset maintenance cost and production cost by increasing product quality. This session will identify appropriate Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions and discuss available information from each solution and the potential benefits for maintenance and operations. APM solutions discussed include maintenance solutions (Enterprise Asset Management, Plant Asset Management, and Reliability) and operation solutions (process optimization, intelligent field devices, and ODR). - Lifecycle of a Vulnerability from Detection through Mitigation
Tuesday, 5 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Security
Path(s): Engineer Management
This session brings together several leading security experts to discuss effective practices in testing and discovering vulnerabilities, understanding and addressing vulnerabilities, and what to do once a vulnerability is found from both an end user and an owner perspective. - Project Management for Wireless and Networking
Tuesday, 5 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Wireless & Networking
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
An interactive workshop with panel style questions and answers. - Process Analyzer Marketplace Update
Tuesday, 5 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Environmental
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
Discussion of the Process Analyzer Industry Market. - Energy Security
Tuesday, 5 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Energy
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management Academia/R&D/Scientist
Security is a great challenge in today's energy industry. This session will deal with Cyber Security and Smart Grid security and control issues. - Enterprise Integration—How and Why to Do It
Tuesday, 5 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Automation & Control
Path(s): Engineer Management
This session will focus on practical examples of MES deployment and highlight a number of approaches in terms of integration and deployment. The end to end theme will cover Business, Technical and Operational aspects, and key enablers and pre-requisites will be discussed. A session to share theory and practice and take a closer look from an after action review perspective! - Challenges Attracting the Next Generation of Automation Professional
Wednesday, 6 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Human Asset Optimization
Path(s): Engineer Management Academia/R&D/Scientist
This session captures the tools and processes needed to attract and educate new automation professionals. Many automation professionals are retiring and young adults in increasing numbers will be needed to design and implement automation. - Alarm Management and the Functional Safety Lifecycle
Wednesday, 6 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Management
Operator overloading with alarms is a major problem that results from increased automation in the industry. The introduction of layer of protection analysis results in increased claims for operators being a layer of protection. To effectively use operators as protection layers, alarm rationalization is a must. This tutorial will relate alarm management and functional safety and provide an introduction to the ISA S18 standard. - Justifying Technology Selection
Wednesday, 6 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Automation & Control
Path(s): Management Marketing
This session will review methods being used to select automation technology levels and provide business justification on the economic value automation technology brings. - Dinosaur Process Analysis Technologies—Are They for Real?
Wednesday, 6 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Environmental
Path(s): Engineer Management
In this tutorial, a case will be made that there has not been any benchmarks set for what the characteristic of an ideal process analyzer might be. The tutorial will make an attempt to develop some consensus as to what these key attributes might be and then rate our current measurement technologies in terms of meeting these criteria. An attempt will also be made to identify technology trends (e.g. miniaturization of sensors/analyzers) that could significantly impact process analyzer technologies of the future. - Secure Remote Access to ICS Networks
Wednesday, 6 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Security
Path(s): Engineer Management
Security and operational requirements for ICS Systems are often at opposite sides of the pendulum. While Corporate Risk and Security teams are often interested in closing off systems and isolating them from outside threats, the Operations side has real business drivers and needs to open up ICS systems to either internal employees, contractors, system integrators, or vendors for troubleshooting and maintenance work. The challenge lies in how to provide remote access to ICS systems in a secure manner. - Emerging Research and Development in ICS Security
Wednesday, 6 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Security
Path(s): Engineer Management
- Loop Tuning. One Size does not Fit All
Wednesday, 6 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Automation & Control
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management Academia/R&D/Scientist Marketing
This panel/debate on loop tuning methods will present solutions to problems submitted in advanced. Four experts will have to present how they would tune loops for 4 cases. They will debate on methods and best practices. Models and context will be sent to them in advance and a simulator will be used to demonstrate results. - Asset Management for Energy Sources and Generation
Wednesday, 6 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Energy
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
Asset management is an issue in all industries and has become especially important in the energy industry. This session will address the needs of asset management for the energy industry and the methods used to address the asset management issues. - SIS/Alarm Management Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 6 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
This roundtable/panel discussion will be an open question and answer session with 5 experienced expert and active members of the ISA84/ISA18 committees. The panelists represent major end users, consultants, and engineering/construction firms. There is no need to be bored with yet another basic presentation that you’ve probably already heard! Come play hardball with the experts! Ask questions that you won’t get answered anywhere else. - The User Experience
Wednesday, 6 October 1:30 p.m.
Track: Wireless & Networking
Path(s): Management Marketing
Open Q&A with a panel of technology users. Focus on wireless and digital networks. Topics include lessons learned, savings realized, and future directions. - Process Control Performance Measurement
Wednesday, 6 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Automation & Control
Path(s): Engineer Management
This session will present methods and metrics on process control performance. How do we put numbers on performance? How many performance indices do we need? What is common to all plants? Can we use something similar to OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)? - What’s Up with SIS?
Wednesday, 6 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Safety
Path(s): Technician Management Academia/R&D/Scientist Marketing
With over 20 years of work, you would think that the ISA 84 committee would be done with issuing standards and guidance on using instrumentation and controls in safety applications. But, new technology and improved practices ensure that the committee remains very active. This tutorial will discuss draft standard ISA 84.91.01, expected changes to ISA 84.00.01, the latest efforts on technical reports, and their impact on you. - Demystifying ICS Security Certification Options
Wednesday, 6 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Security
Path(s): Management
This paper session focuses on the topic of security certification for industrial automation and control systems. - Building an Automation Professional Development Program
Wednesday, 6 October 3:30 p.m.
Track: Human Asset Optimization
Path(s): Management
The objective is to present a path forward on how to implement a structured Automation Professional Development Program for their own company and be aware of the pitfalls others have encountered during that journey. - How to Use Technology to Educate New Automation Professionals
Thursday, 7 October 8:30 a.m.
Track: Human Asset Optimization
Path(s): Engineer Management
With the current demographic shift of retiring baby boomers, many companies are losing the knowledge that was been acquired over years of experience. This session will outline technologies and methods of knowledge management that companies can utilize transfer the skills, knowledge, and lessons learned to the next generation of automation professionals - Alarm Management
Thursday, 7 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Energy
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
Alarm Management for the energy industry. - Future Direction of Wireless and Networking in Process Control
Thursday, 7 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Wireless & Networking
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management Academia/R&D/Scientist Marketing
Q&A with a panel of users and vendors. Insight into the direction of the market and the expectations. - Building the Automation Workforce of Tomorrow through Collaborative Partnership
Thursday, 7 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Human Asset Optimization
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management Academia/R&D/Scientist Marketing
The objective is to present a path forward on how to implement a structured Automation Professional Development Program and be aware of the pitfalls others have encountered during that journey. - Analyzer Shelter Safety Concerns
Thursday, 7 October 10:30 a.m.
Track: Environmental
Path(s): Engineer Technician Management
Specialist from Analyzer Industry Approach to Shelter Safety.
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