daratechPLANT2004
Asset Lifecycle Management: Creation through Decommissioning
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January 19 - 21, 2004 • Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA |
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NEW! Plant Issues Article: Process & Power Industry Headaches, Trends & ObservationsPlant Issues Article: Process Industry Places Intense Scrutiny on New Technology InvestmentsNEW! Press Release: daratechPLANT2004 Sets Owner/Operator, EPC Attendance RecordPress Release: Owner/Operator Priorities Shift |
Strategies for Today's Challenges:
Background & PurposeOwner/operator priorities have shifted dramatically. As challenging economic times, the war on terror, and sector-specific woes buffet the process and power industries, cutting costs has become the number one priority of almost everyone in the industry. True, some principally in the oil and gas sector continue investing in big projects, but most are cutting costs by upgrading or optimizing existing facilities, especially where there is an opportunity to get quick returns for relatively small up-front investments. Re-engineering engineering, that is to say restructuring engineering departments, has also started to take hold. While some are drastically trimming head-counts and sending more and more work outside, others are organizing their engineering departments into wholly owned subsidiaries that have to compete with outside EPCs. Yes, the engineering function at owner/operators is in transition with many new lessons to be learned and new pitfalls to avoid. Meanwhile, with spending for new construction and major revamps down, EPCs are adjusting their offerings and turning elsewhere for work. Traditionally, daratechPLANT has focused on cases, best practices and new ideas for streamlining work processes, information flow and knowledge management. It was all about ways to accelerate time to money. This year’s conference is about cost cutting, the problems this can create and solutions to these problems. We’ll hear from people who are reducing costs by integrating their plant creation knowledge with plant operations and maintenance work processes. There are sessions and work groups focused on cost-effective ways to integrate ERP with engineering data. And you’ll be hearing about strategies for low-cost plant optimization upgrades, and the ways to overcome the confusion and fear that cultural changes that accompany reduced headcounts and new work processes always impose. More and more government regulations are creating mountains of documents that must be maintained in ways mandated by government agencies. We’ll be evaluating new and improved IT solutions that undertake these daunting error-prone tasks at interactive breakout sessions where you’ll have a chance to network with people making similar evaluations. As always, deciding whether to continue with in-house developed software or switch to a commercial product that never quite does what is needed continues to bedevil both users and IT departments. On the one hand, software development and maintenance tools have become much better and more productive. On the other hand commercial software is often, but not always, less expensive to own and operate, and frequently embodies additional useful adjacent functionality. We’ll be discussing the basis for making these difficult decisions yet again in the light of so many new high-quality software offerings that claim they’re easily integrated into users’ current systems. Asset lifecycle management—also referred to as plant lifecycle management or PLM—is something that has been advocated at daratechPLANT for some time. Asset lifecycle management components that are today “new and improved” include data-centric systems, information backbones, PPO data management, assorted data-centric applications, intelligent owner/operator-oriented P&ID systems and more. What are the true capabilities and drawbacks of these new creations in the context of the asset lifecycle vision, and what are the real costs and benefits of implementing them? What is the real cost of creating, integrating, deploying and maintaining and renewing a far-reaching integrated system for the life of a plant? And do the benefits justify the cost and the possible disruptions that almost always occur when new untested systems are deployed? What is the experience in the field? These and other related questions will be another theme of this year’s daratechPLANT. Another new area of concentration for the conference is operations and maintenance. This very important component of owner/operator profitability is frequently neglected in the plant creation phases of a project and becomes an additional unexpected and sometimes difficult and expensive diversion during commissioning and early production. We will be discussing how to connect the requirements of M&O with the business case for plant creation so as to ensure they are not overlooked when the engineering data is first created. Emerging from all quarters are ideas for reducing the total installed cost of both new and revamped production assets while controlling project execution risks and compressing time-to-revenue. Strategies for heightening operational and maintenance efficiency through better decision-making during design and construction are also coming to the fore, underpinned by new approaches to fostering data and information flow from conceptual and detail design through construction, operations and maintenance. Some of these are practical and sure to become tomorrow’s standards. Others are utopian, short-term, impractical or unrealistic, and will either be forgotten, or reemerge in a decade or so when technology catches up with their vision. For petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, power, chemicals, offshore and shipbuilding owner/operators and EPCs, recognizing which is which and understanding the relevance, cost/benefits, justification metrics, strategic underpinnings and drawbacks of great ideas with promise is of critical importance, as are best practices for implementing them and creating the IT infrastructure necessary to support them. Also on the agenda is the urgent reexamination of brownfield work processes as emerging technologies have created opportunities to drive down project cost and risk, in revamps and retrofits. daratechPLANT2004 will inspire you to think through this maze. You’ll hear from daratechPLANT2004’s blue-ribbon panels and high-level presenters. You’ll participate in interactive breakout sessions with people that are working through similar problems. And you’ll network with a select international group of professionals and have the opportunity to establish relationships that will support your professional development. If you plan to attend just one industry event in the next 12 months, make it daratechPLANT2004. In the general sessions, breakouts, discussion groups and corridor conversations you’ll discover what works and what doesn’t, the critical strategic and business-case justifications, and the risks involved. This is where industry leaders, trend-setters and innovators come to network and refresh their resolve to meet the coming year’s challenges. And this is where vendors with something new and exciting show their wares and share their vision. See the conference Web site www.daratech.com/plant2004 for the most up-to-date list of speakers, sessions and working-group descriptions. daratechPLANT2004’s Co-Sponsors are the world’s leading suppliers of plant creation, operation, maintenance and work process management solutions including Alias Limited, Aspen Technology, Inc., Bentley Systems, Incorporated, BitWyse Solutions, Inc., CEA Systems Inc., Citadon, Inc., COADE, Inc., Cyra Technologies, Inc./Leica Geosystems, Documentum, Inc., FileNet Corporation, innotec, Inc., Intergraph Process, Power & Offshore, Invensys SimSci-Esscor, McLaren Software Ltd., Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Process Industry Practices, and SAP. All these will be on hand to conduct breakout sessions, showcase and demo new solutions, and share their vision. ABOUT daratechPLANT Today, daratechPLANT is recognized worldwide as the premier place to meet and network for project engineers, information technology professionals as well as business development managers, asset managers and chief information officers. It is also the place to meet with the CEOs and other top executives and technologists of the world’s leading process and power IT solution providers. The conference program has been specifically designed to provide ample opportunity for individuals to meet informally one-on-one, or in the context of the many topical discussion groups conducted at the conference. New this year, will be a supplier-free zone where owner/operators and EPCs can meet and network without the intrusion of salespeople. An interpreter of trends and a trendsetter for the last ten years, daratechPLANT has consistently and correctly communicated, predicted and validated new developments in process and power industry IT including the concepts of lifecycle data management; Web-based collaborative work processes; integration of process simulation and FEL, laser scanning and close-range photogrammetry for as-built modeling, automated pipe routing and many more industry concepts and practices that are today taken for granted. |
Hear from Industry LeadersOwner/Operators Frank A. Udo Kirk Wilson Geert-Jan de Laat Robert Donaho Dirk Hanewacker Mark Cox Jack DeBrunner Dave Jasper J. Steven Morgan Tad Fry Clinton A. Whitehead Toralf Mueller Susan
Jones Tom Jefferson Randall Sylvester Drew Wildman Stephen T. Halderman Michael
Raible Marleen Devos Engineering/Procurement/Construction K.C. Choi Jerry Barnes Jim
Humphries Bert Aragon Glenn
Gilkey Shuji Nagano Jim Leitch Michael M. Cate Ashish Shah Andreas
Rumpel Ashok Kumar Vakamudi Lee Tallent Gregory B. Lawes Mark Christenson Maurissa Douglas Darrell Delahoussaye Michael
Lederhose Yogesh Srivastava Industry Experts Dr.
William Grossmann
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daratechPLANT2004 Co-Sponsors To learn what our co-sponsors have to say about themselves and their Breakout Sessions, please make a selection below: Co-Sponsor PresentersAndy
Osborne Kyle
Loudermilk Nick Dunlop Jeffrey Hollings Brian
Ahern Maurice
De Clercq Thomas
J. Van Laan, P.E. Geoff Jacobs Naomi
Miller David
Brazier Enrique Saavedra Ben
Eazzetta Alastair
Fraser Paul
Muir Marisé Mikulis Rimi Bewtra Hisham
Gouda Joseph P. Morray, Jr. Speaking Opportunities Co-Sponsorship Opportunities Future Conference Dates
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