Confirmed Speakers
R. Eric Bevevino
Business Manager, Industrial and Integrated Solutions
ChevronTexaco
Michael Brady
Vice President, Technology Division
Parsons Corporation
Jehu Burton
Project Manager
Dupont Engineering
Brian Chang
Chairman & CEO
Yantai Raffles
James Close
Senior Systems Analyst
Alstom Power Inc.
Deborah Deats
Manager, Design and Documentation
BP
Tragically, Troy Di Natali of READCo, a respected and much loved member of the datatechPLANT family, was killed in an automobile accident in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 3, 2006. We mourn his passing and offer heartfelt condolences to his family. We know that many of you who gained so much from him over the years will want to do the same.
Troy Di Natali
President and Principal Engineer
READCo, Inc.
Tim Finigan
Senior Director, Performance Technologies, Operations & Maintenance
Fluor Corporation
Ziyad M. J. Ghulam
Engineering Drawing Services
Saudi Aramco
Jerry Gipson
Director of Integrated Engineering Solutions Technology Center
Dow Chemicals
Rosli Abdul Hamid
CEO, GB3 Sdn. Nhd & Head of LCAIM
Malakoff Berhad
Dirk Hanewacker
ex-Alstom Power
Dean Harvey
Global Technical Training Manager, Applied Technologies
Baker Energy
Raju Hingorani
Vice President, IT Operations Services
Jacobs Engineering
Kevin Hunter
IT Manager, Business Solutions
Lyondell Chemicals
Ric Jackson
Director
FIATECH
Robert Jackson
Principal Project Manager
Parsons Commercial and Technology Group, Inc
Faith Junghans
Director, Technology Communications
CH2M Hill
Tim Killen
Bechtel Group, Inc. (retired)
Felipe Leyva
Director of Maintenance and Operations PEP
PEMEX Exploration Production
Junichi Masukawa
Deputy General Manager, IT Management Center
Chiyoda Corporation
Frank-Peter Ritsche
PMP, Project Management Initiative
Framatome ANP Germany
Burt Rosenbluth
Project Management Technology Program Manager
ConocoPhilips
Nils Sandsmark
Head of Business Development
DNV Information Quality Management
Woody Saylor
Vice President, Commercial Management, Southeast Power Region
Calpine Power Company
Jere Schneck
Director, Global Engineering
Air Products & Chemicals
Shashank Shah
Senior Principal Process Engineer
Air Products & Chemicals
Yogesh Srivastava
Senior Project Information Manager
Fluor Canada Ltd.
Sandy Vasser
Facilities Instrumentation and Electrical Manager
ExxonMobil Development Company
John Voeller
Representative to the National Science & Technology Committee, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
Department of Homeland Security;
Senior Vice President, Chief Knowledge Officer, Chief Technology Officer
Black & Veatch
Jay West
Technology Development Manager
BE&K
Background & Purpose
Fast tracking of projects — whether it be a retrofit or the construction of a new plant — requires out-of-the-box thinking and quick, decisive action that often short-circuits traditional processes and controls. What suffers is predictability. Costs can spiral way beyond worst case estimates, and schedules can stretch to where the rationale for fast tracking the project is defeated. We'll be taking a close look at fast-tracked projects to find strategies that shorten design and construction time while maintaining a high level of predictability of costs and schedules.
Schedule compression, cost reduction, safety, business- and engineering-process enhancements, six-sigma quality, and practices that bring these about through the strategic deployment of technologies that solve real problems and enhance collaboration are at the heart of daratechPLANT conferences. Collaterally, daratechPLANT also focuses on how knowledge contained in the countless islands of digital information created during the business planning, plant creation, construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance phases of the plant lifecycle can be correlated, managed and deployed to make better-informed decisions.
This year, we'll tackle these objectives in the context of the opportunities created by the rising price of oil for the fast tracking of new construction, retrofit, and more reliable production — as well as examining the challenges posed by hurricanes, earthquakes and other destructive natural phenomena that lead to the fast tracking of repair and rebuilding projects.
Information exchange and interoperation between applications has been, and continues to be, an estimated $10 billion per year unnecessary cost for EPCs and Owner/Operators in the chemical, nuclear & power, offshore, oil & gas and pharmaceutical and food processing industries. daratechPLANT2006 will feature new approaches to this vexing problem and launch new initiatives in this area with the help of this sector's major software providers and non-profit associations.
New this year is our "Emerging Technologies Pavilion" that will showcase innovative, groundbreaking hardware and software solutions from fledgling companies and from entrepreneurs still in the pre-startup phase. Daratech is offering five grants to the most interesting of these innovators to help them connect with the marketplace. This will be an opportunity to see what's coming and influence the direction of their R&D.
daratechPLANT has proven to be the premier industry meeting place for business development executives — people with C- and V-titles in engineering, operations and information technology, project engineers and others looking to network with, and learn from, their peers. It brings together experts in the areas of business development, asset creation, lifecycle management, instrumentation, real-time operations and plant maintenance. Our tradition of excellence continues in 2006: you'll discover innovative methods of work; successes and solutions to problems with established technologies; and how your peers are implementing and benefiting from today's best practices. As ever, daratechPLANT continues to be a showcase of the most innovative ideas, practices and technologies from around the world. Don't miss it.
Asset Lifecycle Management
Record oil prices and natural disasters are fueling fast-tracked plant construction, reconstruction and retrofit to both restore and boost capacity. Discover the best practices that avoid the pitfalls of fast-tracked plant creation, makeover and repair.
Bad decisions are often the result of bad information. However, far too often they are the result of no information at all. Worse, the information needed to make good decisions frequently exists, but is locked up in a place that's inaccessible to the people who need it. Some of this results from an out-of-date IT infrastructure or poor planning. But far too often the reason is lack of compatibility and interoperability between the decision support solutions used by the author of the data and the data consumer. At daratechPLANT2006 you'll discover what's being done about this chronic problem by technology providers and others, and how OOs and EPCs plan to improve their IT infrastructures to solve these problems.
Instrumentation and Real-Time Operations
Instrumentation and real-time operations solutions have proven to be invaluable in achieving lean and agile manufacturing, high productivity and profitability, maximum up-time, fast recovery, safety and consistent product quality. At the same time, wireless sensors and Web-based private networks are adding a new dimension to the scope and role of plant instrumentation. All of this puts pressure on instrumentation engineers and IT managers to make their new-generation instrumentation and real-time operations solutions become a mainstream part of plant lifecycle information systems. Discover how your peers are moving instrumentation and operations solutions from tactical point solutions to a more strategic role.
We'll also be looking at the position of the plant operator in highly automated operations, particularly during abnormal situations. You'll discover intelligent engineering tools that integrate with control systems to give owners new opportunities to increase plant efficiency, as well as a whole universe of new applications and methods of work spawned by wireless sensors. These are just a few of the nuggets of value that you will discover in this track.
Maintenance & Operations
Designing in more uptime through better reliability and maintenance efficiency will be more common when the business model for asset creation is realistically tied to the cost of maintenance and the cost of business lost due to down-time. Some believe the problem occurs because the people charged with contracting for a new plant or a retrofit are too often not accountable for how efficiently it operates.
The requirements of plant maintenance have traditionally not been a major consideration during the plant design phase. This is the reason why too many maintenance efforts are more costly and time-consuming than necessary. Some understand the value of addressing maintenance issues up-front in the creation of a plant and are making investments early on that allow for greater flexibility and increased reliability. The question for most is: "How can this be achieved at our company?" We'll be putting this important question under the microscope.
There's more. Your peers will reveal how Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) improve maintenance operations, whether it is better to outsource plant maintenance or keep it in-house, and how users of new, cutting-edge laser scanning technology apply it to maintenance. This track will deliver answers as well as reveal new maintenance technologies and best practices used by your peers.
