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By Marcos Taccolini Track: Wireless This presentation will give a description on the combined technologies that are modeling the next generation on industrial automation software and the key features those tools will now deliver. As practical examples, some potential applications using cloud technologies with be reviewed.

By Michael Macchiarelli Track: Wireless Attendees will leave this presentation with a comprehensive understanding of energy harvesting technology and the benefit and value of utilizing off-grid solar power to reduce maintenance and operating cost.

The iPad and Microsoft .NET, Unified SCADA Environment will present the solutions and standards used to create a SCADA, HMI, and MES engineering framework, which allows deploying applications, with safety and efficiency, in this current distributed scenario.

By John Barth Track: Wireless A new generation of automated intelligence tools for project management, procedure execution and other key tasks running on real-time wireless can drastically change the way you do turnarounds at your facility - for the better. One investment - perpetual return.

By Dick Caro Track: Wireless This session gives a summary of the failed attempt to develop a method to converge the two wireless standards, both directed at the same market, and a third standard that has also emerged to further cloud the issue.

The "Father of the PLC," Dick Morley, will host an interactive discussion, offering attendees a rare opportunity to sit and talk with one of the best known legends of automation.

On Thursday, 27 September 2012 from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m., don’t miss the panel discussion "The Best of the ISA Mentor Program – Building the Future" where Greg McMillan and Hunter Vegas will review the highlights of the ISA Mentor program and discuss the accomplishments of their protégés and other opportunities for improvements, including the need for more mentors.

By Michel Ruel Track: Control Performance Fuzzy logic control is used when an experienced operator has better control over a process than a PID or a MPC controller. This paper presents a successful example of a multi-variable fuzzy logic controller.

By R. Russell Rhinehart Track: Control Performance This tutorial will present the concepts behind two SISO nonlinear process-model based controllers that can be implemented in-house - Generic Model Control (GMC) using steady-state (SS) models and Process-Model Based Control (PMBC).

By Jeremy Pollard Track: Asset Performance While every process and application is different, I will make the case for why you should do it, and how some simple steps can begin your trek down the predictive maintenance path.

By Yuichiro Yamaguchi Track: Safety/Environmental The objectives in the development of the battery-powered electromagnetic flowmeter are to maintain the original performance of mains-powered electromagnetic and to have long battery life. To achieve these, Toshiba employs the method of residual magnetism excitation, which will be introduced in this presentation.

By Greg Hale, Chief Safety Officer and Vice President, Worldwide Standards and Auditing, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Hear Greg's unique viewpoint on how technologies cross industrial boundaries and his perspective on automation technology as it relates to his industry, and the application of these technologies in the process and discrete industries.

By Connie Harryman Track: Human Performance Virtual Creative Problem Solving is a process, and you can use it in your daily work to gain an understanding of your team's strengths and of an individual’s roles and responsibilities. By Mastering Creative Problem Solving, you reap the benefits of Virtual High Performance Teams.

By Nevena Iordanova Track: Safety/Environmental The Energy Optimization/Management session describes Armstrong’s resource/tool called the Steam System Dashboard that easily allows engineers to analyze and monitor data already collected by the plant.

By Jon DiPietro Track: Human Performance Nearly nine out of every 10 employers are looking to social media to find employees, and almost three-quarters of them will search for your online profile before you come in for an interview. What will they find?

By Steve Huffman Track: Human Performance As competitive pressures increase, automation professionals will need expanded skill sets in an ever increasing system integrated world. This session deals with Automation Federation’s strategies and efforts to meet the workforce challenge.

By Danaca Jordan Track: Control Performance During Wednesday’s Control Performance Track session on "Efficient Operations Starts with Control Performance," we will use an ongoing case study to demonstrate how process control improvements can still be accomplished around a hectic schedule.

By Flávio P. Briguente (Monsanto) and Greg McMillan (CDI Process & Industrial) Track: Control Performance In batch processes, control becomes more complicated because of the variability of level, pressure, and concentrations. For this particular case, the process consists of a batch reactor, an external shell-and-tube heat exchanger with cooling tower water flow on the shell side.

At ISA Automation Week, Perpetuum will show how their Vibration Energy Harvesters can eliminate the need for battery replacement even at data collection update rates faster than 5 seconds.