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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.

By Marion Skerrette Track: Asset Performance This presentation seeks to examine areas of the business such as loop tuning, plant monitoring, facility management, planning, HSE, and alternate routes.

Two product suppliers joined the Rockwell Automation Encompass third-party product referencing program, while four partners joined the Rockwell Automation OEM Partner program.

ABB will supply an HPGR drive system comprising two squirrel cage induction motors, two ACS1000 frequency converters and two converter transformers.

ABB will supply three 7.4MW induction motors, ACS6000 frequency converters, transformers, medium voltage cubicles, chiller units and system engineering for semiautogenous (SAG) mills.

Automation Week: Partners Technical Content Line Up

By James Christensen Track: Asset Performance Development of the Second Edition of the IEC 61499 Standard for the use of Function Blocks in distributed, intelligent automation, and control has been completed. Managers and engineers attending this session will learn key aspects of the stnadard.

3eTI has two senior executives presenting three informative sessions based on its military-grade, ISA100 wireless mesh solutions. Each of the case studies will discuss the challenges faced by the various government or military agencies and how each of these solutions can be adapted for industrial use.

By Mike Fahrion Track: Wireless Devices are making strides in power efficiency, with remarkable gains in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, in particular. Combined with ongoing improvements in power sourcing and storage for low-power applications, it means devices will become increasingly independent.

By Dave Adler Track: Human Performance Automation projects can be a challenging activity. I have found there are many ways to do automation that causes the automation team to fail to meet all of these objectives. Using project management tools and processes can improve the chances of success.

By David Strohbar Track: Human Performance This session highlights the scientific approach to human performance improvement through work done by Center for Operator Performance members and researchers.

By Graham Nasby Track: Asset Performance In this session, attendees will learn about how to use automation master planning to develop facility automation standards to guide the effective long-term use of automation technology in a cost-effective manner.

By Sarah Prinster Track: Wireless Frequently, the cost benefits of using wireless are clearly understood, however, there is no one type of wireless technology that solves all problems. In order to maximize the value of industrial wireless networking investment, companies must be able to select the best technology for a given application.

By Rajeev Limaye Track: Safety/Environmental This presentation focuses on the design considerations when alarm is used as an Independent Protection Layer—whether or not the instruments and sensors can be shared between different protection layers and how they could be arranged in fault-tolerant configurations to achieve safety, reliability, and independence.

By George Buckbee The line-up includes papers on topics ranging from control hardware to performance improvement and advanced control techniques. Presenters from around the world will give you insight into new and different ways to address control problems.

By Maurice Wilkins Over a three-day period, the Human Performance Track explores all aspects of the process industries from a human perspective from how things are done today to how they may be done tomorrow and also some ideas about how to get in on the act.

By John S. Mitchell Inclusion of condition assessment information into process control and SCADA systems has extended the knowledge base and made operators more aware of production limiting mechanical condition.

The last two days have been filled with fun — MAVERICK Technologies CEO and Founder, Paul Galeski, was honored with the Excellence in Leadership Award and also announced a multi-year partnership with ISA.

The new guidelines and monitoring methods, Part of the IEC/IEEE 62582 Series, will help ensure the safety of electrical equipment used at nuclear power plant sites.

By Graham Speake The threat to all companies is real whether it is from virus, worms, and other malware or from a determined hacker inside or outside your company. Large companies who take security seriously and have the luxury of budgetary and manpower availability are not immune from attack and compromise.

By Brad Carlberg This overview includes highlights of three sessions titled, "Plant-wide Wireless," "Energy Harvesting: Powering your Wireless Devices," and "Improving Plant Operations with Wireless."

Earlier today, Progea gained the interest of their audience at the Technology Solutions Theater 2 with their presentation titled, "NeXt Generation SCADA Software: Framework for a Future of Success."