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News Release from: Fieldbus Foundation | Subject: AIChE annual meeting
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2004
Fieldbus seminar planned at AIChE annual
meeting
FF and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers announce they are co-sponsoring a full-day workshop on Foundation fieldbus technology at the AIChE 2004 annual meeting, November 7, 2004 in Texas
The Fieldbus Foundation and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) today announced they are co-sponsoring a full-day workshop on Foundation fieldbus technology at the AIChE 2004 annual meeting, to be held at the Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, November 7, 2004 The workshop will provide valuable information and hands-on instruction for industrial end-users implementing fieldbus-based control strategies
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Mr Chuck Carter of the Lee College Fieldbus Center in Baytown, Texas, will lead the seminar morning session.
Mr Carter will introduce the basic concepts of Foundation fieldbus technology.
Items covered will include: What is fieldbus? Messaging; function blocks; link active scheduler; and a comparison of Foundation fieldbus versus traditional instrumentation systems.
Mr Carter has extensive experience in fieldbus training, as well as a career spanning several decades in plant automation and maintenance.
During the afternoon session, Mr Bob Shervin, PCM project manager, Shell Deer Park Refining Company, will describe the recent renovation and re-instrumentation of a cat cracker unit at Shell Deer Park, Texas, refinery.
In addition, Dr Tom Edgar, distinguished professor on the graduate faculty at the University of Texas, and co-director of the Texas/Wisconsin Modelling and Control Consortium, and Chris Lewis, staff engineer, will describe their work on advanced control and the use of Fieldbus Foundation technology at the University of Texas JJPickle Research facility.
Mr Larry West of Broadly-James Corp., a systems integrator firm, will also describe the application of Foundation fieldbus at a bio-reactor facility.
The registration fee for the Foundation fieldbus seminar is USD495 for general attendees, and USD395 for students.
For registration information, visit the AIChE website.
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