ISA EXPO 2007 Keynote Presentations:
Bringing Industry Leaders to You
Join us for our daily keynote presentations where today’s visionaries share their expertise with you. Learn from the best!
Tuesday Keynote
Assuring Safety and Security Performance—Establishing the Right Culture
2 October, 12:00 noon
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J.S. (Steve) Arendt |
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Many traditional approaches to safety and security risk management exist. Recent approaches build upon the use of standards blending performance-based flexibility and risk assessment. New technology and management systems are used to ensure that these risks are controlled in a dependable fashion. Nonetheless, accidents and incidents still occur and industry is seeking ways to take safety and security to the next level. The keys to continuous improvement are layered controls, effectively learning from incidents, and evaluating and correcting process safety and security culture dysfunctions within organizations.
Mr. Arendt has more than 29 years experience in chemical process safety and risk management and has performed hundreds of safety and security analyses, risk assessments, audits, and accident investigations on a variety of oil, gas, chemical and related industry processes. Since 1989, Mr. Arendt has worked with several industry groups to develop technical positions dealing with OSHA’s process safety management regulation (29 CFR 1910.119) and EPA's risk management program rule (40 CFR Part 68). In 2006, he led ABS Consulting’s project to provide support for the BP Independent Safety Review Panel (Baker Panel) evaluation of PSM effectiveness, process safety culture, and corporate oversight of BP’s five U.S. refineries.
Mr. Arendt was awarded the 2006 Merit Award from the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, recognizing significant contributions to the advancement of education, research, and service activities related to process safety concepts and/or technologies. Having over 50 articles, guides, and books to his credit on PSM and risk management topics, he is a widely published author.
Wednesday Keynote/Rimbach Lecture
Repairing the Educational System to Meet Industry’s Innovation Demands
3 October, 8:30 a.m.
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Dr. James Truchard |
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To produce innovation, companies must streamline R&D teams and rapidly iterate on new design ideas quickly. Thriving companies produce real innovation with engineering teams that blend traditional disciplines of electrical, mechanical, chemical, and software design to rapidly create prototypes, test, iterate on designs, and move smoothly to deployment.
Innovation is not limited to high-visibility designs; the same techniques are benefiting the process industry. For example, Neighbors Drilling has adopted advanced technology to implement auto-drilling capabilities onto their land based drill equipment; Bjørge has designed undersea monitoring systems to identify damage to natural gas pipelines; and, Shell Oil has created systems to minimize pipeline slugging during transitions in off-shore production rates.
Today’s education system is not broadly aligned to produce engineers with the breadth of understanding, the hands-on experience, and the theoretical foundation required to supply industry with the talent required to drive innovation. As founder and CEO of National Instruments, Dr. James Truchard has over 40 years of experience working with machine and process engineers using advanced technology to improve machine design and production. He has also guided National Instruments efforts and involvement in engineering education in university, secondary, and primary education. Dr. Truchard will share how industry trends in multidiscipline design and advanced software tools are speeding innovation, elaborate on the essential steps to overhaul engineering education, and highlight ongoing successes in revamping education.
Dr. Truchard co-founded National Instruments in 1976. Recognized as an industry leader, Truchard was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and was named as the University of Texas Distinguished Engineering Graduate. Furthermore, Electronic Design Magazine, inducted Truchard into its Engineering Hall of Fame and a global market consulting firm, Frost & Sullivan, honored him as the CEO of the Year for the test and measurement industry.
The Rimbach Lecture is made possible due to the generosity of the Rimbach family. Honoring Richard Rimbach, long considered the Father of ISA, for his lifetime service to the industry and for his leadership in founding the Society, the Rimbach Lecture Series reflects Rimbach’s vision in technology advances, training, and motivation.
Thursday Keynote
Project Constellation — NASA's New Spaceship: Going Back to the Moon
4 October, 9:00 a.m.
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Donald W. Monell |
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Discover the latest information on NASA's next generation of spacecraft for human spaceflight from one of NASA's prominent technologist, Donald W. Monell. Mr. Monell manages the modeling, simulation and data architecture efforts for the Constellation (Cx) Program. As such, he is responsible for defining strategies, policies and guidelines for the use of modeling and simulation applications across the Constellation program and defining, developing and implementing data architecture requirements that ensure a cohesive approach to defining and managing Constellation data.
Project Constellation spacecraft consist primarily of the Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles, the Orion crew capsule, the Earth Departure Stage and the Lunar Surface Access Module. These spacecraft will be capable of performing a variety of missions, from Space Station re-supply to lunar landings with the goal of full operational capability service no later than 2014 and returning U.S. astronauts to the moon by 2020.
Mr. Monell has over 24 years experience working a wide range of aircraft and spacecraft systems design and analysis activities. Since 1990, he has worked on numerous NASA projects including the International Space Station Program, managing the advanced engineering environment for the 2nd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle (2GRLV) program, contributing to the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, managing the Avionics Integration and Vehicle Test activities in the Vehicle Integration Office of the Crew Launch Vehicle Project, and since 2006 as the Manager for the Cx Modeling, Simulation and Data Architecture.
Mr. Monell received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science degree in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.