Panel Discussion: DCS, PAC and PLC
John Gong, Moderator
President
ICP DAS USA, Inc
September Chart
Schedule:
Networking ~ 5:00 p.m.
Program ~ 5:30 p.m.
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Location:
RSVP:
Hiten Dalal (714) 500-1018 HitenD@ntrcal.com
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Program:
John Gong, President of ICP DAS USA, Inc
will moderate a panel of DCS, PAC and PLC industry experts discussing the merits of each system. This should
not only be an information packed evening, but also very lively.
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Speaker:
Stu Frost, P.E., is the Honeywell Process Solutions’ System Architect for large Integrated MAC opportunities.
He has more than 38 years of experience in international project management, advanced controls, system design and architecture, implementation,
startup and commissioning of very large process automation systems.
Stu is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of New York.
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Warren Lennox is a Technical Consultant with Rockwell Automation and has been in the industry for 15 years. Having served an Instrumentation
apprenticeship is South Africa he migrated to the UK and was employed as an embedded engineer in several industries installing process control
instrumentation and equipment. Upon completion of his Computer science BSc in Cambridge, he began focusing on the Rockwell Visualization/SCADA
products. Today he resides in the USA assisting with pre-sales product specification and system technical issues.
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Wayne Lukehart, Caltrol, Inc., has been a member of the Emerson/Caltrol team for the past eight years as a Systems Technology Consultant.
Prior to his present role with Emerson, the previous twenty-two years Wayne worked for several different control system manufacturers. He
is knowledgeable on a wide variety of control system topics to include advanced control, field busses (FOUNDATION fieldbus, DeviceNet,
ProfibusDP, AS-i), continuous and batch processing, subsystem and enterprise interfaces, asset management, and MES solutions.
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Scott Ngo, P.E., has recently accepted a new position as Engineering Manager for Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation based in Southern California.
Prior to Smurfit-Stone, he has worked as California District Engineer for 14 years at Temple-Inland and has been honored with the company
Presidential Award for notable achievements. He has implemented new innovative designs and used the most state-of-the-art technology and
equipment to create one of the most modern converting facilities in the corrugated industry. Before moving to California, he worked for
Brown & Root (KBR) in Houston, Texas as Principle Engineer for 14-plus years providing technical supports for various industries including
energy, petrochemicals, and paper mills. Scott received his BSEE in 1980 from The University of Texas at Austin and is a Registered Professional
Engineer.
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Eric Ratliff worked in aerospace from 1980 to 2000 at Atlantic Research and Hughes Space and Communications. He designed automatic testing equipment,
programmed CAD systems, and designed and maintained robots. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 at Pennsylvania
State University.
Eric has been at ICPDAS USA for over five years doing technical support. He has programmed PAC controllers in ISaGRAF, Indusoft, C++, C# and VB.
In addition, he programs the ICPDAS embedded controllers in C, targeting the DOS platform. Eric also helps customers solve electrical problems
such as how to wire analog and discreet signals to ICPDAS’s IO modules and PCI cards.
In his spare time, Eric enjoys programming the Propeller Microcontroller from Parallax for his robotics hobby. He has done PWM motor control and
is currently interfacing to a miniature gyroscope. Eric has lived in Los Angeles County since 1985.
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