John Barcus
Vice President Manufacturing Industries, Oracle
John’s responsibilities include supporting solutions for the manufacturing industries. He has been with Oracle for 10 years serving in a variety of roles including previously leading the Supply Chain Business Unit.  John spent 8 years in consulting implementing and managing large global projects.  Previous to Oracle, he spent many years in manufacturing and supply chain roles serving as Materials Manager, Purchasing Manager, Manufacturing Manager, and Inventory & Control Manager.

Jack Bolick
President, Honeywell Process Solutions
Prior to assuming his current role in 2002, Jack was Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell Electronics Materials.  He joined Honeywell in 1998 and has more than 20 years of diverse business experience with a focus on semiconductor and manufacturing materials supply, global marketing, and manufacturing strategies that support high-growth markets.  Jack was president of Johnson Matthey's Wafer Fabrication business before joining Honeywell.  From 1980 to 1990, he held leadership positions at International Resistive Company, Analog Devices, and Burlington Industries.  Earlier, he was an industrial engineer at United Merchants and Manufacturing.

Paul Boris
Senior Director, SAP
Paul is a Senior Director with SAP's Perfect Plant Center of Excellence.  He has over 20 years experience working with manufacturing firms to help them define and deliver sustained operational improvement.  Paul started with General Motors in the Assembly Division and has run facilities encompassing all modes of manufacturing.  He began applying his experiences to the deployment of manufacturing technologies in 1996.  Paul joined SAP in 2005 with the acquisition of Lighthammer Software and his current focus is on the delivery of next-generation systems to support adaptive manufacturing.

Mike Brooks
Staff Technologist, Refinery IT Architecture, Chevron
Mike leads Chevron Global Refining activities to develop the IT architecture for supporting operational activities of refineries and their supply-chain interactions.  Previously EVP and co-founder of INDX Software, he led, developed, and introduced a successful model-based integration product.  Mike has 15 years in upstream, downstream, and chemicals with Exxon and Chevron, and several more years with IT startups Wonderware, ObjectAutomation, INDX, and Infobionics.  He is keenly interested in how usability permeates IT products and architectures to capture the most value for manufacturing businesses.

Lina Cano
Sr. Process Automation Engineer, C-DCS Curriculum Leader, Dow Chemical
Lina is responsible for managing and developing global training of Dow’s strategic process control platform based on ABB’s Industrial IT products.  She began her career in Union Carbide's Advanced Process Control and Optimization group in 2000 where she developed multi-variable control solutions for various plants in the Gulf Coast.  After Union Carbide's merger with Dow, Lina moved to process engineering in 2004 where she performed design work on plants in Texas and the Pacific.  She also led a Six Sigma project for the Texas Site Learning Organization in partnership with the local College to develop a training program targeting foundational skill development and follow up assessment requirements for all those in a plant operations role.  In 2006, Lina was offered a position on the Engineering Solutions Core Learning Team.  She currently leads a global project that focuses on development of standardized guidelines for Instructional Design and Role Based Skill Assessment Work Processes.

Rob Caron
President, Caron Engineering
Rob started Caron Engineering in 1986 after working as engineering manager for a machine tool company.  The focus of Caron Engineering has been the design and implementation of add-on products to enhance the capabilities of CNC machines.  He designed the first Tool Monitor for CEI in 1990, a product which is a market leader today.  Caron Engineering was also a control retrofitter for GE/Fanuc controls.  Rob has over 25 years in the field of machine tool probing and automatic tool setting.  He has also developed many custom applications for the manufacuring industry including tool identification, machine vision, and networked systems.

Chris Colyer
Global Industry Director, Manufacturing Operations Strategy, Microsoft
Chris is charged with leading a team to work with its partner system integrators and independent software vendors to develop solutions for the overall industry.  In this role, he also is charged with leading Microsoft's efforts in helping put in place worldwide teams with specific expertise in plant operations focused on the needs of enterprise-level manufacturing customers.  Chris has been part of the global industry strategy team for the past eight years where he held roles as director of the process industry with a strategic focus in consumer goods and prior to that served as the group lead to Microsoft's manufacturing marketing team.  This team is responsible for all of Microsoft's industry marketing in the manufacturing sector covering the following industries: automotive, energy, high tech, chemicals, consumer packaged goods, and aerospace.

Steve Cook
Operations Manager, Givaudan Flavors
Steve has been with Givaudan for 3 years, first serving as the Engineering Manager followed by his current position as Operations Manager. Prior to working for Givaudan, Steve worked for Solutia, Inc. from 1994 to 2005. At Solutia, Steve served in many different roles, beginning in R&D, project engineering, and operations management. Throughout his career, Steve has worked on automation and process control applications for batch and continuous processes in the chemical and food industries.

Bill Cotter
Instrumentation Controls Engineer, 3M
Bill has worked for 3M for 24 years and has worked on varied products from pharmaceuticals, to magnetic media, to crushed rocks. His main area of specialty is SCADA systems and Information Systems. Bill has contributed heavily to industry activities as a member of OMAC, Microsoft Manufacturing User Group (MS MUG), and ISA. Recently Bill chaired the MS MUG and is now leading an ISA SP-99 working group on security patch management.

Michel Crochon
Executive Vice President Automation Business Unit, Schneider Electric
Michel began his career with Merlin Gerin in 1975 and held various positions in the UPS Division until 1990.  He was responsible for the after-sales service in France, then worldwide.  He later held roles of Plant Manager, Product and Operational Marketing Director, and Sales Director in France.  In 1991, he joined the management team for France and was appointed Strategy and IT Manager.  In 1996, he was nominated Strategy and Marketing Vice President in China.  In 2000, he held the position of Senior Vice President for the Industry Market within Strategy-Markets and in 2004, he became Executive Vice President in charge of the Customer and Market Division.  In July 2006, he was appointed Executive Vice President Automation Business Unit.

Ronaldo de Magalhães
Manager, Automation Technology, Instrumentation and Electric, Petrobras
Ronaldo is responsible for automation, instrumentation, and electrical areas of the 11 Petrobras Refinery business units.  His career began in 1979 as an automation engineer in REPAR Refinery’s maintenance division.  In 1988, he was transferred to company headquarters to become part of the automation team, working on different SDCD’s implementation projects in all refineries, and coordinating in particular, the implementation of REPAR Refinery’s system.

Erwin DiMalanta
Manager, General Industry, Robot Automation, ABB
Erwin began his career with ABB in 1995 as an application engineer for the Robotics division.  From there he’s held roles with increasing responsibility as program manager for a number of major robot implementations for both automotive and general industry customers.  In 2001, he led the team that successfully re-commissioned several robotic mail sorting systems in the Washington DC area that were impacted by the anthrax attacks.  In 2007 he completed the implementation of more than 150 robotic containerization systems for the US Postal Service located in over 80 facilities throughout the US.  His current responsibilities include development of robotic solutions and function packages for general industry markets in segments such as assembly, inspection, material handling, machine tending, and vision guided robotic applications.

Craig Dupler
Technical Fellow, Boeing
Craig has been with Boeing for 24 years. He specializes in strategic planning of core network services in the Information Technology organization. His current projects include the IT architecture for supporting SCADA systems, Network Location Services (NLS) or RTLS, applying the principles of “lean” to IT product and service definition, and several long range IT strategic planning issues.

Mike Eder
Director, Airframe and Installation Design Department, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Mike has worked at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics for 23 years. He started his career at Chicago Bridge and Iron (CBI), a construction firm specializing in large turnkey projects, as a field and research engineer. He joined General Dynamics Fort Worth Division (later to become Lockheed Martin Aeronautics) in 1984 hiring into their Fuselage Design Group. Mike worked as a structural design engineer for most of his career at GD/Lockheed Martin working primarily on the F-16 Program.

Steven Eisenbrown
Vice President, Architecture and Software, Rockwell Automation
Steven is responsible for strategy development, driving global growth, and the worldwide performance of the Architecture and Software business.  Prior to his current role, he was President, Global Sales and Support, European Region.  From 1993 to 1995, he was Vice President, Commercial Marketing, Automation Group.  His career with Rockwell Automation began in 1976, when he joined Reliance Electric as a sales trainee.

Troy Embree
Technical Controls Engineer, Procter & Gamble
Troy started his career with Johnson & Johnson before joining Procter & Gamble in 1997. With P&G, he has worked in the Snacks and Family Care business units and now works in the PC&IS department of Corporate Engineering. In his current role he focuses on manufacturing cyber security and application of Microsoft technologies to the manufacturing floor. Troy is also an active participant in MS Manufacturing Users Group and is a key contributor to the Security Patch Management Working Group.

Marty Etzel
Vice President, Industry Solution Marketing for Process Industries, SAP
Marty's group is responsible for market insight and analysis of the process industries, which includes chemicals, oil & gas, paper, mining, metals, and building products.  They also develop positioning and messaging of SAP’s solutions for these industries, along with developing thought leadership and supporting implementation of programs and business unit strategy.  Marty has been with SAP since 2004.  Previously, he worked over 20 years at Millennium Chemicals, in various roles such as Business Unit Director, Marketing, and eBusiness.

Steven Gasser
Smelter Manager, ASARCO
Steve has been integrating process control technology and links to management information systems to better bottom-line decision making throughout his career in the primary metals industry.  Since 2000 he has been managing ASARCO’s copper smelter at Hayden AZ.  Prior to that, he was Operations Manager at their El Paso Smelter.  Steve gained commercial experience buying and selling raw materials for the smelters and refineries when he was an Ore Buyer at the company’s headquarters in New York City. He started out as a metallurgical engineer in the Lead Smelter at East Helena Montana.

Grady Glasgow
PLM Integration Manager, Spirit Aerosystems
Grady has held several different positions in the aerospace and industrial products sector developing CAD/CAM tools and processes for manufacturing support organizations. He joined the Boeing Wichita CAD/CAM organization in 1997 where he was responsible for the development and implementation of CATIA V4 and V5 manufacturing products. Grady joined Spirit Aerosystems at its inception in June 2005. He currently manages the PLM Integration organization with the goal of merging Spirit’s CAD/CAM and SAP environments into an integrated PLM system.

Jerry Hale
Principal, CIO Consulting & Services
(Retired CIO, Eastman Chemical)
Jerry held positions in finance, manufacturing, human resources, and IT in his 34 years of service at Eastman Chemical before his retirement as CIO in July 2007. He currently assists executives in transforming their IT organizations to align IT strategy to the business, increase the value from new IT investments, and to dramatically reduce the cost of existing IT operations.

Jeff Herrell
Continuous Improvement Director, TRW Automotive
Jeff has over 20 years of experience within the automotive industry with TRWA and Ford Motor Company. His current responsibility is implementing 6 Sigma and Lean processes and culture within TRWA’s North American Occupant Safety Systems. Previously, he was a plant manager for 2 different plants within TRWA.

AL Hufstetler
Vice President, Quality Planning and Production Validation, Siemens PLM Software
Al’s role is to develop and expand the role of PLM in the context of predictive and production dimensional quality solutions, leveraging 3D product design and manufacturing process information, and the production validation of these products. Prior to joining Siemens PLM Software in 2001, Al spent 20 years in manufacturing with roles in robotic automation and digital manufacturing technology companies.

Chris Jackson
IT Manager, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Systems, Pella
Chris is currently the project manager in charge of the ongoing implementation of Oracle manufacturing and supply chain applications across all Pella sites including flow manufacturing, automation and control integration, supply chain planning, and procurement systems. Chris has spent the majority of his career implementing systems in complex manufacturing environments.

Karl James
Vice President & Controller, Freeport LNG
Karl has been with Freeport LNG since June 2004 and has over 20 years of major integrated oil and gas accounting and finance experience.  His roles have included downstream, commercial, and midstream assignments.  Karl spent seven years in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with responsibility for refinery accounting, commercial support, and then as Finance Director for the Excel Paralubes Joint Venture during the construction and startup of its lube oil manufacturing facility.  He has provided strategic planning support and financial analysis to executive and senior level management through multiple headquarters assignments.  Prior to joining Freeport LNG, Karl spent five years in the ConocoPhillips midstream business and after the merger between Conoco and Phillips served as Midstream Finance Manager with an active role in the disposition of a significant portion ConocoPhillips owned and operated midstream assets.

Shuzo Kaihori
President, Yokogawa Electric
Shuzo Kaihori was appointed President and Representative Director in April 2007 and joined the Board of Directors in June 2006.  He served as Senior Vice President in charge of the industrial automation business from 2005 to March 2007.  From 2000 to 2005 he served as President of Yokogawa Corporation of America.  Prior to that, he served as head of the engineering, sales, systems marketing, field instruments, and service businesses, successively.  He joined Yokogawa in 1973. He served as a board member of FDT Group from October 2005 to April 2007 and a board member of Fieldbus Foundation from February 2006 to March 2007.  He also served as a trustee of The Japan Petroleum Institute from April 2006 to March 2007. He currently is as a board member at the Engineering Association of Japan, Manufacturing Science and Technology Center, and other industry and technology organizations in Japan.

Tom Kuperij
Managing Director, WIB
Tom was appointed Managing Director of the International Instrument Users’ Association WIB in 2000.  WIB is the Dutch based, I&C systems end user organization, based in The Hague, Netherlands.  Prior to that he spent the first 32 years of his career with Shell Exploration and Production in a wide variety of instrumentation and control positions, with various Shell and joint venture locations all over the world.

Doug Lutz
Senior Process Control Engineer, NOVA Chemicals
Doug has been with NOVA Chemicals for 17 years, deploying basic and advanced control, automated procedures, HMI interfaces, dynamic simulation, real-time optimization, and associated tools.  He is a member of the automation leadership team focusing on corporate-wide initiatives to foster collaboration throughout NOVA Chemicals in the process automation arena.  Benchmarking and KPIs is a specific area of responsibility within his Automation Utilization and Standardization portfolio.

Christopher Lyden
Vice President, Chief Strategist, Invensys Process Systems
Chris joined Invensys as Vice President of Marketing in 2003.  He has more than 30 years experience in automation for the process industries with both Invensys and Honeywell.  Chris has worked in nearly every aspect of automation from instrumentation and control, through advanced applications, modeling, and information systems integration.  He has held positions in product development, manufacturing, project engineering, marketing, sales, and general management.  In his current role, Chris is responsible for strategy for Invensys Process Systems globally.

Patrick Michel
Vice President, DELMIA Industry Solutions, Dassault Systèmes
Patrick joined Dassault Systèmes in 1996 where he was responsible for the industrialization of their PLM products. In 2002 he was appointed R&D Director for CATIA and SmarTeam PLM Solutions, defining and bringing to market PLM solutions for small and medium size companies. In his current position he leads the Industry Solutions & Marketing organization for DELMIA, Dassault Systèmes’ brand for digital manufacturing, defining solutions for the different industries including automotive, aerospace, and shipbuilding industries.

Michael Miller
Independent Consultant, Energy Systems & Solutions
Mike is a 35+ year veteran of the nuclear power generation industry. He recently retired from Duke Energy Carolinas after a 31+ year career. Currently an independent consulting engineer, Mike has been part of Duke's Design Engineering Department which originally designed and supported Duke's nuclear fleet. Duke operates 7 nuclear generating units at 3 site locations. In 1992 Mike transitioned to the Oconee Nuclear Station site and became part of the plant based engineering support staff primarily involved in large Instrumentation & Controls modifications supporting regulatory commitments, re-licensing, and plant modernization.

Fabian Ochoa
Automation Engineer, SABMiller
Fabian has been working for the beer industry since 2000 and his work has been mainly focused on automation, instrumentation, control, information systems, and HMI.  He is currently involved in the construction of a new brewery in Colombia, South America.  As part of the Global Automation Group of SABMiller, he has led the implementation of the OMAC, part 5 of the S88, standard in two new packaging lines. T he purpose is to establish global standards that demonstrably can improve the group competitive position, improve performance, and apply new technologies giving value-add to the business.

Timothy Opitz
Director, Production Operations and Support & Services, Boeing
Tim began his Boeing career in 1978 as an industrial engineer.  He is currently responsible for the development, testing, and deployment of new processes and tools for the 787 program within Boeing Commercial Airplanes.  Tim addresses manufacturing, quality, supply chain, customer support and services, and works to deploy new solutions to other Commercial Airplanes programs requiring new tools and processes.  He is a member of the Phantom Works organization and works across Boeing to share best practices and aid in moving the company to a common set of processes and systems.  His past assignments include Manufacturing and Quality leader for the Joint Strike Fighter program, where he was responsible for building two demonstrator aircraft and developing a production proposal; and Operations Leader for all military commercial derivatives, F-15K, Airborne Laser, and P3 update IV.

Jim Parshall
Global Leader, IT and Automation, Eli Lilly
Jim is currently the Global Leader for IT, automation, and product test systems for Eli Lilly's delivery device business.  He joined Eli Lilly in 1999 and has held various senior technical and management positions in manufacturing.  Jim’s career spans the automotive, electronics, food, and life science industries, working in engineering and IT technical and leadership roles.  Prior to joining Eli Lilly, he worked at Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, where he led the design and delivery of manufacturing processes and automation systems at the company’s newest and largest facility. Jim authored the book "Applying S88: Batch Control from a User’s Perspective", a tutorial on the globally-accepted modular manufacturing standard.

Chris Pirrera
Technical Associate, Plant Floor Systems – Global Supply Chain, Colgate-Palmolive
Chris has 15 years of experience in process automation and control. For the past 12 years, he has designed and implemented S88 compliant batch systems for Colgate-Palmolive facilities worldwide. Chris and the Plant Floor Systems team are also responsible for creating Colgate’s automation standards and ensuring global compliance. Most recently he has taken on Colgate-Palmolive’s SAP to plant floor integration initiatives where he has integrated SAP with Wonderware to provide production order information, actual raw material usages, BOM verification, and packaging specification verification. Prior to joining Colgate he was an engineer at Sys-Tech Solutions, Inc. where he installed and validated vision and bar-code inspection systems for the pharmaceutical industry.

Amiya Ranjan
IT Department Head, Santur
Amiya is responsible for the overall direction of IT infrastructure, applications, and services. He has over 15 years of experience in supply chain, ERP, and manufacturing applications. Prior to Santur, Amiya led the manufacturing systems group of Maxtor’s Magnetic Media Division and was responsible for implementing Manufacturing Execution Systems, Radio Frequency ID based WIP tracking, SPC, and other equipment management software. Before Maxtor, Amiya spent five years at JDS Uniphase managing their global manufacturing systems group and was responsible for standardizing manufacturing systems across more than a dozen factories worldwide.

Eric Rojas
Management Information System Manager, Freeport LNG
Eric has over 20 years experience in implementing large MES automation projects in the oil and gas industries.  These projects involved the delivery of a variety of complex solutions that includes many of the traditional business processes, such as ERP, supply chain automation, plant scheduling and planning, yield accounting, simulation, oil movements, and terminal automation.  Eric leads Freeport LNG’s MIS project implementation, with responsibility for all aspects of the project lifecycle including budgeting, technology and provider selection, and subcontractor management.  The MIS project involves the implementation of over 30 applications that have to be integrated and implemented at a grass roots LNG plant.

Dennis Sadlowski
President & CEO, Siemens Energy & Automation
Dennis has executive responsibility for the company’s strategic direction, operating performance, and marketplace success.  He is also member of the company’s Board of Directors.  Dennis is responsible for all staff functions, subsidiaries, and business operations including the Sales organization and seven operating divisions: Automation & Motion, Electronic Assembly Systems, Metal Technologies, Postal Automation, Power Conversion, Power Distribution & Controls, Process Solutions. and Residential Products.  Following 17 years of industry experience with GE and Thomas and Betts, Dennis joined Siemens Energy and Automation in July 2000 to lead the Power Distribution Infrastructure & Controls Division as Vice President and General Manager until the end of 2003.  He then relocated to Germany for a three-year leadership assignment with the Automation Sensor Business of Siemens Automation and Drives group before returning to SE&A in 2006 as Chief Operating Officer.

Barry Schader
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Medtronic
Barry has been with Medtronic for 20 years, working in software development and maintenance related to manufacturing systems.  He spent 11 years working on various aspects of the PROMIS MES for Medtronic's wafer fabrication and hybrid manufacturing operations in Phoenix.  During that time he worked on business intelligence, equipment integration, shipping, and operator certification, in addition to various aspects of the core MES.  Since 1998, Barry has been one of the system architects of the newer 'standard' MES for many of the discrete assembly operations in Medtronic (9 sites). He also was the primary developer of the ERP interface for that system.

Mark Scherrens
Worldport Expansion Program Manager, UPS
Mark began his UPS career in 1976 as a part-time package handler.  From there he moved up the ranks and around the country.  He held a series of assignments, including Region Engineering Manager in the West and Southeast regions and as Corporate Plant Engineering Coordinator overseeing material handling automated solutions.  Mark has been closely linked to Worldport, the worldwide air hub for UPS in Louisville, KY.  In 1998 he was in charge of its Hub 2000 and since 2006 of its $1 billion Worldport expansion project.  In his present role Mark oversees all aspects of this construction project, including material handling systems and related technologies, general construction, contracts and procurement, project safety and security, operational dependencies and phase-in schedules.  The current project will increase Worldport’s capacity by 60%.

Sven Seintsch
Fieldbus Specialist, BIS Prozesstechnik
Sven carries out fieldbus projects in chemical and pharmaceutical plants.  He is an active member of the NAMUR working group 2.6 Fieldbus.  He is also head of the working group Fieldbus within Industrial Practices Interest Group (IGR).  IGR is an interest group of operating companies and service enterprises of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Francis Sidnam
Director, Manufacturing Process Systems and Global Biologics Information Management, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Since January of 2007, Fran has been leading the strategic development and roll-out of standard manufacturing systems across the Bristol-Myers Squibb global network.  This initiative involves the development of a common manufacturing operational philosophy, including the Manufacturing Execution System, batch control system, instrumentation approach, and critical business system interfaces.  The strategy has been developed using standard solutions throughout Bristol-Myers Squibb, and is based on S-88 and S-95 standards.  In addition to the process systems group, Fran is also responsible for the company’s Information Management groups in the Global Biologics group.  Fran has spent 26 years with Bristol-Myers Squibb in a variety of areas, including process automation, process development, global engineering, and most recently, as Manufacturing Director of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s API site in Syracuse, NY.

Bryan Singer
Vice President of Professional Services, Wurldtech Security Technologies
Bryan has more than 16 years experience working in industrial automation and critical infrastructure sectors, such as power and energy, oil and gas, transportation, and water he is active globally as an industry advocate in industrial security and critical infrastructure protection.  Bryan joined Wurldtech from FluidIQs where he led the development and implementation of specialized security services for more than 3,000 industrial facilities worldwide, across numerous vertical industries.  Prior to joining FluidIQs, he was the manager of network and security services at Rockwell Automation.  He began his professional career with the U.S. military, focusing on issues such as physical, systems, network security and force protection.  Bryan is the founding chairman and now co-chairman of the ISA SP99 Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security Standards Committee, a standards body focusing on the security issues of the control systems environment.

Keith Stouffer
Senior Mechanical Engineer, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Keith has been with the Mechanical Engineering Lab at NIST for over 17 years, focusing on control system security since 2000.  He is co-leader of the NIST Industrial Control Systems Security Project, working jointly with the NIST Computer Security Division in cooperation with the public and private sector community, to develop specific guidance on the application of NIST security standards and guidelines to industrial control systems.  A major effort of the project has been the update of NIST Special Publication 800-53, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems, to provide guidance on appropriate safeguards and countermeasures for federal agencies that own, operate, or maintain industrial control systems.  Keith is also the lead author of Special Publication 800-82 Guide to Industrial Control Systems Security, which provides guidance for the public and private sectors on how to secure industrial control systems while addressing their unique performance, reliability and safety requirements.

Peter Terwiesch
Chief Technology Officer, ABB
Peter has been in his current position since July 2005.  His prior experience includes both business and technology positions in ABB.  Before, he was President of ABB Automation, heading ABB's German process automation business, following a similar responsibility in Switzerland.  In parallel to direct business responsibility, he has been Chief Technology Officer for ABB's global Automation Technologies division.  Earlier, he headed ABB's Corporate Research Center in Baden, Switzerland, one of ABB's eight global research labs, and held other management and specialist positions at ABB Corporate Research in Switzerland and Germany.

Bob Tilove
Laboratory Group Manager and Research Fellow, Virtual Manufacturing Group, General Motors
Bob joined General Motors in 1981 as a research scientist working in the areas of solid modeling and off-line robot programming/simulation.  He has spent most of his career in the development and implementation of computer modeling/simulation tools for GM’s Virtual Vehicle Development Process.  Bob is currently responsible for Virtual Manufacturing R&D and is engaged in many global collaborative research activities.  In 2006, he was on special assignment in the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to define a vision and strategy for the next generation of Smart Assembly Systems.

Erik Udstuen
Vice President, Software, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms
Erik leads GE Fanuc Intelligent Platform’s software business, which encompasses production management and HMI/SCADA software solutions.  He previously was the President and CEO of Mountain Systems, a company he founded to deliver innovative Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software products to essential industries worldwide.  Mountain Systems became a part of GE Fanuc in June 2003.  Erik rejoined GE Fanuc in September 2007 after serving as a private equity investor and consultant in the fields of software and manufacturing systems integration.

Kenneth Ure
Team Leader, Drug Product Automation, Pfizer
Ken has over 34 years of pharmaceutical operations experience with a substantial background in the many diverse areas of manufacturing and supply chain operations that focus on the aseptic and biological business.  Over the past 12 years, his focus has been in the development and implementation of strategies to optimize pharmaceutical manufacturing operations.  Currently, his group has global responsibility for implementing Pfizer’s automation strategy to enable operational excellence in drug product manufacturing.

Margaret Walker
Vice President, Engineering Solutions, Technology Centers, Manufacturing and Engineering Work Process, Dow Chemical
Margaret began her career with Dow in the operations field.  She gained extensive experience in process development and scale up, plant modernization, and process improvement projects.  From 1984 to 1992, Margaret was a plant superintendent for two different Freeport-based plants and gained additional responsibility for Epoxy distribution, business services, and maintenance.  Margaret was Director of Materials Management for Dow’s Performance Products group from 1993 until 1995.  In 1995, she was named Global Business Director for the Contract Manufacturing Services business and charged with creating a new business.  In 2001, she was named Director for Dow Process Automation, Work Process, and Learning for Manufacturing Engineering.  During 2003 and early 2004, she was given additional responsibilities for the Technology Centers and for Dow Design and Construction (DDC).

John Wisniewski
Sr. Manager Worldwide Supply Chain Business Solutions, Wrigley
John's responsibilities include partnering with senior business leaders to leverage business knowledge and solutions across functional areas, e.g., supply chain, innovation, and marketing. He joined Wrigley in 1986 and over the past 20+ years has gained diverse international business experience which began in Corporate Engineering, with machine, process and facility automation. He was then onto Advanced Technologies where he crossed over to IT to perform strategic IT planning and built their first worldwide communications backbone. Until his most recent appointment last year, John was Director of Global IT Infrastructure in which he was responsible to envision and build various global teams to complete the implementation and follow-the-sun operational support of their single global ERP instance reaching over 180 countries.

Wim Witte
Project Manager, Norco Re-instrumentation Program, Shell Global Solutions
Witte joined Shell International Petroleum Company in The Hague in 1982 as an instrument engineer and, in the years since, has held a variety of key positions at Shell refineries around the world as an instrument maintenance engineer, an engineering manager, an engineering service manager, and a senior instrument engineer. He has worked for Shell Global Solutions in the US since 2002.

Merat Zarreii
Filtration and Treatment Division Manager, DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management
Merat is a electrical and computer engineer, specializing in plant automation. He is responsible for the operation and maintenance of all water and wastewater treatment plants as well as distribution and collection facilities at DeKalb County Georgia. He has over 20 years of experience in private and municipal process plant design, construction, operation, and maintenance.

Paul Zepf
Director of Engineering, Zarpac
Paul has over 36 years of packaging production experience.  He has designed and built at least 39 different types of specialized or proprietary machines and systems such as high speed combiners, dividers, inverters, collators, puck transfer systems, off-line automatic sampling systems, indexers, coolers, washers, collator/packers, custom packing machinery, quick change tooling and systems, inspection systems, continuous work pallet systems, unique palletizers, tray packers, and robotic case packers.  Paul was a founder, Chief Engineer, and President of new product innovations and design at a company specializing in production changeover tooling systems and machinery from 1972 until 1989.  In 1989, Paul co-founded Zarpac.

Peter Zornio
Chief Strategic Officer, Emerson Process Management
Peter is a 22-year veteran of the process automation industry.  He joined Emerson in 2006 with responsibility for group level technology and marketing strategies and programs including PlantWeb and Smart Wireless.  Prior to Emerson, Peter spent 21 years at Honeywell, most recently as Director of Product Marketing, with product management responsibility for distributed control systems, paper quality control systems, safety systems, and software for advanced control, asset management, and operations management (MES).  Peter has extensive experience with field measurement products, fieldbus technologies and systems architecture, as well as acquisition strategy and integration.

Pre-Forum Sessions

Life Sciences Benchmarking Discussion Meeting  (Manufacturing Companies Only)

Best Practices Benchmarking Workshop for Discrete Manufacturers 
(1-6 PM)

Suppliers are invited to attend from 5-6PM. At this time, Workshop discussion results will be shared with the suppliers.

The Application of S88 to Machine Control 

  _________

Using ARC Resources to Identify Key Trends and Create a Strategic Plan

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Best Practices for Managing Global Operations

Andy Chatha and Sid Snitkin, ARC Advisory Group

Panel Discussion and Q&A Session with the Speakers plus:
Ken Knight, Executive Director CCRW, General Motors

Vision and Technology Roadmaps of Leading Automation & Software Companies

Each Company's Top Executives will present their company's vision followed by a technology roadmap discussion and a Leading Manufacturer presentation

Shuzo Kaihori, Yokogawa

Wim Witte, Shell

Peter Terwiesch, ABB

Ronaldo de Magalhães, Petrobras 

Steve Eisenbrown, Rockwell Automation

Kevin Harding, Wyeth

Best Practices in Process, Hybrid, and Discrete Manufacturing

Each Breakout Session will include presentations by an ARC Analyst and a Leading Manufacturer, followed by an interactive discussion

Automation Value Justification

Dave Woll, ARC

Pat Castelano, Petro-Canada

Ray Walker, DuPont

Kate Waters, Genentech

Mike Williams, Dow Chemical

Supplier/Customer Collaboration

Dick Hill, ARC

Mike Sarli, ExxonMobil

Rob Aleksa, Procter & Gamble 

MES & Operations Management

Greg Gorbach, ARC

Jeff Herrell, TRW Automotive

Dennis Cocco, Activplant

Jack Bolick, Honeywell

Eric Rojas & Karl James, Freeport LNG

Michel Crochon, Schneider Electric

Mark Scherrens, UPS

Dennis Sadlowski, Siemens

Mike Eder, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics

Each Breakout Session will include presentations by an ARC Analyst and a Leading Manufacturer, followed by an interactive discussion

Field Networks

Larry O'Brien, ARC

Mike Miller, Energy Systems Solutions

Merat Zarreii, DeKalb Cty. of Waste Management

Cliff Pedersen, Suncor Energy

Ron Helson, HART

Role-based Portals

Bob Mick & Dick Hill, ARC

Mike Sarli, ExxonMobil

Chris Hamlin, SABIC

Wireless Technology for the Discrete Industries

Harry Forbes, ARC

Craig Dupler, Boeing

Wireless Technology for the Process Industries

Harry Forbes, ARC

Stephen Russell, Valero Energy

Joy Weiss, Dust Networks

Bob Karschnia, Emerson

Lean and MES

Ralph Rio, ARC

Barry Schader, Medtronic

Smart Assembly and Controls

Jim Caie, ARC

Bob Tilove, General Motors

Vision and Technology Roadmaps of Leading Automation & Software Companies

Each Company's Top Executives will present their company's vision followed by a technology roadmap discussion and a Leading Manufacturer presentation

Peter Zornio, Emerson

Steve Cook, Givaudan Flavors

Chris Lyden, Invensys

Steven Gasser, ASARCO

Erik Udstuen, GE Fanuc

Kenneth Ure, Pfizer

Best Practices in Process, Hybrid, and Discrete Manufacturing

Each Breakout Session will include presentations by an ARC Analyst and a Leading Manufacturer, followed by an interactive discussion

Creating Safety Culture

Asish Ghosh, ARC

Tom Artz, Chevron

Packaging

John Blanchard, ARC

Jim Parshall, Eli Lily

PLM and Digital Manufacturing

Dick Slansky, ARC

Grady Glasgow, Spirit Aerosystems

Break

Break

Break

Connecting Plants with Business Systems

Greg Gorbach, ARC

John Wisniewski, Wrigley

Amiya Ranjan, Santur

Regulatory Compliance

John Blanchard & Tom Fiske, ARC

Kenneth Ure, Pfizer

Kate Waters, Genentech

Matthew Murphy, DuPont

Lothar Lang, LyondellBasell

Jim Wiesler, Eli Lilly

PLM and Digital Manufacturing, cont'd.

Al Hufstetler, Siemens PLM Software

Patrick Michel, Dassault Systemes

Vision and Technology Roadmaps of Leading Automation & Software Companies

Each Company's Top Executives will present their company's vision followed by a technology roadmap discussion and a Leading Manufacturer presentation

Marty Etzel, SAP

Chris Pirrera, Colgate-Palmolive

John Barcus, Oracle

Nat Parameswaran, USG

Chris Jackson, Pella

Chris Colyer, Microsoft

Jerry Hale, Eastman Chemical (retired)

Addressing the Skills Gap

Dick Hill, ARC

Lina Cano, Dow Chemical

Cyber Security

Bob Mick, ARC

Keith Stouffer, NIST

Bryan Singer, Wurldtech Security Technologies

Eric Cosman, Dow Chemical

Fabian Ochoa, SABMiller

Paul Zepf, Zarpac

Break

Break

Break

Plant Asset Management Communications

Wil Chin, ARC

Tom Kuperij, WIB

Sven Seintsch, BIS Prozesstechnik

Security Patch Management

Bob Mick, ARC

Bill Cotter, 3M

Troy Embree, Procter & Gamble

Eric Byres, Byres Security

Marty Van Der Sloot, Interstates Control Systems

Rob Caron, Caron Engineering

Break

Break

Break

Knowledge Management

Tom Fiske, ARC

Mike Brooks, Chevron

Norbert Kuschnerus, Bayer

Security session, cont'd.

Erwin DiMalanta, ABB

Paul Boris, SAP

ISA100 Seminar:  Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation
This session will acquaint you with the work currently underway to develop a universal family of wireless standards for industrial automation.   Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and provide input to the ISA100 Committee leadership on technical issues and the ISA100 path forward.  For more information and to register:  http://www.isa.org/ISA100Update0802