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Presenting ARC's Fifth India Forum

Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries

July 10-12, 2008 - Hyderabad, India

Hyderabad GateWith India’s economy growing at around nine percent in the last few years, the country’s manufacturing industry is expanding, catering largely to the domestic demand.  Increasing affluence among the country’s growing middle class has contributed to India emerging as a consumer-demand driven economy capable of supporting robust manufacturing activity.  Typically, home grown companies with many of them falling under State Owned Enterprise Category dominate the marketplace.  These companies are making a transition from operating in a protected environment to performing successfully in the competitive global marketplace.  Some of them, such as Tata Corus and Reliance, are already global players. 

With the global economy already showing dependence on the support that it can garner from developing economies, such as China and India to sustain growth, global companies are targeting India to expand their businesses.  Domestic companies are beginning to feel the heat of competition.  The forces of globalization are impacting the business model of domestic manufacturing companies and they are under competitive pressures in all areas, including price, time-to-market, and quality.  India can no longer be described as a cost plus economy or as a sellers-market. 

In the past, domestic and other companies in India have grown, driven by demand or through investment.  It is now entering a new phase where the growth has to come through productivity improvements and enhancements.  Manufacturing companies are under tremendous pressure to deploy their resources - people, material, and money – more efficiently.  They relentlessly have to look for cost reductions across the supply chain and through the entire plant lifecycle.  While commodity and energy prices are going up, consumers are demanding price reductions.  Protecting the environment and attracting talent are becoming crucially important.  Only manufacturing companies which are able to address these challenges successfully will emerge winners.  Winners adopt and deploy enabling technologies, which include automation and enterprise solutions, for gaining the cutting edge.  They benchmark their performance against the best and continually evolve industry best practices that include concepts such as Total Quality Management, Kaizen, and others.  This Forum is all about the strategies that help companies emerge successful.  

With this backdrop, ARC's Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries Forum is structured to bring together manufacturing companies, engineering procurement consultants, OEMs, suppliers of automation systems and enterprise solutions, and other stakeholders to discuss and deliberate on the appropriate competitive strategies and manufacturing models that will ensure their success.  Speakers will present case studies to highlight how they have leveraged automation systems and enterprise solutions to emerge successful.  Investments in these technologies are not a one time activity but a journey involving regular updates and legacy systems migrations.  Users and suppliers will discuss these and other issues. 

The Forum will consist of strategy sessions, technology workshops, and breakout sessions focusing on specific industry challenges and solutions.  The specific industry tracks are on Chemicals, Oil, and Gas including Refining and Petrochemicals; Pharmaceuticals and Food & Beverage; Captive Power Plants; Metals & Mining, Pulp & Paper. and others. 

ARC's Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries Forum provides an opportunity to:

  • Listen to how your peers are leveraging automation, information, and other enabling technologies to succeed in Next Generation Manufacturing
  • Learn from case studies how manufacturers have achieved continuous improvements
  • Deliberate on legacy system migration challenges, integration issues, and evolving standards
  • Hear about the benefits of synchronizing production and business decisions through Collaborative Production Management Systems including Manufacturing Execution Systems
  • Gather information about strategies that will help you achieve Operational Excellence and prepare a roadmap for automation and enterprise of the plant
  • Network with top industry executives and learn about the industry's best practices
  • Gain insights into new trends such us OPC, CPM, Wireless, RFID, and others

No other conference offers you such a high level of personal interaction in an environment exclusively focused on manufacturing.  

Who Should Attend

  • CEOs, COOs, and Presidents
  • CIOs and CTOs
  • VPs and Directors of IT
  • VPs, Directors, and Managers of Operations
  • VPs, Directors, and Managers of Supply Chain
  • VPs, Directors, and Managers of Manufacturing
  • VPs, Directors, and Managers of Engineering
  • Directors, Managers and Architects of Automation and Enterprise Integration
  • Plant Managers and Supervisors
  • Production Managers and Supervisors

Topics

The Forum begins with a workshop on benchmarking and best practices.  The second day is devoted to deliberations on how automation and information technologies address the manufacturing industry’s core challenges from a strategic perspective.  The last day of the Forum is devoted to discussions on solutions that address the specific industry challenges. 

July 10, 2008

  • Workshops
    • Benchmarking and Best Practices
    • Collaborative Production Management 
    • Wireless in Automation
    • WirelessHART™  for Process Measurement and Control Applications
    • OPC UA

July 11, 2008

  • Winning Strategies for Process Industries
  • Gaining Global Competitiveness and Driving Continuous Productivity Improvements
  • Sessions on Emerging Applications and Technologies
    • Safety Instrumented Systems
    • Asset Management Systems

July 12, 2008

  • Track 1: Captive Power Power Plants and Distribution System
    • Generation - Achieving Operational Excellence in Captive Power Plants
    • Generation - Maximizing Return on Assets
    • Distribution - Automation and IT in Electric Power Distribution Industry 
    • Distribution - Achieving Customer Delight through Substation Automation
  • Track 2: Chemical, Oil, and Gas
    • Achieving Operational Excellence and Gaining Global Competitiveness
    • Legacy System Migration and Integration Imperatives
  • Track 3: Pharmaceutical, Food, and Beverage
    • Achieving Operational Excellence and Gaining Global Competitiveness
    • Ensure Excellence in Tracking and Tracing
  • Track 4: Metals and Others
    • Achieving Operational Excellence and Gaining Global Competitiveness
    • Legacy System Migration and Integration Imperatives

Resulting from manufacturing industry’s rapid growth, India is facing severe power shortages.  Despite the expected increase in the generating capacity moving from the present 124,000 MW to close to 200,000 MW by 2012, the power situation looks grim.  Realizing that the shortfall would impede manufacturing growth, the Indian State is encouraging investments in utilities and captive power plants and funding life extension programs of existing power plants.  The transmission and distribution side of the electric power industry have been hived off from the power generation companies by deregulating the electric industry.  These developments in the electric power industry augur well not only for automation and enterprise system suppliers but also for the industry as it begins to appreciate the benefits of leveraging enabling technologies to improve performance and operational efficiencies. 

The Indian State is also focused on demand side issues with the ‘Energy Conservation Act’.  To realize the potential of these initiatives fully and reduce or eliminate the electric power shortfall, it is incumbent upon manufacturers to adopt energy conservation policies and energy conserving devices, such as AC drives and energy efficient transformers.  It paves the way for many of the energy intensive industries such as aluminum, cement, and steel to maximize investments in energy conservation measures. 

The metals industry in India is on the upswing.  It has taken the initiative to desegregate the industry into metal production and finished products.  It is making bold expansion plans worldwide and creating a global ecosystem.  Success in this endeavor calls for very close integration between production centers at plant and enterprise levels.  It calls for collaboration across people, processes, technology, and information.  Interoperability among deployed systems is the key enabler for achieving the effective collaboration.  These developments will lead to suppliers and users forging win-win relationships.    

India's pharmaceutical industry is closely aligned with the global norms in terms of technology, quality control, best practices, and others.  The main forte of domestic pharmaceutical companies with their ‘good manufacturing practices’ (GMP) compliant facilities is drug production.  These companies, with their rich pool of scientific talent and research capabilities are well set to emerge as leading players in the global pharmaceutical market.  They have to leverage technology to ensure compliance to 21 CFR Part 11 in terms of traceability, process compliance, etc., to emerge stronger in the global pharmaceutical market.  With the pharmaceutical industry expanding further, the symbiotic relationship between pharmaceutical companies and suppliers of automation and enterprise solutions is bound to increase.  

 ‭(Hidden)‬ Executive Speakers

Andy Chatha, President & CEO, ARC
Arcot Rajabahadur, VP & GM, ARC India
S. R. (Venkat) Venkatapathy, Senior Analyst Automation
Jayanth Battacharjee

Agenda

Following is the preliminary agenda for the forum.

Thursday, July 10

Pre-Forum Sessions

1:00 PM

Registration

2:00 PM

OPC UA Workshop

3:00 PM

SOA for Manufacturing Workshop

4.00 PM

Break

4:30 PM

Plant Performance Benchmarking (Manufacturing Companies Only)

5:30 PM

WirelessHART™ for Process Measurement and Control Applications
Ed T. Ladd, Jr., Director Technology Programs, HART Communication Foundation

7:00 PM

Welcome Reception & Dinner

Friday, July 11

8:00 AM

Registration

Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries

8:45 AM Inauguration

9:00 AM

Inaugural Address

9:30 AM

Winning Though Peer Communities
Andy Chatha, ARC Advisory Group

10:00 AM

Challenges and Growth Opportunities for Process Companies
Arcot Rajabahadur, ARC Advisory Group

10:30 AM

Break

11:00 AM

Driving Operational Excellence Case History

11:30 AM

Achieving Enterprise Interoperability Case History

12:00 PM

Panel Discussion

1:00 PM

Lunch

Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries
Each Breakout Session will include one or two presentations followed by an interactive discussion

 

TRACK 1

TRACK 2

2:00 PM

Meeting Energy and Environmental Challenges

Collaborative Production Management (CPM)

3:00 PM

Legacy System Migration and Integration Challenges

Plant Asset Management (PAM)

4.00 PM

Break

Break

4:30 PM

Plant Information Management

Process Alarm Management

7:00 PM

Reception and Dinner

Saturday, July 12

8:00 AM

Registration

Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries
Each Breakout Session will include one or two presentations followed by an interactive discussion

 

TRACK 1

Captive Power Plants & Power Distribution

TRACK 2

Chemical, Oil, & Gas

TRACK 3

Food, Beverage, & Pharmaceuticals

TRACK 4

Metals & Others

9:00 AM

Achieving Operational Excellence in Captive Power Plants

Achieving Operational Excellence and Gaining Global Competitiveness

Achieving Operational Excellence and Gaining Global Competitiveness

Achieving Operational Excellence and Gaining Global Competitiveness

10:30 AM

Break

11:00 AM

Condition Monitoring and Asset Management

Advance Process Control and Optimization

Process Analytics and Good Business Practices

Collaborative Production Management (CPM or MES)

12:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

Electric Power Distribution and Substation Automation

Deploying Safety Instrumented Systems

Compliance to 21 CFR Part 11

Legacy System Migration and Integration Challenges

3:00 PM

Forum Ends

Previous Attendees

The following companies were among those attending recent India Forums:
ABB
Abhijeet Industries
Acalmar Oils & Fats
ACC
Aditya Birla Management
Air Liquide Engineering India
Aker Kvaerner Powergas
APERC
APGENCO
APTRANSCO
Aquatherm Engineering
Aspentech India
Associated Capsules
Aurobindo Pharma
Automation Industry Assoc.
Avant-Garde
Axcend Automation
Bajaj Hindustan
Ballarpur Industries
Bayer CropScience
Bayer Material Science
BDMA
Beijing Hollysys
Bharat Aluminium
BHEL
Bhilai Steel Plant
Bhushan Strips and Steels
Binani Industries
Biocon
Bongaigaon Refinery & Petro
BPCL- Kochin Refineries
Cadbury India
Cadila Health Care
Cement Manufacturers' Assoc
Chemical Industry Digest
Center for Cellular &
    Molecular Biology
Central Electricity Authority
Chennai Petroleum
Chettinad Cement Corp.
Chitale Dairy
Citect
Continental Energy Services
Central Power Research Inst.
Creative Power Engineers
Danfoss
Deepak Fertilisers
Deepak Nitrite
Defence Metallurgical
    Research Laboratory
Director General of
    Hydrocarbons
Doosan HF Controls
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
DRDL
DuPont Engineering
EID Parry India
El Forge
Electrical and Electronics
Emerson
Endress and Hauser
Engineers India
Enzen Global Solutions
Essar Chemical
Essar Constructions
Excel Consultancy
FLSmidth
GE Energy
Genting Lanco Power
German Technical
    Cooperation GTZ
Gland Pharma
GNFC
Godrej & Boyce
Grasim Nagda
Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals
Gujarat State Fertilizers &
    Chemicals
Haldia Petro Chemicals
Heidelberg Cements
Hi Rel
Hindustan Lever
Honeywell
Honeywell Process Solutions
HPCL Vizag
IBM
ICB Technimont
IIIT-Bangalore
Indian Cane Power
Industry 2.0
Invensys
IOCL Mathura
IPCL
Ispat Industries
ITC Bhadrachalam
Jacobs
Jasubhai Digital Media
Jindal Stainless
Jindal Steel and Power
Jubilant Organosys
Kartapur Cold Storage
Kemotheraptik Drugs
Keshav Power
KM Sugar Mills
Karnataka Power Corporation
Kribhco, Surat
Krishak Bharati Cooperative
L & T
L & T - Heavy Engineering
L & T - S&L
L & T - Valdel
LANCO Infratech
LMW
M K Raju Consultants
M R F
M.N. Dastur & Company
Mahagenco – Chandrapur
MALCO
Masibus Automation &
     Instrumentation
Mecgale Pneumatics
MECON
Metso Automation
Mishra Dhatu Nigam
Mitcon
MRPL
My Home Cement
MY HOME POWER
Nagarjuna Fertilizers and
     Chemicals
Natco Pharma
National Aluminium Company
Nava Bharat Ventures
Ncon Turbo Tech
Nestlé India
NMCC
National Thermal Power Corp
Nutech Engineers
Oil India
ONGC
Oracle
Orient Cement
Paradeep Phosphates
Pfizer
Pidilite Industries
Piramal Enterprises
Ponni Sugars
Praj Industries
Raptron Semiconductors
RCF
Reliance Energy
Reliance Gas Transportation
Reliance Industries
Reliance Info Solution
Rockwell Automation
Rolta India Limited
Rourkela Steel Plant
Steel Authority of India
Saipem India Project Svcs
Salem Steel
Sampoorna
Sandoz
Sanghi Sez
SAP Labs India
Sarla Technologies
Satyam Computer Services
Schenectady Herdillia
Schneider Electric
SEARCH
Servilion Systems
Seshasayee Paper & Boards
Shri Chamundeswari Sugars
Shriram Fertilisers & Chemical
Siemens
Sierra Controls and
     Instrumentation
Siemens Information Systems
SMS Pharma
SPB Consultants
Sree Rayalaseema Alkalies
     and Allied Chemicals
Sunvik Steels
Supcon
Synchrono
Syspro
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consulting Engineers
Tata Motors
Tata Power
Tata Projects
Tata Steel
Tata Technologies
TB Woods
TechNova Imaging Systems
Torrent Power AEC
Ugar Sugars
UGS India
United Phosphorous
US Pharmacopia
Usha Martin
Vacon
Vasavdatta Cement
Vir Rubber Products
Vishay Components
Vizag Steel Plant
Volvo
VPS
VVF
Wintech
Yantra Automation
Yokogawa

 

 

Travel Information

The forum is held at the Novotel Hyderabad.

Novotel and HICC Complex NOVOTEL HYDERABAD
Novotel and HICC Complex (Near Hitec City)
P.O. Bag 1102, Cyberabad Post Office
Hyderabad - 500 081
India
Tel: (91) 40 6616 3000
Fax: (91) 40 6613 4322
E-mail: reservations@novotelhyderabad.com
www.accorhotels-asia.com/Novotel-Hyderabad

 

To Register

Forum Fee

The Forum fee is $495 if registered by June 1, 2008.  After that date, the fee is $595.  The fee includes lunch, reception and dinner on forum days and all program materials.  Group rates are available.  Please contact info@arcweb.com for more information. 

Registration Method
Please use one of the following methods to register for the forum:

Call +91-80-2554-7114, send an e-mail to raja@arcweb.com, or fax to India +91-80-2554-7115 or USA +1-781-471-1100.

Register on-line.

 
 

Sponsorship Opportunities

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