Presenting ARC's Fifth India Forum

Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries

July 10-12, 2008 - Hyderabad, India

With 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.  

Agenda

Following is the preliminary agenda for the forum.

Thursday, July 10

Friday, July 11

Saturday, July 12

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 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:

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