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Presenting ARC's Fifth India Forum

Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries

July 10-12, 2008 - Hyderabad, India

ARC India Forum Presents Strategies to Win in the Global Marketplace

ARC India’s Fifth International Forum in Hyderabad attracted over 290 delegates from 90 manufacturing companies.  Almost two thirds of the delegates who attended the Forum are end users.  The three-day Forum focused on India’s process industry challenges and charted a roadmap to successfully overcome them.  The Forum was structured to help senior executives from process industries, responsible for developing and implementing automation and enterprise strategies, emerge best-in-class, and gain global competitiveness through continuous improvements.  Over 50 speakers from different industry verticals shared their thoughts and experiences through presentations, helping the delegates to absorb and understand various techniques and strategies.

Technology and Benchmarking Workshops
The Forum started with the Enterprise Integration and Service Oriented Architecture Workshop with Ashok Bhattacharya, Chief SOA Architect at IBM.  This was followed by the Imperatives and Challenges of Plant-wide Automation and Factory/Enterprise Integration Workshop with Paramanand Choudhury, Business Manager at Rockwell Automation.  While Thomas Bartsch, Head Profibus PA Marketing Working Group at PNO Foundation Germany conducted a workshop on Profibus, Ed Ladd, Director of Technology Programs at HART Communication Foundation USA, made a presentation on WirelessHART for process measurement and control applications.  The Benchmarking session conducted by ARC President Andy Chatha generated considerable interest. 

The workshop session concluded with a lively panel discussion on ‘The Indian Economy Needs an Expanding Manufacturing Industry and Manufacturing Needs Automation for Gaining the Competitive Edge’, providing an excellent platform for suppliers and end users to exchange their thoughts on the future of manufacturing.  Automation supplier viewpoints were projected by Sunil Khanna of the Automation Industry Association (AIA) and Emerson Process India, N Ravi of ABB, John Watts of Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific, and Jyotindra Verma of Siemens. The end user perspective was represented by BR Mehta of Reliance Industries, KV Rehani of Unilever, and VK Srivastava of Bhilai Steel Plant.  The panel discussion was chaired by Andy Chatha.

Strategy Sessions
The next two days of the Forum had strategy sessions and case studies that focused on specific industry challenges and solutions.  ARC's Andy Chatha, Satyam's Subu Subramanian, Rockwell Automation's John Watts, and Siemens PLM Software's A Ramamurthi spoke about the emerging process plant concepts and the digital plant of the future.  BR Mehta, Senior VP at Reliance Industries said that to derive operational excellence in process plants, it is necessary to enhance investments in automation and enterprise solutions.  Their presentations were followed by a panel discussion on ‘Manufacturing of the Future Will Be Predominantly Automation and IT Enabled'.  An interesting concept that emerged from the discussions was the need for a ‘Digital Plant Contractor’. 

Industry Tracks
The last day of the Forum was devoted to discussing solutions that address specific challenges for different industries, including chemical, oil & gas, refining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, captive power plants; cement, metals & mining, and pulp & paper.  How automation and information technologies address the manufacturing industry’s core challenges from a strategic perspective were presented through case studies.  Additionally, topics relating to the energy cost control, legacy system migration, interoperability issues, plant asset, and information management, process alarm management, collaborative production management, and such others were discussed.

Global Suppliers and Organizations Commit Their Resources to the Expanding Indian Market
Gauging the immense business potential and networking opportunities that the ARC forum offers, companies such as ABB, IBM, Invensys, National Instruments, Ramco Systems, Rockwell Automation, SAP, Rolta, Satyam Computers, Siemens, SSM India, SUPCON China, and Pepperl+Fuchs, joined organizations such as AIA, HCF, OPC and ISA in sponsoring the forum.  They came together to share their experiences and strategies with the delegates through case studies on how investments in automation systems, enterprise solutions, and manufacturing execution systems would help industries become globally competitive.

The Forum also served as a platform for global organizations to announce the commitment of their interest and resources to the expanding Indian market.  AIA's President, Sunil Khanna and Vice President, Vimal Kapur, announced that they would be hosting the Automation Global Summit in September 2009 with ARC as its knowledge partner.  Ken Baker, former President of ISA, said that India will receive special focus in the ensuing months.  Ed Ladd of the HART Communication Foundation is of the opinion that India’s growing automation market presents an excellent opportunity to introduce emerging technologies, such as wireless in automation.  Invited delegates said that the ARC forum presented them a unique opportunity to track the trends in the automation and enterprise solutions space and how to derive maximum benefit from it.

B. Ramalinga Raju, Chairman, Satyam Computer Services
Raju, Satyam’s founder and chairman, is a world-renowned visionary, global business leader, and thinker. He uses a simple, yet extensive management model to create value, which promotes entrepreneurship, a focus on the customer, and the constant pursuit of excellence. Raju is passionate about developing leaders within his organizations and has conceptualized and institutionalized the Full Life Cycle Leadership (FLCL) model, the unique entrepreneurship framework that develops leaders at all levels of Satyam. Raju is the ex-chairman of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), a 1,100-member industry body of Indian IT services companies. He is also a member of the National Executive Councils of the two national business associations of India, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and FICCI, member of the International Advisory Panel of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super-Corridor, and a member of the conference board.
BR Mehta, Senior Vice President, Reliance Industries
Bharat Mehta has over 34 years of experience in refinery and petrochemical industries. An electrical engineer from Gujarat University, he is with the Reliance group since 1985 where he has worked from concept to commissioning of many successful projects in the field of Control systems and Instrumentation such as Patalganga, Hazira Phase I, Hazira Phase II, TFIL and Jamnagar refining and petrochemicals complex. State-of-the-art refinery at Jamnagar is a prime example of successful integration and implementation of the latest automation and control technologies in vogue. Prior to Reliance, Mehta worked with Agro chemical & food, Kenya as Chief Instrumentation Engineer and with earstwhile IPCL for 11 years. He is chairman of Instrumentation Experts Club, Foundation Fieldbus end user advisory council in India, and on the Board of Governors for Automation
Thomas Burke, President & Executive Director, OPC Foundation
Tom has been an officer for the OPC Foundation since it was founded, currently serving his fifth year term as President. He was a founding member of OPC and was the architect for the OPC Data Access Custom and Automation Interfaces. Tom has served as the designer and leader for OPC Compliance, OPC Interoperability, and all OPC Data Access specifications. His vision includes the creation of an initiative called OPC Data eXchange that brought together the industrial Ethernet Consortiums to work together to provide the standard for exchanging data between the different industrial Ethernet networks. Tom was a senior software architect for Rockwell Automation and has developed and managed significant software projects for Rockwell/Allen-Bradley and NCR over his 24 year career.
Andy Chatha, President & CEO, ARC
Andy Chatha, President & CEO, ARC
Andy provides leadership to the ARC organization and guides its research and client activities. For over 20 years, Andy has provided advice and counsel to many leading manufacturing companies around the world. Andy will be conducting a Benchmarking Workshop for the attendees and will be discussing best practices for global manufacturing.
Thomas Bartsch, Martketing Manager, Siemens I IA AS SM MP
Thomas is head of the PROFIBUS PA Marketing Working Group of PROFIBUS International PI. Since 2005, Thomas is responsible for Safety Integrated for Process Automation at Siemens I IA AS with the focus on safety systems in process automation. He has more than 20 years experience in process automation, control systems, and safety systems. During the last 20 years he was employed in the engineering and commissioning of plants, training, product management and marketing of programmable safety systems, and fieldbus.
Dr. Liang Chen, Technical Director, Thermal Power Department, SUPCON
Dr. Chen specializes in the control and optimization of thermal power plants and has been particularly engaged in major research in the field of CFBB (Circulating Fluidized Bed Boilers). Dr Chen obtained his PhD in Control Science and Engineering from Zheijiang University, China and has several papers published on the subject of CFBB and also is an applicant for one patent in the field. Dr. Chen presently leads the SUPCON team in Thermal Power Plants and holds the position of Technical Director.
Vivek M. Ghate, Vice President GMS, Reliance Industries
Vivek Ghate is currently Vice President at Reliance Industries and is responsible for Captive Power Plants and Utilities at all Reliance manufacturing sites. He has over 30 years experience in the power industry. Prior to joining Reliance, Vivek worked with Tata Electric Company at their Trombay Thermal Power Station. He has extensive experience in the operation and maintenance of both IPPs and CPPs.
Dr. Gunther Kegel, CEO, Pepperl+Fuchs
After achieving a Doctorate in Automation Technology, Gunther joined Pepperl+Fuchs in the R&D department. He quickly became the team leader and manager of the department. Gunther was later promoted to the position of Managing Director of the group in 1997. Gunther has published many articles visualizing the future of Fieldbus and wireless technologies. Today, besides leading Pepperl + Fuchs as CEO, he is active on the board of many electronic and automation bodies/institutions in Europe. He has been the Chairman of the Foundation Fieldbus EMEA Executive Advisory Committee for the last 4 years and was elevated to Member of FF Board of Directors this year.
Kapil Mehta, Director Global Business Services, IBM
Kapil joined IBM Software Group as a Software IT Architect and leads a team of Software Architects specialized in SOA for whole India. Prior to IBM,Kapil has been in the UK, working for various multinationals including Cap Gemini and British Aerospace. Kapil has over 15 years of experience across multiple geographies, roles, companies and technologies. He has also worked with various multinational companies such as General Motors, British Petroleum and the British Army. Kapil completed his MSc in Information Technology from University College London having previously completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Kings College London.
Atul Kumar, Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Global Steel Group, ISPAT Industries
Atulkumar's expertise is in Enabling Technology and Automation (ET&A) areas. He manages professional services centering on the group's operational and business excellence in its endeavor to harness, practice, and manage heterogeneous inorganic growth through process innovation and change management as a result of technology adaptation. Prior to joining ISPAT, Atulkumar held various positions, including Country Consulting Manager for Strategic and Enterprise Applications Business Consulting Group at Oracle Corporation and Group Leader and Business Manager at Tata Consultancy Services. He also served as Chief Operating Officer at GATI Intellect Systems, Corporate General Manager at Info-Tech DLF Group, and Manager of Management Services at Steel Authority of India.
Edward Ladd, Director of Technology Programs, HART Communication Foundation
Ed has over 20 years experience in process automation and related fields including work in field service, engineering, and lab supervision, and over 15 years in sales, marketing, and program management. Most recently, Ed was with ISA as Director of Conferences and Technical Programs. Ed is a Senior member of ISA and has held many volunteer leadership roles including Director of the Process Measurement and Control Division and 04-05 ISA Expo Conference Chair. Ed has had a continuous membership in ISA since 1988.
Kalyan Kumar Mallick, Vice President & Head of Oil & Gas in India, ABB Ltd. India
Kalyan Kumar Mallick has more than 21 years of experience where he has been involved in very many challenging projects. These include contract handling, project scheduling expertise for PERT CPM analysis and project monitoring systems, micro planning of activities based on project schedule, resource allocation, project engineering, material ordering and supply chain management, and monitoring project execution in terms of supply, engineering, resources, technology etc.
Pankaj Mittal, Industry Principal for Metals, Mining & Mill Products, SAP India
Pankaj Mittal is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has 23 years of professional experience having worked in both Manufacturing and IT organizations. His span of experience includes production, production and shipment planning, marketing, sales, BPR, SAP implementations, and development of SAP solutions. Currently at SAP, his role involves acting as a bridge for the Metals, Mining and Mill Products industries to facilitate the understanding of the business requirements of the industry and how SAP can help these industries achieve their business goals.
BP Mukherjee, Industry Principal, Utility Practice, SAP India
BP Mukherjee has both hands-on as well as managerial experience in the operations of power utilities. He has 20 years of experience in management and consulting. Prior to his current position, he was the Chief of Party of the Distribution Reform, Upgrades and Management (DRUM) Project, a collaborative initiative between USAID and Ministry of Power to create centers of excellence in power distribution at various locations in India. Earlier in his career, he was an operational manager in power utilities where he was involved on a broad range of assignments involving system automation, organizational and efficiency improvement projects, and change management.
Dr Issam Mukhtar, TUV Functional Safety Expert, Safety Engineering and Critical Control (SECA)
Dr. Mukhtar has been involved industrial instrumentation and controls design since 1978. For the last ten years he has been focused on the installation and implementation of Safety Instrumented Systems in heavy industrial applications, in particular in the power, chemical, petroleum, mineral processing, and steelmaking sectors. He is a certified TUV Functional Safety Expert working as a consultant for Premier Consulting Services.
Srivastava Mulpuri, Manager Marketing, Chemical & Pharmaceuticals, Process Automation, ABB
Srivastava is responsible for business development focusing on the pharmaceutical sector, bringing in cost effective solutions in process automation for primary and secondary manufacturing. He has over 12 years of experience in design, sales, and marketing. Srivastava has worked with user companies such as Millipore and Spectrochem, supporting customers in bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing and delivering fully engineered solutions for process control, validation, and information management. Srivastava is well versed with Extended Automation Systems in the pharmaceutical industry to derive manufacturing efficiency for several applications including facility and building automation, equipment cleaning and control, batch and recipe management, electronic record keeping, information management, sequence of operations, master production instructions, batch to batch comparisons, and yield calculation.
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Associate Partner Industrial Sector, IBM
Sivaram works in the Business Consulting Division of IBM India. He has 13 years of consulting experience of which the last six has been spent in consulting for metals and heavy engineering clients of IBM across the world. He also holds the responsibility of delivering manufacturing solutions to IBM clients in India. Sivaram has extensive consulting experience with clients in the supply chain domain, encompassing supply chain process improvement, supply chain solution identification, and implementation with specific reference to manufacturing and benefit assessments. He is one of the acknowledged Subject Matter Experts for metals, engineering, and manufacturing within the IBM Consulting Organisation and has contributed to papers and ‘points of view’ of IBM.
Arcot Rajabahadur, VP & GM, ARC India
Arcot Rajabahadur, VP & GM, ARC India
Raja's areas of expertise include electric power, steel, and other process industries, manufacturing industries, capital expenditure analysis, DCS, PLCs, AC drives, field devices, and enterprise solutions. He has over 35 years of system and application engineering, project management, and solution marketing experience in the field of control and automation. Raja has extensive, hands-on experience in instrumentation design, detailed engineering, project management including procurement & documentation, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of automation systems. Before joining ARC, Raja held concurrent positions of Business Development and Project Manager for Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions and Marketing Manager of Power Generation for Honeywell Asia Pacific.
Aiyappan Ramamurthi, Business Manager, Siemens PLM Software
Aiyappan Ramamurthi is the Business Manager of Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of Siemens Industry Automation Division. Aiyappan is responsible for the Sales of digital manufacturing products in India. He joined Siemens in 1997 and was involved with pre-sales, implementation, and delivery of PLM software in India and overseas. Prior to joining Siemens, he worked for Bajaj Auto in the Vehicle design department. His articles are published in the area of knowledge-based engineering and digital manufacturing.
Dr. A. Rama Mohana Rao, Vice President Quality Assurance, Aurobindo Pharma Ltd.
Dr. Rao has 22 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in the areas of quality assurance, regulatory affairs, and manufacturing operations. His accomplishments include establishing quality systems in various pharmaceutical organizations, implementing automated quality and manufacturing systems, and facing several international audits such as USFDA,UK MHRA, and Canadian FDA.
Ravi N, President, Head Process Automation, ABB
Ravi is member of the Corporate Management Committee for ABB India. Working with ABB since 1990, he has worked across engineering design, project management, and sales. In 2000, Ravi became the Head of Business Unit for Metals. In 2002, Mineral, Marine, Paper, and Pulp were added to his portfolio followed by Turbo Chargers, Oil and Gas, and Automation in 2004-05. Currently, Ravi provides end to end solutions of Automation and Electricals to the process industry.
J K Verma, Vice President, Business Development & Sales, Siemens
Verma is presently Vice Prsident, Siemens, Business Development & Sales in the Automation & Drives Division in India. With over three decades in Siemens, Verma has a vast cross functional experience in Product Development, Factory Logistics, Corporate Marketing,Projects, IT, Regional Sales. In his present capacity, he heads the Marketing & Product Management activities of all the products such as Automation, Drives, Switchgears, Motors, and Process Instrumentation. In addition, he is also responsible for Sales of Products & Solutions on all India basis. Verma is an Engineering graduate in the field of Electronics & Communication from Ranchi University. Apart from various on job trainings in India and abroad in several locations of Siemens, Verma has to his credit, special Professional & Management programs in NITIE Mumbai, IIM Bangalore, Manchester Business School, UK & ISB Hyderabad.
Subu D Subramanian, Director & Senior Vice President, Satyam Computer Services
Subu is Head of Manufacturing and Automotive Industry Business Units in Satyam. Previously, he played the pivotal role in establishing a robust SAP business unit and developing it into the largest SAP practice in India, in less than three years. He has guided the creation of a unique model for ERP offshoring. In a career spanning over 20 years in IT, Subu has held key positions in several reputed companies in India and overseas. This includes a long stint at Tata Consultancy Services, as Regional Business Head – Midwest USA, Center Head – Hyderabad, where he headed TCS operations in twin cities, and Global Alliance Manager of E&Y.
Kenneth C. Taormina, Senior Vice President, Global Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions, Satyam Computers
Ken is responsible for leading and nurturing client relationships at the CXO level, facilitating and directing design and delivery of high-end industry solutions to global customers in the A&D, automotive, chemical, industrial, process, and discrete manufacturing verticals. Ken operates from the US and his team is comprised of manufacturing and technology leaders from the US, Europe, and Asia. Ken joined Satyam from BearingPoint where he was Senior Vice President for Manufacturing. Prior to this he served as Area Vice President for Telecommunications at Oracle, and also at Raytheon, GE, and Teledyne Industries. Ken is on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturing.
S. R. Venkatapathy, Senior Analyst Automation
S. R. (Venkat) Venkatapathy, Senior Analyst Automation, ARC
Venkat is part of the automation consulting team at ARC covering the process industries. Venkat researches and consults with ARC clients in India, China, and South East Asia in the field of process control and automation systems. Venkat has over 27 years of experience in the field of automation and enterprise and presently heads the research group in India. He has a number of studies to his credit including DCS, PLC, AC Drives, and total automation. Prior to joining ARC, Venkat had served Engineers India, a leading Engineering, Consultancy, and EPC Contractor and held various positions.
A K BHATTA, INCOS Team, Bhilai Steel Plant
Anish joined Bhilai Steel Plant in 1985. He has been a part of the core team, since inception, responsible for implementation of ERP & MES in Bhilai Steel Plant. He has rich experience in the area of Steel Making and continuous casting. He has been associated with the implementation of IT application HMMS for steel making and finishing in Long product area
RAVI SHANKAR, INCOS Team, Bhilai Steel Plant
Ravi joined SAIL Bhilai Steel Plant in 1990. He has primarily been associated with level-1 and level-2 automation systems in the areas of blast furnaces, coke ovens, rail & structural mill, sintering plant, etc. He has extensive experience on design, engineering, project management & maintenance of automation systems, in addition to process optimization models, non-destructive testing and plant operations. He has multiple papers on automation to his credit. Currently he is engaged in providing a manufacturing intelligence platform for blast furnaces
Pradeep Karnik, General Manager, Siemens
Pradeep heads Siemens India Business for Siemens for Business development and sales for automation systems, process sensors, and process analytics for the industry automation division. He has over 19 years experience in Siemens in the field of automatin and drives. Having started his career as a project engineer in the field services, Pradeep moved on to head the field services before taking key roles in automation of several other vertical segments such as metals and mining, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electric power. He has to his credit success stories such as new business group for 'motion control production machines' within Siemens in India besides accomlishing challenging global assignments in various capacities. Pradeep completed his engineering from Mumbai University and has several professional management programs from IIM Bangalore to his credit
Neeraj Gupta, Business Solutions Leader, IBM
Neeraj is IBM Business Consulting Services Business Solutions Leader responsible for IBM's Chemicals & Petroleum Sector – Asean/South Asia. He is a consultant, geophysical engineer and manager with fourteen years of experience with major global oil and gas service providers (Schlumberger, Halliburton, CGG, PGS). He received his integrated Masters degree in Applied Geophysics from Indian Institute of Technology at Roorkee in India. He is an Active Member of Society of Exploration Geophysicists and a member of Professional Well Log Analysts society. His interest areas include Intelligent Oilfields, enterprise asset management, integrated operations,information and performance (KPIs) management and grid computing
John Watts, Process Solutions Manager, Asia Pacific, Rockwell Automation
John has thirteen years of experience with control system vendors in local, national, and regional sales and business development roles. Having experience with both traditional DCS and PLC companies, he has seen firsthand the convergence of the two technologies over the last decade in industries including upstream oil & gas, refining, life sciences, food & beverage, metals & mining, water & wastewater, and power generation.
Dr. Le Yang, Manager Marketing Department, SUPCON
Dr. Yang joined SUPCON in 2002. SUPCON has served over 5,000 customers from electric power, chemical, refining, pulp & paper, metals & mining, and oil & gas. Dr. Yang spent several years in technical support and marketing roles, and also worked as the manager of the Technical Support Department and manager of the Market Research Department. He is the now the Manager of SUPCON's Marketing Department.
Vishal Mehta, Business Solutions Manager, Manufacturing, IBM India
Vishal has over 13 years experience in manufacturing IT and systems. He has experience in plant construction and commissioning, operations management of large plants, supply chain management and economics, manufacturing scheduling, MIS, IT Planning, MES, and LIMS projects. He has worked on manufacturing solutions for large and SME organizations in India, Europe, US, Africa, and Asia. His industry expertise includes refining, petrochemicals, steel, medical device manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and plastics.
S.K.Shirguppi, Director Operations and Head Engineering Design Services, Rolta India
Shirguppi has over 20 years of experience in the field of plant design engineering, 3D plant design systems and related softwares. Presently he is the Director of Operations and heads the Engineering Design Services business group. Shirguppi carries with him experience in sales and marketing management, KPO business, and Engineering Design and Solutions areas. Prior to assuming his responsibilities in Rolta, Shirguppi was a lead engineer with UDHE India as piping design engineer and has been involved in detail engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning activities in process plants. Shirguppi holds an Enginering Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Karnatak University.
P H SHARMA, INCOS Team, Bhilai Steel Plant
Pratyush joined SAIL Bhilai Steel Plant in the year 1989. He is a part of core team responsible for implementation of ERP in Bhilai Steel Plant. Earlier he was managing plant operation in Ore Handling Plant. His areas of interests include industrial electrics, electronics and automation, and has a rich experience on these platforms including design, engineering and project management. In addition he is also a part of corporate communication team.
K S Krishna Kumar, General Manager Enterprise Process Solutions, RAMCO Systems
Krishna Kumar has been involved with complete automation, using PLC, SCADA software, advanced process control systems, LIMS, and other specialized enterprise solutions over the last two decades. He is presently the head of Enterprise Process Solutions overseeing efforts not only in real-time solutions but also positioning ERP for various industry verticals in manufacturing. Having been part of the project team that executed a MT cement plant while at Madras Cements he has extensive user experience in the cement industry. He joined RAMCO in 1992.
Paramananda Choudhury, Business Manager, Rockwell Automation
Paramananda is presently responsible for the Controls and Visualization business of Rockwell Automation in India. He has been involved with the manufacturing sector for 7 years and over 8 years in the industrial automation industry. Paramananda was deeply involved in the areas of process control and process safety in his previous stint at Yokogawa. While in Rockwell Automation has been involved in the promotion of the concept of Plant Wide Control amongst end users and equipment manufacturers. Paramananda holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Kantilal S Malwania, DGM Instrumentation, Godrej Industries
KS Malwania, has been with Godrej Industries over 12 years and even as he heads the Instrumentation department, is responsible for carrying out and overseeing execution of maintenance, plant modification and projects related to entire instrumentation. Of particular interest are his efforts in planning and implementing migration strategies of automation systems and solutions over the years of several vendors. Malwania began his career with ABS Plastics, and then with Lupin Agrochemicals prior to taking up his assignment with Godrej Industries. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering
Dilip Sherekar, Director, SSM Info Tech
Dilip has nearly 30 years of experience in the field of Automation and Electrical Systems. Prior to his present stint at SSM Info Tech as entrepreneur director, Dilip was part of Tata Power for 20 years and EMCO 3 years. Besides Automation, Dilip has rich experience in design, engineering, commissioning of projects, Fibre Optics, Data Conversion solutions, and providing turnkey solutions in several areas. His learning experiences include ABB Sweden, Serck Controls UK, GE-Harris Australia & US. Dilip has a Masters in Power System from NIT-REC Warangal with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Nagpur University
Bhavesh Devmurari, Reliance Industries Ltd
Bhavesh Devmurari has over 20 years of experience in polyster industries.An Instrument engineer from L.D. Engineering, Gujarat University (1988). he is with the Reliance group over the last 14 years wherein he has been associated in erection,commissioning,startup and maintanance of four major polyster plants of 4 major polyster plants
Anil Kumar Choudhari, Business Development Manager, Rockwell Automation Singapore
Anil leads Rockwell Automation's Food and Beverages Asia Pacific Business Development efforts. He has over 22 years experience in the field of Automation. Having begun his career with Alfa Lavel India, Anil moved on to assume the responsibility of General Manager Sales at Clearpack, Singapore. He then was part of Danfoss Industries in India before serving Invensys India APV division
Satyagopal Panigrahi, Field Technical Consultant, National Instruments
Satyagopal Panigrahi is a Field Technical Consultant in Hyderabad for National Instruments, India. His areas of expertise primarily include Controls and System Design. He is an engineering grduate in the field of Instrumentation from BITS, Pilani.
Mohit Kumar, Director – Formulations TechOperations Projects, Dr Reddys Laboratories
Mohit has over 16 years experience in the pharmaceutical industries and more particularly in the field of automation in batch industries. He began his career with Daurala Organics, moved on to SIRIS Limited, then on to Honeywell Automation, before joining Dr Reddys. At Dr Reddys laboratories, he has held several positions and functions such as QUALITY by DESIGN, RISK Management, Communication Management, STRATEGIC Management, and PROJECT LIFECYCLE Management. He presently dons the role of Director, Formulations TechOperations Projects at Dr Reddy Laboratories. Mohit is a graduate in chemical engineering from Bangalore University
Ashish B Naik, Executive Engineering and Commissioning, Siemens
Ashish is working as an Executive in Engineering and Commissioning group of Automation and Drives Division of Siemens India., providing automation solutions in chemical, pharma, and Food & Beverage industry verticals. He is has been involved in the field of engineering, commissioning, and validation of control systems including GAMP4 practices. Ashish has also been involved in conducting training sessions for clients in the field of validation. He holds an engineering degree.
KVS Rao, Vice President, ABB
KVS heads Minerals Business Unit of ABB in India and has extensive experience in the field of providing automation and electricals services on behalf of ABB. He is responsible for overseeing businesses of ABB in Minerals division that includes Cement, Mining, and Metals Divisions. KVS has over two decades of experience behind him in several vertical industries. He is a qualified engineer in Electrical Engineering.
Sanjay Ganjoo, Advisory IT Specialist, IBM India
Sanjay is a certified Maximo consultant and works in Software Group of IBM India. He has over 14 years of experience in different industries and a significant number of years in implementing Maximo - Enterprise Asset Management solution from IBM in various industriy verticals. Currently his role is to provide Maximo solution to various manufacturing enterprises and organizations for managing their mission critical assets
Deepak Maheshwari, Asst Vice President and Dy BUU Manager-Metals, ABB
Deepak has over 19 years of experience in Sales, Project Management, Contract Management, and Project Procurement in turnkey projects. He is responsible for ABB sales and marketing of integrated electrics and automation in Metal Industry for India, SAARC, and Middle East Market besides overseeing strategic planning and budgeting processes. Prior to joining ABB, Deepak was part of BHEL Bangalore where he was involved in integration of electrical and control systems for industrial automation. Deepak holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Bhopal University and is a recipient of a MD’s Certificate of appreciation and outstanding performance for ABB.
Sujeet Gohil Business Manager Rockwell Automation
Sujeet has fourteen years of experience in various aspects of Process control and Instrumentation in Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical domains involving functions likes Business Development, Sales & Marketing, System Design, Project Engineering, commissioning and after sales support for various Process control and Safety systems. He is presently responsible for Oil & Gas business in his current role as Industry Sales Manager
KN Sreevatsa, Head Business Unit, Medium Voltage Drives, ABB
Sreevatsa has been involved in working on several energy saving and process improvement projects metal industry vertical and also in evolving new technologies and solutions for the petrochemical, oil & gas, cement, pulp & paper, and mining industry verticals. Sreevatsa, has over 12 years experience in the field of providing solutions for AC Drives in Indian industry. He leads ABB efforts in providing solution to various customers for deriving benefits under CDM, which will help both customers and the environment. Sreevatsa is an Electrical Engineering graduate from Mysore University

Agenda

Following is the agenda for the forum.

Thursday, July 10

9:00 AM

Registration

11:00 AM Welcome Address
Rajabahadur V Arcot, Director South Asia and Southeast Asia, ARC
11:15 AM

Enterprise Integration and Service Oriented Architecture 
Kapil Mehta,IBM

12:15 AM

Imperatives and Challenges of Plant-wide Automation and Factory/Enterprise Integration
Paramanand Choudhury, Rockwell Automation

1:15 PM Lunch

2:00 PM

Profibus Workshop
Thomas Bartsch, Head PROFIBUS PA Marketing Working Group, PNO Foundation

3:00 PM

OPC UA Workshop
Tom Burke, President and Executive Director, OPC Foundation USA

4:00 PM WirelessHART for Process Measurement and Control Applications Workshop
Ed Ladd, Director Technology Programs, HART Communication Foundation USA
5:00 PM Break

5:15 PM

Plant Performance Automation Benchmarking
Andy Chatha, President, ARC

6:15 PM Break

6:45 PM

Economy Needs an Expanding Manufacturing Industry and Manufacturing Needs Automation for Gaining a Competitive Edge
Manufacturing and Automation Industries Panel Discussions and Announcements
  Andy Chatha, President, ARC
  Sunil Khanna, President, AIA
  N Ravi, President, Process Automation, ABB
  John Watts, Process Solution Manager, Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific
  Jyotindra Verma, Vice President A&D, Siemens

7:30 PM

Reception and Dinner Sponsored by ARC and AIA

Friday, July 11

7:30 AM

Registration and Breakfast

Winning Strategies and Best Practices for Process Industries

9:00 AM Welcome Address  
SR Venkatapathy, ARC Advisory Group
9:05 AM

Inauguration
Lighting of Lamp

9:15 AM

Inaugural Address
Ramalinga Raju, Founder & Chairman, Satyam Computer Services

9:30 AM

Keynote Address:  Digital Plant - The Roadmap for the Process Industry
Andy Chatha, ARC Advisory Group

10:00 AM

Enhanced Investments in Integrated Automation and Enterprise Solutions Is Crucial for Deriving Operational Excellence in Process Plants
BR Mehta, Reliance Industries

10:30 AM

Digital Integrated Manufacturing Enterprise (DIME)
Subbu Subramanian, Satyam Computer Services

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM

What Will Your Control System Look Like in 30 Years? 
John Watts, Rockwell Automation, Asia Pacific

12:00 PM

Digital Process Plant
Aiyappan Ramamurthi, Siemens PLM Software

12:30 PM

Manufacturing of the Future Will Be Largely Automation and IT Enabled
Panel Discussion Moderated by ARC
  ARC
  Process Industry Representatives
  Platinum Sponsors’ Representatives

1:15 PM

Lunch Sponsored by Pepperl+Fuchs

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

2:15 PM

India's Process Manufacturing Industries - Challenges, Best Practicesm, and Survey Analysis:
1. Collaborative Production Management in Process Industries in India
2. Legacy System Migration Strategies Adoption by Process Industries in India
3. Energy Savings Adoption Strategies by Process Industries in India
Rajabahadur V Arcot, S.R. Venkatapathy, Badrinath Belgaumkar, Jayanth Bhattacharjee

2:45 PM Improving Plant Availability through Critical Change Project Management Methodology
PK Tripathy, Shree Cements
3:15 PM Enterprise Solutions Need of the Hour to Enhance Operational Efficiency of Indian Process Industries
G Venkatraghavan, IBM
 

TRACK 1:  Meeting Energy and Environmental Challenges

TRACK 2:  Enterprise Asset Management

3:30 PM

AC Drives:  Look Beyond Energy Savings - Deriving Process Control and CDM Benefits
KN Sreevatsa, ABB

Managing Assets,
Sanjay Ganjoo, IBM

TRACK 1:  Plant Asset Management and Process Alarm Management TRACK 2:  Collaborative Production Management
4:00 PM Beyond Conventional Wisdom - Asset Optimization Strategies with FF Solutions
Dr. Kegal,  Pepperl+Fuchs Germany		 Process Industry Emissions and Profitability with Energy Management
Kenneth C. Taormina, Satyam Computer Services
4:30 PM Break Break
5:00 PM Alarm Management System - Analysis and Optimization Software
Bhavesh Devmurari, Reliance Industries and Dilip Shereker, SSM Info Tech 		Perfect Plant Solution for Process Plants
Pankaj Mittal, SAP

 

TRACK 1:  Legacy System Migration and Integration Challenges

TRACK 2:  Plant Information Management Systems

5:30 PM Challenges and Compulsions on Migration Strategies in the Process Industry
KS Malwania, Godrej Industries		 Plant Information Management
SK Shirguppi, ROLTA

6:00 PM

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

7:00 PM

Reception and Dinner Sponsored by ISA

Saturday, July 12

8:00 AM

Registration and Breakfast

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 and Power Distribution

TRACK 2:  Chemical, Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals & Refinery

TRACK 3:  Pharmaceuticals, Food & Beverage

TRACK 4:  Metals & Mining, Pulp & Paper, Cement

9:00 AM

Keynote Address:  Captive Power Plants - Achieving Operational Excellence
Rajabahadur V Arcot, ARC Advisory Group

Keynote Address:  Automation Challenges in Process Industries,
Andy Chatha, ARC Advisory Group 

 

Keynote Address: Pharmaceutical Companies Must Put Their Quality Systems in Synch with Global Norms - What They Need from Solution Providers to Become Globally Competitive
Mohit Kumar, Dr Reddy’s Laboratory

Keynote Address:  CPM is Essential for Enhancing Operational Excellence in Process Industries
AK Bhatta, Ravi Shankar, and PH Sharma, INCOS, Bhilai Steel Plant

9:30 AM Captive Power Plants: Gamut of Challenges - User Perspective
Vivek M Ghate, Reliance Industries		 Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction Solution for Chemical Industry
Dr. Liang Chen, SUPCON China		 Roadmap for Automation, Enterprise, and Collaborative Production Management in a Pharmaceutical Plant
Ashish B Naik, Siemens 		Legacy System Migration and Challenges in Steel Industries – A Case Study
Atul Kumar, ISPAT Industries
10:00 AM Asset Management in a Captive Power Plant
BP Mukharjee, SAP		 Enterprise Automation Integration Challenges and Achieving Operational Excellence - Intelligent Oilfields,
Neeraj Gupta, IBM 		Advance Process Control in Batch Processing – Food & Beverage and Pharmaceutical Industry
John Watts, Rockwell Automation 		Achieving Operational Excellence Is Key to Viability of a Cement Plant - Composite Plant Solutions
KVS Rao, ABB
10:30 AM DCS in China’s Power Industry: Market and Industrial Solutions
Dr.Le Yang, SUPCON China		 Enterprise-wide SCADA - Towards Smart Platforms
Kalyankumar Mallick, ABB		 Integrating Software Solutions to Make Pharmaceutical Plants Compliant to Global Regulations
AR Rao, Aurobindo Pharma 		 Cement Plant Optimization Solutions
Krishna Kumar, RAMCO Systems

11:00 AM

Break

11:30 AM

Integrated Solutions for Captive Power Plant Controls and Electricals - Single Automation Supplier's Approach in the Captive Power Plant
Biplab Ghosh, Hooghly Metcoke

Guidelines for the Implementation of IEC61511 for the Design of Safety Instrumented System
Dr Issam Mukhtar,
Invensys Process Systems

Industrial Interoperability Standards Allow Batch Manufacturing Industry to Build Lean IT Systems - Use of ISA Standards
Vishal Mehta, IBM

Achieving Operational Efficiency in Metal Industries,
Sarang Pitre, Siemens

12:00 PM Maximize ROI with Advanced Condition Monitoring
Satyagopal Panigrahi, National Instruments		 Protecting Assets and Ensuring Operational Continuity - What to Ask for in Safety Integrity Systems Including Logic Solvers
Sujeet Gohil, Rockwell Automation		 PAT Application and Plant-wide Automation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Srivatsa Mulpuri, ABB		 Manufacturing Intelligence in Metals and Mining Industris, Bala Seshank, IBM
12:30 PM DCAM - Diagnosis and Cure of All Machines
Venkatesh Chandrasekaran, Satyam Computer Services

Automation Services and Main Automation Contractor's Role (MAC) in Process Industries
ARC Invited Speaker/ARC Analyst

 How to Add ISA 88 Features to Existing Legacy Systems and Implementing ISA 88 Standards
Sagar Khatavkar, Siemens

Hot Strip Mill Controls
Deepak Maheswari, ABB

1:00 PM Advanced Coal Technologies for Power Generation,
Prof Ajit Kolar, IIT Madras		 Collaborative Manaufacturing Management in Process Industries
Arcot V Rajabahadur, ARC Advisory Group (Common to Track#2 &3)		 Collaborative Manaufacturing Management in Process Industries
Arcot V Rajabahadur, ARC Advisory Group
(Common to Track#2 &3)		 Operational Aspects of Production and Planning in Metal Industries
Pankaj Mittal, SAP

1:30 PM

Panel Discussions by ARC, End Users, Sponsors

Panel Discussions by ARC, End Users, Sponsors

Panel Discussions by ARC, End Users, Sponsors

Panel Discussions by ARC, End Users, Sponsors

2:00 PM

Concluding Session
Lunch Sponsored by RAMCO Systems

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. 

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.  

Executive Speakers

The following executives presented at the forum.

Travel Information

The forum is held at the Novotel Hyderabad.

Novotel and HICC ComplexNOVOTEL HYDERABAD
Novotel and HICC Complex (Near Hitec City)
P.O. Bag 1102, Cyberabad Post Office
Hyderabad - 500 081
India
Tel: + 91 40 6682 4422
Fax: +91 40 6613 4322
E-mail: reservations@novotelhyderabad.com
www.accorhotels-asia.com/Novotel-Hyderabad

Attendees should make their own hotel reservations. ARC has contracted a reduced rate with NOVOTEL if reservations are made by June 20. Please refer to ARC Advisory Group when making your reservations.
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