Dave Emerson

Dave Emerson
Director, U.S. Technology Center
Yokogawa

The U.S. Technology Center is tasked with working on frontier technology for industrial automation, helping formulation within the industry and accelerating its adoption within Yokogawa.  Dave has over 30 years’ experience applying and developing automation and Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) systems used in the hydrocarbon, chemical, pharmaceutical, and food & beverage industries.  He is a member of the OPC Foundation’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and has been involved in the development of OPC’s Unified Automation (UA) technology from its beginning.   In addition to the OPC Foundation involvement Dave represents the U.S. on the IEC Sub Committee 65E as well as numerous other standards and industry groups such as ISA95, MIMOSA and MESA, where he is responsible for B2MML, BatchML and KPIML.  Dave is an ISA Fellow and a member of the Process Automation Hall of Fame.