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Technology is changing, and fast. Labor availability and skillset requirements are changing as well. In the process industries, process control personnel makeup and skillsets have evolved over decades of iterations. At the 2017 ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, ARC Advisory Group hosted a session in which three end users discussed their respective companies’ process control roles, challenges, and possible responses to those challenges.
Janet Brightwell from Dow Chemical spoke first, followed by Dex Dutson of Lamb-Weston. Andy Young of Pioneer Energy completed the session. Ms. Brightwell and Mr. Dutson provided insights from the perspectives of established businesses, whereas Mr. Young discussed what it was like starting from scratch, leveraging current technologies.
Dow Chemical: Dealing with Old and New Chemistry
Ms. Brightwell provided attendees an overview of process control at Dow. The company’s diverse nature requires that process control handle all manner of control: batch, continuous, and discrete. Process control al-so requires knowledge of field devices, field networks, operator interfaces, application layer interfaces, as well as maintain process knowledge.
Dow is unique in that, until the mid-1990s, it developed and maintained its own process control system: the MOD5. It has since adopted commercially available systems, but its installed base is enormous and process control personnel must still support the legacy installations until they are migrated.
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Keywords: Process Control, Staffing, Human Resources, Skillsets, OT, IT, ARC Advisory Group.