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Welcome by Chairperson
Charles Cheong, President, FDT Group Singapore

Case Study
Construction, maintenance and operations of remote communication systems for an Oil & Gas Industry.

• An integrated control system for Deep Water Sub Sea facilities and On-Shore Gas Processing plants
• Key challenges in implementing an effective communication system

T.K. Ramaiah, Senior Manager (Inst.), Reliance Industries Ltd. (E&P), India

Plant design to ensure field information integrity and cost-efficient instrumentation

Mohamed Daoud, Manager (Projects Quality), Engineering & Major Projects, ADCO, UAE

Technical and operator-driven reliability are key to enhancing the integrity of a plant's assets and operations. How can maintenance programs and policies be managed in such a way that ensures efficient management of operational expenditure(OPEX) as well as overall reliability of a plant?

Opening by Session Chairperson

Case Study
Capitalizing on wireless technology - Cost savings and improved surveillance

• Overview of overall wireless technology development in oil & gas industry
• Case study of various wireless technology projects implemented in Petronas Carigali

Achieving Reliability Centered Maintenance by using Fieldbus technology and asset optimization

• Fieldbus technology as a key component to access field diagnostics for the supervision of plant assets
• Achieving Reliability Centered Maintenance by fully integrating Fieldbus Technology and Asset Optimization

Ingo Patzer, Senior Sales Specialist, ABB Singapore

Case Study 
New Foundation Fieldbus topologies increase reliability and plant safety

• Case studies on some of the world’s largest Fieldbus installations
• Evolving requirements for increased reliability and reduced risks – what further improvements are needed
• Introducing the latest generations of fieldbus technology

Maximizing operational efficiency: Data sharing across the enterprise with OPen Connectivity (OPC) based infrastructure

• Integrating OPC standards based connectivity to allow for a new level of data exchange in multi-vendor environment
• Maximizing business agility by securely delivering key operational data to business units to  increase efficiency
• How to extend legacy control system life and facilitate control system migration best-practices

Game changer - Visibility, enablement, and process innovation for a mobile workforce

• Delivering information to field workers and collecting field data effectively as a key competitive imperative
• Enabling mobility & equipping your mobile workers with the right tools to make fully informed decisions regarding the operation of the “perfect” plant

Case Study
Maps, mobile devices, and Real-Time data

• Using a nation-wide project – Weather@SG to evaluate the platform considerations and mapping engines for real-time data collection
• What are the security concerns and challenges to ensure reliable transmission of data for mobile devices

An infrastructure for mobile weather data management

• Developing sensor grid technologies to facilitate sensor data processing, data management, and data request handling
• Implementing embedded real-time weather data acquisition, mobile data management and dissemination for the National Weather Study Project
• Exploring benefits of the infrastructure to handle other sensor data from heterogeneous data sources

Capital expenditure(CAPEX) remains the topmost consideration for management in control systems and design.  With the rise in popularity of digital architecture enabling better information transfer within plant operations and personnel, how can plant infrastructure be designed optimally to ensure field information integrity and cost-efficient instrumentation?

Opening by Session Chairperson                  

Trends in industrial networks: How Ethernet TCP/IP is building bridges

• Find out what network types are emerging as industry standards
• Evaluating the technologies emerging for universal “plug and play” compatibility

Case Study
Wireless applications case studies for improving plant performance

• Case studies - Using wireless applications to improve plant performance and manage costs
• How to overcome old plant challenges with new innovative solution based on wireless

Free Space Optics - A new horizon of wireless communications for plant wide information network connectivity

• Understanding Free Space Optics (FSO) and its advantages as an alternative for network connectivity
• Examining the pros & cons of FSO technology as wireless back-up for the process industry

ISA100.11a – The answer to your wireless needs

• Examining the challenges in wireless deployment to also accommodate all wired protocols
• Overview of the ISA100.11a technologies and its user benefits as an industrial wireless standard for process automation

Wireless for safety, reliability & efficiency

• Overview of how wireless technology can improve plant safety and reduce productivity downtime
• Ways to manage regulatory risks by remotely monitoring wastewater discharge or stack discharge points and other remote measurement points

Panel Discussion
Wireless implementation challenges and considerations

• Difficulties in implementation
• Examining how to ensure timely & reliable transmission across different devices
• Developing hybrid systems in which wireless stations are included into wired systems – what are the (potential) challenges?

Moderator: Jonas Berge, Director, PlantWeb Consulting, Emerson Process Management, Singapore

Panelists:

• K K Siew, Managing Director, PAC Technologies, Singapore
• Toshi Hasegawa, Project Leader (Technology Marketing Dept. Marketing Division, Industrial Automation Business Headquarters), Yokogawa Electric Corp, Japan
• Bryan Sim, Account Manager, Field Solutions, Honeywell Pte Ltd, Singapore
• Cyril Perducat, Senior VP, System Consistency and Innovation, Schneider Electric, Singapore
• Tom Koenig, Product Manager, Wireless/Security Asia Pacific, Cisco
• Himanshu Gaurav, Product Manager, ABB Singapore

• What are some of the strategic considerations in implementing Foundation Fieldbus projects
• Practical challenges in the maintenance of Foundation Fieldbus network based control system

Bus and wireless technology deployment in Southeast Asia - A market perspective

• Examining the new technologies and the economics of their applications
• Understanding from the market’s view what drives the adoption of Bus and wireless technologies by end users
• What are some of the challenges the growth of these technologies might face now and in the near future

Satish Lele, Vice President for Industrial Technologies, Frost & Sullivan, Singapore

This session will explain the importance of monitoring and evaluating plant systems to reduce the risk of incidents, leakages and security failures, which have the potential to disrupt plant operations, increase downtime, and impact the bottom line.

Opening by Session Chairperson           

Case Study
Continuous Monitoring of Water Distribution Systems

• What are the challenges in implementing a cyber-physical infrastructure for the continuous monitoring of large-scale water distribution systems (WDS)
• Assessing the applications from real-time hydraulic data modelling, remote detection of pipe leakage, contamination monitoring to mitigation process

Cyber Security in a modern Process Network

• Evaluating the threats and risks associated with a modern process control system to recommend suitable protection measures
• Introducing developments in the area of network security and their implications
• How and what is needed to implement an effective Network Security Strategy and benefit from it

Lunch Break

• Overview of abnormal situations: The causes and impact on plant operations
• Case studies undertaken by the ASM Consortium to overcome / minimise ASM
• Examining the best practices and guidelines for improved operator effectiveness and plant safety

Convergence of building and IT infrastructure security

• Integrated safety solutions to maximize productivity and improve bottom-line performance
• Exploring the various benefits and functions for ensuring a reliable safety instrumented system

Panel Discussion
Instilling an organizational-wide philosophy on managing system risks

• What are the standard operating procedures (SOPs) that are required in the event of a security breach?
• Patching for bugs in systems for stability: Where are the major challenges?
• Assessing the potential outlay involved

Moderator: Darek Kominek, Partner Programs Manager, MatrikonOPC, Canada

Panelists:

• Philip Nunn, Product Manager - Industrial Networks, MTL Instruments, UK
  Douglas Bellin, Industry Lead for Logistics, Utilities, Retail and Manufacturing, Cisco Asia Pacific, Singapore
• Stephen Burke, CFSE, Siemens Process Safety, South East Asia, Singapore

The session talks about the challenges of employing BUS technologies in the control systems of power, petrochemicals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and heavy industries.

Case Study
Interoperability in practice - The new IEC 62453 standard

• Deploying best-in-class integration of process and factory automation devices through rich graphical interfaces or EDDL with the new IEC 62453
• Examining the benefits of the IEC 62453 in an integrated environment  for common process and factory automation networks
• Case examples on the largest FF and Profibus installations in the world using IEC 62453

Intelligent device management made easy with EDDL

• Using the new enhanced Electronic Device Description Language (EDDL) to perform an effective diagnostic analysis for Process plants
• Managing multiple devices using a single approach for both device configuration and maintenance

• Using OPC to effectively integrate different hardware and software platforms through the design of a good industrial network and data integration
• What are the current OPC issues and proposed models for an automation project by using OPC enabling technologies

WirelessHART Technology and its industry acceptance

• Introducing the various WirelessHART technology  types available
• Assessing the developments and the applications available in the future

PROFINET integration in IT

• Integrating PROFINET to the IT networks to enable an effective flow of data
• What are the business applications and benefits of PROFINET integration in IT for the industry

Panel Discussion
Open session on BUS and wireless technology deployment

• What are the key challenges faced in the deployment of the different bus technologies?
• Looking at existing trends for potential mass adoption

Moderator:

• T.K. Ramaiah, Senior Manager (Inst.), Reliance Industries Ltd. (E&P), India

Panelists:

• Dominique Chabauty, President, PROFIBUS Association South East Asia
• Andreas Agostin, Chairman, Fieldbus Foundation Marketing Society (Singapore)
• Sachin Gupta, President, WINA Asia Pacific
• Glenn Schulz, Managing Director, FDT Group AISBL, Belgium
• Jonas Berge, Representative, ECT (EDDL Cooperation Team)
• K K Siew, Past President, Singapore Section ISA