With higher customer demand, tighter regulations and increased pressure over product safety and quality, food and beverage manufacturers are looking to automation to improve plant productivity and drive effective business decisions. However to harness the full value of plant data and networking, operators must identify best practices to cost-effectively integrate systems, optimize maintenance, apply wireless and MES technologies. Welcome To The First Dedicated Plant Automation, Networking And Data Integration Congress Specifically For The Food And Beverage Industry Across all plants, operators must identify the optimal method for collecting, storing and integrating data into business systems, mitigate security threats, upgrade obsolete control systems and manage batch process control to balance costs with measurable improvements in safety, product quality and regulatory compliance. The most assuring method to benchmark strategies is surely to hear the feedback of tried-and-tested methods from operators across the US, which have already succeeded. The inaugural, vendor-neutral Food And Beverage Plant Automation, Networking And Data Integration Congress 2015 is the first operator-led event to focus on the data integration and plant networking solutions leading the industry.

1. The Only Event On Food & Beverage Automation To Focus Specifically
On Data Integration And Data Utilization Strategies
Integrating Plant Floor Data Into Enterprise Networks,
Optimizing Controls Systems Maintenance, & Applying The Latest Wireless
Communications MES Technologies To Develop
Plant Automation Plant Networking Strategies Which
Maximize The Availability Real Time Visibility Of Data
To Drive Effective Business Decisions In The Food
Beverage Industry
Key Topics Include:
June 30 - July 1, 2015 | Houston | Texas
Greg Flickinger
Vice President of Manufacturing
Corporate Engineering
Snyder’s Lance
Featuring20+CaseStudiesFromLeadingFood
BeverageManufacturer:
www.food-beverage-automation.com
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• INTEGRATING PLANT FLOOR DATA INTO ENTERPRISE NETWORKS: Examining solutions for
fully integrating data from plant floor automation systems into enterprise networks
so that it can be used to make effective business decisions at a higher level
• EFFECTIVELY UTILIZING PLANT AUTOMATION DATA: Evaluating ways in which
food beverage plant automation data can be reported, extracted utilized to
optimize plant performance achieve wider business objectives
• PLANT NETWORKING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: Examining how
advances in plant networking, wireless communication remote support can be
securely installed to improve efficiency, increase productivity ensure you are
getting the most out of your process network
• OPTIMIZING MES SYSTEMS: Identifying solutions for getting the most out of your
manufacturing execution system to ensure it delivers tangible productivity gains that
justify the upfront investment
• RECRUITING, TRAINING RETAINING AUTOMATION CONTROLS STAFF:
Developing innovative recruitment training programs for plant automation
controls staff to ensure the right calibre of technicians are operating your equipment
• CONTROL SYSTEMS MAINTENANCE: Minimizing the cost of maintaining plant
automation control systems by developing a strategic approach to upgrading
obsolete control systems
Thomas Hauser
Director, ERP Systems
Applications Support
Rich Products Corporation
Nelson Rathert
Manager Engineering Operations
Ardent Mills
Erik Jensen
Corporate Project Engineer
Snyder’s Lance
Bruce Wisnefske
Engineering Director - Manufacturing
Systems Corporate Sustainability
Sargento Foods
Alicia Lomas
Automation Controls Manager
Chobani
Luis Miranda
Automation Manager
Goya Foods
Hugh Roddy
Senior Director Global AutomationControls
Energy Management
Chobani
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THE FIRST FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANUFACTURING
FOCUSED CONGRESS FOR UTILIZING DATA AND
CONTROL SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE SAFETY, QUALITY AND
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
The automated process of capturing and translating plant floor data into
effective business decisions offers to significantly improve the productivity of
food and beverage manufacturing. However crucial challenges remain over how to
cost-effectively integrate data, minimize security threats, develop efficient batch
process control, upgrade obsolete control systems and optimize MES and safety
throughout the plant.
The inaugural Food And Beverage Plant Automation, Networking And Data
Integration Congress 2015 will deliver over 20 case studies directly from
manufacturers who have successfully implemented automation solutions and delivered
a measurable improvement in safety, product quality and regulatory compliance.
From networking and wireless communications and remote support to employee
training and maintenance planning, every minute will be dedicated to data-driven
automation best practices that can be implemented to improve the productivity of
food and beverage manufacturing plants across North America.
WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS EVENT?
• DATA FOCUSED: The only event on food beverage automation to focus
specifically on data integration and data utilization strategies
• EFFICIENCY FOCUSED: Examining the latest advances in applied plant
networking to drive increased efficiency in plant automation
• MANUFACTURER-LED: 100% led by food beverage manufacturers an
agenda 100% dedicated to the food beverage industry
• VENDOR NEUTRAL: Each topic has been selected by unbiased manufacturers
and is led by operators
• AUTOMATION SPECIFIC: The only food beverage event to have a sharp
focus exclusively on plant automation and networking rather than general
manufacturing technology issues
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3. DRIVING EFFECTIVE DECISION-MAKING BY INTEGRATING PLANT FLOOR AUTOMATION DATA INTO ENTERPRISE
NETWORKS, HARNESSING ADVANCES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, MES SAFETY CONTROL SYSTEMS
Day 1
Tuesday June 30, 2015
8:30 Chair’s Opening Remarks
AUTOMATION DATA INTEGRATION UTILIZATION
Examining Food Beverage Manufacturer Success Stories
On Integrating Data From Plant Floor Automation Systems Into
Enterprise Networks To Ensure Maximum Real-Time Visibility
For Business Decision-Makers
INTEGRATING PLANT FLOOR DATA INTO
BUSINESS SYSTEMS
8:40 Explaining How A Food Beverage Manufacturer
Has Fully Integrated Data From Plant Floor Automation
Systems Into Their Enterprise Network So That It Can
Be Used To Make Effective Business Decisions At A
Higher Level
• Examining solutions for comprehensively integrating plant
floor automation data all the way up to through to upper-level
ERP systems
• Putting real-time data at the fingertips of plant and enterprise
decision-makers to maximize visibility and inform decisions
that drive business performance
• Understanding the steps that can be taken to tie live data
coming from the plants to the business servers to feed
information into enterprise-wide systems
• Optimizing the process of taking information from plant floor
control systems and tying it to business systems to streamline
reporting, scheduling and ordering
ThomasHauser,DirectorERPSystemsandApplicationsSupport,Rich
ProductsCorporation
9:10 Question Answer Session
PANEL DISCUSSION: AUTOMATION DATA UTILIZATION
9:20 Examining Innovative Ways In Which Food
Beverage Plant Automation Data Can Be Reported,
Extracted Utilized To Optimize Plant Performance
Achieve Wider Business Objectives
• Identifying ways of tying data from process automation into key
business performance indicators
• Explaining innovative solutions for making the most of your
plant floor data by effectively optimizing your process network
• Understanding how to present data in a way that allows
decision-makers to extract reports which yield actionable
information for the business
• Creating a multiple-tier data reporting and extraction
procedure to provide data in the formats required to drive
decisions all the way from the engineering level up to upper
management
LuisMiranda,AutomationManager,GoyaFoods
ThomasBell,RegionalAutomationElectricalManager,ArcherDaniels
Midland
IsmailKhan,Sr.ControlSystemsEngineer,LeprinoFoods
AliciaLomas,AutomationandControlsManager,Chobani
10:00 Morning Refreshments Served In Exhibition
Showcase Area
DATA COLLECTION STORAGE
10:30 Optimizing Data Collection, Logging Storage To
Maximize The Reliability Visibility Of Data For Food
Beverage Plant Automation
• Understanding how to maximize the reliability of data for
automation systems by optimizing data collection storage
• Analyzing procedures for improving data logging for
automation systems to provide a clearer picture of what is
happening on the plant floor
• Integrating data storage drives, historical databases and
reporting software tools to maximize the value of automation
data for making decisions
• Examining advances in the use of OPC technology to
streamline data collection
ErikJensen,CorporateProjectEngineer,Snyder’sLance
GregFlickinger,VPofManufacturingCorporateEngineering,
Snyder’sLance
11:00 Question Answer Session
MES OPTIMIZATION
11:10 Identifying Solutions For Getting The Most Out
Of Your Manufacturing Execution System To Ensure It
Delivers Tangible Productivity Gains That Justify The
Upfront Investment
• Explaining what steps can be taken to build a business case
for MES and justify the implementation of this process across
all facilities
• Evaluating the latest MES platforms to determine which offers
the highest-performance solution for the food and beverage
industry
• Exploring how different performance tracking features
within an MES can be utilized to contribute to a continuous
improvement project and drive down costs in a facility
• Examining innovative strategies for harnessing the power of
your MES to make tangible productivity gains
BruceWisnefske,EngineeringDirector-ManufacturingSystems/
CorporateSustainability,SargentoFoods
11:40 Question Answer Session
PLANT NETWORKING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Examining how advances in plant networking, wireless
communication remote support can be securily installed
to improve efficiency, increase productivity ensure you are
getting the most out of your process network
PLANT NETWORKING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
11:50 Applying The Latest Wireless Communication
Systems To Create A Plant Network Which Reduces
Cost, Minimizes Downtime Creates Maximum Value
From Food Beverage Plant Automation Data
• Evaluating the latest wireless communication systems to
identify which technologies are having maximum impact on
improving the efficiency of plant networks
• Quantifying the savings that can be made in terms of reduced
cost and down time by switching from hardwired to wireless
communications technologies for plant networking
• Comparing the cost, reliability and expandability of Devicenet
vs Ethernet IP to determine which offers the optimal solutions
in different circumstances
• Surveying the advances on the horizon in terms of using IP
addressing for plant networking
12:20 Question Answer Session
12:30 Networking Lunch Served In Exhibition
Showcase Area
NETWORK SEGREGATION
1:30 Examining Solutions For Segregating Your Plant
Network Into Different Layers To Maximize The Security
Of Plant Floor Enterprise Systems
• Explaining how to manage a firewall between the
manufacturing and enterprise layer to enable a robust and
safe communication system
• Understanding how to handle office and plant forward network
segregation, partner access, VPN, DMZ firewalls to improve
network security
• Examining the benefits of a simple network design that
segregates different areas of the plant to unburden the
network and guarantee important information is secure
• Mapping out network architecture diagrams to demonstrate
how to design a plant network with maximum security
HughRoddy,SeniorDirectorGlobalAutomation,ControlsEnergy
Management,Chobani
2:00 Question Answer Session
CLOUD COMPUTING
2:10 Providing A Step-By-Step Guide On How
Engineering, Automation Plant IT Departments Can
Collaborate To Implement Cloud Computing Solutions
Into Their Plant Automation Strategy Whilst Minimizing
Security Risks
• Providing real-world examples of how cloud computing
has been used to optimize automation systems in food and
beverage manufacturing plant
• Providing a step-by-step guide for automation and controls
professionals on how to implement cloud computing solutions
into their plant automation strategy
• Explaining what measures were taken to maximize security
during implementation of cloud computing into plant
automation strategies
• Understanding what can be put in place to eliminate the risk
that cloud computing exposes plant automation systems to
RionDooley,ManagerWebCloudServices,ResearchAssociate,
TACC-UniversityofTexas
2:40 Question Answer Session
2:50 Afternoon Refreshments Served In Exhibition
Showcase Area
APPLYING CUTTING-EDGE ADVANCES IN AUTOMATION
TO IMPROVE PLANT SAFETY
Establishing Best Practice For Utilizing Safety Control Systems
To Cost-Effectively Meet Osha Regulations
SAFETY CONTROL SYSTEMS
3:20 Examining Innovative Solutions For Streamlining
The Installation Of Safety Control Systems Into
Food Beverage Manufacturing Plants To
Cost-Effectively Keep Up With National International
Safety Regulations
• Understanding how to implement new safety technology within
OSHA regulations to guarantee
all safety requirement are met and employees are
kept safe
• Explaining how to establish a machine guarding system and
interlocking personal and equipment protection measures to
ensure awareness and implementation of automated safety
practices
• Examining safety and design of equipment in industrial
connectivity to overcome overall equipment and human safety
• Examining how to implement alarm management to ensure
the root cause is timely discovered to avoid shut down time
and troubleshooting
3:50 Question Answer Session
OPTIMIZING SAFETY
4:00 Highlighting The Role That Automation Control
Professionals Can Take In Optimizing Human
Machine Safety On The Plant Floor
• Developing a detailed oversight process to ensure that each
piece of automation equipment that is purchased meets
specific safety targets
• Examining what steps can be taken to use automation to
increase the safety of people operating plant equipment
• Adopting standards for ensuring that automation and controls
departments are up to date on the latest safety and regulatory
requirements
4:30 Question Answer Session
ALARM MANAGEMENT
4:40 Developing An Alarm Management Strategy That
Provides A Meaningful Context To Alarms To Prevent
Alarm Fatigue Streamline The Process Of Getting To
The Root Cause Of The Problem
• Examining innovative strategies for developing an alarm
management strategy that prevents alarm fatigue
• Ensuring that alarms are provided with a context that makes
them meaningful to the people receiving them
• Minimizing alarms to ensure that only those that flag up the
root cause of a problem are prioritized
• Understanding how to avoid needless shutdowns caused by
unnecessary alarms
AliciaLomas,AutomationandControlsManager,Chobani
5:10 Question Answer Session
5:20 Chair’s Closing Remarks
5.30 - 6.30 Evening Cocktail Reception Served In
Exhibition Showcase Area
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4. 8:30 Chair’s Opening Remarks
MINIMIZING THE COST OF MAINTAINING PLANT
AUTOMATION CONTROL SYSTEMS
Evaluating Strategies To Maintain Upgrade Control Systems
And Quantifying The Impact Of Training For Equipment
Maintenance
UPGRADING OBSOLETE CONTROL SYSTEMS
8:40 Developing A Strategic Approach To Upgrading
Obsolete Control Systems In Food Beverage
Manufacturing Plants To Minimize The Cost Of Keeping
Up With Rapidly Changing Technology
• Analyzing under what circumstances control systems
can be upgraded rather than replaced in order to
minimize expenditure
• Prioritizing which equipment to upgrade based on what impact
a given piece of equipment failing would have on the facility
• Evaluating strategies for partnering with equipment to
manage the process of upgrading control at minimum cost
• Understanding how to create a business case for upgrading
plant automation systems to justify the necessary spending to
upper management
NelsonRathert,ManagerEngineeringOperations,ArdentMills
9:10 Question Answer Session
PLANNING AHEAD
9:20 Maximizing The Robustness Of Control Systems
Developing Pre-Emptive Maintenance Plans To
Minimize Maintenance Costs For Plant Automation
Equipment
• Understanding what steps can be taken to improve the
robustness of plant control systems to mitigate the need for
maintenance further down the line
• Understanding how to create a business case for spending
money on maintaining control systems to justify the necessary
spending to upper management
• Creating contingency plans to plan ahead for future
maintenance requirements for plant control systems before
they are needed
• Building more maintenance training into staff development
programs to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of
maintaining control systems
9:50 Question Answer Session
10:00 Morning Refreshments Served In Exhibition
Showcase Area
PANEL DISCUSSION: CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
SELECTION
10:30 Establishing Robust Criteria For Selecting
The Most Cost-Effective Easy To Maintain Control
Systems For Food Beverage Manufacturing Plants
• Understanding how to quantify the true cost to the business of
a new control system technology, factoring staff training and
equipment maintenance costs
• Identifying strategies for finding local technical partners and
third party installers to streamline the process of installing
new control systems
• Reviewing the latest control systems to come onto the market
to determine which are offering the most targeted solution to
the food and beverage industry
• Explaining how to develop standards for selecting technologies
and vendor partners to create a repeatable selection process
that can be used again in the future
IsmailKhan,Sr.ControlSystemsEngineer,LeprinoFoods
11:00 Question Answer Session
TRAINING MAINTENANCE STAFF
11:10 Establishing A Successful Strategy To Train
Individuals To Verify Anomalies In Complex Integrated
Systems And Be Able To Fix It
• Examining the optimum solution for training maintenance
technicians in new applied technology instead of having to
make quantum leaps with the existing support structure to
guarantee a full technical support
• Understanding the need to update new generation of
employees in how to navigate HMIs so that they can
troubleshoot problems
• Examining long-term strategies to guarantee training
efficiency and ensure staff are capable of fixing problems as
quickly as possible after being trained
• Evaluating strategies to upkeep qualified personnel when
replacing retired employees to maintain the equipment in
operation
11:40 Question Answer Session
11:50 Networking Lunch Served In Exhibition
Showcase Area
TRAINING PROGRAMS RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES
Examining Recruitment Strategies To Attract, Train Personnel
To Guarantee Qualified Support During Operations
TRAINING PROGRAM: CASE STUDY
12:50 Providing A Case Study On Successfully
Developing A Continuous Training Program For
Plant Automation Controls Staff To Increase
Employee Productivity, Employee Retention
Employee Satisfaction
• Examining how to establish an effective training program to
help employees identify problems, improve time in diagnostics
and get systems back in full production faster
• Establishing a standard operating procedure to effectively and
efficiently manage training for new employees and keep them
up to date on processes, equipment and safety
• Analyzing the mean time between failure and repair for
different equipment to track in which technologies employees
need more training on
• Developing a set of assessment tools to measure the
performance of automation and controls staff and determine
where they need help
TomChristensen,VPOperations,GoodHeartBrand
SpecialtyFoodsCo.
1:20 Question Answer Session
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES
1:30 Brainstorming Solutions For Attracting And
Retaining The Very Best Automation Controls
Professionals Into The Food Beverage Industry To
Ensure The Right Calibre Of Technicians Are Operating
Your Equipment
• In this interactive roundtable discussion, attendees will share
ideas on how to develop best practice recruitment strategies
for automation and controls technicians in the food and
beverage industry. Discussions will focus on answering the
following questions:
• What is your current strategy to attract people to the
industry?
• How much money are you currently spending to ensure
people focus on the appropriate training needed to work
within your facility?
• What type of incentives are you giving away to guarantee
employee retention?
• How much internal training are you investing on vs.
building up capabilities of potential attraction in the
community to build the skill set you need?
• How do you determine the best recruiting strategy to
replace retiring workforce and find the right skill set?
• What is your experience in determining the optimum
training programme to raise the level of qualifications to
understand code, process and how to troubleshoot?
• How do you manage skills set internally to ease the
process of recruiting a multiple-set skilled worker?
ThomasHauser,DirectorERPSystemsandApplicationsSupport,Rich
ProductsCorporation
GregFlickinger,VPManufacturingCorporateEngineering,Snyder’s
Lance
2:10 Afternoon Refreshments Served In Exhibition
Showcase Area
BATCH PROCESS CONTROL
Optimizing Batch Process Control Through Effective Utilization
Of Reports Statistical Data Applying The Latest Batch
Process Simulation Procedures
BATCH PROCESS CONTROL
2:40 Applying The Latest Advances In Batch Process
Control To Achieve Consistently Reliable Performance
Cost-Effectively Meet ISA88 Standards
• Evaluating the latest software that is becoming available to run
batch process control procedures
• Outlining a process for getting accurate real time reports and
statistical data on batch process control operations
• Explaining how innovations in batch reporting are driving more
efficient operations
• Examining the latest strategies for reducing the time and cost
of meeting ISA88 standards for batch process control
3:10 Question Answer Session
BATCH PROCESS SIMULATION
3:20 Optimizing Batch Process Control Through
Effective Implementation Of Batch Process Simulation
To Improve Procedures Without Disrupting Plant Floor
Operations
• Optimizing the simulation of batch processes to improve batch
process control procedures without disrupting plant floor
operations
• Sharing tips for minimizing the time and cost of building batch
process control simulation and testing environments
• Developing criteria for selecting integrators with the right
expertise to collaborate with you on building an effective
testing and simulation process
• Applying batch process simulations to prepare for disaster
recovery to minimize downtime when fires or other
unexpected incidents occur
3:50 Question Answer Session
4:00 Chair’s Closing Remarks Lucky Draw
4:10 End Of Conference
Day 2
Wednesday July 1, 2015
DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR MINIMIZING MAINTENANCE COSTS, DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE
RECRUITMENT TRAINING STRATEGIES OPTIMIZING BATCH PROCESS CONTROL
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