CONTROL '96 Making NZ Industry Competitive
Day 1: Wednesday 24 July 1996
Paper
8am Reference Registration
9am Welcome
Conference Chairman & President IMC
Conference Opening:
Sir Roger Douglas
Keynote Address:
Keith Herbst - Moore Instruments
Past President ISA
The role of ISA and other professional institutions in
10am assisting industry to keep competitive.
Morning tea
Keeping NZ Industry Competitive
10:30am Chairman: Keith Herbst
Introduction: Brian Gurr - Connector Systems
A Keynote speaker:Bill Fitzgerald - Fisher Controls
A Path to Better Bottom-Line Performance
B Murray Cox - Fisher Rosemount
Fieldbus: A Must if Industry is to be Competitive?
12 noon Panel - What is Required to Keep Industry Competitve?
Discussion with contributions and questions from delegates
Lunch
Instrumentation
1pm-1:40pm C Ray Keech: Advances in electromagnetic flowmeters
1:45pm-2:30pm D John Sullivan/Johan Sandberg: High accuracy radar level gauging
2:35pm-3:15pm E Brian Cole: A new Breed of Industrial Recorder
Afternoon Tea
3:45pm-4:25pm F Henrik Nystrand: Instrument calibration for ISO 9000
Computer Control
4:30pm-5:10pm G Derek Smith: So you want to put a computer in your plant?
5:15pm-5:50pm H Hamish Kempthorne: The changing role of the industrial PC
Day 2: Thursday 25 July 1996
9am Plenary Session - Chairman: Bruce Durdle
Whatever has happened to measurement & control?
Where will the training come from?
Panel from those involved in the industry
Overseas perspective from Keith Herbst & Bill Fitzgerald
10:30am Questions and comments from delegates
Morning tea
CHP
11am-11.40am I Bruce Durdle: Control of CHP plant
11.45am-12:25pm J Harry Habib: Advances in automation systems for cogen
Lunch
Process Control Software
1:30pm-2.10pm K Huub Bakker: Real-time simulations in a SCADA environment
2:15pm -2:55pm L Christopher Hill: OLE for process control
3pm-3.30pm M Han Xiong Li: Behaviour-based fuzzy inverted pendulum
Afternoon tea
Safety issues
4pm-4:45pm N Athol Gibson: Are you earthed?
4:50-5:40pm O Bruce Durdle: Safety related control systems