WBF Cyber Hall of Fame

Hans Koning-Bastiaan
2008 Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award

Hans has an electrical degree from Technical School Enchede in the Netherlands, and has 38 years of experience in developing, engineering and implementing batch control and automation solutions for the Bio and Pharmaceutical industry. He is currently Director, CCP2 Automation Engineering with Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco, where has worked for the last 25 years.

He was the lead automation engineer for Lilly’s facility in Kinsale, Ireland in early 1980.

He was the Lead automation engineer at the Vacaville, California, Bio-Pharmaceutical manufacturing facility which is implemented with a highly successful, MES integrated and S88 compliant, recipe driven control system. In 2000, he received “Engineer of the Year” award from Control Magazine.

In 2003 he spent 1.5 years as Start-Up Director for a rebuild fermentation facility in Porrino Spain.

Recently Hans directed all process control and automation activities at a new 8 fermenter 25KL fermentation bio-plant in Vacaville California using Honeywell integrated MES and DCS control systems.

William M. Hawkins
2007 Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award

Bill Hawkins, one of the founding members of WBF, is the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella award, presented to leading professionals throughout the world for their contributions and developments in the area of process automation and for their support of WBF.

Hawkins has been a leader in developing and applying new technologies throughout his career. During his 20-year term with Hercules Chemical, he invented special measurement devices for assembly machines in a blasting cap plant and worked on solving electronic and measurement problems in fiber and blown film applications. He also established an instrument laboratory and designed a batch control system around a commercially available computer control system.

He spent the next 20 years at Rosemount (now Emerson Process Management), as Control System Architect, where he led the development of the RS3 ABC Batch control system. Hawkins then joined the ISA88 committee where he helped develop the concept of separation of recipe and equipment, and served as secretary of the committee for several years through the final ballot for ISA88.01.

Ted Williams
2008 Tom Fisher Award Winner

Ted Williams has had a long and distinguished career and has contributed greatly to our industry.

Ted earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MS in electrical engineering from Ohio State University. He was a professor at Purdue University and Director of the Purdue Laboratory for Applied Industrial Control from 1965 until 1994. He had previously worked for Monsanto Chemical Co in St Louis as an engineering supervisor responsible for the computer control research program.

Dr. Williams is probably best known amongst WBF members for leading the development of the Purdue Reference Model for CIM and the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) which later formed the basis for ISA S95.01. His contribution to S95.01 enabled rapid development and deployment of this standard.

Ted has served as President of ISA and has been president or chairman of numerous other professional societies. He organized the International Purdue Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems and served as its chairman for 20 years. He has authored or edited 50 books and 380 published technical papers in the field of computer applications, process dynamics, and industrial computer control, including presentations at WBF meetings.

Ted’s achievements have been recognized by numerous awards, including the Sir Harold Hartley Silver Medal, awarded by the Institute of Measurement and Control in London, the A. F. Sperry Gold Medal awarded by ISA, and a Lifetime Achievement Award, also from ISA.

Dr. Williams is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, ISA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Chemists, the Industrial Computing Society, and the Institute for Measurement and Control.

Dennis Brandl and Dave Emerson
2007 Tom Fisher Award Winners

Dennis Brandl, Principal Consultant of BR&L Consulting, Inc., and Dave Emerson, Principal System Architect, Yokogawa Corporation of America, have been cited for the Thomas G. Fisher award for their outstanding contribution to the ISA88 and ISA95 specifications. Their collaboration, leadership and dedicated service in the development of the ISA88 Batch Control Systems and ISA95 Enterprise/Control Integration standards committees has earned them worldwide recognition and enrollment as life members of WBF.

Brandl and Emerson jointly worked with the WBF XML Working Group to produce the Batch Markup Language (BatchML) and the Business-To-Manufacturing Markup Language (B2MML). BatchML is an XML schema implementation of the ISA88 Batch Control System standard and B2MML is an XML schema implementation of the ISA95 Enterprise/Control Integration standard.

WBF's Thomas G. Fisher Award was established in 2003 to honor Thomas G. Fisher, a former WBF Chairman and tireless contributor to efforts to improve batch manufacturing standards and methods. It recognizes outstanding leadership in the field of manufacturing process operation and control. Only two other individuals have ever been recognized with this coveted award.

The announcement and presentations were made during the WBF 2007 North American Conference, held April 30 - May 3 at the Tremont Plaza Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dennis Brandl

Dave Emerson

Lynn W. Craig
2007 Tom Fisher Award Winner

Lynn Craig is well known for his tireless work on batch control standards and his passion for the WBF. Lynn first joined the SP88 Committee in 1989 at the invitation of Tom Fisher, the chairman at the time, and eventually became its chairman, when Tom Fisher stepped down. He led the efforts in generating parts 3, 4 and 5 of the batch control standard. He is now pursuing an initiative to get the ANSI/ISA88 and 95 standards together.

In 1994, as chairman of the ISA SP88 committee Lynn was invited to give the keynote address at the first WBF conference. He subsequently became the chairman of what was then known as the World Batch Forum (now WBF). His name is now synonymous with WBF. For a number of years he has been conducting training courses on the application of batch control standards, which have proved to be very popular. In 2003, Lynn was made a member of the Control Hall of Fame. Lynn with his tireless energy and enthusiasm is an inspiration to all of us in the batch and control community.

Dr. John MacGregor
2005 Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award

After working in industry for several years as a process specialist with Monsanto Company in Texas, Dr. MacGregor joined McMaster University in 1972 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He currently holds the title of "University Professor" as well as the Dofasco Chair in Process Automation and Information Technology at McMaster. He is a co-founder of the McMaster Advanced Control Consortium that is sponsored by many international companies.

Dr. MacGregor’s research interests have spanned a wide range of areas, from polymer reaction engineering to process systems engineering, and statistical methods. In recent years he has concentrated on the development of multivariate statistical methods for use in process monitoring, fault detection, and control, using the very large multivariate databases available from industrial processes.

Dr. MacGregor developed the basic methodology for applying multivariate statistical process control (MVSPC) to batch processes. Over the past 10 years, he and his co-authors have been published extensively in scholarly journals and in the trade press relating to our industry.

Edgar Bristol
2004 Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award

Edgar Bristol’s contributions to process control spans over 40 years. Unlike many other control visionaries of his age, Edgar maintained a wider focus, which included batch, continuous, and discrete control. He has authored over 100 papers and has numerous patents in adaptive control, multivariable control, and control software. He has participated in a number of Process Control Standards committees dating back to the beginning of the "Purdue Workshop" to ISA88 committee. He co-chaired TC4 committee of Purdue Workshop, which was instrumental in publishing a set of standard terminology for batch control in 1985, which was a forerunner to ANSI/ISA88 batch control standard. Edgar pioneered the concept of a common language for the specification batch, continuous, and sequential control named as Idiomatic Control Language (ICL).

Edgar is a graduate of MIT and Beloit College in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. He career has spanned some forty years at the Foxboro Company. He was the originator of RGA analysis and pattern recognition based adaptive control, for which he received the IEEE Control Technology, AIChE, and ISA awards. Edgar is an ISA Fellow

Michael Saucier
2003 Thomas G. Fisher Award

The first World Batch Forum Conference was convened in 1995 under the leadership of Michael F. Saucier, which led to the formation of WBF as a non-profit organization. Michael is presently the CEO of Transpara Corporation, which he founded in 2005. Prior to Transpara, he served as Vice President of OSIsoft.

Previously, Michael founded PID, which later became Sequencia Corporation. Under his leadership, the company became the market leader in innovative batch process manufacturing software, which was successfully implemented at over 200 multinational corporations. Earlier in his career, Mr. Saucier held engineering and consulting positions at Honeywell and ABB.

Michael received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in chemical engineering and a B.S degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a highly acclaimed speaker on strategic business and technology issues, and has made presentations at numerous corporate, partner, and industry analyst conferences worldwide.

With his energy, enthusiasm, and spirit of entrepreneurship Michael is an inspiration to all in batch and control community.

Ray Ash
2003 Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award

Niels Haxthausen
2002 Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award

Thomas G. Fisher
2001 Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award

Tom Fisher was a member of WBF since its inception and was elected its Chairman in 1999; he served in this position until 2001. Tom had a long career with The Lubrizol Corporation, joining as a process engineer in 1967 and rising to become Operations Technology Manager. He had previously worked for DuPont and NASA. His vision led to the formation of the ISA88 committee in 1988 and to the subsequent development of the batch automation standards. He served as Chairman and Editor of this committee. Without Tom’s leadership and vision, there would have been no ANSI/ISA88 standard, and hence no World Batch Forum. He is therefore rightfully known as the Father of Batch Automation.

Tom served as ISA Publications Vice President, was active in the ISA84 committee, a member of the Process Control Safety subcommittee of the Center for Chemical Process Safety and, for a period, led the IEC SC65A Working Group for batch control. Tom was an ISA Fellow and wrote several books and articles on batch automation and process safety systems. He taught courses through the ISA, WBF, and other organizations on topics such as safety interlock systems, programmable controllers, and batch automation. He was a graduate of Grove City College and West Virginia University.

Tom passed away December 6, 2001 after a long battle with cancer.

Howard Rosenof
2001 Dr. Guido Carlo-Stella Award

Howard Rosenof is a pioneer in the development of formal methodologies for batch process automation. More than twenty five years back, when he started to design and implement batch control systems, approaches to application development was far from formalized. In the 1980’s he was involved in several innovative batch control projects. Through the course of leading these projects he was able to establish, document, and publish standardized models and methods. These included models for recipe design, sequence documentation, logging and reporting, and coordination of shared resources. He was a member of the ISA88 committee during the early part of the development of the batch control standard.

Howard helped educate a generation of batch process engineers, through papers and presentations, conducting educational courses, and by co-authoring the first commercially available book on batch control in 1987.

Reiner Uhlig
2000 Dr. Carlos Guido-Stella Award

Reiner J. Uhlig has been a driving force for batch automation in the chemical industry. His initial work at Rutgerswerke AG in Duisburg Germany was the precursor for the guidelines developed by NAMUR. This work formalized the approach of defining recipes using predefined software blocks that reflect and implement the fundamental processing activities of a batch process. The ISA88 committee of ISA used these guidelines as input to the development the ANSI/ISA-88.00.01 batch control standard.

Reiner graduated in Electrotechnical Engineering from GH-Universitat in Wuppertal, Germany. He authored several technical articles and published a book on automation in 1995. Reiner passed away in June 2005.