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At the conference, distinguished speakers will present their findings, case studies, and observations during the two full conference days and six sessions. Our speakers come from all around the globe and each speaker’s presentation brings valuable leverage to all attendees.

Please note: Speakers are subject to change and list of speakers is continually updated

• Arne Svendsen - Keynote Speaker (Head of Manufacturing Services & Automation, Arla Foods Global IT (GBSIT))

  Bringing Business and Manufacturing-IT Together
  Arne Svendsen is heading the Manufacturing Services & Automation team with Arla Foods. He holds a Masters degree in Control Systems Engineering from Technical University of Copenhagen 1980. After 20 years in development and consulting on Manufacturing Execution and Control Systems, Arne Svendsen joined an end-user manufacturing enterprise—Arla Foods, which is one of the leading dairy companies in Europe. Arne Svendsen has been a driving force in converting the theoretical standard documents on the S95 standard in to real-life implementation, being the first European customer in 2003 to implement open standard SAP-MES integration. He has constantly pushed vendors in the direction of implementing standard interfaces, latest in the integrated packaging solution that is currently under roll-out at Arla Foods.




• S.K. Cha (ACS Co., Ltd.)

  The u-Manufacturing model & case study for global distributed manufacturing enterprises
  S.K. Cha graduated with a degree in Electric Engineering from the University of Maryland, and has worked as a researcher in Sigma Central Lab for high frequency antenna design. Cha is the founder of ACS Co. and is currently working in Strategic planning. He has successfully completed over 500 manufacturing application project such as MES, logistics and intelligent data collection system worldwide for Hyundai Kia Motors, Samsung, POSCO, and INI Steel. Cha has also completed over 20 advanced manufacturing application related Korean Government R&D projects since 1988. His career includes several patents, papers, published articles and honorary awards. His company is focusing on u-Manufacturing solutions with key R&D organizations such as KIMM, SNU & KETI in Korea, and the Eureka project in EU. Cha is a long-time member of ISA and SME, former chairman of Korea MITA (Manufacturing Information Technology Association), and is currently voting member in Korea for ISO TC184 SC5-Industrial Automation & Integration, Architecture Communication & Integration framework.




• Jean Vieille (Control Chain Group)

  Enterprise Architecture to fight the 2nd law of Thermodynamics
  Jean Vieille is an associate at the Control Chain Group, a research, analyst, and consulting consortium of European Industry experts in strategic and tactic Enteprise/IT alignement. This group develops and promotes the Control Chain Management concept of the "Lean Information Factory for Agile Manufacturing." Jean has more than 30 years of experience in industrial control from planning and scheduling to instrumentation. He has held positions such as project manager, commissioning engineer, application engineer, software developer, consultant manager and founder/chairman in various integrators, system vendors, and industrial companies. Jean Vieille is a member of ISA and WBF. He contributes to ISA88, ISA95, WBF XML committees. He is former president of the ISA France section, Vice President of the ISA District 12, and member of the ISA Executive Board.




• Louis Ciabattoni (Conformia Software, Inc.)

  Implementing S88 across Life Science Development Operations
  Lou Ciabattoni is currently the product manager for Conformia Software. Conformia provides enterprise product conformance management (PCM) software solutions to two regulated process industries: life sciences and beverage alcohol. Mr. Ciabattoni created SQL*LIMS and its family of business solutions in 1989. Starting his career at Mobil Oil as an analytic chemist/programmer, he has worked at Perkin Elmer, Applied Biosystems, and for Oracle Corporation with responsibility for worldwide marketing of Discreet and Process Manufacturing. Mr. Ciabattoni received his bachelor of arts in Chemistry in 1978 from Rutgers University and attended Babson College Executive Program in 1998. He has over 20 years of experience in LIMS and manufacturing, was a faculty member at the Center of Advanced Placement, and holds an APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management.




• Joseph Jablonski (Acumence)

  Mapping ISA S88-Part5 TR (Pack Tags) to OEE and Downtime Tracking
  Joseph Jablonski has an MBA from Northwestern Kellog Graduate School of Management and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is currently working at Acumence. In 1997 he started Visibility Systems, a large midwest systems integration company specializing in database solutions in manufacturing. Visibility Systems specialized in Wonderware solutions around InTrack, InBatch, InSQL Server, and InTouch. He has worked for Fortune 500 companies around the world as an Electrical Engineer and for Food and Tobacco customers in America, Canada, Europe, and Asia.




• Ramayya Kumar, Ph.D.(Paperless GmbH)

  An Iterative Refinement Approach towards a Structured Recipe Design
  Ramayya Kumar has a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and has had extensive work experience for over 28 years in various sectors, multi-national companies, a dotcom, a research institute, and at universities. He has published over research 50 papers and given over 75 talks at conferences and lectures at universities. Since 1999 he has been working in the pharmaceutical industry of which the last two years as a senior consultant. Since the recent past he has founded a consulting company called Paperless GmbH with a focus on the pharmaceutical industry for tackling the broader aspects of going paperless.




• Phillipe Allot (ORDINAL Technologies)

  Flexible ISA88 execution engine based on a convergent ISA-95/88 model
  The author: Philippe ALLOT is graduate from Ecole Centrale de Paris. After a significant experience in the industrial IT world by system integrators (automotive, glass industry), he is co-founder in 1989 of ORDINAL Technologies company, MES and SCADA software designer, and now CEO of this company.




• Paul Wlodarcyz (Just Systems)

  Process Definition Management: Using ISA-88 and BatchML as a basis for Process Definitions and Recipe Normalization
  Paul Wlodarczyk is VP of Solutions Consulting at JustSystems. Paul has over 25 years experience in content lifecycle operations, consulting, and software development, with expertise in the areas of enterprise content management, knowledge management, technical publishing, localization, collaboration, user interface design, learning technologies, and information worker productivity. Paul has served organizations in the discrete and process manufacturing, life sciences, high tech, aerospace, retail, energy, and airline industries. Paul earned a Masters of Business Administration from the William E. Simon School of Business Administration, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He is trained as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.




• Mike Power (BearingPoint)

  Process Definition Management: Using ISA-88 and BatchML as a basis for Process Definitions and Recipe Normalization
  Mike Power is a manager in the Life Sciences practice of BearingPoint. He is a seasoned Professional with experience in delivery of large scale, global projects having done work for large global pharmaceuticals, biotechnology organizations, medical device manufacturers, specialty and fine chemicals clients. Mr. Power’s experience includes: supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, shop floor systems, shop floor process automation, compliance, compliance & validation, and automated material movement systems. He has a LEAN Black belt having been involved with business process management, client strategies, complex systems integration and testing, custom development, development methods and program management in the US and Europe.




• Jean-Luc Delcuvellerie, Ph.D. (Apriso)

  Establishing and Maintaining ISA95 Standards are Great & But even better if Consistently Executed Across Global Operations.
  Jean-Luc Delcuvellerie is currently Director for MES Product Management for Apriso. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), with a thesis on Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems Design. He earned an Engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique (ENSEM), with a major in Real-Time Computing. He was previously in charge of EMEA pre-sales for Apriso and previous director of EMEA pre-sales for batch industries at AspenTech and before project manager for Euriware - Areva.




• Bianca Scholten (Ordina)

  Best practices for MES user requirement specifications
  Bianca Scholten is the author of the book called The Road to Integration: A Guide to Applying the ISA-95 Standard in Manufacturing, and co-author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Manufacturing. She’s is a fellow at Ordina, one of the largest publicly traded consultancy service providers in the Netherlands and Belgium in the areas of information and communication technology and management. She was the driving force behind the Ordina ISA-95 & MES competence centre. Ms. Scholten advises industrial companies in Europe and the United States on how to select and implement manufacturing operations management systems in order to support improvement possibilities. Ms. Scholten is a voting member of the SP95 committee and a member of SP88. She has published more than fifty papers in trade journals and she frequently speaks at conferences on subjects related to vertical integration and technical automation. She is an ISA certified trainer and she has trained hundreds of professionals in applying the ISA-88 and the ISA-95 standard.




• Dennis Brandl (BR&L Consulting)

  Manufacturing Science Model Extensions to Address Lean Manufacturing and Lean Supply Chain
  Dennis Brandl is the founder and chief consultant for BR&L Consulting, specializing in Manufacturing IT applications, including Business-to-Manufacturing Integration, MES solutions, General and Site Recipe implementations, and automation system security. He has been involved in automation system design and implementation in a wide range of applications over the past 25 years. They have included biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical plants and oil refineries, food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, Space Shuttle test systems, PLC based systems from Texas Instruments, Siemens, and Modicon, and batch control systems from Sequencia. Dennis Brandl has been an active member of ISA’s SP95 Enterprise/Control System Integration committee for the past ten years and is editor of the set of standards. He is a USA expert on batch control to IEC, is the chairman of the ISA SP88 Batch System control standard, and is the chairman of the IEC and ISO Joint Working Group on Enterprise/Control Integration. Mr. Brandl has written numerous papers and articles on business to manufacturing integration and flexible manufacturing solutions, has a regular column in Control Engineering, and has authored the book Design Patterns for Flexible Manufacturing, available through ISA. Brandl has a BS in Physics and an MS in Measurement and Control from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a MS in Computer Science from California State University.




• Frede Vinther (NNE Pharmaplan)

  What Does It Take to Make Fully Flexible E-Manufacturing in the Near Future?
  Frede Vinther is working for NNE Pharmaplan A/S, an Engineering company 100% focused on Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Frede has more than 17 years of experience within automation engineering in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries working within specification, design, implementation, validation and concepts/strategies of a variety of technologies. Apart from that he has extensive experience in DCS systems, architectures, batch control and structured design also involving process design, human machine interface design and quality by design including working in South America and the USA. Current responsibilities cover: Strategies, Concepts and Consulting in the area of integration between Batch, MES and ERP. Frede is an active member of ISA's SP88 Batch Control committee and a world leading expert in ISA-88 based batch control and has unparalleled insight into the architecture and capabilities of the leading DCS systems. Furthermore, Frede has given multiple lectures on these subjects.

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