2005 Irish Automation Seminar  

Wednesday September 7th 2005 

Enterprise Ireland-Glasnevin,Dublin 9

Automation Research Centre (Ireland's PROFIBUS Competency Centre -PCC) in Co-Operation with Enterprise Ireland will be hosting a one-day seminar on automation technologies. The seminar theme is “ Holistic approach to automation “ and it aims to have a total automation approach covering both manufacturing and back office automation.

Introduction 

Global markets and the Eastern enlargement of the EU have increased the pressure on SMEs to become even more competitive. The enormous wage differential cannot be compensated without added value to the product at source. Automation and innovation play a major role in this respect.

This seminar will bring together a host of speakers from a range of automation vendors, end users of automation systems, and systems integrators as well as academics. The aim of the seminar is to cover topics of interest in total automation of manufacturing.

 Presenters Profiles:

Andrew Bond has a degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge. He has worked for the past 30 years as a technical journalist since joining the magazine Process Engineering as an Assistant Editor in 1973 where, largely by accident, he found himself specializing in instrumentation and control issues. Since then he has edited a number of different magazines, yearbooks and newsletters including Control & Instrumentation, Process Engineering, Computer Systems, Process Industry Journal, European Process Engineer and Process Control & Instrumentation. He went freelance in 1986 and since then has contributed to a wide range of publications, both under his own name and as a ‘ghost’ writer. He currently edits the email subscription newsletter Industrial Automation INSIDER which he launched as editor in 1996 as SCADA Insider and which, in April of this year, published its 100^th issue.

Liam Curham, is Dataworks’ Shop Floor Information Systems Expert, responsible for global integration & deployment of Manufacturing Execution/ Shop Floor Information Systems in the Pharma and Medical Devices industry. Liam graduated from WIT with a BSc. (Hons) in Applied Computing and is co-founder and Technical Director of Dataworks Ltd, Waterford-based company specializing in Industrial Automation Software Solutions.  

Nigel de Haas is a QMS auditor and technical trainer employed by D.H.Controls, also in Co. Cork, Ireland. He holds an HND (Elect.), is a Certified Profibus Network Engineer and an IRCA Registered Lead QMS Auditor. With 35 years of experience of measurement and control systems, he specialises in supplier audits of calibration contractors and automation system developers, validation or process control systems and technical measurement and control training of multiskilled maintenance personnel for pharmaceutical industry clients.

Tony Donnelly has over 30 years experience in the Marketing and Sales of Energy Management, Process Control, Instrumentation and Digital Communications and has presented papers Nationally and Internationally over the years on each of these topics. With over 16 years work experience withEndress+Hauser he now sits on strategic E+H global committees for Food and Beverages, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology and Digital Communications.

Martin Ginty  Networks and PLC Software Product Manager, Mitsubishi Electric Europe BV

Garret O Donnell has been lecturing in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in UCD since 2002 in the area of Manufacturing Engineering and System Simulation. He previously worked in the Advanced Manufacturing Science research group in the University as a research engineer developing process monitoring solutions for European project collaborators  such as Robert Bosch GmBH and Scania AB. Garret has been active in research in EU and National projects in the areas of process monitoring, process and system simulation, and automation.  From July, he will be joining the staff of the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in Trinity College Dublin. Garret will be lecturing on the Manufacturing Engineering with Management Science course, and pursuing research and industrial collaborations in the area of optimising manufacturing operations.

Eugene Pigott, Managing Director of Douglas Control & Automation, Eugene graduated from UCD in 1982 with a B.E. in Electrical Engineering and has over 20 years automation expertise in manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries, both in Ireland and internationally.

Agenda

Cost

The seminar is FREE, but registration is required.   

Registration 

Places are limited, early registration is recommended.  

To register:

Step 1) Register online at www.ul.ie/~arc/seminar_reg

Step2) Your place will be confirmed by Email.

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For Further Information Contact:

Mrs Gabrielle Moynihan                                                         

University of Limerick                                                             

Phone: 00-353-61-202544                                                   

Fax: 00-352-61-202499