Operations Management

Using SeQent’s toolsets, you can implement traditional alarm dispatch using OPC data collection or SCADA platforms such as Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk®. In this session, you will learn about our new IIoT related interfaces, which extend our powerful infrastructure to monitor IIoT brokers populated with MQTT enabled sensors and evaluated with products such as ThingWorx.

Presented by SeQent

The new FactoryTalk® Data Agent in XLReporter helps provide secure and reliable access to FactoryTalk View SE, FactoryTalk Historian SE, alarms and live data. Discover how anyone with a basic knowledge of workbooks, such as Microsoft Excel, can produce compliance, regulatory, production and operational reports and distribute them automatically by e-mail or from the web portal.

Presented by SyTech, Inc.

This session covers a list of key preplanning steps to avoid costly “surprises” for agriculture to water treatment plus all industries in between. Ensure that your wireless data communication is not the cause of a processing failure, lost productivity and expensive downtime. Prevention is the name of the game.

Presented by Data Linc Group

In order to sustain optimal control, a plant’s PID controllers need to be properly tuned and their performance needs to be monitored. This presentation covers a simple, repeatable process for tuning PID control loops as well as methods for using data analytics to sustain the resulting performance gains.

Presented by Control Station

Nuisance alarms desensitize operators to the importance of alarms, causing them to be ignored and leading to near-misses and incidents. Learn about the dangers of nuisance alarms from a human factors perspective, how they impact situation awareness, remediation techniques, and how to change culture where normalization of deviation is accepted.

Presented by exida

This session highlights our latest release, WIN-911 2021, which represents over a year of product development focused on boosting deployment speed and simplifying configuration. Join us as we guide you through our rebuilt, streamlined UI to configure an alarm notification system for FactoryTalk® Alarms and Events.

Presented by WIN-911 Software

LinMot’s new and improved stainless-steel product line showcases 23, 37, and 48 series linear motors with improved thermal capabilities over their stainless predecessors. LinMot SM01 guides provide a simple and clean guiding solution for 37 and 48 series stainless-steel motors, while washdown-ready constant-force MagSprings are ready to counterbalance any load.

Presented by LinMot

Ever wonder why LED lights randomly flicker or why motors don’t last as long as they should? There is a good chance common mode is the reason. Join this session to uncover the problems it causes, where it comes from and how you can save money and your facility from it.

Presented by MTE Corporation

Join us for an overview that address the four distinct questions we commonly receive on how to properly terminate VFD cables as that is an essential piece to gain the benefits of utilizing a VFD cable.  The questions we will answer will be termination of the shield at both ends, using a large surface area for shield terminations, what to do with the drain wires, and how to handle 3 ground wires when using at 3+3 construction.

To learn more, check out session OM20 - VFD Cables: Part 1 – Essential for Addressing System Issues.

Presented by Southwire

The right data in the right place at the right time is critical for extracting insights and intelligence in a connected system. In this session you will learn how Rockwell Automation® technologies use OPC UA to create the right data pipelines in your system. With the right strategy and technology deployment, you will have a system that is ready to help make rapid decisions based on the right data. 

Presented by Rockwell Automation

This session highlights our new Burner Management Solution (BMS)  library that can leverage existing hardware to meet the latest NFTA standards, and removes some of the certification headaches to achieve it.

Presented by Rockwell Automation

Enterprise traceability for operational excellence and consumers’ augmented product experience. Kezzler is using MES integration as a digital thread to every single manufactured product, creating a digital twin of the physical product flow. Rockwell Automation and Kezzler have teamed up to provide extended traceability for brands allowing consumers to have an augmented experience with the exact product in hand.

Presented by Kezzler

In this session, STOBER Drives demonstrates better optimization of a typical system by using electromechanical solutions that are designed for increased stiffness, higher input speeds, higher nominal torques, less inertia while easily integrating into Kinetix® 5500 and Kinetix 5700 systems.  

Presented by STOBER Drives, Inc.

Predictive maintenance is not a thing of the future, it is possible today and can take many forms. Rockwell Automation has many solutions that utilize machine learning in a device, or as part of a platform to provide predictive and prescriptive maintenance information to reduce downtime and improve performance. Tune into this session to learn more about these innovations. 

Presented by Rockwell Automation

Smart workers require new technologies to learn, distribute knowledge and execute critical procedures correctly in the shortest time. See how augmented reality (AR) can be used to improve worker productivity while increasing efficiencies and reducing downtime. You will realize the value AR can provide in an industrial environment via AR work instructions and maintenance.

Presented by Rockwell Automation

We will examine issues that exist in VFD systems (control and communication issues, motors failure, drive trips and more) and see how a properly terminated VFD cable can help solve them. We will show how high frequency drive outputs cause issues.

To learn more, check out session OM12 - VFD Cables: Part 2 – System Benefits from Proper Termination.

Presented by Southwire

An Automation Fair® At Home session

Discussion will revolve around material selection, common maintenance requirements and cooling options to improve uptime and life of equipment in harsh environments by selecting the proper enclosure and cooling equipment.

Presented by nVent HOFFMAN

An Automation Fair® At Home session

There has never been a greater challenge imposed upon manufacturing and supply chains around the world than today.  These disruptions are having dramatic effects on corporate leaders who are responsible for organizational strategies focused on value and optimized revenue. Even as companies are adjusting to a new normal, 80% have indicated that digital transformation has become more urgent as a result of the pandemic, but how do you determine which initiatives will have the greatest impact on optimal asset utilization and how do you operationalize digital transformations at scale?

Presented by Rockwell Automation

An Automation Fair At Home session

This session will define the end-to-end digital thread for process industries – from product to plant to end user – and explore opportunities for digitalization based on leading use cases.

Presented by Rockwell Automation

An Automation Fair At Home session