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Session 249 - Smart Manufacturing Plants: Boosting Productivity and Competitiveness of US Industry
Five presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion. Smart Manufacturing Plants prevent problems before they occur. Examples of problems Smart Plants prevent include unplanned shutdowns, excessive energy use,unwanted safety events, and environmental emissions. Accurate real time material and heat balances around individual processes are the foundation of the Smart Plant. Such balances are enabled by accurate real time plant measurements (e.g. flow rates, compositions, temperatures, etc).
Chair: Jimmy L. Humphrey
Cochairs: John Forgac
Douglas H. Lenz
Son X. Huynh
Mukund Karanjikar
  Preventing Plant Problems Before They Occur
Douglas H. Lenz, Daniel L. ChEster
  The Evolution of the Smart Plant In the Industrial Gas Business
Larry Megan
  Early Warning, Cloud Computing & Semantic Modeling in Smart Manufacturing
Son X. Huynh, David L. Haake
  NSF Technology Roadmap Development Workshop on Smart Manufacturing
Jim Davis, Thomas F. Edgar
  Smart Manufacturing Plants: Advances and Priorities
Jimmy L. Humphrey, A. Frank Seibert, J. Christopher Lewis, John P. Farone
  Roundtable Discussion, "Overcoming Barriers to Smart Manufacturing Plants"
John Forgac, Miguel J. Bagajewicz, Larry Megan

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