The workshop is a meeting of those interested in applying Advanced Process Control technology and Advanced Data Analysis technology to improve performance of the process industries. Practical installation experiences and results are presented for discussion.

Plant operations today are faced with ever-increasing pressure to improve efficiency, quality and productivity. Without making fundamental changes to their production processes, improvement can usually be made with the application of advanced control technology. Using modern computer hardware, software and innovative techniques, application engineers are able to collect real time and historical data on their processes. Data analysis, modeling and simulation provide a better understanding of the dynamics of process behavior. Once the process characteristics are accurately identified, the options for applying suitable control methodology are no longer limited to conventional control techniques.

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TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Last year's workshop featured tutorial speaker Prof. Robert Bitmead. He holds the Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego He presented a full-day tutorial at the workshop entitled "Joint Modeling and Control Design".

Half-day tutorials were given by featured speakers Dr. Sigurd Skogestad on "Control Structure Design for Complete Chemical Plants (A Systematic Approach to Plantwide Control)", and by Prof. Tore Hägglund on "Design and Diagnosis of the Basic Feedback Loop".

Topics of papers that have been presented at the workshop include:

• Multivariable Controller Design and Performance
• Multivariable Constrained Control
• Minimum Variance Optimal PI Controller Tuning for Averaging Level Control
• Model Predictive Adaptive Control
• Dynamics Process Simulation and Application to Advanced Controller Design
• Real Time Expert System in Metals Refining Industry
• Equipment Health Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis using Multivariate Modeling
• Powerhouse Energy Management System
• Infrastructure and Organizational Issues for the Deployment of Advanced Control Systems
• Sensor Fault Detection and Validation
• Applications of Neural Networks in Industry

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Abstracts (200 words) should be received by January 15, 2005. Include a statement in your covering letter confirming that if the paper is accepted, one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Please give the full name, affiliation, full address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.

Notification of acceptance and author kits will be sent within two weeks of the submission date. The final manuscripts and registration payment for authors are due by February 15, 2005. Papers received by this date will be published in the workshop proceedings.

REGISTRATION POLICY:  ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST PAY REGISTRATION FEES
SEND ABSTRACTS AND MANUSCRIPTS TO:  (prefer via e-mail in PDF format) Technical Program Chair APC2005 (e-mail: apc2005@udtech.com) c/o Universal Dynamics Technologies Inc. #100 – 13700 International Place Richmond, BC V6V 2X8 Canada Tel: (604) 214-3456 Fax: (604) 214-3457