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ISA Montreal – OPAF Technical Presentation
April 16 @ 12h00 - 13h30
FreePaul Roach is responsible for providing Oil & Gas Enterprise Customers with industry expertise and insight into high-value solutions that transform operations and lead to world class operational results. He leverages a wealth of domain experience in oil & gas processes, operational production, and project engineering to solve customer problems and create a competitive advantage, while guiding customers along their digital transformation journeys.
Pal has over 40 years’ experience in Oil & Gas industrial automation sales and consulting including prior careers at ExxonMobil and Honeywell Process Solutions. This experience spans the entire oil & gas value chain (from the oil field to the gas pump). He has developed / sold high impact solutions that modernize oil & gas operations including oil field production, terminals, refineries / petrochemical plants, distribution, and retail (C-stores). More recently Pal has represented Rockwell as a working member of the Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) and collaborated / reported progress on the 115-member company initiative to define a standard for the next generation of automation technology that is open, interoperable, and secure.
Pal has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Operations Research, both from Cornell University, graduating with distinction.
Outline for the presentation
- What is OPAF?
- Why is it important to industry?
- Traditional automation roles change.
- What is the value?
- How to get started?
- Successful implementation at ExxonMobil.
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