ISA_SOUMI_Event_Aug2010

Congratulations and thank you for our volunteer elected leaders serving on the Section board! There would be no section without you!

President: Jason Wright
Vice President: Allan Schissler
Treasurer: David Jackson
Secretary: Robert Shubert
Delegate: Mike Van Voorhis

Please contact your leadership team for networking support, ISA resource direction and professional development assistance. We are your local ISA.

We are limited to 30 guests. Please RSVP NOW to Jason Wright.

If you would like to know more about the lab and the tour, please view and/or download these online files:

http://www.nscl.msu.edu/files/NSCLTourInstructions.pdf

(includes a map to the laboratory, parking instructions, suggestions for visitors, and what to expect on the tour)

http://www.nscl.msu.edu/files/MinorPermissionForm.pdf

(a permission form that all visitors under 18 MUST BRING to tour NSCL)

http://www.nscl.msu.edu/files/NSCLbrochures.pdf

(a set of brochures about NSCL research, outreach, and safety)

Jason Wright 2010 DLC President Award

At the ISA District 5 DLC, Jason Wright was recognized for his service as the ISA Michigan President. (Mike Van Voorhis, in photo, represented Jason’s acceptance.)

GE is a supporter of the ISA100 family of open standards, which is a reliable, flexible and deterministic communications protocol that helps streamline and optimize the integration of industrial processes’ automation applications. This protocol makes it easier for different equipment and systems to communicate and work together.

“As a leader in technical innovation and open standards, GE is excited to participate in establishing the ISA100 standards,” said Melanie Cook, communications general manager for GE’s Digital Energy business. “Our customers rely on GE to deliver reliable solutions for their mission-critical communication networks and are increasingly demanding products that are interoperable for easier infrastructure deployments. From Smart Grid modernization to oil and gas and industrial automation applications, the ISA100 standards will help us in meeting our customers’ requirements.”

The ISA100.11a Industrial Wireless Networking Standard, approved in September 2009, is the first in the ISA100 family of standards. This mesh standard protocol helps companies build interoperable communications equipment. As a result, manufacturing and processing plants can create, modify and optimize beginning-to-end operations quickly, cost-effectively, and seamlessly.

Future ISA100 standards will include support for backhaul functionality, factory automation and other key-use cases. Details on the approved standard, the ISA100 roadmap, and use-case presentations are available atwww.isa.org/ISA100.

“The addition of GE expands coverage of industry verticals represented in the WCI and gives us another great resource for ensuring conformance, interoperability, and marketplace adoption of standards that best meet the needs of users around the world,” said Andre Ristaino, Wireless Compliance Institute managing director.  “GE’s depth of technology expertise in process industries and creative application of technology is impressive. We look forward to working with the GE team to help improve communications for a new generation of process innovation.”

The ISA106 committee work products will apply to continuous processing applications and will address topics including:

• Models and terminology
• Modularization of procedural steps to foster re-use and lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Exception handling for abnormal situations
• State models for procedural logic
• Process unit orientation with operational perspective
• Recommended best practices
• Implementation of start-up, shutdown, abnormal situations, hold states, and transition logic
• Recommended target platform (i.e. control system vs. safety system) for different types of procedures
• Lifecycle management best practices
• Training and certification best practices

Board member Dr. Maurice J. Wilkins of Yokogawa, will serve as managing director of the new ISA106 committee. Dr. Wilkins has appointed Mr. Marty King of Chevron and Dr. Yahya Nazer of The Dow Chemical Company as co-chairs, and Mr. David Emerson of Yokogawa as vice chair and editor.

“The ultimate goal of ISA106 is to provide generic, cross-industry standards for procedural automation in continuous industries, in much the same way that ISA88 has done for the batch industries,” explains Dr. Wilkins. “In fact, I am hoping that some of the ISA88 work will apply to ISA106 and thus help speed up the process. It is also possible that ISA106 could develop joint recommended practices for various industries and work with standards committees that already exist, such as the ISA67 (nuclear) and ISA77 (fossil) power plant standards committees—as well as for industries that do not have separate ISA standards committees, such as petrochemical, refining, and upstream oil and gas.”

Much of the work of the ISA106 committee will be carried out electronically via web meetings and email; however, a kickoff, face-to-face meeting is planned for 9–10 June 2010 in the Houston, Texas, area.

Individuals who are interested in contributing their expertise and becoming active members of the ISA106 committee should send their contact information to Ellen Fussell Policastro at efussell@isa.org.

The IIS brings together industry experts, scholars, and researchers from across the globe to discuss instrumentation, and the technologies that surround this field, through four days of sessions, meetings, and training. Speakers will present papers on topics such as electronic instrumentation, wireless technology, cybersecurity, aerospace systems, process measurement and control, virtual instrumentation systems, laser and electro-optics instrumentation, geo-science and remote sensing, and more. The event also will feature volunteer-led tutorials, vendor exhibits, and social functions.

A pre-conference ISA training course, Industrial Wireless Systems (IC85C), will be led by Wayne Manges, ISA100 committee co-chair. Attendees of this course can earn Continuing Education Units, while attendees of the symposium sessions can earn Professional Development Hours.

The IIS is ISA’s longest-running symposium and is sponsored by three of ISA’s technical Divisions: Aerospace Industries, Test Measurement, and Process Measurement and Control. For more information and to register, visit www.isa.org/IIS.

Symposium sponsorships are available. Interested persons should contact Carol Schafer at +1 919-990-9206 or cschafer@isa.org.

This air compliance industry conference is recommended for LDAR program administrators, coordinators and supervisors, air compliance managers, environmental engineers, maintenance managers, reliability engineers, consultants, monitoring services contractors, and other vendors who provide products or services to the LDAR community.

Topics include flare compliance, presented by the US Environmental Agency; LDAR Deviations under Title V, presented by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; a regulatory compliance panel discussion; and presentations from companies such as Sunoco Chemical, Marathon, Valero, and others. An ISA training course will also be available.

This year’s event will offer attendees something completely new—ISA’s Emissions Reduction Technology Forum. Each session during the forum will expose the attendees to a new or innovative product that claims to prevent or reduce fugitive VOC emissions from chemical processes. An expert panel will challenge those claims, and then open the floor to the attendees for further discussions. Those responsible for equipment maintenance, the “and repair” side of LDAR, and proactive reliability engineering are encouraged to attend.

For more information and to register, visit www.isa.org/ldar.

Symposium sponsorships are available. Interested persons should contact Carol Schafer at 919-990-9206 or cschafer@isa.org.

”Our goal is to make www.isa100wci.org the first place to visit for suppliers and end users interested in building and using ISA100 technology based products. Suppliers need support for integrating ISA100 technology into their product lines and having them certified as ISA100 Compliant. The site helps end users by providing a single destination for getting the most up-to-date facts on marketplace programs supporting the standard, product availability and use-cases,” commented Andre Ristaino, WCI Managing Director.

The ISA-100.11a-2009 Wireless Systems for Industrial Automation Standard, overwhelmingly approved in September 2009 is the first in the ISA100 Family of Standards. Future releases are expected to include support for backhaul functionality, factory automation and other use-cases.

The WCI website will be updated on a weekly basis with new content relevant to the ISA100 Standard, conformance program support and, educational content about the technology. The site includes announcements about regional WCI events, webinars and industry events and provides a convenient registration portal for signups.

ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute members invite you to visit www.isa100wci.org.

The ISA100.12 subcommittee is chartered with completing numerous tasks to provide developers with meaningful information to achieve convergence and end-users with educational materials to allow for successful installations of both WirelessHART and ISA-100.11a systems in a pre-converged environment. Included in these tasks is the development of a phased convergence specification to converge WirelessHART and ISA-100.11a. Ongoing work within ISA100.12 includes:

• A recommended practice, prepared along with the ISA100 Co-Existence working group, which will describe techniques for end users for achieving best performance between WirelessHART and ISA-100.11anetworks that are installed in the same facility and in overlapping radio space. This document is planned to be completed later in 2010.

• A comparison document that outlines the differences between ISA-100.11a and WirelessHART, nearing completion, which will serve two purposes: First, it will serve as an official ISA100.12 technical comparison document for end users. Second, it will provide a starting point to begin the process of converging ISA-100.11a and WirelessHART.

• An ISA recommended practice, planned for completion in the first half of 2010, which will define approaches for a single wireless field device to be provisioned or configured to run either ISA-100.11a or WirelessHART. This is an important step in the process and will help to preserve the technology investments that early adopters have incurred.

Other ISA100 working groups that will meet in Orlando include Factory Automation, Trustworthy Wireless, Networking, User Guide, Backhaul, Zigbee, Power Sources, and Nuclear Applications. For more information, contact Charley Robinson, ISA Standards, crobinson@isa.org.