X-Change 2013 will focus on how Invensys can help empower operational and business personnel to excel by simplifying how they work, empowering them with timely and contextualised information and enabling them to deliver real-time business value.
While there is no lack of technology, it is humans, at the end of the day, that are the differentiators between its success or failure. At Invensys we know, we have been involved with enriching the contributions of people for over a century. That is a lot of experience.
The road to success depends on a definitive automation and information strategy as well as some notable landmarks. These include the implementation of the Invensys Enterprise Control System and its many integrated applications, the safeguard of past investments, integration with existing corporate assets, providing continuous current technology, supplying outstanding customer support and an enviable track record of delivering optimised industrial information and operational solutions to most of the world’s leading companies.
X-Change is your definitive window to the industrial automation and information landscape and brings together more industry professionals than any other event of its kind in southern Africa. System integrators, hardware and software suppliers, end-users and international industrial automation authorities come together to X-Change ideas, network and collaborate at what is widely regarded as South Africa’s premier industrial event.
Celebrating the conference’s 21st anniversary, X-Change 2013 will be held from 21-24 April at Sun City and promises once again to add great value to the lives of industrial automation professionals countrywide.
We invite everyone who has something to share or something they want to learn to X-Change 2013. If you have never attended before, you are in for a pleasant and informative surprise. If you are a regular, we welcome you back.
X-Change 2013 presentation streams
The presentation streams have been designed to highlight and address the information needs of executives, system engineers, production managers, plant managers and engineers involved in the mining and manufacturing industries. That is because they all need different information in the right context and at the right time – all the time.
The contents of the presentations range from technical to more business-oriented and you will be able to choose those best suited to your current operational or business needs.
Technology stream
Every year, Invensys Operations Management introduces new and significant products to its wide range of solutions. This is your opportunity to see what these products will do for your bottom line as the presentations highlight the features, advantages and benefits of each solution as applicable to your industry. This year, there are significant functionality upgrades and enhancements to your favourite applications as well as some new ones that continue to populate the Invensys InFusion enterprise control system space (eg, intelligent marshalling, plug-in DCS migration, virtualisation, MES Quality Management System, handling multiple ArchestrA galaxies, Overview Client and many more).
Wonderware solutions stream
The solutions stream takes a broader look at ways of addressing your enterprise manufacturing intelligence needs, improving asset effectiveness, streamlining your manufacturing execution system for operational performance excellence, getting you started on the road to enterprise integration, empowering your workforce, corpor-ate energy management, safety and reliability, business optimisation and other topics on which the health of your enterprise depends.
Foxboro, SimSci-Esscor and Eurotherm streams
From valves to virtualisation and from sensors to simulation, Invensys Operations Management does it all. So it is no wonder that the range of solutions available to you has grown phenomenally and very rapidly since the company started operations in South Africa in 2011.
These streams will demonstrate how hardware and software solutions from Foxboro, Eurotherm, SimSci-Esscor and Triconex all contribute to providing a seamless information continuum from sensor to boardroom.
User presentations stream
End users and system integrators present the successful implementation of projects using Invensys solutions. From scada to MES and manufacturing intelligence to enterprise integration, come and see how the concept of Invensys’ Enterprise Control System is helping mining and manufacturing companies map some of the world’s leading solutions to their needs in a practical way. All user presentations are entered into the Invensys Operations Management Open competition.
Keynote addresses
We are fortunate in having access to some of the leading local and international authorities such as Asher Bohbot, chief executive officer of EOH and Ravi Gopinath, president software business, Invensys Operations Management. They will address subjects as far ranging as how to survive profitably in the current world economic climate to the adoption of new approaches to information and control in mining and manufacturing. Once they leave their pedestals, you can have casual chats with them or book sessions where you have the chance of discussing your production and business issues one-on-one.
Their wide and varied industry experience will save you from reinventing the wheel and cut through complexity to give you fresh, practical insights that you can apply when you get back to the office.
Invensys Operations Management Open
We have found that one of the most valuable ways to assess a product and its suitability is to speak to the people who use it. The Invensys Operations Management Open was introduced to encourage both end users and system integrators to document their experiences of successful implementations using Invensys Wonderware solutions. These are customers who have used the products extensively and their first hand experiences offer insights not available from any other source.
All user presentations are entered into the Invensys Operations Management Open competition where prizes are awarded for the best presentations in various categories such as best Scada/HMI, MES, EMI or Enterprise Integration implementation. The presentations are then documented in the form of articles and sent to various magazines for publication. These articles also appear on the Invensys Wonderware website and bi-monthly Protocol magazine as well as Invensys Operations Management’s annual international booklet of success stories.
Collaboration expo
System integrators as well as hardware and software partners use this unique venue to showcase their wares and achievements. They do so because nowhere else is there such an opportunity to talk to a more qualified audience eager to see what they have to offer. Should you wish to exhibit your solutions, please see the booking information below.
Visit www.x-change.co.za if you want to do any of the following:
* Book your attendance at X-Change 2013.
* Book a stand at the Expo.
For more information contact Jaco Markwat, Invensys Operations Management, +27 (0)11 607 8100, [email protected], www.iom.invensys.co.za
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