"It is not easy to conquer the world from Johannesburg but I think you guys have performed and are performing very credibly in a global context." - Andrew Ashton, editor SA Instrumentation and Control.
By all accounts the 2nd Adroit Technologies International User Conference hit the sweet spot in terms of content, motivation and networking. Adroit Technologies and a number of partners joined forces at the Buitengeluk Conference Centre to deliver a conference themed: 'The Business of Basics'. Adroit Technologies specialists, industry thought leaders and customers delivered papers and presented tutorials focusing on the importance of getting the foundations involving PLC and scada in order, enabling further value delivery up the information and management food chain.
Delegates and staff at Adroit Technologies’ International User Conference
Dave Wibberley opened the conference with an inspirational talk around where the company was heading. This was followed by a number of thought provoking presentations which had a common theme and message for the attendees, get the basics right and the rest will be easy, get it wrong and the cost and chances of success diminish rapidly.
Dave Wibberly, Adroit MD, (left) and keynote speaker Sean Wisedale, who has summitted Everest
Presenters included Dave Ives, director of platforms at Microsoft who spoke on what Microsoft is doing in the operations arena. Deon Fourie, of Shopware delivered an interesting talk on lean initiatives and tools to support this strategy. Belinda Pretorius of the SA Mint spoke around the issues, process and imperatives surrounding the choice of an MES solution. Danie Sadie of SAdkons shared his vast experiences surrounding large scale PLC/scada projects in the cement industry. Dave Bean of iDx shared the OPC UA vision. Simon Grimbeek of Polysphere spoke around the trials and tribulations involved in successfully creating an operations portal and John Ballinger of Adroit Technologies Europe demoed how easy it was to get Adroit information on to a smartphone.
The two days were split with a Gala Dinner held at the Montecasino and the riveting keynote speech was given by Everest summiteer, Sean Wisedale. A number of partner awards were also handed out.
The final session belonged to Adroit Technologies during which Adroit version 7.0, OPUS 4 and the 2008 version of the VIZNET Information Portal were all unveiled. In a series of co-ordinated presentations Adroit Technologies showed how easy it is to combine all three products to build everything from scada mimics, MES and management dashboards and have all the information available to all role-players across any organisation.
The highlight of the Adroit presentations was the unveiling of the Advanced Alarm Management capability in Adroit v7.0. This standard module promises to deliver the functionality that users of other systems would only be able to obtain via expensive third party add-ons. Mike Lamusse, technical director of Adroit Technologies explained that the Alarm Management strategy was the result of a lot of research and discussions with key customers and promises to deliver value immediately. The future will see Adroit adding a lot more intelligence to the analysis to ensure that Adroit remains SA's number one scada.
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