Dr. Helmut Berg

Head of PAT Operation & Maintenance
PAT Operation & Maintenance
Helmut studied physics in Cologne and medical physics and technology in Kaiserslautern. He started his professional career in 1999 at Bayer AG in the department Process Analyzer Technology. Within Bayer he assumed various positions in the PAT department and in business management in Germany and Shanghai/China. Since January 2012 Helmut has been head of the unit PAT Operation & Maintenance taking care of the PAT systems in the Bayer sites Krefeld-Uerdingen, Dormagen and Leverkusen.
Bayer Technology Services GmbH

Michael Büßelmann

Senior Consultant VP Services
Yokogawa Deutschland
Michael joined Yokogawa in 1997 where he first was responsible for the MES business in the System Sales department in Germany. Between 2007 and 2011, he led the Services BU for Europe and Africa. Since November 2011 he has been back with Yokogawa Germany as key account manager and senior consultant for VigilantPlant Services. He began his career in the service department of a Norwegian computer company in Frankfurt. His activities included hardware and software services including installation and startup of large computer systems. In 1991, Michael continued his career in the service and engineering department of an automation supplier in Düsseldorf, where he focused on software development, project execution, and project management in the automation business.
Yokogawa Belgium N.V.


Deutschland

Karel Crombach

EMEA Director Manufacturing & Resources Industries
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In his role as EMEA lead and member of the worldwide Industry & Global Accounts Team, Karel is working closely with industry partners and sales community to align and implement Microsoft’s sector strategy in EMEA. Focus is on the industries Discrete Manufacturing, Process Manufacturing, Oil & Gas and Mining, and Power & Utilities, aiming at establishing Microsoft as leading industry solution provider and credible business partner. Karel brings more than 25 years of experience as consultant, manager and sales director for transportation, logistics and manufacturing industries.
Microsoft


Niederlande

Dr. Christian Czauderna

Head of Energy Efficiency Projects
Energy Efficiency Projects
Christian joined Bayer in 2001. Prior to his present assignment, which he started in October 2008, he was Head of the Asset Management and Network Economics department of CURRENTA, a joint venture of Bayer and Lanxess. He also has experience as Head of Electricity Supply of Bayer Chempark Dormagen at Bayer Industry Services as well as staff employee at the Energy Department of Bayer. Christian holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD on the subject of Reliability in Electrical Supply Systems from the University of Aachen, where he served the Institute of Power Systems as reseach assistant from 1996 to 2001.
Bayer MaterialScience AG


Deutschland

Dr. Valentijn de Leeuw

Director of Consulting
Consulting
Valentijn's responsibilities include research and consulting in process industries, with emphasis on clients in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). His technology focus is on manufacturing operations management. Valentijn’s focus areas include organizational change and effectiveness, business process improvement, value-based performance management, governance, project management, knowledge management, operations management, asset management, innovation and engineering, and manufacturing IT. Valentijn is also the focal point for ARC's Benchmarking Consortium in EMEA.
ARC Advisory Group GmbH & Co. KG


Deutschland

Patrick De Pryck

Managing Director
Contec
Patrick holds a master degree in Electrical Engineering and also a master degree in Applied Information Technology. Patrick started his career as a plant engineer at the catalyst plants of Shell in Belgium. Through his 25 years with Contec, he has continued to expand his domain knowledge in the Process Industry at Contec. Currently Partick is Managing Director at Contec and uses his build up experience to ensure projects are successfully implemented in collaboration with the customer.
Contec


Belgien

Michel Devos

Independent Consultant
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Michel has been working almost 30 years for several companies delivering SCADA and MES solutions. After being project engineer at Absy and Cimtech, he joined the product marketing team at Aspentech. In 2002, he was in the team that created Synthetis, developing MES solutions for metals and food industries. Michel now works in his own company, delivering consultancy to help industrials in improving the efficiency of their production facilities. Michel is a civil engineer from UCL in Louvain-La-Neuve. He is currently board member of MESA EMEA.
M.E.S. Consult sprl

Marnix du Clou

Vice President & General Manager
Siemens Industry Software
Marnix serves Siemens Industry Software as General Manager for the Benelux Sales and Service organization. He has over 10 years experience in sales, sales management and business development. Prior to joining Siemens Industry Software, Marnix held different sales positions for Comos Industry Solutions and Intergraph specialized on integrated plant asset management solutions for the process industries. Marnix holds a Bachelor of Science degree in technical business administration from the University of Rotterdam and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Siemens AG


Niederlande

Ruben Gil

Director
Business Consulting
Ruben has more than 25 years experience of providing consulting services related to manufacturing operations IT strategy to executive level clients across the process industry. In this present role, Ruben assists companies to improve engineering, production and business performance through best use of information technology solutions. He has extensive experience in many different process industry segments, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, petrochemicals and consumer goods. Prior to joining AspenTech, Gil spent 14 years at Honeywell in a range of different roles, primarily focused on implementing, developing and marketing manufacturing execution systems. During this period, Gil was active in several manufacturing IT standardization committees including ISA S88 and S95. He is also a co-founder of the European Batch Forum Association. Gil holds a Bs. Eng. and also has a Masters Degree in Sciences of Management (MSM) from Boston University in the United States.
AspenTech Europe SA/NV

Jean-Luc Griessmann

Head of HART Communication Foundation Europe
Jean-Luc Griessmann has 15 years of experience with a major process instrumentation manufacturer in Switzerland. Since 1999, he has been Head of HART Communication Foundation Europe in Basle, Switzerland.
HART Communication Foundation


Schweiz

Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Grundmann

Managing Director Europe
ARC Advisory Group
Uwe is responsible for managing ARC’s operations in Europe. He has almost 25 years experience in the manufacturing industry with deep knowledge in automation and enterprise applications. He established the ARC Advisory Group in Europe. Before joining ARC, Uwe was head of the Software Marketing and Sales team at Rockwell Automation in Germany. His responsibilities included strategic development of new product based businesses. With his outstanding market knowledge he established new successful business fields within the German sales operation and opened new channels for product and system sales. Uwe has published numerous articles in technical publications and presented papers at a number of conferences.
ARC Advisory Group GmbH & Co. KG

Florian Gueldner

Moderator
ARC Advisory Group
Florian is part of the automation team at ARC covering manufacturing topics in Europe and is located in ARC's offices in Germany. Florian's focus areas are the discrete industries with a special focus on PLCs, AC drives, motion control, and discrete sensors. Florian has experience in the automation industry with Siemens and has a strong background in energy markets. In particular he worked for AREVA in Germany and the US, as well as for E.On Energy. At ARC, Florian specializes in economic modeling, time series and business cycle analysis, and forecasting. He is also experienced in strategic marketing and mergers & acquisitions. Florian holds a Master Degree in Economics with Sociology and Psychology as minor subjects. He studied at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen (Germany) where he focused on statistics, international markets, and the US economy.
ARC Advisory Group GmbH & Co. KG

Dipl.-Ing. Torsten Hellenkamp

Head of Consulting
INOSIM Consulting GmbH

INOSIM
Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 20
44227 Dortmund
Deutschland

Dr. Jan Hücker

Head of Service International
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Jan is heading the international service, training and support organization of HIMA. After graduation as electrical engineer he worked as research assistant at the RWTH Aachen and earned a PhD in control engineering. In 2000 he joined ABB Automation as project lead for manufacturing execution systems. Later he became a senior consultant for process optimization before he took over the support, training and international service organization for analytic products. In 2011 Jan moved to HIMA and took up his current position.
HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH + Co KG

David W. Humphrey

ARC Analyst
Director of Research, Europe
David W. Humphrey is part of the automation consulting team at ARC covering manufacturing topics in Europe. Located in ARC’s offices in Germany, he is a member of ARC’s hybrid manufacturing, packaging and industrial networking teams, as well as a member of the Open Modular Architecture Controls (OMAC) Packaging Workgroup Executive Committee. In addition to automation, he also looks at economic topics affecting manufacturers and is the author of ARC’s annual survey report on capital spending. Mr. Humphrey has over twenty years experience in industrial automation, including the de-sign and programming of control systems in a variety of industries including automobile and packaging. Prior to ARC, Mr. Humphrey was Area Manager for automation solutions in Rockwell Automation's Munich, Germany office. In addition, he worked for several years for Ray-theon Company in the United States. Education: Mr. Humphrey holds a B.Eng degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology as well as MBA degrees from the Business and Economics University of Vienna and the University of South Carolina with a concentration in International Business.
ARC Advisory Group GmbH & Co. KG

Victor Lough

Technical Consultant
Decision Support Systems
Victor has over 25 year experience in providing holistic performance improvement solutions for operator driven processes, these have included refinery-wide process optimization, enterprise loop management and alarm management solutions, and the business development of mobile workflow with predictive machinery health solutions. He joined Invensys Operations Management from VG Gas Analysis Systems where he served process industries as a strategic analyzer solutions consultant and EMEA regional sales management. Prior to joining VG GAS, Lough held technical lead and operator supervisor role with Western Geophysical.
Invensys Operations Management
Manor Royal
RH10 9SJ Crawley
Grossbritannien

Robert Lowe

Executive Director
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Bob spent 19 years in plant automation in the metals industry. In 1991 he co-founded a control systems integration company where he was President and Technical Staff Manager. A founding member of CSIA (Control System Integrators Association), he served on the Best Practices Committee and was instrumental in designing the CSIA Certification Audit and authored articles on audit preparation. After 18 years of managing his company he became the CSIA Executive Director in 2009. Bob brings substantial knowledge of the CSI industry to the CSIA Executive Director position.
Control System Integrators Association
N. Carroll Street 22, Suite 300
53703 Madison, Wisconsin
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

Dr. Herbert Maier

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Clariant

Clariant International

Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Menze

Moderator
ARC Advisory Group
Thomas is part of the automation team at ARC covering process industry related topics in Europe and is located in ARC's offices in Germany. Thomas’ focus areas are Distributed Control Systems (DCS), functional safety, IT security, energy efficiency, and physical layer components between the field instruments and control room. At ARC, Thomas specializes in process automation trends, technical customer expectations, and market research. He is also experienced in strategic marketing and mergers & acquisitions. Thomas has a strong background in the process market with MTL Instruments, KHS AG in Germany and the US, and Bürkert. Thomas graduated from Dortmund University as Dipl.-Ing in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration.
ARC Advisory Group GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. Georg Mogk

Senior Project Manager
Project Management
Dr. Georg Mogk has studied mathematics in Gießen, Rome and Coimbra. Since 1998 he is working for different departments inside the Bayer group. Currently he is project manager at Bayer Technology Services with key activities in design and optimization of international supply chains.
Bayer Technology Services GmbH
Bulding B610
51368 Leverkusen
Deutschland

Charlie Mohrmann

Vizepräsident Verkauf
Mobile Solutions
Charles serves Wonderware Mobile Solutions (formerly SAT Corporation) as Vice President – Sales. He has over 25 years experience in business development, marketing, management consulting and sales management. He joined SAT Corporation from McKinsey & Company, Inc. where he served Fortune 100 clients in the process industries as a management consultant. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mohrmann held senior management positions with SAIC, Gensym Corporation, Honeywell and Compressor Engineering. Mohrmann received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Texas A&M University in 1979 and a MBA from The University of Houston in 1991.
Wonderware
10111 Richmond Ave Suite 650
77042 Houston, TX
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

Nehme Moufarrej

Sales & Marketing
Drive Technologies, business development of the Mega cluster Asia
Studies: 1981 to 1985: Electrical & communication engineering University in Düsseldorf, Diplom-Ingenieur Professional career: 1985 to 1990 (Siemens AG Düsseldorf, Technical dept): Hard and Software solutions for special branches/industries e.g. plastic, paper, cranes and textile machines incl. project management. 1990 to 1996 (Siemens AG Erlangen): Sales & marketing for automation and drives, responsible for the worldwide business of chemical fiber process, fiber lines 1996 to 2002 (Siemens AG Erlangen): Sales & marketing for automation and drives, responsible for the worldwide business of the whole chemical fiber process 2002 to 2006 (Siemens AG Aachen): responsible for machine tool branch and automotive in the region Aachen and Cologne incl. Account Management for Ford, Visteon and Getrag-Ford. 2006 to 2009 (Siemens AG Erlangen): Dept. leader for the worldwide business of textile machines Since March 2009 (Siemens AG Nurnberg): Drive Technologies Division Sales & Marketing, responsible for business development of the Mega cluster Asia
Siemens AG

Dr. Jochen Müller

Arbeitsgruppenleiter
Standardisierungen
Jochen graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics. He wrote his Doctorate on Fieldbus Technology and Asset Management in Process Automation. He has been working for end users and manufacturers in process automation since 1991 and is involved in standardization activities in working groups in VDMA, NAMUR und PROFIBUS & PROFINET International. At Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG he is marketing manager for digital communication systems (PROFIBUS).
PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International)
Kaegensstraße 2
4153 Reinach
Schweiz

Rolf Panzke

Director Marketing Sensors and Communication
Siemens
As Industry Director, Rolf Panzke manages global market development for Siemens Sensors and Communication in the chemical/petrochemical, oil&gas and shipbuilding industries. As a specialist in products for these applications, he consults with industry officials and plant operators to gather input on global trends and to coordinate development of Siemens’ portfolio of Sensors and Communication to meet customer needs. He first joined Milltronics in Peterborough, Canada, as General Manager for Microwave Technologies (Radar). After the acquisition of Milltronics by Siemens, he was appointed Director, Marketing Process Instrumentation Technologies and Industry Director for Chemical Industries. Rolf Panzke has many years of experience in industrial process industries, including assignments as General Manager, Level Technologies with Krohne Measurement Technologies and R&D Manager at Eastman Christensen.
Siemens AG


Deutschland

Stéphane Potier

Technology Marketing Manager
B&R Automation
Potier
B&R Industrie-Elektronik

Jürgen Potthoff

Manager
Sales Asset Management
Jürgen has 16 years experience with globally operating Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) Companies working on projects in Europe, Americas, Asia, MENA and Australia servicing the petrochemical, refineries, chemical process industry. His responsibilities included Feasibility Study Leader for world scale petrochemical plants; Sales & Project Manager for lump sum turnkey EPC projects including a 4 year Business Development assignment to Australia and Establishment / Management of Maintenance Management & Contracting services based on risk based maintenance concept. Prior to joining Bayer Technology Services he was for 3 years Manager Reliability Engineering with a major chemical company, responsible for the development & global implementation of risk based maintenance. Since one year he has been Manager Sales Asset Management with BTS.
Bayer Technology Services GmbH

Dr. Mario Rebolledo Wueffer

DCS Competence Team
HIMA Paul Hildebrandt
Mario has worked as DCS integration specialist for HIMA since 2005. His previous experience encompasses more than 10 years as process control engineer and industrial automation specialist in the Venezuelan state-owned petroleum corporation PDVSA. Mario holds an engineering degree in electronics, a master degree in electrical engineering, and a degree as Information Management Specialist from the Venezuelan Polytechnic Institute of the National Armed Forces, University of Carabobo and Technological University of the Center, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Engineering at Universität Stuttgart in Germany with Safety Automation Systems as research area.
HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH + Co KG

Alexander Schad

Head of Sales
INOSIM Software GmbH

INOSIM
Parkring 73
22949 Ammersbek (Hamburg)
Deutschland

Bart Schaminée

Global Sourcing Manager
Process Automation, Electrical & Instrumentation
Bart is a BSc Chemical Technology, with 15 years of experience in managing process automation strategies, projects, and sourcing. Bart is now responsible at SABIC for the global integration and sourcing strategy for process automation of 140 plants producing 65 million metric tons per year.
SABIC Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG


Deutschland

Bernard Scherrer

Head of EDF Group Innovation Sourcing & Transfer
R&D
Bernard Scherrer has been Deputy Vice President for R&D Power Generation Sector at EDF R&D since January 2007. Formerly, he had been Strategy Corporate Manager in the Corporate Strategy Division for five years. He also has five years of experience as manager in EDF’s nuclear power plants (Fessenheim and Cattenom). Bernard Scherrer began his carreer in civil works for the French Navy and Aéroports de Paris, and joined EDF in 1994. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.
Électricité de France


Frankreich

Glenn B. Schulz

Managing Director

Glenn joined the FDT Group as Managing Director in July of 2009. Most recently, he was the General Manager and Vice President of Engineering at Dorner. For thirteen years prior, Glenn was an executive at Rockwell Automation. During his tenure at Rockwell Automation, Glenn served as a Vice President and Secretary of the Board of FDT Group. Glenn’s diverse technology career has spanned leadership roles in engineering, marketing, sales, business management, and senior management. He has numerous design credits, articles, and patents in industrial and process automation as well as cryptography.
FDT Group, AISBL

Heiko Schween

Leiter Management
Funktionale Sicherheit / FSCS

HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH + Co KG
Albert-Bassermann-Strasse 28
68782 Brühl
Deutschland

Johann Ströbl

Abteilungsleiter
Anlagen- & Maschinenbau & Elektronik
Johann joined TÜV Süd Industrie Service in 1980. After being responsible for controllers in safety applications at the department of fuel technology and heat engineering, he built up the department of fuel technology and heat engineering in the branch Regensburg. Since 2000 he has been head of the department electrical engineering and building services engineering and head of the field office fuel technology and heat engineering at the branch Regensburg. Johann has a degree in electrical engineering from the Unversity of Applied Sciences, Regensburg.
TÜV Süd Industrie Service

Regensburg
Deutschland

Katrin Sulzbacher

Wissenschaftliche Angestellte
Simulation und Optimierung biotechnologischer Prozesse
Katrin studierte von 2003 bis 2008 Chemieingenieurwesen an der Technischen Universität Dortmund. Das Studium schloss sie mit einer Diplomarbeit zum Thema „Systematische Entwicklung von Downstream Prozessen - Ganzheitliche Prozessbetrachtung am Beispiel der Aufreinigung von Ectoin" ab. Seit Dezember 2008 ist sie als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Anlagen- und Prozesstechnik der Technischen Universität Dortmund tätig. In ihrer Forschungsarbeit beschäftigt sie sich mit der Entwicklung eines Simulations- und Optimierungswerkzeuges für biotechnologische Prozesse.
TU Dortmund, Fakultät Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen, Lehrstuhl für Anlagen- und Prozesstechnik
Emil-Figge-Strasse 70
44227 Dortmund
Deutschland

Dr. Alex van Delft

Competence Manager
Process Control
Alex has a background in Engineering Physics, a PhD in Process Control and Optimization, and has worked in DSM in different manufacturing roles. He was program manager for the reorganization of the central engineering department and as such involved in outsourcing and insourcing of activities in this area. Currently he is responsible for global Process Control in DSM. Main activities of his group: competence management, opportunity surveys and project support, choice of tools and suppliers, and improving the skills of the people in the competence.
Royal DSM N.V.

Wim van Meijeren

NAM
Team Lead Control & Automation UIE

Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV


Niederlande

Herman van Roost

Total Petrochemicals Research General Manager
Industrial Organization and Competences Project
Herman studied at the University of Leuven (KUL) and holds a Civil Engineering degree in Electro Mechanics and Energy Conversion. From 1980 to 1996 he worked in the Antwerp petrochemical industry for Exxon Chemical and Fina, in several engineering and maintenance functions, and as Maintenance Manager and Plant Manager. Between 1996 and 2006 he occupied several business management positions within Petrofina and its successor companies Atofina and Total Petrochemicals, as Application Manager, General Director Elastomers and General Manager Industrial Coordination and Joint Ventures. In 2007 Herman returned to the industrial branch of Total Petrochemicals as General Manager of the corporate project ‘Industrial Organisation and Competencies’.
Total Petrochemicals
Nijverheidsstraat 52
1040 Brüssel
Belgien

Anneke Vemer

Process Control Applications Coordinator
ExxonMobil
Anneke has been with ExxonMobil since 1990 and currently coordinates the overall process control activities at the Esso Nederland Rotterdam Refinery. Her background includes process control systems, advanced control applications and operator training simulators. Over the years she has worked in ExxonMobil’s USA based engineering department and in Singapore for the start-up of a grassroots project. Anneke has a master’s degree in Applied Physics from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Honeywell International

Hartmut Wallraf

Chairman
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Hartmut has more than 30 years of experience in process engineering for the refining, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, and power industries. After serving Bayer for five years as Engineer and Project Manager for chemical plant engineering, Hartmut joined Invensys Foxboro. During his 30 plus year career at Invensys, he has held positions as Project Manager, Service & Engineering Manager, Sales & Marketing Manager, Director of various Invensys businesses in Germany, VP of RD&E for system products from Foxboro in Massachusetts, European Engineering & Service Director , CTO EMEA, and VP EMEA. Hartmut is chairman of the Board of the FDT Group.
FDT Group, AISBL

Dr. Peter Zgorzelski

Office Manager
Peter joined Bayer AG in 1989 and led numerous projects at the Uerdingen site. Afterwards he was responsible for the procurement of process control equipment in the central technical purchasing department in Leverkusen. Peter now works as Manager in Process Management Control at Bayer Technology Services. He studied automatic control and holds a PhD in closed loop control technology. Peter serves as Office Manager of PROLIST® INTERNATIONAL. He is a member of various working groups of NAMUR, eCl@ss, DIN, DKE, IEC and PROLIST.
PROLIST INTERNATIONAL