Automation Fair 2008
Workshops
These Workshops will be offered once each day of Automation Fair 2008. They are 2-hour sessions and will include demonstrations and presentations by leading industry experts. All workshops are first-come, first-served — just show up and sit down. No additional registration is required.
W1: Machine Safety Risk Assessment
Days: Wednesday, Nov. 19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 8:30 AM
Room: Tennesee Ballroom A
Presenter: Mike Duta
Learn the components of a Safety Risk Assessment. Review standards, assign risk and check circuit and guarding performance. It includes a class assignment to complete the user’s own risk assessment.
W2: Optimizing Control System Performance
Days: Wednesday, Nov. 19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 11:00 AM
Room: Tennessee Ballroom A
Presenter: Fred Habenschuss
Optimize performance of an Integrated Architecture application with straightforward tips, ticks and best practices from application engineers on allocating resources for code execution, improving network performance and optimizing data collection.
W3: Operational Historians for Discrete Industries
Days: Wednesday, Nov. 19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 2:00 PM
Room: Tennessee Ballroom A
Presenter: Jan Pingel
New classes of data historians are providing huge value in being able to maximize the ability to collect time-series data in a discrete production context. The new class of operational historians coupled with an Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) front end provides an ability to analyze complex process data easily, reduce variability by comparing production parameters against standards, and respond to information requests from customers or regulators more easily through the maintenance of an accessible on-line record.
W4: Designing Ethernet Networks Using Reference Architectures
Days: Wednesday, Nov. 19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 8:30 AM
Room: Tennessee Ballroom B
Presenter: Gregory Wilcox and Paul Didier (Cisco)
Rockwell Automation and Cisco will expand Ethernet network design knowledge by teaching the guidelines, known as Reference Architectures, for designing robust and secure industrial infrastructures. This Workshop includes best practices and recommendations that are applicable to both IT and manufacturing networks — segmentation, security policies, topology design, protocol selection, advanced network services layer (layer2/layer 3) as well as switch/router deployment.
W5: Error-proofing with advance sensors
Days: Wednesday, Nov. 19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 11:00 AM
Room: Tennessee Ballroom B
Presenter: Brian Schriver
Workshop participants will learn how to apply advanced sensors along with a demonstration of how to couple sensing data with RFID storage devices and FactoryTalk to provide traceability and improve productivity. Attendees will learn about sensor technologies through hands-on application of Allen-Bradley Background Suppression, Laser Measurement, Discrete Laser, Parts Verification Arrays and Color Sensors. Participants will also get hands-on experience with the MultiSight Vision Sensor.
W6: System Design for the Control of Electrical Noise
Days: Wednesday, Nov. 19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 2:00 PM
Room: Tennessee Ballroom B
Presenter: Jeff Meier
This Workshop outlines practices which minimize the possibility of noise-related failures and that comply with noise regulations. It gives an overview of how electrical noise is generated, how the noise interferes with routine operation of drive equipment — and examples of how to effectively control noise. The Workshop will focus on Allen-Bradley brand Drive and Servo Motion products.
W7: Review of Power Control Harmonics, Power Factor, Distortion & Displacement
Days: Wednesday, Nov. 19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 8:30 AM
Room: Tennessee Ballroom C
Presenter: Rick Hoadley
This Workshop will review harmonics in power systems caused by Adjustable Speed Drives, current vectors, total power factor, distortion and displacement power factor and their affect on the kW billed by the utility. It will also provide a comparison of various harmonic mitigation techniques, with a focus on how they also affect the power distribution system to which they are connected.
W8: Safety System Solution Design — It's Not Black Magic and You Can Do It
Days: Wednesday, Nov. 19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 11:00 AM
Room: Tennessee Ballroom C
Presenter: George Schuster
This Workshop will demonstrate how to design a safety solution for an actual application utilizing many aspects of the safety lifecycle. It includes a risk assessment, risk mitigation planning, component selection and actuation, defines the functional requirements – then will identify the solution, design the circuit and perform verification. There will be no PPTs, just whiteboard and the opportunity to ask questions.
W9: Design Your Networks for Optimal Performance and Protect Your Automation Assets from Security Threats
Days: Wednesday, Nov.19 and Thursday, Nov. 20
Time: 2:00 PM
Room: Tennessee Ballroom C
Presenter: Leslie Popowski and Pete Morell
Learn key elements for plant-floor network design to meet current and future performance requirements. In addition, learn about potential security threats to automation equipment and control networks. This Workshop will share considerations for creating a successful security policy at the enterprise, plant and asset level that will prevent unauthorized access and changes.