Learn how enhancements to the Ethernet standard are carrying power and communication to the process floor with provisions for long cable distances and explosion protection. Presentation will include topologies and infrastructure for hazardous and non-hazardous areas.

System orchestration is the automated configuration, management and coordination of computer systems, applications and services. Wouldn't it be great if your OT system could be managed automatically in the same way your work laptop is? The PlantPAx® team is currently in development of a product that can do just that. In this session, we cover how system provisioning can be applied to an OT environment, and what that means for the configuration and maintenance of your plant.

Most control loop performance monitoring (CLPM) solutions generate analytics based on a single, generic state of operation, providing information that lacks resolution. This presentation distinguishes state-based control loop analytics from traditional monitoring capabilities, and introduces Overall Controller Effectiveness (OCE) as a proxy for process availability. Case studies are included.

Is your alarm system enabling operator’s to be effective? Is alarm management a challenge? Learn about the relevant standards and guidelines (ISA-18.2, IEC 62682, EEMUA 191, etc.) and how using the latest PlantPAx® functionality and Technology Partner offerings will enable real progress with your alarm system improvement initiative.

High availability solutions require a control system that matches them in reliability. With multiple choices available, this session will help you understand the options for controllers, I/O, servers and networks to reduce unplanned downtime and have a continuous operation.

This lab explores the features and capabilities of the latest release of FactoryTalk® Batch and provide an overview of new offerings, such as controller-based sequencing with the SequenceManager™; solution and new mobility capabilities. Before the lab this session will provide a short preview of upcoming features and capabilities of the Rockwell Automation portfolio of batch and sequencing products.

Preview how teams can work more easily and efficiently with FactoryTalk® Design Hub. Start your cloud-based design with files stored in FactoryTalk® Vault™, then experience on-demand access to design software. Join this session and learn how teams can work together and save time collaborating in the cloud.

Explore how ThinManager® reduces total cost of ownership, enables a productive workforce, reduces unexpected downtime and secures the plant floor. This partially pre-configured lab allows for maximum exposure to the wide variety of functionality ThinManager® offers to maximize your operation's productivity and security.

Power protection, energy metering and generator control can be critical elements of a process operation. Rockwell Automation Technology Partners ProSoft and Schweitzer Electric (SEL) explain how to integrate IEC-61850 and EtherNet/IP electrical devices into a PlantPAx® system highlighting value-adding features and performance characteristics.

In this session you will learn about the latest features and capabilities of FactoryTalk® Batch, which allows for scalable implementations with PlantPAx®, from batch control of individual units to centralized batch control applications.

The US SEC has proposed to have all companies in the US report on Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 2023, just one example of the many drivers behind the need for ESG reporting and optimization. One of the most significant opportunities for reducing Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions is reducing your energy usage, implementing local energy systems and improving operations using AI and big data. Our technology experts will cover lessons learned and use cases leveraging the latest automation technologies and best practices to achieve both sustainability and productivity.

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Moving your disconnected operations to a digitalized and automated environment isn’t a single, major event. It can be broken down into steps, each of which adds value in its own right, but leads in a clear direction towards a more productive, efficient destination. Avalon is an open platform-as-a-service that integrates easily with your existing IT/OT investment – unlocking the hidden potential of your existing assets, it puts you on the path toward full digitalization. Learn more how Avalon will allow you to visualize and control all aspects of your Oil & Gas operation by collecting the right data and contextualizing it into real-time actionable intelligence for making more informed decisions.

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This moderator led panel discussion will provide an opportunity to have free form discussions about the PlantPAx® system and explore its technology, deployment and use cases. Come prepared to ask questions that help you achieve your unique goals.

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Proper use of the PlantPAx® System Estimator (PSE) helps ensure your PlantPAx® system is designed and sized for optimal performance based on your project requirements. In this session, you will learn about the core capabilities and features of the PlantPAx® System Estimator and general PlantPAx® system design recommendations and best practices. We will also cover some of the available tools that help streamline PlantPAx® system development, implementation and verification.

Discover how you can achieve real-time feedback for operations and closed-loop control by using new FactoryTalk® Analytics™ Data Explorer features to build good laboratory quality inferential Artificial Intelligence (AI). FactoryTalk® Analytics™ Data Explorer offers a no code, visual, integrated workflow for exploratory data analysis, data preparation and hybrid modeling and significant model explainability. In this lab, you will get hands-on practice and experience how to build and deploy real-time applications for lab quality estimation that deliver value on quality insight and are connected to the control system to support improved quality control. Learn more about causal modeling with a toolset that enables knowledge-expert driven AI.

Out of the box reporting templates included with the PlantPAx® Process Library enable further insight and visibility into your plant data. Empower operators and support collaboration between functional areas using prebuilt reports for SSRS or PTC ThingWorx®. This session covers PlantPAx® reporting capabilities and how to implement them into your plant.

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Are you retrofitting an older PLC-based BMS? Are you trying to meet the latest NFPA codes for your current project? Are you moving to a performance-based safety approach for your fired appliances? Attend this session to hear strategies for deciding the best Rockwell Automation controller and I/O for each scenario.

This session provides you with an opportunity to explore FactoryTalk® Historian Site Edition v8.00, a solution for optimizing your manufacturing process through the analysis of historical data. FactoryTalk® Historian Site Edition provides the capability to collect, store, analyze and visualize data using a powerful capturing engine and a powerful set of reporting tools (such as time-series trends, bar chart, pie chart, and tabular) and easily generate reports.

PlantPAx® EventQ enables the capture and storage of controller-based events before egressing the data to destinations for analytics and process tracking. In this session, we'll highlight features of PlantPAx® EventQ and demonstrate use cases for operations, maintenance and engineering personnel. Integration with PlantPAx® reporting features will also be covered. Attend this session to help understand the value of using the PlantPAx® EventQ solution and its function within your control system.

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Discover how our system has evolved to serve our process customers even better through our new FLEXHA 5000™ I/O.  We will take a quick look at how this I/O came to be and spend some time demonstrating its fault-tolerant and flexible, universal capabilities. 

Using data across your enterprise and executing applications at edge is essential to digital transformation. Come learn about new SaaS to collect contextualized data across your enterprise at every layer of the Purdue Model and deploy edge applications at scale.

Process networks are frequently put in place and ignored, but they should be included in the Lifecycle Management plan like all other automation equipment. In this session, you'll learn how to pro-actively plan for continual improvement across all aspects of your network including firewall, switches and routers.

This session will provide you an in-depth overview of the benefits and capabilities of FactoryTalk® Energy Manager™ and how our IT/OT converged energy management solution can help you based on data-driven decisions to optimize and reduce energy costs.

Users have limited capabilities of their legacy DCS systems and lack ability to support them. Explore barriers and benefits of modernization, using tooands & services to help plan and replace legacy DCS; modernize them for current & future needs. Discover migration tools for lifecycle advantage to PlantPAx®.

This session demonstrates how to gain supervisory control, performance monitoring and quality assurance with robust FactoryTalk® Historian including Asset Framework software that captures operational process data with context from multiple sources while scaling from machine to enterprise

This moderator led panel discussion will provide an opportunity to have free form discussions about the batch automation, FactoryTalk® Batch and explore its technology, deployment and use cases. Come prepared to ask questions that help you achieve your unique goals.

Understand the methodology and benefits of using the Power Device Library with PlantPAx® to easily integrate intelligent power devices into your DCS. Connect, control and monitor diagnostics from devices connected over EtherNet/IP including PowerFlex® Drives, SMC™-50 Soft Starters and E300™ Electronic Overload Relays.

The control room operator's effectiveness is enabled with an effective operator interface. Learn how to comply to industry standards when designing and managing the lifecycle of your HMI and alarm system using the latest PlantPAx® enhancements to assure your operators can perform when it matters most – during abnormal situations.

A control automation system has a long lifecycle and PlantPAx® can help support your strategy and enable a proactive approach to managing it. In this session you will learn about asset management within PlantPAx® and the system ID, which helps simplify plant lifecycle management. We will also discuss My Equipment digital portal, which provides actionable insights including obsolescence risk analysis, products updates, notifications, alerts and more.

The new norm now is from the edge to the cloud, data must flow, but what about security? What are Rockwell Automation and PlantPAx® standards-based and beyond strategies for a good system security and where am I in my security journey?  

Build an experience with centralized and up-to-date repository of installed automation assets across your enterprise. By managing your assets with a user-defined application, you may remove costly and time-consuming manual hardware counting, discovery and evaluation processes automatically.

Consistent delivery is key for implementing any distributed control system successfully​. Using the latest capabilities and guidelines for implementation can lead to faster, more efficient deployment of projects​. This session provides guidance in deploying a PlantPAx® system efficiently using tools and methodologies described in the deployment recommendations guidelines. Learm to leverage these best practices from field experience to maximize system performance and increase productivity.

Join this lab and be introduced to a PlantPAx® system from an operator’s point of view exploring PlantPAx® HMI faceplates and operating several simulated PlantPAx® process applications. This lab will include several short engineering sections and the steps necessary to start development of a PlantPAx® Distributed Control System project using the Rockwell Automation Library of Process Objects. The user will be introduced to the workflow of engineering a PlantPAx® system using control strategies and the Process Library operator faceplates.

PlantPAx® is a scalable and flexible multi disciplined automation system that controls the processes and regulates production in a wide range of user cases and applications. In this session attendees will learn how PlantPAx® can help users achieve their unique outcomes and enable their production transformation. Hear how PlantPAx® differentiates itself from other DCS systems and discover how it helps address the challenges faced by today's process industries.

The Rockwell Automation Library of Process Objects helps you quickly develop process solutions with rich functionality and known performance. In this session, we'll present the library objects and their functions within a typical control system. We’ll highlight features for operations, maintenance and engineering personnel. We’ll demonstrate control strategies built using library objects. Walk away understanding the value of using the library and included productivity tools to develop process solutions.

Looking to drive more value out of your process control system? Struggling with operator knowledge gaps putting your plant operations at risk? Model Predictive Control (MPC) leverages your existing regulatory control to optimize your process by layering models above your DCS to achieve better production, quality and profitability. Hear from Rockwell Automation on real case studies where process customers have applied MPC to drive value. Learn how MPC can help empower your operators to go from managing minute-to-minute process disturbances to achieving autonomous operations.

Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) are applied to each Safety Instrumented Function (SIF), so when things go wrong, the SIS will work when we most need it to. SIF monitoring is required to ensure that the SIFS do not degrade over time.This session will discuss how the digital journey helps this task.

This moderator led panel discussion will provide an opportunity to have free form discussions about current industry trends in Process including OPAF and OPC UA. Come prepared to ask questions that help you achieve your unique goals.

This lab will familiarize the user with the PlantPAx® system, Process Controller and PlantPAx® process library. The lab covers the steps necessary to start development of a PlantPAx® modern DCS project using the Rockwell Automation Library of Process Objects and the new workflow with embedded objects and Logix Designer application dialog boxes. The user will configure a controller and HMI application with pre-defined library routines and global objects. The lab also introduces new features such as tag-based alarms, Highly Integrated HART and configuring the new ownership and arbitration model and faceplates. This is a software-based lab will use FactoryTalk® Logix Echo to emulate the 1756-L85EP Process Controllers.

Upgrade of obsolete PLC/HMI for Boiler Feed Water Treatment Plant to Redundant Process Controllers L83EP and FTViewSE 12.0 HMI utilizing PlantPAx 5.0 library. Overview of identifying replacement system, process used for migrating logic/graphics from ladder/legacy HMI’s to PlantPAx 5.0, testing and deployment/commissioning of system.

Join this lab and familiarize yourself with the reporting capabilities and health dashboards provided with the PlantPAx® Process Library. Users will deploy PlantPAx® process object and alarm reports templates, use a PlantPAx® application to simulate equipment faults and operator events and review the captured activity in contextualized web-based reports by way of Microsoft Server Reporting Services (SSRS) or the upgraded PTC ThingWorx® offering. The lab also includes ThingWorx® PlantPAx® control strategy health dashboards that dynamically show key values and highlight any errors, plus the “Vuforia® control strategy experiences that provide operators a PlantPAx® faceplate look and feel for certain insights on the plant floor.

This moderator led panel discussion will provide an opportunity to have free form discussions about cybersecurity and explore the latest in networking and technology to reduce cyber risk. Come prepared to ask questions that help you achieve your unique goals.

Just like you wouldn’t build a house without blueprints, you need a plan to migrate a DCS. Based on the front-end loading framework for capital planning and risk reduction, DCSNext is a step-by-step process that can help guide you through a successful control system modernization. Join us to learn more about control system migrations.