Yokogawa and the forum's general session
The ARC Forum's general session concluded with a very interesting CEO Q&A roundtable discussion. During this session, Dennis Sadlowski of Siemens, Mr. Kaihori, Christopher Curtis of Schneider Electric, Angel Mendez of Cisco Systems, and Franz-Josef Kersting of BASF each took turns answering a variety of end user questions from the audience pertaining to environmental and business sustainability. The questions asked included:- What technology do you see in the next 5-10 years? - What is your customer telling you and what are you doing in the next 6-12 months? - How do you reduce system maintenance costs? - Will there be any IT investment in automation? - How do you train/motivate people?
End users, media representatives, and Yokogawa partners joined us at the Yokogawa Gold Sponsorship Breakfast to learn about “Solutions for Sustainable Manufacturing” from Mr. Kaihori. A total of 80 people attended the breakfast.
Yokogawa-sponsored customer dinners
Other events sponsored by Yokogawa included two customer dinners. On February 2, Mr. Kaihori, Mr. Kurosu, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Gaas, and Mr. Knittel joined Dr. J.D. Tate of Dow Chemical at Roy's Hawaiian Fusion Restaurant to discuss the TDL and Yokogawa's future relationship with Dow. Dr. Tate leads technology development in the Process Analytical R&D Group at Dow, where he has oversight responsibilities for identifying gaps and opportunities for online measurement and control. Before joining Dow, he worked as a scientist at Sparta, Inc., leading research efforts involving optical biosensors for commercial and defense applications. Dr. Tate is recognized as an expert in online spectrometry, installing hundreds of analyzers used to monitor important industrial processes. Yokogawa's second dinner, the Yokogawa President's Dinner, took place on February 3 at Arthur's 27, a restaurant atop the Wyndham Hotel. Here, ExxonMobil, Savannah River, Nova Chemical, and Valero met with Yokogawa's leadership team to discuss present and future relationships. For Yokogawa, this President's dinner is one of the best customer events at ARC. This year's VIP guests included Sandy Vasser, Michael Sarli, Craig Schiro, Thomas Alloway, Stephen Russell, Jin Guram, Dale Nicosia, and Gary Youll.
Yokogawa announces the RPO™
Editors from Control Engineering, Control, Industry Week, InTech, Maintenance Technologies, Managing Automation, Manufacturing Business Technology, Plant Engineering, Reed Business Information, and many others attended the Yokogawa press conference. Mr. Kurosu presented the roadmap of the new RPO.
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