Why Do Process Industry Facilities Continue to have Catastrophic Incidents? One Industry Veteran’s View…
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Companies that view reliability (all failures are preventable) on par with safety (all incidents are preventable) equipment failure is addressed proactively to prevent the ‘catastrophic failures’ that has led to significant incidents in facilities. We will discuss how to implement a successful reliability management program.
The ultimate objective of any industrial asset-intensive enterprise is to maximize and control safety, and operational profitability in real time. As the speed of industrial business continues to increase it is becoming even more critically important to focus on these objectives. It turns out that what we need isn’t more advanced technology. What we need to do is rethink how we address this age-old issue, and that begins with how we measure asset reliability in the first place.
It is clear that a profitable reliability approach that combines real-time control of reliability risk and operational profitability with a higher-level of reliability management will go a long way toward helping end-users meet their short and long-term operations and business objectives. Profitable reliability control is the next evolution of maintenance technology solutions. The result will be higher levels of operational profitability, safety, and reliability.
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- Date: 22 Oct 2020
- Time: 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM
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- Houston, Texas
- United States
- Starts 03 October 2020 02:40 AM
- Ends 20 October 2020 12:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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Donald Dunn
Biography:
Donald G. Dunn is a Senior Consultant with WS Nelson providing consulting services within the Refining, Chemical and various other industries. He has spent the majority of his career at end-user organizations in various roles with an impressive track record of more than 28 years of experience in delivering technological innovation to improve processes and procedures and to enhance revenue, efficiency, and market share. He is currently a senior member of the IEEE and an ISA Fellow. He has authored or co-authored in excess of forty technical papers and has been an invited author and presenter at over fifty various IEEE and ISA International, National and Regional conferences. He has held numerous leadership positions within the IEEE and the ISA since 1996. He is a member of the IEEE, ISA, NFPA, API and IEC standards working groups and has held numerous leadership positions in those organizations. He co-chairs ISA18, chairs IEEE841 & 841.1 is the convener of IEC62682 and has actively led and participated in numerous other standards. Mr. Dunn has served as the IEEE Houston Section chairman in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2011-2012, Vice President for the ISA Standards and Practices Board in 2011-2012, chairman of the IEEE IAS Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC) for 2012-2014 and chairman of the API Subcommittee on Electrical Equipment 2012-2015. In 2015, he was elected to serve a three-year term on the ISA Board of Directors 2015-2018. Currently Mr. Dunn is the Co-Chair of ISA Technology Search Committee and the Chair of the ISA Technical Assembly. In 2016, he received the “Keith Otto Award” from the ISA Publications Department, which recognizes the author(s) of the best article in InTech magazine - July/August 2015 article titled, “Automation IT – Diagnosing your alarm system”. In 2016, Donald also received from the IEEE IAS PCIC their “Outstanding Technical Contribution Award”, which recognizes the dedicated technical contributions of the individual to the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC). In 2017, he received the Russell W. Mills award, recognizing his outstanding dedication and service to furthering the objectives of the PCIC. Donald is a Certified Automation Professional® through ISA and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University.
Key accomplishments include: managing engineering, technology management, Research and Development (R&D), and venture capital divisions; recruiting and mentoring key employees utilizing facilitative leadership to empower people to work together to achieve common objectives; instituting innovation and implementing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that focused engineers on leveraging technology to solve challenges, which resulted in direct savings of >$250 million; and streamlining internal and external processes, which resulted in improving efficiencies between various departments to proactively provide support for expanding global operations.