Industrial Networking: Bridging the gap between Plant Floor and Enterprise Networks

 
 
 
An increasing number of manufacturers are looking at industrial networking itself as a discipline. Many of these companies are bringing together both traditional automation engineering with corporate IT to gain a cross functional view of how industrial network performance can be improved. Leading organizations have adopted the latest networking technology to connect plant assets, manufacturing systems, and business systems to integrate manufacturing data from the plant floor to the front office. However, the challenge comes in developing a company-wide architecture that encompasses the need of both engineering and IT.


About Our Presenters:


Kevin Prouty, Research Director, Enterprise Applications, Aberdeen Group
Mr. Prouty's research coverage at Aberdeen is Enterprise Applications and Product Innovation, as well as supporting manufacturing industry research. Before joining Aberdeen he was Director for Manufacturing Solutions at Infor. He also spent over five years as Sr. Director of Manufacturing Solutions at Motorola and was the resident expert on technology’s role in Lean. Prior to Motorola, he was Research Director for Manufacturing and Automotive at AMR Research and Gartner G2, where he spent a cumulative six years.




Don Mannon, Networking Consultant, Siemens
Mr. Mannon has worked as a technical resource and engineering manager in the industrial automation field for over 30 years. Much of his experience has been in a design or support role in Process Control, SCADA and PLC based systems. This experience includes a great deal of emphasis on the design, implementation and improvements of the network and fieldbus communication.





Chuck Tommey, PE, Senior Control Systems Engineer, A&E Engineering, Inc.
Mr. Tommey is an electrical engineer with over 18 years of experience in industrial control and electrical systems. The bulk of his experience has been designing, configuring and starting up DCS, SCADA, PLC, and PC-based control systems. In addition, he has extensive experience in network design, custom programming languages, database design and more recently has become extremely cognizant of the cyber security risks of control systems.