Food & Pharmaceutical Industries

Division Newsletter

Winter Newsletter 2009-2010

My term as Food and Pharmaceutical Industries Division Director will end at the end of this year. It has been a good two-year term. I was blessed with a number of people interested in getting the Division moving again and together we have made a good start.

Some highlights: We went from no newsletter for several years to one last year and three this year (Bravo André). The website has been updated and new information has been posted (Bravo Gary). Alex Habib and others have been representing the Division at various events over the last year. Several Division leaders and myself were at the Division table at ISA EXPO 2009 passing out information and meeting people. We also held meetings at both leaders’ events this

year instead of just one last year. And I even got the minutes out and up on the website this year.

We awarded the fi rst Best FPID Paper Award this year for 2008 and also established the FPID scholarship which will be awarded next year to the candidate chosen by the ISA Scholarship Committee.

And I have a good Director-Elect Peter Blok that I have handed things over to. And best of all, most of the Division Leaders will continue their involvement.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and the very best holiday season!

James

James Bouchard

A Message from our Division Director

Setting the Standard for Automation™

2008 Best Paper at ISA EXPO

Our Board of Directors has selected “Instrumentation for Biopharmaceutical Applications,” by Dave Baker of Fluor Corporation, Control Systems Group, Greenville, SC, as the best paper for 2008. We published the paper in our spring newsletter. 2009 will be a challenging year as several papers have

been submitted which related to our Division, including the one in this edition. Our best congratulations to Dave.

National Engineers Week 2010 14-20 February 2010

As a supporter of the National Engineers Week Foundation and its activities, ISA encourages you to join the mission of celebrating, sustaining, and growing the engineering profession for years to come. We invite you to participate in National Engineers Week 2010, 14-20 February.

The week features many educational activities in which you can take part to enlighten the hearts and minds of students and younger generations during this annual event.

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In this issue:Director’s Message 12008 Best Paper 1National Engineers Week 2010 1Golden Achievement Award 2Calendar of Events 2Welcome New Members 3

Enterprise Integration Article 4Top Three Opportunities to Contribute 10PAT Request 11

Supply Chain Symposium 11

Is my Wireless System Safe? 11

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Golden Achievement Award

James Bouchard, our Division director, received the prestigious Golden Achievement Award during the ISA EXPO 2009 Honors and Awards ceremony in Houston. This award recognizes ISA Members who have at least 25 years of continuous ISA Membership and continue active service, and who epitomize the membership ideals of the Society.

James BouchardJames Bouchard became involved with his local Section (Montreal Canada) in 1982 as a founding member of the Section Computer Club. Over the next few years, he became more involved in Section activities, joined the Section Board, was Section treasurer for seven years, and Section president in 1995. He then became more involved in District activities and the Publications Department, where he chaired the Web Activities Committee. He became its fi rst vice president when the committee became a Department in 2003. Since then, James has become involved again with the Montreal Section as treasurer. He became FPID director-elect in 2006 and director in 2008. James also wrote Chapter 9 (Programmable Controllers) of the ISA book, “Fundamentals of Industrial Control,” and gave that part of the Montreal Section course of the same name for several years.

James recruited his wife, Diana Bouchard (who was a research Scientist in the Process Control Group of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada), to become an ISA Member and get involved in Section, and later Society, activities. She, too, received a Golden Achievement Award in October. So, that is why the photo shows both of them receiving their awards from Society President Jerry Cockrell.

James has worked for Johnson & Johnson at their Montreal plant since 1972 in electrical distribution and machine control systems. He installed the fi rst electronic adjustable speed drives in the plant in 1972 on a non-woven line and then applied them to other lines and equipment. He introduced PLC’s there in 1980, and automated downtime reporting in the 90’s. He is now responsible for a number of safety programs as well as most plant services to production.

Calendar of Events

Hannover Messe Middle East9-11 February 2010

Westec23 March 2010

55th Analysis Division Symposium25-29 April 2010Crown Plaza AstorNew Orleans, LA, USA

2010 ISA Safety and Security Symposium28-29 April 2010Crown Plaza AstorNew Orleans, LA, USA

56th International Instrumentation Symposium 10–14 May 2010Rochester Marriott Airport HotelRochester, New York, USA

10th ISA Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium18-20 May 2010Location TBDSan Antonio, TX, USA

53rd ISA POWID Division Symposium 7-11 June 2010J.W. MarriottSummerlin, NV, USA

ISA Spring Leaders Meeting12-14 June 2010J.W. MarriottSummerlin, NV, USA

5th ISA Water & Wastewater and Automatic Control Symposium1-3 August 2010Site TBDOrlando, FL, USA

5th ISA Marketing & Sales Summit1-3 September 2010Location TBDAtlanta, GA USA

ISA Automation Week: Technology and Solutions Event4-7 October 2010 Westin Galleria ComplexHouston, Texas, USA

ISA Automation Week: Technology and Solutions Event4-7 October 2010 Westin Galleria ComplexHouston, Texas, USA

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Welcome New Members of ISA’s Food & Pharmaceutical Division

National Engineers Week (EWEEK), founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), is a formal coalition of more than 70 engineering, educational, and cultural societies and more than 50 corporations and government agencies. This coalition is dedicated to raising public awareness of engineers’ positive contributions to quality of life.

EWeek promotes recognition among parents, teachers, and students of the importance of a technical education and a high level of math, science, and technology literacy; and motivates youth to pursue engineering careers in order to provide a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce.

Each year EWeek reaches thousands of schools, businesses, and community groups across the Unites States. These community outreach programs and K-12 DiscoverE classroom visits depend on grassroots organizations and local volunteers like ISA Members for success.

How can you be a part of National Engineers Week? Check out the events and activities that need your help, by visiting http://www.eweek.org/EngineersWeek/EngineersWeek.aspx

Click on the “Get Involved” tab and you’ll fi nd 50 ways to participate as a volunteer.

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V AishwaryaPSG Coll of Technology

Mr. Robert AltonjiPneuMagnetic

Mr. Frode AndersenCOWI Lyngby

K Apoorva

Mr. Gonzalo Ardila

Mr. Dennis J. ArensIntegrated Concepts

Mr. Thiago ArrudaSchneider Electric Do Brasil

Ms. Joan AuberSangart Inc

Mr. Michael E. Baker

Mr. Shawn E. Baker

Mr. Robert J. BarrettFRS Instrumentation & Controls Inc

Mr. Sumanta BasuDCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd

Mr. Andrew C.Baudendistel

Mr. Charles F. Beaman, Jr.Lorillard Tobacco Co

Mrs. Virginia M. BergmanSuperior Controls Inc

Mr. Pranavkumar J. Bhagat

Mr. Dharmesh BhardwajBEP Bestobell Ltd

Mr. Arron L. Billings, CCSTGerber Products

Mr. Arthur J. BittmanPrecision Machine Controls Inc

Mr. Marc J. BlekkinkNinety-Five

Mr. Hans BlichfeldtTemperature Technology

Mr. Joe BobshoskyBay-Tech Engineering

Ms. Christine BonacciImclone Systems Inc

Mr. Joseph N. Boutross

Ms. Nan Breun

Mr. Carlos A. Bruzos, P.E.Watson Pharmaceuticals

Mr. Jorge L. BuenoHarinera Del Valle

Mr. Ron Bunce

Trillium Health Care Mfg

Mr. Frank Burger

Mr. J. R. ButhmannConcept Systems Inc

Mr. Eloy Caballero LagunaMahou San Miguel

Mr. Kenvin Campbell

Mr. Cesar A. Cardona

Mr. Mark P. Carroccia

Mr. Andre CastelarAjinomoto

Mr. Michael A. Cermak

Dr. Anthony J. Chandler

Mr. Antonio Chavarria Torres

Mr. Fredrick G. ConnorsIndustrial Process Controls

Mr. Brinton M. Crawford

Mr. John DalyMSD Brinny

Mr. Rogerio Luis de AlmeidaLimeira Almeida

Mr. Brian W. DeenStanley Consultants INC

Mr. David L. DeitzEmerson Process Management

Mr. Paul R. Dengler

Mr. Salvatore C. DiRusso, CCST

M Divya Shree

Ms. Yvonne M. Duckworth, P.E.CRB Consulting Engineers

Mr. Michael K. Edwards

Mrs. Marlene E. EegTempo Resources Inc

Mr. Tom C. Ellingboe, P.E.BOE Engineering LLC

Mr. Richard Farra, Jr.Schering Plough Research Institute

Mr. Edson D Piazza Ferreira

Mr. Mark B. Fifi eld, CCST

Mr. Bret A. Fisk, PEEli Lilly & Co

Mr. Patrick FitzgeraldManuel Flores

Mr. Nelson Rafael Flores Muriel

Mr. James Fogarty

Mr. Yuichi FujitaToyo Engineering Corp

Mr. Robert J. Gaier, Jr.

Ben Venue Labs

Mr. David Garcia

Mr. Christopher GistRockwell Automation

Mr. Jim Gray

Mr. Leon L. Greiner

Nidhi Gupta

Mr. Earl C. Haag

Mr. Robert Thomas Hastie

Mr. Evan W. Heathers

Dr. Nacer E. Hedroug, Ph.D.Eli Lilly and Co

Mr. Martin HerleyMSD Brinny

Mr. Ray A. HernandezCentral California Instruments

Mr. Yamamoto Hirotada, Jr.JMS Inc

Mr. Clinton L. HoldsworthGenentech Inc

Mr. Joseph D. Howe, CCSTAMGEN

Mr. Ricardo R. Huertas

Mr. Gerard HuntMSD Brinny

Mr. Devendrasinh K. Jadeja

Mr. Scott Abell JohnstonRockwell Automation

Mr. Nicolas JonesPCI

Dr. Pousga E. Jean Claude Kabore

Mr. John Keller

Mr. Joseph B. Kiefski, CCST

Mr. Scott A. KlagesParsec Automation Corp

Mr. Charles E. KnechtMcKee Foods Corp

Mr. Robert J. Koneck

Mr. Srinath KrishnamoorthiRockwell Automation India

Mr. Diego Fernando Landazuri Maldonado

Mr. Robert S. Lesutis

Mrs. Diane Marie LongPerrigo Co

Mr. Juan Fernando Lopez OrozcoBavaria SA

Mr. Matthew Lynch

Mr. Martin Mabry

Mr. Bartholomew J. Madruga, Jr., CCST

Mr. William E. MahleCrb Consulting Engineers

Jose Maldonado

Mr. Roger G. Manternach, CAPCornerstone Controls Inc

Mr. Bennie J. MartinPID Services Inc

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ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT

CROSS ENTERPRISE TRACKING AND TRACING

ABSTRACT In the food and pharmaceutical industries there are many local and national requirements for product traceability from raw materials to final products. This tracing requirement usually spans multiple companies and often spans multiple countries. Additional regulations specify time constraints for determining the path from raw material to product. The cost to producers and consumers can be high if this information is not available in a timely fashion. Recent food contamination problems with tomatoes, peanuts, and peppers had devastating effects on producers and created confidence problems with consumers. Contamination of pharmacological ingredients has had the same effect in the pharmaceutical industry. Recent efforts to provide cross-enterprise integration through world-wide traceability are discussed, including efforts by World Food Trace, OpenO&M, and ISA 95. These efforts rely on internally integrated business and production systems to generate genealogy data and on newly evolving standards for the cross-enterprise exchanges required for world-wide tracking and tracing. CROSS ENTERPRISE TRACKING AND TRACING Traceability in food and pharmaceutical products is an important issue. In fact it is a life critical issue. Counterfeit drugs that contain little if any active ingredients, counterfeit raw materials used in pharmaceutical manufacturing, contaminated peanuts, contaminated peppers, and contaminated meat have all recently lead to sickness and death. Traceability of the components of these products is also now the law of the land in many countries. For example, the USA has the Bioterrorism Act, Public Law 107-188, and the EU has the European Health and Consumer Protection Directorate 178/2002. These regulations were put into place to allow government agencies to quickly address contamination issues, other food scares and to mitigate bioterrorism attacks. The regulations’ basic concepts are that it should be possible to identify every ingredient in any food and trace the ingredients back to their sources. This allows for faster and more focused recalls, less risk to the general public and less risk to manufacturers. In addition to bioterrorism and food safety issues, several countries have developed mandatory labeling laws for foods containing ingredients derived from GM (genetically modified) crops. To comply with these labeling laws, food manufacturers must be able to document the genetic purity of both GM and non-GM ingredients. This can be accomplished by either preserving the identity of a crop from seed to final product or by tracing back from the final product to the crops from which ingredients were manufactured. While the current USA Bioterrorism Act requires traceability known as “one up and one down”, recent food scares such as contaminated peanuts and peppers have demonstrated that true recalls and safety announcements will require multiple producer cooperation. Spring 2008 - a salmonella outbreak from April to June sickened over 150 people and caused the FDA on June 3rd to recall tomatoes and fresh tomato products. A week later authorities cleared the tomatoes as the cause, but still had no identified source. Finally, on July 21st the FDA announced that jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico were the cause. In the end, 1442 people from 40 states were sickened, falsely implicated tomato growers lost an estimated $450 million, and 12 weeks had gone by. This incident illustrates that significant improvement in our ability to quickly and correctly identify the source of food-borne contamination needs improvement. Winter 2008 - A salmonella outbreak in November and December led to 8 deaths, sickened over 600 people and caused Peanut Corporation of America to recall its products. Six months later, products were still being identified as containing peanuts from PCA. With the total of over 3200 products, 470 separate company recall notices, and the cost of millions to companies, there was no assurance that the search forward to find all the uses of PCA peanuts in the food supply chain was complete. A recent AMR study has found that over 50% of food companies participated in health and safety recalls within the past year. It took an average of 14 days to sense the need for the recall and over 30 days to enact it. Less than 40% of the product could even be recalled, and the financial impact of the recalls was measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. Companies that did the best at recalls had: multiple-enterprise tracking, manufacturing automation, mature supply chains, lot level tracking, and cross-functional team reviews of quality.

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Pharmaceutical manufacturers have similar traceability problems. The 2006 Compliance Policy Guide for the Prescription Drug Marketing Act from the states: "A drug pedigree is a statement of origin that identifies each prior sale, purchase, or trade of a drug, including the date of those transactions and the names and addresses of all parties to them." These are real traceability problems. In April 2009 in Korea, patients died after taking drugs made with talc that contained asbestos from China. In 2008 there were deaths due to heparin contamination. E-pedigree is the common terminology used for drug product traceability. An e-pedigree is an electronic document which satisfies a pedigree requirement. The primary purpose of an e-pedigree is to protect consumers from contaminated medicine or counterfeit drugs. TRACEABILITY Traceability means that producers must keep track of where they obtained their raw materials and where they shipped their product. This is complicated because of the splitting and combining of lots that commonly occurs during production. For example, the end product on a store shelf will probably have come from several different raw material lots from several different sources. A single container of mixed-berry yogurt may have fruit from two sources, milk from a third source, and culture from a fourth source. A packaged meal may have meat from one source and vegetables and fruit from multiple sources. The vegetables and fruits may have been combined by the supplier from other different suppliers. Even the municipal water used in production needs to be identified by a lot number associated with the day or even shift of use. Complete traceability may require that multiple companies’ traceability information can be combined and that lot numbers are shared across the entire supply chain. Within a plant the main issue of traceability is to determine exactly which lots went into the final product. While lots may be assigned in drug manufacturing, in food and beverage production schedules do not specify which raw material lots are to be used and it is at the discretion of operators to pick the appropriate material lot for each batch. In-plant traceability requires identification of ingredients as they are added and identification of final products at lot boundaries. The problem of traceability does not stop at the plant door, in order to meet the real requirements for traceability and recall control, some method is required for cross-enterprise traceability. Cross-enterprise traceability requires that globally unique IDs can be assigned to in individual lots, similar to globally unique IDs assigned to phone numbers, internet address, and vehicle identification numbers. Current standardized ID methods deal with identifying the product, not the specific lots. CURRENT WORK There are some industry efforts to address the problems of traceability. In the pharmaceutical and biotech industries much of the effort is in company internal tracking, but in the food industry cross-functional organizations are starting. Some of these deal with specific food products, such as fresh fruit and produce growers and shippers through HarvestMark (www.harvestmark.com) and eProduce (www.eprodeuce.biz). Similar efforts are in place for direct from farm meat products. One organization is approaching the cross-enterprise traceability issue for all produced foods (dairy, fruit, produce, meat, etc) direct to consumer and through processed food manufacturers, World Food Trace [WFT] (www.worldfoodtrace.org). This is a non-profit organization that is uses registered databases for cross-enterprise traceability. Some of these organizations are working with industry groups, national and international standards organizations. The ISA 88 standard already has a standard in place for Batch Production Records, which can be a source of traceability data, and the ISA 95 standard is being extended to extend the Batch Production Record standard to include all aspects of production, including discrete and continuous production, packaging, shipping and receiving. REQUIREMENTS FOR CROSS ENTERPRISE TRACKING AND TRACING The requirements for systems to provide traceability are fairly straightforward:

1. Create a food supply chain traceability system which identifies all source component ingredients of a food product applicable broadly in all industry segments within seconds.

2. Enable forward tracing of any ingredient to identify all associated products within seconds.

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3. Ensure a smooth and rapid implementation with recommended practices to aid food industry manufacturers and processors in the application and use of the system.

4. Address public safety concerns regarding the nation’s ability to track and trace food products. 5. Provide a traceability system with the lowest possible cost and burden on the industry. 6. Be an asset to industry as a self-sustaining system with the ability to support other food safety initiatives.

Meeting these goals will require the following:

A standard lot identifier for all food and food components. Record keeping guidelines and guidance criteria for implementers that will allow for small and large entity

success. Registered data concatenation centers which hold the traceability information for access by authorized

agencies and for individual company traceability actions. A registration mechanism is required for information service providers to ensure global search capability.

STANDARD LOT IDENTIFICATION Currently, a variety of lot code markings and systems exist making a singular traceability system unworkable. A new universal sixteen character code is needed as a consistent method of identification for all food products. Each code can be self-generated by the producer or manufacturer, but still identify the lot’s origin, absolute guarantees of no lot duplication, fit in a simple bar code, and must be mathematically proven to last globally for every lot of food produced until at least the year 2100. World food IDs can be uniquely keyed with the first 7 characters to food processing exit points as registration sites in the food supply chain. This provides over 1 trillion possible production lines. The remaining 9 characters form a time/date stamp for lot uniqueness. This provides over 5 trillion possible production lots. For example, a manufacturer with 4 packaging lines would register 4 world food IDs, one for each line to uniquely identify the production line as well as the lots coming off the line. At some interval all of the produced lot IDs would be sent to a registered data center for secure and protected storage. The collection of world food IDs from all of the registered data centers would form a traceability map of the entire supply network. This allows for forward and backward traceability. Standardized interfaces to the data centers, through secure web services, would provide authorized legal entities access to the entire supply map.

These goals require each raw material source is identified and each product exit point is identified. In the following figure there are material entry points at 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8. There are material exit points at 11 and 12. An ingredient container would be scanned at he 5 entry points. IDs would be generated at the two exit points and containers labeled.

When a product is generated at an exit point, the producer must submit a product lot record to a registered data center. In recording the lot, the ID’s of all the contributing components of that product’s lot are captured and are then associated with the new product’s ID. This linking to component globally unique ID’s is the foundation of the instantaneous traceability within the system. This system requires an independent non-profit agency to register the data centers. This agency must provide a set of criteria which licensed information service providers must meet in order to be an official licensed data center. The worldwide community of data centers thus forms a distributed database of global food supply chain information. Using commercial data centers instead of a single universal database means that there can be a competitive environment for the data services and allow food producers to choose a data center that fits their needs. Large manufacturers can even obtain a license for their own information technology department as an approved data center. With proper authority and access, agencies can query the global network of data centers to investigate and respond to food contamination concerns at Internet speeds. Some additional requirements are:

No proprietary food product information is collected - only lot tracking data is recorded. Non-profit registration agency that can work independent of manufacturers, reducing concerns about sharing

of potential market information with competitors.

Endorsement by distributors and producers, such as the Grocery Manufacturers Association, International

Dairy Foods Association and GS1 US. Support by national and international standards bodies. Support by government regulatory agencies. Use a self-sustaining model that will return value back to the industry as improved food traceability and other

food safety initiatives. CONCLUSION Our food supply chain is large, complex, and diverse. Some food products may have few components and a fairly simple flow from field to table, but still change many hands and come from faraway places. Other products have a complex processing route with numerous component ingredients. Current government regulations do not ensure that the links through the supply chain can be quickly traversed making the task of determining source issues in the event of a contamination concern extremely time consuming. Some vertical tracking systems are starting to emerge within

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segments of the industry, but once cross segment components are mixed, like putting strawberries in yogurt or eggs in cookies, the links can once again become time consuming to trace. Without accurate information regarding which products might be impacted in a contamination concern, recalls fall on the side of caution and safety, often severely impacting entire product types which are later found to be unrelated to the actual issue. We need to do better for both the public’s safety and for the health of the food industry. An over-arching, global food traceability solution is needed that can link all food products and provide results in seconds. Dennis Brandl is the founder and chief consultant for BR&L Consulting, specializing in Manufacturing IT applications, including Business-to-Manufacturing Integration, MES solutions, General and Site Recipe implementations, and automation system security. He has been involved in automation system design and implementation in a wide range of applications over the past 25 years. They have included biotech, pharmaceutical, chemical plants and oil refineries, food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, Space Shuttle test systems, PLC based systems from Texas Instruments, Siemens, and Modicon, and batch control systems from Sequencia. Dennis Brandl has been an active member of ISA’s SP95 Enterprise/Control System Integration committee for the past ten years and is editor of the set of standards. He is a USA expert on batch control to IEC, is the former chairman of the ISA SP88 Batch System control standard, and is the chairman of the IEC and ISO Joint Working Group on Enterprise/Control Integration. Mr. Brandl has written numerous papers and articles on business to manufacturing integration and flexible manufacturing solutions, has a regular column in Control Engineering, and has authored the book “Design Patterns for Flexible Manufacturing”, available through ISA. Brandl has a BS in Physics and an MS in Measurement and Control from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a MS in Computer Science from California State University. Dennis Brandl BR&L Consulting, Inc. 208 Townsend Ct, Suite 220 Cary, North Carolina 27518 – USA +1-919-852-5322 dnbrandl@BRLConsulting.com

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Membership Extension for Unemployed ISA Members Continues into 2010

To support loyal ISA Members during these diffi cult economic times, ISA is once again granting an extension of membership benefi ts to unemployed Members. This extension was created in 2009 and has been renewed for 2010. It will last for a period of up to 12 months from membership renewal date.

During the extension, all Member benefi ts will continue, including Division memberships, except that delivery of InTech and any Division newsletters will be in digital form.

This program is available to Members entering active grace status on or after 1 January 2010 and who apply for the extension. Any Member, other than Student Members, may request this extension.

How to Apply for Membership ExtensionISA Members who become unemployed may contact ISA by e-mail (info@isa.org) or phone (+1-919-549-8411) to request a one-time, one-year extension of the current membership term. These Members need to advise ISA within the fi rst three months of their renewal period.

Your Job Search Membership extension is one component of a larger effort on the part of ISA to assist Members who have become unemployed. Other components include: http://www.isa.org/ISAJobs www.automationtechies.com www.automation.com/career-job-center

Show managers and clientsyou have what they’re looking for bydocumenting your automation knowledge, skills,education, and experience with ISA’s Certified AutomationProfessional® (CAP®) Program.

For more information on ISA’s unbiased, third-party endorsementof your automation skills, visit: www.isa.org/CAP/Future.

Get CertifiedOpen the Doors to Your Future!

Make a Difference in Someone’s Life — Become an ISA Mentor

Do you have a desire to help?

Are you an ISA Member who is interested in helping others in the automation profession? Sharing your expertise and wisdom is a great way to make a difference in another person’s life and in your profession.

We need mentors! Join ISA’s Mentor Program and help a young professional Member or a Student Member in his or her career. In this online advisory role, you can help a young automation professional fi nd the resources and connections for continued successful career development. You can help a student determine if a career in automation and control is the right path. Just think—you could make a difference in our nation’s workforce development efforts!

Becoming a mentorSince the Mentor Program is an online program, it doesn’t require travel or meetings, and it’s available worldwide. ISA Members are encouraged to register and participate. You can learn more about becoming a mentor, and register, on the ISA web site at www.isa.org/mentor.

Mentoring is one of the valuable ISA benefi ts that are made possible by the volunteer efforts of Members like you, and gives you another great opportunity to say, “I’m proud to be an ISA Member.”

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Like most companies and organizations, ISA has faced economic challenges in the recent months. Our 2009 President, Jerry Cockrell, and our 2010 President, Nelson Ninin, have worked with the Society’s leaders to create a more sustainable business model for ISA’s long term success. I have been part of this process as the 2010 President-elect Secretary, and I am

looking forward to all of the opportunities that these changes will bring to our Society.

ISA has made great strides in 2009 with our leadership role in the development of industry critical standards like ISA99 and ISA100; in our support of the development of the Automation Competen-cy model; and in our outreach to young automation profession-als through workforce development initiatives such as YAPFEST, iAU2M8.09, and the Automation Avengers campaign.

As Division Members, each of us has a unique role in ISA’s success. We are the technical arm of the Society, and we have much to of-fer in that regard. In fact, many of the changes we’re making call for an increased focus on technical content, and Division Members will be critical resources in this effort.

During my twenty years of membership I have been involved in many worthwhile activities. From a Society-wide perspective, I think there are several key roles for Division Members to play in our development. Here are my “top three” ways that you can make a real difference in 2010:

1. Help ISA enhance the development and delivery of technical information. In the new Automation Week model, the technical conference is the center of the event and will be a great oppor-tunity for our Division Members to present papers and presenta-tions to a broad audience. In addition to submitting an abstract for the conference, you might also consider becoming a part of the conference programming committee. 2009 Industries & Sciences Department Vice President and Former Division Director Joe Provenzano (Water and Wastewater Division) and 2009 ISA

While attending the Fall Leaders meeting, I met the new Division Director for the Pulp and Paper Industry Division (PUPID), Paul Burnett. Paul asked if I had time to write an article for the upcoming newsletter. Of course, I accepted Paul’s offer, since one of my goals as the 2010 ISA President-elect Secretary is to provide better com-munications to our Division members.

I have been a member of the Power Industry and Test & Measure-ment Divisions since joining ISA in 1989. However, I have only been an active member since 2003 when I attended my fi rst Division symposium. I was impressed by the quality of the technical presenta-tions at those events and found several new ideas that we were able

to use at my company, Oklahoma Gas & Electric. Since then, I have written and reviewed papers and served as the General Chair for the 2009 POWID symposium. I would therefore encourage each of you to consider how you can contribute to the success of your own Division.

During my tenure in the Presidential Chain (2010–2012), I intend to provide articles for Division newsletters that present my thoughts on the Society and our Divisions. In coming weeks, I will launch a Facebook page so members can track my activities with ISA and the Automation Federation. Again, I want to say thanks to Paul for giving me this opportunity to share my thoughts with Division mem-bers. Please feel free to drop me a note at staplehl@oge.com.

A Few Words about the Article That FollowsBy Leo Staples

ISA Division Members: Top Three Opportunities to Contribute to ISA’s Success in 2010

President Jerry Cockrell will serve as co-chairs of the committee. Email (Jerry at gcockrell12@msn.com or Joe joe_provenzano@hotmail.com) to volunteer or to learn more about the commit-tee’s work. In addition to Automation Week’s technical content, Members will also be more involved in creating technical content for ISA’s fl agship magazine, InTech. Stay tuned for details on how you can share your expertise as we develop our plans.

2. Do your part to promote the profession and tell the great stories that are out there. ISA organizes all kinds of events for young professionals and students, including YAPFEST and iAU2M8. Learn more about these events online and volunteer to help develop them through our workforce development committee, led by David Adler (davidadler@comcast.net).

3. Help spread the word about ISA’s education and training oppor-tunities. ISA’s certifi cation programs, regional courses, distance learning programs, and onsite training classes increase the competence of automation professionals around the world. We need your help to market these great programs to the compa-nies and individuals that you work with everyday, and we need your input to help us develop the next generation of training courses. We look to you, the professionals in the fi eld, to help us determine the best subjects and topics to develop training courses around, and we want to hear your thoughts. Download a training catalog online at www.isa.org/training to learn more about these programs.

The common theme among these three opportunities is for us as Division Members to bring all of our collective value to the table to move ISA forward. We are a tremendous resource and strength within the Society, and I want to help each and every Division Mem-ber fi nd the best way to make a difference within ISA. I look for-ward to continuing this dialogue in the months and years to come.

H. Leo Staples, Jr.Power Industry Division and Test Measurement Division MemberPOWID Executive Committee Member & 2009 POWID Symposia General Chair2010 ISA President-elect Secretary

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PAT - Analysis Division Request

Mike Chainey presented a request for FPID to develop a half day ses-sion on Process Analytical Technology (PAT) in conjunction with the next symposium in April 2010 in New Orleans. We are requesting volunteers who would be interested in presenting some material and working with the organizing committee.

If you are interested please contact Andre Michel at amichel300@gmail.com who will redirect you to the appropriate contact in the committee.

2010 - Supply Chain Symposium“Supply Chain from Plant Floor to Retail Store to Profi t”

The Pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries are experiencing a large number of mergers and acquisitions of manufacturing plants in different geographical locations, shrinking profi t margins, shorter product turnaround, and increasing regulatory compliance require-ments.

A new trend is emerging towards integrating the information sup-ply chain to include Process Control Systems (PCS), Manufacturing Execu-tion Systems (MES) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

The main objective of an integrated Supply Chain implementation is to shorten the time between sensing the demand for the product until it is made and delivered to the end

customer without sacrifi cing quality. The date for the Supply Chain Symposium is 3-4 November 2010 at ISA Headquarters in Research Triangle Park, NC.

The Supply Chain Symposium, sponsored by the Management Division of ISA in partnership with the Food and Pharmaceutical Industries Division and Analytical Division, will address the different technical and business aspects of this topic in a two-day event as follows:

A fi rst-day educational component that features PAT and a 1. primer on supply chain and lean-six sigma. The PAT class gives an intro with some case-study discussions. The supply chain component will be developed, but will feature:

Role of automation in the implementation of a nimble • supply chain

Economics of multi-node / multi-national supply chains • and how controls / automation are justifi ed within it

The Lean - six sigma components will include a • primer on lean thinking and metrics and six sigma techniques for improvement of processesThe second day will feature two tracks of speakers, one focus-2. ing on PAT and automation in the plants and one on supply chain and the economics of competing in the 21st century.

Jonathan had an interesting joke: WEP stands for “Welcome Every-body to the Party”. It took them about 10 minutes to crack the password using several tools, most of which are avail-able free on the net.

The main objective of an integrated Supply Chain implementation is to shorten the time between sensing the demand for the prod-uct until it is made and delivered to the end customer without sacrifi cing quality.

Is My Wireless System Safe?

I recently spent three days in Houston for ISA EXPO. I have to say that the most impressive presentation I saw was a special event, “Hacking and Defending Industrial Wireless Systems.”

Jonathan Pollet and Joe Cummins from Red Tiger Securities had in-stalled a live, wireless system on the podium, and two giant screens displayed the computer screens of the Blue Team (good guys) and Red Team (bad guys). Several technologies were demonstrated:

900 MHz Spread Spectrum (Modbus RTU RS485)• 2.4 GHz Zigbee • 2.4 GHz WiFi (the one we use you and me at home).•

The demo was progressive and started with an unprotected net-work. You might say, “Who does not protect his network?” Well … come to my neighborhood and you will fi nd several people, includ-ing my next door neighbor. Obviously very unlikely in an industrial/business environment; but still possible.

The Red Team installed a small device called Jasager which intercepts the communication between users and the router. Then they killed all user connec-tions. Upon reboot, each user tried to reconnect—but this time, the Jasager emulated the router and grabbed the connection. From that point the users where connected to the Red Team instead of the Blue Team real router. The Jasager was still connected to the router, and, for the user the connection was exactly what it was before. The only difference was that from that point, Red Team was logging all the transmission. This is called, “The man in the middle.” What does it mean? Well, if one user would try to connect to his bank, Red Team could have any transmission …. Furthermore, this also gives access to all fi les shared on the user.

Next step was to use the standard encryption WEP which is com-monly used. Jonathan had an interesting joke: WEP stands for “Welcome Everybody to the Party”. It took them about 10 minutes to crack the password using several tools, most of which are avail-able free on the net. For those interested by the details I refer you to http://www.redtigersecurity.com/forum/download/3/.

Conclusion? I am not sure I have one for you and I will let you get your own. However, I can tell you that the fi rst thing I did when I arrived home was not to kiss the wife and kid, but to go straight to my router and change my encryption to WAP2. (They said they could crack WAP if more time had been available :-) .

Andre Michel, PE

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