Ron Deen

Background

About Ron Deen

As a Technical Sales Consultant at Schneider Electric, responsible for the support of our customers with The Foxboro I/A Series system and now the Foxboro Evo system hardware and software in use in the EMEA region. Advising clients with respect to the lifecycle of their systems and after reviewing their goals and needs, Using their main KPI's to develop a longer term actionable plan going forward. Such a plan can include but is not limited to asset performance, safety, proces optimisation, cyber security, alarm management and advanced process graphics to name just a few, Aiming to be the trusted partner in all conversations with our clients in preserving the value of their assets. Also your contact when needing to migrate any of the supported third party DCS systems to the I/A Series and/or Foxboro Evo platform. When it comes to Total Cost of Ownership a toolkit was developed that will instantly demonstrate the TCO for an asset. This TCO calcultation is of great value when it comes to managing and servicing the process automation layer and can optionally be incorporated in an SLA.mitigating any risks caused by obsolescence of the system. I am a big supporter of the Situational Awareness philosophy and the (IMHO related to that) Alarm Management tied into that. Situational Awareness puts the human as the center of gravity for the first in a very long time. The challenge is now to design all interactions between the process and the operator in a way that is meaningful to that operator and the plant in order to maximise: well being, safety, performance and ease of use and achieve all this in much less time so that new operators are achieving peak performance is less time. Bringing close to 30 years of experience with the Foxboro DCS systems since the 70's and later added the migration concept for different legacy third party systems, Triconex Safety PLC systems and the InFusion ECS solutions. Open minded about the future.