We are thrilled to announce that Prosera is partnering with Aaron Crews, a renowned expert in automation.
Aaron brings a wealth of knowledge in process automation with over 20 years of diverse industry experience, including chemicals, hydrocarbon processing (upstream, midstream, and downstream), pulp and paper, food and beverage, and utilities. He has a rich background in hands-on design and implementation of control systems, coupled with expertise in project planning and justification, with a particular focus on brownfield retrofit projects.
Currently, Aaron serves as the global leader for Emerson's control system modernization business (which modernizes a new control system every day and over 7,500 overall!), overseeing their brownfield technical solutions programs and modernization consulting division. Aaron has also achieved an incredible milestone of having eight patents in process automation. Aaron earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
Ask Aaron Crews - Where does the return come from on a DCS replacement project?
We ask Aaron:
You’ve mentioned the desire to avoid “replacement in kind” and to deliver ROI a couple of times. It’s not intuitive where that return would come from on a DCS replacement project – where is the value? What’s the role for simulation there?
Ask Aaron Crews - How has dynamic simulation changed the way you approach control system upgrades?
We ask Aaron:
How has dynamic simulation changed the way you approach control system upgrades?
Ask Aaron Crews - What is the role of dynamic simulation in control system modernization?
We ask Aaron:
What is the role of dynamic simulation in control system modernization?