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CPM to the forefront CPM helps users drive innovation to get products to market quicker. Measurement 22
10 Reasons to Adopt RTS Real-time particle size analysers enable particulate process to be optimised.
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Benefit from Biogas Biogas obtained from the treatment of wastewater can reduce fuel bills. Emission Monitoring 16
CEMS: A Definitive Guide To be effective, standards must specify safety lifecycle activities that need to be followed over the entire life of a production system. Special Report 23
Zenith Awards Finalists We reveal the best projects in eight categories as well as our outstanding youngsters and lifetime achievers. IICA News & Views 30
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BY KEVIN GOMEZ ASPEN Technology has appointed Steven Kratsis as their new Director of Area Sales for Australia. Kratsis believes there are great opportunities for growth for the company’s suite of software products that optimises process engineering, manufacturing and supply chain applications. “An emerging area for growth in Australia is Energy Management,” Kratsis told PACE. “Not only can it help to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it also enables organisations to minimise operational expenses and drive improvements to the bottom line, facilitating a quicker ROI for the organisation.” Kratsis says one of the biggest challenges in the process industry, whether it’s a refinery or an engineering procurement and construction company, is to ensure that vendors understand customer needs. He got his first taste of the process industry in the late 1990s while completing his PhD in Chemistry at Monash University with an Australian Post Graduate Award Industry sponsored by Electrolytic Zinc Refinery - Pasminco BHAS (now Nyrstar). Kratsis found his research with
STEVEN KRATSIS: The discovery step sets the stage for successful solutions. Pasminco rewarding as it focused on developing online and offline methods for monitoring harmful trace metals throughout Pasminco’s process plant in Port Pirie. He has spent the last 12 years in sales and marketing with companies such as Linde Materials Handling and Endress+Hauser Australia.
At the last company, Kratsis found his niche in the process automation industry as national sales manager. His mandate there was to help his team focus on customers and strategically lead his team through the next growth phase. www.aspentech.com
IMAGING
Merger creates largest vision services firm THE merger of Adept Electronic Solutions and Total Turnkey Solutions will create the largest machine vision and imaging products and services company in Australia and New Zealand. The merger will create Adept Turnkey Pty Ltd - a machine vision industrial company
with a complementary portfolio of products and advanced technologies. The merger takes effect on 1 July 2011. Adept CEO, Marc Fimeri said, “This merger will create a larger and stronger company and allow us to be better placed to grow expand nationally,
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internationally and adjust to the changing landscape of the automation sector.” Marc Fimeri will be CEO of Adept Turnkey Pty Ltd while Turnkey Solutions sales director Mark Goulding has been appointed sales manager. adept@adept.net.au