GMIC Symposium

Automation in Glass Manufacturing

A symposium organized by the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council and GlassTrend

November 4, 2021

Hilton Columbus Downtown

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:

8:00 – 8:15       WELCOME – Bob Lipetz, Executive Director, Glass Manufacturing Industry Council and Oscar Verheijen, Senior Consultant, CelSian, GlassTrend Chairman

8:15 – 9:45      SESSION I – SENSORS – Chairman – Oscar Verheijen, Senior Consultant, CelSian

8:15 – 8:40       NIR Camera and Inspection ResultsErik Muijsenberg, Vice President, Glass Service  

8:40 – 8:45       Q&A

8:45 – 9:10       State-of-the-art of Advanced Sensors for Process Automation Oscar Verheijen, Senior Consultant, CelSian

9:10 – 9:15       Q&A

9:15 – 9:40       Digitalization Robotization as a Mean to Further Strengthen and Automate the Forming Process XPAR Vision, Paul Schreuders

9:40 – 9:45       Q&A

9:45 – 10:15     BREAK

10:15 – 11:30   SESSION II – INDUSTRIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA ANALYTICS Chairman – Udaya K. Vempati, Analytics and Automation Discipline Leader, O-I

10:15 – 10:55    Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial IntelligenceBryan DeBois, Director, Industrial AI, RoviSys

10:55 – 11:00    Q&A

11:00 – 11:25    20% Reduction of Down Time with Al-Powered PdMShannon Friedman, Sales Engineer, Senseye, Inc. 

11:25 – 11:30    Q&A

11:30 – 12:30   LUNCH

12:30 – 1:30     SESSION III – CONTROLS

Chairman – Sanjay Mansukhani, Principal Engineer, Advanced Process Control, Digital Transformation, Owens Corning Advanced Manufacturing

12:30 – 12:55    Digital Twins – Simulation Models to Streamline Design, Analysis, and Operations Michael Sarvo, Support Manager, Rockwell Automation and Sameer Kher, Senior Director, Product Development ANSYS

12:55 – 1:00     Q&A

1:00 – 1:25       Digitalization Brings Plant Wide Automation to the Next Level – John Ryan, Glass Industry Manager, Siemens and Heinz-Josef Lennartz, Glass Industry Manager, Siemens AG

1:25 – 1:30       Q&A

1:30 – 2:00       BREAK

2:00 – 3:30       SESSION IV – REMOTE MANAGEMENT

Chairman – Paul Castañuela, Global Leader – Automation & Controls, Engineered Products, Johns Manville

2:00 – 2:25       Security Scott Reynolds, PE, Manager, Industrial Security, ITD – Johns Manville

2:25 – 2:30       Q&A

2:30 – 2:55       How Mixed Reality, 3D Visualizations and Laser Scanning Allow Onsite and Offsite (remote) Experts to Work TogetherSteven Ostrowski, 3D Laser Scanning and Mixed Reality – Trimble, Inc

2:55 – 3:00       Q&A

3:00 – 3:25         Accelerate Innovation from Edge to Cloud to Improver OperationsTimothy McCain, Digital Partner Program Manager – Rockwell and Mark Beckmann, Director Industry Solutions – Microsoft  

3:25 – 3:30       Q&A

3:30 – 3:45      Concluding Remarks – Keith Bagarus, Director Global Automation, RoviSys

3:45                  SYMPOSIUM ENDS