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Sign up for this webcast and learn how to use preventable fault detection and diagnosis strategies to avoid major plant, factory, process, equipment, and tool disruptions. It is not uncommon to see simple and preventable faults disrupt the operation of an entire integrated manufacturing facility. For example, faults such as malfunctioning sensors or actuators, inoperative alarm systems, poor controller tuning or configuration can render the most sophisticated control systems useless and can cost you in excess of $1 million per day.
Instructor Information
Sirish L. Shah
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D
Sirish Shah received his B.Sc. degree in control engineering from Leeds University in 1971, a M.Sc. degree in automatic control from UMIST, Manchester in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree in process control (chemical engineering) from the University of Alberta in 1976. During 1977 he worked as a computer applications engineer at Esso Chemicals in Sarnia, Ontario. Since 1978 he has been with the University of Alberta, where he currently holds the NSERC-Matrikon-Suncor-iCORE Senior Industrial Research Chair in Computer Process Control.
He was the recipient of the Albright & Wilson Americas Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) in recognition of distinguished contributions to chemical engineering in 1989, the Killam Professor in 2003 and the D.G. Fisher Award of the CSChE for significant contributions in the field of systems and control. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford University and Balliol College as a SERC fellow in 1985-86, at Kumamoto University (Japan) as a senior research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 1994, at the University of Newcastle, Australia in 2004, at IIT-Madras India in 2006 and at the National University of Singapore in 2007. The main area of his current research is process and performance monitoring, system identification and design and implementation of softsensors. He has co-authored two books, the first titled, Performance Assessment of Control Loops: Theory and Applications, and a recent book that is in press (as of Sept. 2008) titled ‘Diagnosis of Process Nonlinearities and Valve Stiction: Data Driven Approaches”. He has held consulting appointments with a wide variety of process Industries and has also taught many industrial courses.