Ian D. Steele This is Me

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1. 1. Rockwell Automation, Case Study Anchor

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   Published on: 6/7/2004   Last Visited: 6/1/2005

   Ian Steele, Anchor Products' engineering services division manager describes Te Rapa's move to ControlLogix as strategic rather than bold. ControlLogix data-communications and wide integration strengths, backed by Allen-Bradley's open communication architecture, fits with the dairy giant's long-term control strategy. Central to this strategy is the application of predictive automation, based around technologies developed by Anchor's alliance partner, Pavilion Technologies of Austin, Texas.
   
   "Access to real-time production data is an essential element in achieving optimal plant performance and profitability," explains Steele. "It's the key to our future operational strategies.
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   "The ControlLogix platform and the Ethernet/ControlNet/DeviceNet data communications topology was an ideal fit with our neural model," says Steele, "both from a pure process control, and communications and backplane architecture points of view."
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   The ControlLogix system and its powerful data communications capabilities has provided the practical means to collect this data - and ultimately realised the 'neural-link' to the information-rich system conceptualised by Steele and his team a decade ago.

2. 2. Electrolink Magazine - Anchored to an information-rich future

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   Last Visited: 6/24/2004

   Ian Steele, Anchor Products' engineering services division manager describes Te Rapa's move to ControlLogix as strategic rather than bold. ControlLogix' data-communications and wide integration strengths, backed by Allen-Bradley's open communication architecture, fits with the dairy giant's long-term control strategy.
   
   Central to this strategy is the application of predictive automation, based around technologies developed by Anchor's alliance partner, Pavilion Technologies of Austin, Texas.
   
   "Access to real-time production data is an essential element in achieving optimal plant performance and profitability," explains Steele. "It's the key to our future operational strategies. A rich database of historical plant data provides us with the basis for applying Pavilion Technology's predictive neural-based control models. This in turn will run our processes and provide real-time economic analysis of plant performance."
   
   Steele and his team have spent much of the past decade honing Anchor's automation and control network strategy.
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   "The ControlLogix platform and the Ethernet/ControlNet/DeviceNet data communications topology was an ideal fit with our neural model," says Steele, "both from a pure process control, and communications and backplane architecture points of view."
   ...
   The ControlLogix system and its powerful data communications capabilities has provided the practical means to collect this data - and ultimately realised the 'neural-link' to the information-rich system conceptualised by Steele and his team a decade ago.

3. 3. July/August 2001, Food Engineering

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   Published on: 12/31/2002   Last Visited: 12/31/2002

   Ian D. Steele, engineering manager at Anchor Products, Ltd. (Hamilton, New Zealand), keynoted the conference with an overview of e-manufacturing at Anchor, New Zealand's largest dairy cooperative with 11 manufacturing plants processing more than 37 million litres of milk per day into cheese and dairy ingredients for export. At Anchor, said Steele, "e" means:
   
   "Embracing" a real-time enterprise that adds value, not cost; continuously adds profit; meets changing consumer demands; delivers continuous improvement, as well as a real-time solution reflecting strategic and tactical decisions. "Enabled" technologies that are based on standards and that incorporate neural-model predictive control to optimize product quality, predict performance and analyze failures; produce key performance indicators (KPIs) to benchmark operations in real time; and integrate via the Web. "Enhanced" and sustained profitability by focusing on value-added efficiency and flexibility; challenging traditional linkages; re-engineering systems and practices; creating a culture for change; leveraging technology to deliver real-time business value; and optimizing all manufacturing and business functions to process capabilities in order to reflect real-time conditions. "Empowered" people trained to manage the process and add value through new technologies, who take ownership and have access to KPIs that reflect how well they're contributing to business and process objectives. Enterprise" optimization from process to customer, with rapid proactive response from a real-time delivery perspective.
   
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   Challenging the typical "top-down" IT perspective, Steele advocated a "bottom-up" paradigm biased toward production rather than accounting; which reflects dynamic rather than historical business changes; allows real-time analysis and decisions by the minute, hour and day; is based on process models to reduce product variability and on business models rather than assumptions; is proactive rather than reactive; and reflects what is, not what was.
   
   Anchor has partnered with Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee) and Pavilion Technologies (Austin, Tex.) to optimize its enterprise in real time.
   
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