12d Home

Meetings

Role	Current Leadership	Newly Elected Leadership
Area 12d Chair	Ron Mack, Pharmacia	John Battler, Triquest
Area 12d 1st Chair	John Battler	Helen Lou, Lamar University
Area 12d 2nd Chair	Tom Kenat	open

• Introductions / Meeting Outline
  (Expected Outcome: Sign-up sheet / Notes volunteer)
• Mission / Vision
  (EO: Meeting focus)
• Upcoming Sessions
  (EO: Action requirements / Volunteers)

Provide programming to enhance the professional development of AIChE members and industry colleagues who affect manufacturing process improvements.

Expand in scope to include other aspects of manufacturing technology and secure active participation from a greater breadth of the ChE population. Maintain strong ties with internal and external groups.

Three 12d Sessions:

1. Batch Plants Overview (J. Battler, Dave Rosenthal)
2. Applications of Scheduling and Planning in Batch Processes (R. Rooks-12)
3. Pharma and Bio Batch Plants Overview (Glen Wheeler-12)

Topical title: Process Improvement in Manufacturing (Conf. theme: Technology for the Practicing Engineer)

Chair: Ron Mack
Co-Chairs: Tom Kenat, John Battler, Kamlesh Bhatia
Proceedings Co-Chair: John Battler
Marketing Co-Chairs: Bill Dale, Bob Duggal
Marketing Chair: Web and Webcast: Jack Vinson

Topical Structure:

• Seven Sessions (next slide)
• Short Course Monday - 4hrs, mid-day
• Improving a Manufacturing Process: A Practical Guide for Plant Personnel
• Ka Ng, Peter Marron, Alan Leviton
• Webcast project with AIChE (first in kind)
• Multi-faceted project
• First draft slides complete; live testing Saturday
• Division Feedback on content (solicit feedback)
• Dinner scheduled Monday night (C. Seymour)
• Plant tours ? coordination ? (solicit feedback/volunteers)

• Process Improvements in Existing Processes I (12d)
• Yinlun Huang and either Rob Gallogly (Xytel) or Peter Smith (Zeton)
• Process Improvements in Existing Processes II (12d)
• Kiran Gupte and either John Battler or Peter Smith
• Implementing Innovation in the Mnfg Setting (12a/c)
• Aaron Sarafinas and Emmanuel Dada
• Operations Training and Improvement Programs (12b/d)
• Sanjay Joshi and Muthanna Al-Dahhan
• Case Histories and Lessons Learned (12d and 11a)
• Susan Cyganiak and Michael Griffin
• R&D, Plant and Corporate interaction (12a/d)
• Tom Kenat
• Polymerization Pilot Plant (12b, 16)
• Bob Duggal and Dave Edwards

Due Date	Participant	Action
10/23/01	Authors	Latest due date for PTPs to be submitted via the AIChEWeb
11/19/01	Session Chairs	PTP acceptances and session schedule information arranged on Web
11/26/01	Topical Meeting and Programming Chairs	Comment on Program Grid
12/3/01	AIChE	Technical Program on AIChEWeb, and E-mail notification to authors regarding their PTPs
12/10/01	Authors, Session Chairs	Suggested due date for presentation records for topicals to session chairs
12/11/01	Authors	Non Topical presentation records due to AIChE's Manuscripts Department
1/7/02	Session Chairs	Session Chairs to have all presentation records to Topical Conference Chair (or Proceedings Coordinator)
1/7/02	Topical Chairs	Topical chairs send presentation records for Topicals to AIChE's Programming Department
3/10/02		Spring Meeting begins in New Orleans

• PHA/HAZOPS for New Systems and Processes in Manufacturing (12d and 11(?))
• J. Cassidy (?) from Pharmacia
• Need to confirm session and co-sponsorship

• What is total allocation for 12d?
• Case Histories and Lessons Learned (12d and 11a)
• Request from 11 to co-sponsor accepted
• Candidate Identification: J. Cassidy (?) from Pharmacia

• 12d differentiation and name change (next slide)
• Marketing Plan (2002 - need volunteer to scope)
• 12d Recruitment and Succession (need new chairs: Reno '01)
• Manufacturing Group Survey (2002 - need volunteer to scope)
• Informal questions to be used internally, simple
• Support Division Deliverables
• Membership list (J. Battler - 2001)
• Roundtables/Panels (Group Forum)
• Short Courses (12d Spring '02 topical)
• Website maintenance/mnfg links (ongoing)
• Reach out to other internal and external groups
• e.g.) Vision 2020 (R. Mack, P. Basu, G. Lieberman - 2001)

• Review the Mission and Vision Statement
• Clarification points
• ID required action


• Review the area name
• Review names previously identified
• Review modifiers to enhance the description / intent of 12d