WEBINAR
Building Field Operator Competency Remotely in the Process Industry.
Christian McDermott (North America Market Coordinator at Voovio) and Fran Montemurro (Director of Operations at Voovio, previously DuPont) discussed knowledge automation at the Operational Excellence in Energy, Chemicals & Resources Summit 2020.
Director of Operations at Voovio
Name:
Francis Montemurro
Job Title:
Director of Operations at Voovio
Speaker Bio:
Fran spent over 30 years in manufacturing management with DuPont. He was plant manager at multiple DuPont’s Safety and Protection, Performance Materials, and Chemicals & Specialties manufacturing sites. He successfully managed high hazard chemical continuous and batch operations, and his teams were awarded the inaugural E.I. DuPont Safety Excellence Medal for remarkable injury-free performance, zero process safety events, and product distribution incidents, as well as the E.I. DuPont Engineering Excellence Award for delivering step-change improvements in business performance through an organizational transformation. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Fran received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He has served in several leadership roles in industry associations and civic organizations.
North America Market Coordinator at Voovio
Name:
Christian McDermott
Job Title:
North America Market Coordinator at Voovio
Speaker Bio:
Christian began his career with a major EPC company, working in management consulting and project management roles in the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. He has been with Voovio for over ten years and has become a leading expert in enhanced reality and knowledge automation solutions for the process industry. Christian has a BA and MSc from University College London and an MBA from IESE Business School.
The industry is confronted by increasingly greater challenges and needs new, streamlined methodologies to become even more competitive, while maintaining each site’s right to operate. Now more than ever, the manufacturing plants need remote methods for building field operator competency in procedure execution.
In this on-demand webinar we explored how to build operator competency to prevent environmental releases, ensure efficient startups and shutdowns, safely prepare units for timely TAR activities, and reduce the cost and time related to onboarding and refresher training. We showed how Knowledge Automation helps to transfer knowledge without being on the site, which frees up SMEs to focus on other business priorities.
Key takeaways of the webinar:
- We gave insights how manufacturing plants can build field operator competency remotely 24/365.
- We also discussed how operators learn their processes or procedures anywhere and don’t need to rely on experienced operators just by using a computer or tablet.
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We explained how manufacturing plants can implement this on their site and improve results.
To see the whole webinar for yourself, you can watch the video below:
