Setting
a world-wide standard in 1978 with an LP based Fluid Cat Cracker
(FCC) control scheme for many years
HANS HEINZ EDER
CAREER
MILESTONES
1971
Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from T.U. Vienna. Career
start at the ESSO Ingolstadt Refinery, Germany, in Process
Design, later in Operation Optimisation
1976 Advanced
Process Control (APC) Engineer at the ESSO Hamburg Refinery,
Germany, later with Exxon Engineering in New Jersey, USA
1978
APC Engineer and later APC Manager at Ingolstadt, Germany
1983
Senior APC Engineer at Exxon Engineering in New Jersey, USA; work
on plant–wide Real Time Optimisation, corporate-wide control
training responsibility, design of a PC simulation system for
training - used world-wide for many years
1986
CIM Advisor at Exxon Chemical regional headquarter in Brussels,
Belgium: Technology management, SQA / SPC, manufacturing
computing, production planning tools….
1992
Resignation from Exxon and foundation of ACT GmbH in Austria.
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
Setting
a world-wide standard in 1978 with an LP based Fluid Cat Cracker
(FCC) control scheme for many years
Extensive
experience in operations and process control economics and in
management
Comprehensive
experience in development and use of computer simulations
Extensive
international experience in technical training and also
management seminars
Contributions
to Total Quality Management (TQM) and Statistical Quality
Assurance
Development
of TOPAS, winning the prestigious Editors' Choice Award
(Control Engineering magazine)
Development
of a Model Based Predictive Controller AMC – implemented in
various DCS
Development
of a series of process control tutorials
Development
of a model-based batch reactor control scheme (feedback &
feedforward) - in one single day!
OTHER
ACTIVITIES
Co-author
of “Handboek Procesautomatie” published by
Kluwer-Wolters (in Dutch)
Many
publications in German, Benelux, US and international magazines.
Regular articles in English, Dutch and German, several translated
into Chinese and Russian
Invited
speaker at the IEEE London, the University of Cambridge, the
University of Barcelona, the E.C. IT conference, the European
Control Conference ECC99, Keynote Speaker at FoodSim 2002 in Cork
Evaluator
of project proposals and reviewer of numerous projects for the
European Commission in manufacturing, e-commerce, virtual
enterprises, knowledge management, e-learning…
Former
Vice-Chairman of the Honeywell TDC 3000 User Group
Secretary
General of ESPRIT workgroup on Model Based Predictive Control
(CIDIC)
Former member
of IFAC Working Groups on Chemical Process Control and on
Education in Process Control
Former
member of the User Committee of research projects, T.U. Delft,
Holland