“It’s an interesting time in our industry, and not an entirely happy one,” said Walt Boyes, principal, Spitzer & Boyes, to open his keynote speech today at the Yokogawa Users Group Conference and Exhibition in Houston. “Changes are coming; changes are here, and all at once. Our traditional slow movement in adopting new technologies is breaking down.”The cloud, mobility, sensing, millennials, big data and analytics, the Internet of things (IoT), apps, social interaction, analysis, control technology, work practices and preferences are all coming at once. It’s going to affect how plants are built and operated, both new plants and brownfield plants, “and it’s not going to be unpainful,” said Boyes.
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