Digitalization in the Automation Domain 2024

Tomas Norvoll was born in 1972, raised in Andenes, and resides in Bodø. In 1993, he was elected as a member of parliament for Nordland, and served on the church, education, and research committee for two terms.

He also served as the first alternate member of parliament from 2001 to 2005. From 2013 to 2022, he was the leader of the county council in Nordland County.

Tomas Norvoll served as a state secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion from September 2022 to November 2023.

He was appointed as a state secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation on December 1, 2023.

Christoph Attila Kun joined BASF in 2011 as a maintenance engineer. After various optimization projects in maintenance, he took over the development and management of the SAP Plant Maintenance Services unit from 2013. In 2018, he moved to the area of digitalization and took over the management of the Digital Asset Master Data Management unit as product manager. In 2022, he took over the management of the Digital Data Chain unit as global product manager.

In addition to this role, he is involved in standardization for and digitization of the process industry as chairman of the VDI Technical Committee 2770 Digital Manufacturer Information, as manager of the DIN SPEC Consortium 91406 Automatic Identification of Physical Objects and as head of the working group Digital Platforms for Asset Management and Maintenance in the Process Industry.

2022, these three initiatives have been merged in the Digital Data Chain Consortium. BASF SE is the consortium leader. Christoph Attila Kun has been managing the Digital Data Chain Consortium on behalf of BASF since 2022.

Sten Grüner is Principal Scientist for Industrial Digitalization Technologies at ABB Corporate Research Center Germany. His research focuses on software architecture for industrial automation systems and information modeling with OPC UA and Industry 4.0 Asset Administration Shell (AAS). Sten is actively participating in Industry 4.0 standardization activities within Plattform Industrie 4.0, ZVEI and IDTA.

In his talk Sten will give an overview of a collaborative study ABB performed together with Equinor to explore the applicability of Industry 4.0 technologies and especially AAS in the collaborative engineering process of assets in energy industries. In addition, he will give a glimpse into control code generation using generative AI.

I studied in the Technical  University of Karlsruhe Automation, Instrumentation and Electrical in the 80`s. After that I joint in November 1988 BASF SE in Ludwigshafen Germany in the Large Capital Project Organization for International BASF Projects in the department of Electrical, Automation and Instrumentation.

I worked in the last 35 years on projects all over the world from 50 Million to 2 Billion € in Europe, Russia, South America, North America and in China. Since 2017 I`m working for the new digitalization concept with Ethernet APL to digitalize our new plants up to the field level.

2011 PhD-Student, Chair of Process Control Technology, RWTH Aachen University
2016 E&I Engineer at YNCORIS
2022 Key Expert Automation Technology at YNCORIS

Background as an IT engineer. Have 40+ years of experience in Statoil / Equinor in management positions and projects across most of Equinor’s value chain. For the last 12 years I’ve had a role as Enterprise Architect within Project development. For 3 years now I have been working with Industry 4.0 and Asset Administration Shell.

I will talk about the importance of information models in digital transformation and experiences from the studies we have done together with our partners in the AIR I4.0 study in Equinor.

Seasoned automation and digital expert with enthusiastic and dedicated approach to integration. 20+ years’ experience in industrial SW.

Trond Salater holds a degree in electrical power engineering but also has a background as an electrician within industrial settings, machinery safety, and testing/certification of machinery and electrical equipment.

He has several years of experience from onshore industrial companies as well as a testing engineer for companies supplying equipment to offshore industries.

He is a Software Engineer with over 35 years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry. He has worked as an operator, actively involved in projects managing reservoir, drilling, and production data. Currently, his primary role at Aibel involves managing technical systems for gathering and handing over life cycle information.

Together with Endress + Hauser he will be sharing Aibel’s experience in implementing a specific Asset Administration Shell for exchanging data. This implementation is based on the generic technical data submodel and the IEC CDD semantics.

Christian Markussen has a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and more than 28 years of international experience from the oil & gas and energy sector. Currently he has the role of Global Practice Lead for Technology Qualification and Digital Twins within DNV, responsible for the services related to DNV-RP-A203 on “Technology Qualification” and DNV-RP-A204 “Assurance of Digital Twins”. Previously, he has held various positions such as Service Director, Head of Section, Business Manager. His experience includes five years in Houston, and several secondments to O&G operators, working with field developments, technology qualification, and development of digital twins.

Topics for the presentation:

• The challenges with merging OT and IT
• Utilizing simulation models and AI
• Managing uncertainties
• Creating trustworthy digital twins

Lars Christian Fredenlund is a leading figure within the buildingSMART International working with BIM and open standards, and a true supporter data driven processes.  Currently, Lars advises European Commission governments and national/European associations on data aggregation and exploitation.

He is working with various construction industry actors across Europe to promote the importance of implementing digital product passports (DPP), and how this can help the industry to reach the goals of the European Green Deal and establish a more circular economy.

Odd Myklebust is director of research at SINTEF Manufacturing and has a long career at SINTEF both in management positions and projects.

Today he will talk about the EU project DAT4.ZERO for which he is the coordinator. In short, the project is about «Zero defect manufacturing» and how to use solutions from digitization (Industry 4.0) to increase quality and avoid errors.

Maria Vatshaug Ottermo, senior researcher/research manager at SINTEF Digital in the group Safety and Reliability. Main focus on safety instrumented systems, interoperability and digital transformation. My background is from Engineering Cybernetics (PhD) at NTNU.

Jon Kåre Solås holds two bachelor’s degrees in industrial automation, and medical technology and instrumentation.  He joined Phoenix Contact in 2010 where he since has worked with automation sales, product support and product management for network, communication, and functional safety. Through own experience and contact with system integrators, cyber security professionals and system owners a standardized device and update management solution has emerged as a vital common denominator to enable cyber security, asset management and to bridge physical systems and their digital twins.

The presentation aims to provide insight to the alternatives, requirements and functionality considered when searching for and selecting future proof mechanisms and interfaces when developing a common solution for a secure, IEC 62443-aprovable standardized device and update management for OT systems. It will review the motivation to choose OPC UA as secure interface between OT devices and a common management platform as well as Asset Administration Shell as the common standard framework to monitor and transfer updates, including ongoing initiatives influencing the implementation, like Factory X.

Background as a skilled process operator and a Master of Science degree in engineering- and process cybernetics from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in 2007.

Currently more than 18 years in Yara occupying various roles as process operator, automation maintenance lead, project automation lead and IT/OT convergence lead.

Now working as Engineering manager for OT & Connectivity for the Digital Core Solution team with a main responsibility of enabling dataflows from OT devices and systems to Yara’s cloud platform, Digital Production Platform.

Arild Waaler is professor in computer science at The University of Oslo. He has for many years promoted industry-university collaboration and has led several large cross sector research initiatives.

Since 2015 he has led the SIRIUS centre at the University of Oslo. He one of the key persons behind the Asset Information Modelling Framework that combines system modelling, ontologies and graph technology, and that is receiving increased interest from both industry and research communities.