February 2020
Special Focus: Digital Transformation
Five key innovation concepts to impact frontline engineers in 2020
Gas processing, liquefaction, oil refining, bulk petrochemicals and chemicals plants represent a large population of frontline engineers and technical managers. Their professional lives will become increasingly impacted by the growing adoption of disruptive digital technologies and digital platforms.
The Authors
With more than 13 yr of consultancy experience, Andrew McIntee supports KBC’s global initiatives by helping evaluate, prioritize and decide on the optimization of clients’ facilities, as well as transfer leading operating practices to their engineering and operations teams. Mr. McIntee is a chartered engineer, with an MS degree from the University of Leeds.
Kevin Finnan is an Industry Marketing Consultant at Yokogawa Corporation of America. He was previously an independent consultant, Vice President of marketing for CSE-Semaphore and Director of marketing at Bristol Babcock. He has more than 30 yr of experience in a variety of vertical markets and has launched more than 40 products in automation and measurement technologies.
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