Experience Industrial Innovation

Pembina addressed operational inefficiencies caused by siloed PLC control and limited SCADA automation by implementing a centralized DeltaV system integrated. The solution leverages advanced automation capabilities, including model predictive control, machine‑learning‑based soft sensors, MPC and procedural automation. The solution improved crude blending, product switching, pig tracking, and line operations, delivering significant measurable cost savings while reducing operational risk and operator workload. The project showcases significant digital transformation in midstream pipeline operations.

Imperial Oil transitioned from time‑based valve maintenance to a predictive strategy using FIELDVUE digital valve diagnostics and AMS. By focusing maintenance efforts only on valves showing early signs of degradation, the site reduced unnecessary rebuilds, minimized unplanned failures, and improved reliability across multiple HRSG units. This session highlights how predictive valve analytics can drive sustained maintenance cost savings and improve reliability.

This session explores the next generation of pressure, temperature, and level measurement technologies designed to deliver best‑in‑class accuracy, stability, and long‑term performance. Attendees will be introduced to advanced diagnostics, the industry’s first fully integrated wireless non‑contacting radar level solution, and modern wireless architectures that support large‑scale IIoT deployments. Together, these innovations enhance measurement reliability while significantly reducing maintenance requirements and improving overall plant safety.

IPC Blackrod is a 30,000 bpd SAGD facility targeting first oil in Q3 2026. Early in the project, IPC invested in smart instrumentation and digital commissioning using AMS Device Manager and DeltaV. As execution constraints emerged, IPC pragmatically adapted its smart commissioning strategy, retaining high‑value elements that delivered improved data quality, reduced documentation effort, and lower commissioning cost.

This session outlines best practices for catalyst maintenance, AFR system troubleshooting, and emissions test preparation to support sustained MSAPR compliance. Attendees will gain practical guidance on how to recognize maintenance needs, avoid testing delays while ensuring optimal engine and emissions system performance.

This session presents Emerson Flow Control’s strategic roadmap for Fisher control valves, actuation, and digital technologies. Learn how next‑generation solutions are improving energy efficiency, reducing emissions, lowering total cost of ownership, and enhancing process reliability.  We will explore how integrated solutions are evolving to optimize plant performance, reduce total cost of ownership, and advance sustainability objectives.

This presentation highlights the value of shifting from time‑based valve maintenance to a condition‑based monitoring (CBM) approach. It covers common challenges with justification, the role of Emerson diagnostics, and the importance of baseline data, reporting and lifecycle monitoring. By leveraging continuous valve diagnostics, operators can predict failures, reduce unnecessary inspections, optimize resources, and uncover hidden performance issues. The program delivers significant operational efficiencies and ensures reliable, data‑driven valve maintenance across facility assets.

As Wolf Midstream expanded into larger, multi‑phase NGL facilities, PLC‑based control designs no longer met scalability and lifecycle needs. This session explores the migration to a native DeltaV architecture, delivering improved integration, visibility, and long‑term sustainability.

Operations and Control Rooms remain vital to industrial operations, yet many are rooted in outdated design and expectations. As technology, organizations, and operating models evolve, adding new tools alone rarely improves performance. This presentation defines high‑performance operations by examining operator interface design, alarm and information management, human factors, organizational structure, and physical layout. Drawing on cross‑industry experience, it highlights common pitfalls, resistance to change, and why many digital initiatives fail to deliver their promise.

Spartan’s PowerVue Switchgear and MCC solutions bring an innovative approach to designing and executing electrical projects. Leveraging modular design and available Arc Quenching safety technology, combined with flexible, hybrid manufacturing strategies help you realize real savings in both capital and project schedules.

Connectivity between solutions—along with the capabilities of data hubs and Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning solutions—enables the creation of Asset Monitoring Systems that collate data, provide interpretation and recommended actions, and automate business processes that initiate repairs. This presentation focuses on the building blocks for implementing asset monitoring systems across a single facility or an entire company fleet, and the critical considerations for connectivity, hardware, software, and data management that need to be reviewed for successful implementation.

Learn how the combination of automation expertise, data science, and machine learning turns industrial data into actionable insight. With cohesive knowledge and support from sensors to digital infrastructure and analytics we can provide unique front-to-back solutions. SpartanPRO™ Asset Intelligence highlights what matters most so teams can proactively assess asset health and make smarter performance, reliability, and optimization decisions.

As electrification and data centers drive new demand, power operators must deliver reliability, safety, and performance across increasingly complex asset portfolios. Ovation is purpose built for these challenges.This session highlights how the Ovation portfolio - spanning Ovation DCS, Ovation Green SCADA, AI enabled applications, and enterprise tools - provides deterministic, utility grade control for thermal, renewable, hybrid, and data center power architectures. Real world examples will show how Ovation unifies control and data, reduces project risk, and improves long term operational performance.

Suncor required a reliable, non‑intrusive solution to balance flow on large‑diameter (20”) lines carrying difficult‑to‑measure emulsion (bitumen, hot water, and gas breakout). With zero downtime and no ongoing maintenance as key requirements, Flexim ultrasonic flow measurement was installed in late 2025. This presentation shares how site‑specific installation adjustments enabled accurate, repeatable measurements from outside the pipe in harsh outdoor conditions, and outlines the critical configuration requirements for success in this challenging application.

Fired equipment such as boilers and heaters are critical to industrial operations, yet growing safety, regulatory and emissions requirements demand more advanced system design. This presentation explores how boilers, burners, and controls must operate as unified  systems with more advanced functionality, flexibility and integrated capability. Applying the right technologies can improve safety, reliability, and performance while supporting cost‑certain of your project.

This presentation will cover DeltaV Predict-pro Advanced Process Control (APC) and Procedural Automation solutions that maximizes C5+ production to enhance process control performance. The implemented solutions optimized recovery of NGLs and improved processing margins, with over 50% reduction in variance on the product qualities.

This presentation provides an overview of High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems (HIPPS) and their advantages over traditional pressure relief methods. It covers typical applications, key codes and standards, market drivers such as safety and environmental requirements, and the core architectural, engineering, and online testing considerations for successful HIPPS implementation.

When optimizing turnaround outcomes, the quality of the planning process strongly predicts cost and schedule certainty. Effective scope management depends on clear work processes, strong integration, and open communication among stakeholders, supported by appropriate technology. Risk is reduced through early engagement and front end loaded planning that properly qualifies scope, applies detailed application expertise, and leverages existing infrastructure capabilities. This approach creates opportunities for optimization before execution begins. We examine the planning process, demonstrate how to use the right technologies and expertise, and explain why early engagement is essential to achieving predictable, positive, and sustainable turnaround results across complex projects.

This presentation explores the flue gas analysis requirements of carbon capture technologies such as Fluor’s Econamine FG+, and how these requirements influence the design of the flue gas analysis solution.

Pembina Prince Rupert Terminal (PRT) is a Canadian 22,000 m³ LPG rail-to-ship export facility. Random spikes in critical level measurements were disrupting operations and volume validation. With limited onsite resources, PRT implemented a remotely supported reliability program that leveraged diagnostic data from guided wave radar level transmitters. Using diagnostic data to identify the root cause of the erratic spikes enabled PRT to implement corrective actions that improved level measurement reliability. Eliminating bad actors and improving maintenance efficiency resulted in substantial operational and financial benefits for the facility.

What does it really take to scale an online condition-based monitoring program—and deliver results? Join this session to learn how one operation transformed limited resources into measurable performance gains using a connected machinery monitoring strategy. We’ll share real lessons on architecture, wireless deployment, and hardware selection that reduced rework by 16%, increased mill throughput by 17%, and improved early fault detection. If you're looking to scale APM without adding headcount, this session is for you.

Storage tanks are designed to breathe, but today that breathing can quickly turn into emissions exposure, product loss, and compliance risk as venting limits tighten (OVG/DVG) and VOC Phase 2 accelerates the shift toward controlled, auditable tank systems. This session examines where vapour losses really originate from and why the difference between controlled and uncontrolled tanks matters more than ever. We’ll explore how small issues like setpoint spacing, device coordination, and tank‑top equipment selection can quietly drive venting events, LDAR findings, and missed compliance targets. Attendees will leave with a practical “measure, monitor, verify” mindset and an assessment‑to‑compliance roadmap that fits naturally into outage and inspection cycles such as API 653, translating directly to safer, more reliable, and more compliant tank operations.

OT cybersecurity conversations too often end in paralysis, too many threats, too much complexity with no clear starting point. This extended workshop takes a different approach: less talk, more action.

In the first half, we use live participant polling and real assessment data to expose where OT visibility and governance gaps exist across Western Canadian industrial operations. A risk-based framework will be introduces for prioritizing what to fix first.

In the second half, we put that framework to the test. In a hands-on crisis simulation, developed with Fortinet's OT security team, you'll step into a live cyber incident.  You will navigate critical decisions to stop an attack escalating from initial remote access compromise to facility operational impact.  This isn't a presentation, It's a pressure test of how your organization would respond when it matters most.  Can you save the plant? Leave with a clear picture of where you stand, where to start, and what effective incident response actually looks like in practice.

** Please note this session runs for 1.5 hours.**