The 3rd ISA Automation Conference & Exhibition 2015 dedicated for process automation in the Middle East successfully concluded at the St Regis Hotel in Abu Dhabi in late May with Rockwell Automation being the diamond sponsor.

Participants came from key industries engaged with automation and control professionals including manufacturers and business leaders to discuss the latest technologies, solutions and products available in the market. In addition to this, regional and international experts and decision-makers imparted their vision and solutions to the challenges of measurement and control in complex industrial environments.

At the event, Rockwell Automation highlighted its technical and automation capabilities within their 45 sq m show floor through their single integrated plantwide solution – PlantPAx.

PlantPAx represents a new generation of integrated, scalable solutions for large control, safety and power systems solutions that exceed control and safety functionality typically found today. A PlantPAx solution integrates process, power, safety and critical control in a single unified platform and offers unprecedented levels of control, and flexibility via:

• System tools that enable configuration in a common environment

• A single, integrated database and common tag structure to simplify engineering; and

• A library of reusable control objects to shorten project development time.

Also on display were the innovative monitoring and control solutions for wellhead and upstream applications from vMonitor – a Rockwell Automation company and a global technology leader for wireless solutions in the oil and gas industry.

At the conference, subject matter experts from Rockwell Automation Europe and Middle East presented four technical papers on Advanced Process Control and Optimisation, Industrial Control System Cyber Security, Digital Oil Fields, Wireless & Industrial Communications and Integrated Operation.