Terrence Blevins has been actively involved in the
application and design of process control systems throughout his
career. For more than 15 years, he worked as a systems engineer and
group manager in the design and startup of advanced control
solutions for the pulp and paper industry. Terry was instrumental
in the establishment of Emerson Process Management s Advanced
Control Program. From 1998 2005, Terry was the team lead for the
development of DeltaV advanced control products. He is the Fieldbus
FoundationTM team lead for the development and maintenance of the
Function Block Specification and editor of the SIS Architecture and
Model Specifications. In this capacity, Terry is involved in the
movement of Fieldbus Foundation function block work into
international standards.
Mark Nixon has been involved in the design and
development of control systems throughout his career. Mark started
his career as a systems engineer working on projects in oil & gas,
refining, chemicals, and pulp & paper. He moved from Canada to
Austin, TX in 1998 where he has held a variety of positions in both
research and development. From 1995 2005, Mark was lead architect
for DeltaV. In 2006, he joined the wireless team, taking a very
active role in the development of the WirelessHART specifications
and the development of the IEC 62591 standardization.
Willy Wojsznis has been involved in the
development of advanced control products over the last twenty years
focusing on model predictive control, data analytics, and auto
tuning. Over the previous nearly 25-years of his career he
developed computer control systems and applications in the cement,
steel, mining, and paper industries. His professional work resulted
in a number of successful and innovative advanced control products,
over thirty patents, and over forty technical papers. He received a
control engineering degree (EE) from Kiev Technical University,
Ukraine in 1964, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Wroclaw
University, Poland in 1972, and a Ph.D. from Warsaw University of
Technology in 1973. He co-authored the ISA bestselling book
Advanced Control Unleashed. In 2010, he was inducted into Control
Magazine's Process Automation Hall of Fame. Presently, Willy is
part of the DeltaV future architecture team. He conducts applied
research in the areas of optimization, adaptive control, data
analytics, and model predictive control.
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