Brandl, D.
Dennis Brandl is president of BR&L Consulting and has been involved in automation system design and implementation in a wide range of control systems over the past 35 years. His experience includes control system design for Shell Oil refineries, chemical plants, pharmaceutical facilities, steel mills, mining and next-generation control system design with ExxonMobil. Mr. Brandl was a founder of the ISA’s ISA 95 Enterprise/Control System Integration committee and is the chairman of the IEC/ISO Joint Working Group on Enterprise/Control Integration, IEC 62264. He earned a BS degree in physics and an MS degree in measurement and control from Carnegie-Mellon University, and an MS degree in computer science from California State University.
An operations reference model for common refinery operations
Refineries are large, highly automated, complex systems involving hundreds of people, thousands of work processes, thousands of control loops and tens of thousands of input/output points.
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