My name is Jay Colclazier. I am a Sr. Automation Engineer at the CHS Refinery in Laurel, MT. My intent with the blog is to share some of my experience with the day to day challenges of process improvement with automation. In this first post I will share a little about myself.
I have been doing process automation work for over 35 years. My time has pretty much been split between end-users and Emerson Process Management. As an end-user, I have worked for Monsanto, Celanese , Biosource Fuels and now CHS. My primary focus areas here at CHS are automation project execution and a variety of process improvement activities.
During my time with Emerson, I was involved with engineering, sales and product marketing and industry consulting. I have experience in a variety of different industries. I have experience with DeltaV, PROVOX and RS3 DCS platforms as well as a wide variety of Emerson field devices.
For the last 5 years, I have been on the Board of Directors for the Emerson Global Users Exchange and served as Chairman during 2012.
There a lot of technology and product blogs availble in the automation industry today. However, very few are written from an end-user perspective and focused on the day to day real world challenges of process improvement.
I welcome any feedback you may have!
