0196 - Talking about Process Data with Cormac Garvey

Hosts: Anugrah Gupta and Sindhusuta MohantyWe are very pleased to have Cormac Garvey with us today. Cormac’s career spans factory automation, control systems, systems architecture, software prototyping and information modelling.·       Cormac, before we start, can you introduce us to your world. ·       You’ve described yourself as working at the plumbing end of data analytics. Can you explain what that means?·       Who uses the data and what do they use it for? ·       Having worked with and mastered a wide range of software tools over your career, what go-to approaches are in your consulting toolbox?·       Can you give us a sketch of your approach to requirements capture?·       How do you approach conceptual design? Both as an individual consultant and as a member of a team?·       And translating a conceptual design into the full project?·       What for you, is the essence of design?<and some questions from the student audience>Well, we’ll wrap up there.Thank you for sharing your ideas with us today.Notes:Cormac’s profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/cormac-garvey-9a34503/Cormac’s start-up is HAL Software – a standards-based software design tool for process control and MES environments (manufacturing execution systems). Watch the 2 minute HAL overview video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A1cEYaqr-kCormac is a member of and/or participates in:·       The OPCUA REST subgroup·       The Open Process Automation Forum·       And the “biophorum”The OPC Foundation (Open Platform Communications), an industry consortium that develops standards for connectivity of industrial automation devices and systems.OPC UA (Unified Architecture) is a cross-platform, open-source standard for data exchange from sensors to cloud applications developed by the OPC Foundation. IEC 62541 is the international standard describing the OPC UA information model.ISA-88, S88, aka ANSI/ISA88, is a standard addressing batch process control.ISA-95 aka Enterprise-Control System Integration. An automation workflow standard.AcknowledgementsMusic Title: Voltaic FluctuationsArtist: Ben PruntySource:  https://www.benpruntymusic.com/License: Non-transferable license. Permission granted by Ben PruntyCover Art Title: Complex collageArtist: Allen HigginsSource: vignette_version.pptxLicense: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Podcast LicenseDesign Talk (dot IE) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The license can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0By taking part you give permission for your voice to be recorded, for the recording to be edited, and for it to be posted and published as a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.