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February 2010 ISA Newsletters, Southern District 11 1

ISA Orange County Section March Event

February 2010

www.isa.org/~oranc

Regional Events& Training

Mar 10: Simulation Investment

Apr 14: Newport Electr Tour

May 12: I/O On Demand

Jun 09: Security Systems

Jul 14: Industrial Ethernet

Inside This Issue…

How to maximize return onsimulation investment Early process simulation is an important tool in processdesign & control system validation, in operational readiness andin process optimization. Traditionally these activities have beencompleted in silos that led to duplication of modeling effort,additional project costs and built-in inefficiencies. Thispresentation will show how organizations can benefit fromseamless integration of these activities under one platform. Acase study will be discussed for illustration purposes.

Reaz Kabir is the Simulation Business Leader for theAmericas at Honeywell Process Solutions. He has been with HPSsince 2006. His previous role was simulation businessconsulting. Prior to Honeywell, Reaz spent 10 years in application engineering, sales &marketing involving multi-phase separationin process equipment. Reaz has a BS inChemical Engineering and an MBA fromthe University of Houston.

Meeting Details

Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010Time: 5:00 Networking; 6:00 PresentationLocation: Fluor, 47 Discovery, Irvine

RSVP: Fred McEachen at (949) 349-2482or [email protected].

2 - President’s Message

3 - ISA Booth Supported

4 - ISA SSJV Scholarships,Membership Drive

6 - ISA LA: Thanks to All!Post Show Analysis

8 - Section MeetingsISA SSJV Scholarships

9 - Regional EventsISA TrainingPE Review Course

10 - PE License Update

11 - Looking Backwards

12 - SuperKart Photos

13 - OPC Standards ProgramIndustry News

14 - Job Shop

15 - ISA Benefits forUnemployed Members

ISA Southern San Joaquin Valley Section

Golf Tournament, Tabletop Show, Trainingand Cajun Feast The annual Golf Tournament is scheduled for Thursday, May 13, and the Tabletop Show, AwardCeremony, Technical Training and Cajun Feast the following day on Friday, May 14, 2010. Forinformation about participating in this year’s event, please see the ISA Southern San Joaquin ValleySection website at www.isa.org/~ssjv.

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

-- Isaac Newton

2 ISA Newsletters, Southern District 11 February 2010

The monthly ISA Section Newsletters and annual Regional Membership Directory and Buyers’ Guide are mailed to all ISA section members in Southern California and SouthernNevada and to ISA student affiliates at Cal Poly Pomona, Long Beach State University and Bakersfield College. Newsletters include the Southern San Joaquin Valley Alarm, LosAngeles Annunciator, Orange County Chart, San Diego Signal and Las Vegas Experience. Changes of address can only be processed by ISA by at (919) 549-8411 or www.isa.org.For editorial submissions and feedback, please contact the newsletter editor. Advertising rates, circulation information and style guide is posted at www.TechPubs.net. Billing andpublishing correspondence may be addressed to TechPubs Communications, PO Box 1605, Costa Mesa, California 92628. Submissions are copyright by the authors with all rightsreserved. Copyright (C) 2010 TechPubs Communications. All Rights Reserved.

Orange County SectionOfficers 2009-2010www.isa.org/~oranc/

President — Sebastian ZielonkaFluor Enterprises, (949) [email protected]

Treasurer — Rafael AgrazsanchezFluor Enterprises, (949) [email protected]

Secretary — Manny MartinezFluor Enterprises, (949) [email protected]

President-elect — Jesus MoncayoSouth Coast Systems, (714) [email protected]

Past President — Craig LanternierFluor Enterprises, (949) [email protected]

Delegate — Romel BhullarFluor Enterprises, (949) [email protected]

Education Chair — Hiten DalalNewtech Resources(714) 500-1018, [email protected]

Honors & Awards Chair, StudentSection Liaison — Craig LanternierFluor Enterprises, (949) [email protected]

Marketing Chair — Bis MitraFluor Enterprises, (949) [email protected]

Membership Chair —Francisco GuzmanSouthern Calif Edison, (949) [email protected]

Newsletter Editor — John PrinceAPG Analyzer Systems,(714) [email protected]

Program Chair — Fred McEachenFluor Enterprises, (949) [email protected]

Publications Chair — Sergei SeleznevCaltrol, Inc., (949) [email protected]

Student Section Liaison,Webmaster — Bob HarrisonConex Systems, (714) [email protected]

Advisor, CSULB — Walter MartinezCal State Long Beach, (562) [email protected]

Advisor, OCC — Robert CastañoOrange Coast College, (714) [email protected]

Special Assignment — Raj AdaniEmerson Process, (714) [email protected]

Special Assignment — Christine DorganDisney Scientific Syst, (714) [email protected]

Brad Rupert - District 11 Vice PresidentCaltrol, (925) [email protected]

Gary Campbell, CCST III -District VP ElectM+W Zander., (623) [email protected]

President’s messageBy Sebastian Zielonka, Section President○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○

Sebastian Zielonka, PresidentISA Orange County Section(949) [email protected]

What’s the best part about being a Control Systems, Automation, orInstrument Engineer? The technology keeps advancing and our industrycontinues to change. That means our jobs never get boring, but we need to stayon edge and continue our education. March 10, ISA OC gives you theopportunity to learn about Maximizing you Return on Simulation Investment.Come join us at the Fluor facility in Irvine to sharpen your skills and stay on topof the game.

In addition, remember to stop by April 14, for a tour of the NewportElectronics Facility, some good food, and opportunity to socialize with yourcounterparts.

Starting this year we are offering a new benefit to each monthly meeting, welike to call it Career Assistance. Prior to starting the presentation, individuals seeking jobopportunities are given a couple minutes to advertise their industry knowledge and qualifications to theaudience. Likewise, companies and individuals seeking employees will have the opportunity toadvertise opportunities and job availability. We had two individuals seeking jobs and two individualsadvertising job opportunities at our last meeting. We hope you take advantage of this new benefit ifyou are seeking opportunities or employees! Don’t forget you also have the opportunity to advertiseyour availability in the Chart newsletter for free as well.

Join ISA’s Water and Wastewater Industries Division(WWID) and maintain control of your career byboosting your knowledge of your specialty.Professionals interested in information relating toinstrumentation and control systems in water andwaste management will benefit from membership in the WWID. WWID can propel your career with a steady stream of organized technical sessions, conferences & exhibits, networking opportunities,newsletters, and more – all for just $9 a year!

For more information contact the DivisionDirector, Hank Hegner at [email protected] orcall ISA at (919) 549-8411.

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For the first time, ISAexhibited at the AutomationTechnology Expo at the AnaheimConvention Center Feb 9-11, 2010, inan effort to reach out to engineers,technicians and other processautomation professionals who maynot be familiar with ISA. This wasone of only three events this yearscheduled for ISA to participate inregional expos. Although the vast majority ofattendees and exhibitors wereinvolved with machine automationand medical packaging technologies,there was enough cross-over withprocess automation to be considered asuccessful event. Many of thoseattending ATX later came to theInstrumentation 2010 Expo thefollowing week. Pictured are Bill Campbell(LA) and Bis Mitra (OC), andFernando Ceja (SSJV) and RomelBhullar (OC). Also staffing the boothwere George Renth, Paul Bodeau,Rod Bodeau and John Prince of theLA Section.

The local ISA Sections wouldlike to express their appreciation toCanon Communications LLP, theevent producer, for allowing us totake part in their event. We arehoping to take part in more jointevents such as this with majorexhibition corporations in the futureto benefit all parties.

Photos courtesy of BillCampbell.


Scholarships: I am collectingscholarship applications for this springsemester. My deadline is Friday ofthis week. I’d like to meet or somehowdiscuss the applications next week or thefollowing week. I teach Mon, Tues, andWed. nights, but I’m off Thursday nights. Ifthat works for our committee, then we canmeet up at BC on a Thursday night. Anyother option (except for a 6:30am meeting)

I’d be glad to consider. Scholarship Recognition: At our upcoming student sectionmeeting we hope to get many of the recipients there for presentationof checks and recognition certificates. That would be the best time toget the most students rounded up in one place. See related article onpagre 8. SuperKart Racing: I wanted to say “thanks” for all the effortsthat were made to put on the event! It was great, and students are stilltalking about it. My vote is that we do this again next year. Withanything new, it takes a time or two before it becomes legendary! As I wrote before, we were caught between semesters (duringChristmas vacation), so if we do this next year, we’ll start pushingsign-ups well before the fall semester ends. For timing, it would bebetter for our student membership drive to have it in September or

ISA Southern San Joaquin Valley Section

Scholarship announcements, memberrecognition and SuperKart membership drive

early October, but I don’t know how well that would serve SSJV’sneeds. Student Membership: I have seven membership applicationsthat students want me to send in, and I know we had at least four thathad joined or renewed prior to the SuperKart event. We’re stillpushing membership, and I’m hoping for 20 new and renewedmemberships before the end of the semester. Thanks again to everyone in the Southern San Joaquin ValleySection and particularly those on the board for all your support andgenerosity!

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Meriam Process TechnologiesHART Configurators, Calibrators & Software, Averaging Pitot Tubes, Laminar Flow Elements, Digital Manometers

Raco ManufacturingRemote Alarm Monitoring, Reporting, Dataloggingvia Dial-up, or Wireless

Moore IndustriesIntelligent Distributed I/O, Alarm Trips, Isolators, Temperature Transmitters, I/P’s, AC Power Transducers,Controllers, Fieldbus Device Couplers and Power Supplies

SOR Inc.Pressure, Level, Differential Pressure, Temperature,Flow Switches, and Transmitters

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Sean Caras isAdvisor to the ISABakersfield CollegeSection BakersfieldCollege Instructor. Hecan be reached [email protected].

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Instrumentation 2010 Expo & Training: Thanks to allISA Los Angeles Section

by Bill Campbell, President Elect, ISA Los Angeles Section

Thanks to all the volunteers from LA andthe neighboring sections, the Los AngelesSection’s 4th annual tabletop show seems toget better each year. Exhibitors andinstructors came from as a far away as theeast coast and Canada. Attendees came fromall over Southern and Central Californiaincluding the Inland Empire and a few fromthe northern part of the state.

ISA Los Angeles Section is especiallypleased to acknowledge the following peoplefor donating the use of their computerprojectors.

The ISA-LA Team was glad to provide itsmembership a spectacular event on February18th. The board and committee members andthe Cal State Long Beach Students are to becommended for their time and effort for thetraining opportunities and local vendorturnout. These people really pulled ittogether, great job! Special thanks to Thao Le and Steve Kraiat Los Angeles County Sanitation District forarranging for the very informative presenta-tion and tour of the Advanced Water PollutionControl Facility. Thanks to John Prince, he is truly thepre-game host of this event and the amount of

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• Ken Blair, Blair-Martin Co., Inc.

• Paul Franklin, Los Angeles Departmentof Water and Power

• Sebastian Zielonka, ISA OrangeCounty Section

• Walter Martinez, Cal State Long Beach

• Joe Hohn, Dynaelectric San Diego

Special thanks to the Cal State LongBeach Students for helping with registration,set-up and take-down of equipment in theclassrooms, and to Neil Finch for constantlychecking classrooms during the day to makesure everything was running smoothly.


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all who attendeed, helped and participated

The consensus from attendees, instructorsand exhibitors was that it was a good showonce again. If you have not already sent ussome feedback, please do so – this is the onlyway we can get more of the good stuff andchange anything that needs improving. Allcomments and suggestions for next year willbe appreciated.

With nearly 50% ofattendees coming fromthe power generationindustry, and dismalnumbers coming fromthe nearby refineriesthis year, we are lookingat rotating between theCarson Center andanother locationcentralto the non-refinerycrowd, such as the SanFernando or SanGabriel Valleys.

Gve us yourfeedback. Feedbackfrom attendees andexhibitors gets higherpriority than anyone else.

Approximately 27% of attendees wereend users of instrumentation and processcontrol products and services, which is highfor industry trade shows. Of those, 37%were from the power industry (mostlyLADWP), 21% from the large engineering

Post gameanalysis

effort and planning is evident in the vendorsupport, acquiring training instructors and preevent publicity to get the attendance. ThanksJohn for another amazing program. Theseminars and hands on training were excel-lent. Thanks to Kandace Peterson for thearranging the outstanding refreshments. The entire team did a terrific job on set-up and throughout the event keeping theexhibitors and attendees happy.

companies (mostly Fluor); 16% fromrefineries (mostly Chevron); 9% fromwastewater facilities; 3% from waterdistricts; 6% from the gas company and

less than 4% from chemicals, food andbeverage and other process industries.


Local section meetingsFor more details about any of the section meetings, please contact the section president, website or read each section’s completenewsletter online at www.instrument-news.com.

Orange County Section Wed, Mar 10 Sebastian Zielonka, (949) 349-8773 [email protected]

How to maximize return on simulation investment. This presenta-tion on early process simulation will show how organizations canbenefit from seamless integration of activities under one platformwith a case study discussed for illustration purposes. Reaz Kabir isthe Simulation Business Leader for the Americas at HoneywellProcess Solutions. Networking at 5pm; program at 6pm at Fluor’sIrvine Office, 47 Discovery, Irvine. RSVP to Fred McEachen (949)349-2482 or [email protected]. Website: www.isa.org/~oranc.

Los Angeles Section Mon, Mar 15 Mitch Dornsife, (310) 847-5410, [email protected]

Introduction to Virtual Instrumentation Using LabVIEWâ.Originally scheduled for January, Dr. Norali Pernalete of Cal PolyPomona will give an overview of virtual instrumentation usingLabVIEW and its basic applications, explaining the basiccomponents of a virtual instrument, common functions, graphicalprogramming techniques and subroutines in LabVIEW and basicsof data acquisition. RSVP to Bill Campbell [email protected] or (562) 533-0188. Location: Monterey HillSteakhouse, 3700 W. Ramona Blvd., Monterey Park; cost $10.00which goes toward a $30 dinner. Website: www.isala.org.

San Diego Section Wed, Mar 17 Jim Van de Wetering (858) 208-9713 [email protected]

Special Double Program: Demystifying Microsoft Windows 7 at5:30pm. Michael Donahue will give an overview of the Windows 7operating system from an experienced user’s point of view. After thispresentation, there will be a social hour and dinner, followed byDeploying a Modern SCADA System at 7:45pm. Henry Palechek,Instrument and Process Control Systems Supervisor at Helix WaterDistrict will discuss the problems water utilities are facing these daysand how Helix has improved its reporting capabilities and connectionto other district computer systems through its upgrade to a modernSCADA system built upon open standards. Pinnacle PeakSteakhouse, 7927 Mission Gorge Road, Santee. RSVP is required byFriday, Mar 12, to Patrick Simons at (760) 597-3106 [email protected]. Cost is $15 to attend the Windows programwithout dinner. Or attend both programswith or without dinner for$35 with RSVP, $45 at the door. Website: www.isasd.com.

Las Vegas Section Thurs, Mar 18 Jeff Blue, (702) 249-1156, [email protected]

Arc Flash Hazards in the Workplace. This month’s lunch meetingincludes a short presentation by Eric Campbell, PE, on the basichazards, regulations, and mitigation techniques associated with arcflash and electrical safety. Location: Grove Madsen Industries, 4155West Russell Rd between Decatur and I-15, Las Vegas. RSVP toBrian Neal at [email protected]. No cost to attend; $10 ifoptional lunch ordered in advance. Website: www.isalv.org.

So San Joaquin Valley Section Thurs, Mar 18 Bob Jackson, (661) 331-4719, [email protected]

Hydrogen Sulfide Process Analyzers. Sam Miller from SpectraSensors will give a presentation on H2S monitoring. Lunch meeting

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FDT Offers Free Technical Seminarand an Invitation to IndustrialAutomation Professionals

Scholarships & Training

ISA SSJV awardsscholarships

Below is the list of recipients of ISA Southern San JoaquinValley Scholarships for this semester. At press time a StudentSection meeting was scheduled for March 6th from 10-12 with arepresentative from Emerson Rosemount presenting on ameasurement technology topic.

• John Paul Burns - $300• Ye Lin Htun - $300• Donald (Kevin) Edwards - $300

• Adan Gomex - $300• Oracio Valdez - $400• Tory Kinnard - $300

• Sean Hornback - $300• Joel Garcia - $300• Jimmy Molina - $300

• David (Cain) Uranday - $400• Sam Patton - $300• Noel Hernandez Castellanos.- $400

• Miguel Ceja (Taft College) - $400

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Dates subject to change. Always contact the sponsoring party beforemaking your final plans to attend. To include an ISA or non-ISAevent, please contact the editor.

March 14-17, 2010Western Turbine UsersConferenceSan Diego ConventionCenterwww.wtui.com

Mar 21-25, 2010OFC/NFO Engineers ConfSan Diego

March 22-26 2010Measurement ScienceConferencewww.msc-conf.com

Mar 22-25, 2010WESTEC Los Angeles,www.sme.org

Mar 22-26, 2010SAF Med Lab Scientists Conf& Exhibit, San Diego

Mar 23-25, 2010CTIA Wireless Expo& ConfLas Vegas Convention Centerwww.ctia.org

Mar 23-26, 2010ISC West 2010 SecuritySands Expo and ConvCenterLas Vegas, www.iscwest.com

Mar 29 - Apr 1, 2010CA-NV AWWA 2010 SpringConf, Hollywoodwww.ca-nv-awwa.org

ISA professional trainingThe following ISA training courses are scheduled to be held in

Burbank. To register or for more info contact ISA at (919) 549-8411.Before making final plans, be sure to ask ISA about its policyregarding canceling courses if sufficient number of students do notregister.

5/11/2010 - Control Systems Engineering PE Exam Review Course6/15/2010 - Safety Instr Systems: Design, Analysis, Justification

April 16 & 17, 2010Nevada State PE License Examboe.state.nv.us

May 3-6, 2010NHA Hydrogen Conf & ExpoLong Beachwww.hydrogenassociation.org

May 11-13, 2010EDS Electronics Distr Expo,Paris-Bally’s, Las Vegas CSE PE review course

scheduled for summerDue to requests from members, ISA Los Angeles is considering

holding two 6-week PE license exam review courses next summer --one in Southern Los Angeles County or North Orange County, andanother in the Pasadena-Monrovia area.

If you are considering taking a review course for the PE exam inOctober 2010, or if you would like to take a refresher course inControl System Engineering, please contact John Prince [email protected] and let him know that you are interested andwhich location you prefer. Space is limited.

Date: March 9, 2010Time: 12-4PM (lunch will beserved)Location: Hilton Long Beach& Executive Meeting CenterRegistration: Online at http://www.fdtgroup.org/en/events/56.htmlFee: Seminar registration isFREE

Earn 3 PDH credits while being educated on the importance of FDTTechnology and learning how it fits in new or existing plantinfrastructures by providing process- improving benefits with impacton the bottom line.Agenda:

- 12:00 - 1:00 Registration, Lunch, Table Tops- 1:00 - 2:30 FDT Technology Overview and Demonstration- 2:30 - 2:45 Break, Table Tops- 2:45 - 3:45 Application Oriented Presentation- 3:45 - 4:00 Closing Comments, End of Seminar

May 13-14, 2010ISA So San Joaquin Valley

Golf Tournament, Exhibits,Training & Cajun FeastScholarship Fundraiser

www.isa.org/~ssjv

May 17-21, 2010Interop Business ITConferenceMandalay Bay, Las Vegaswww.interop.com/lasvegas

June 6-10, 201053rd Annual ISA POWIDSymposiumLas Vegaswww.isa.org/powersymp

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A roundtable discussion of the current state of the PE license was held by the Los Angeles Section on January 19, 2010, at the EnergyResource Center in Downey. The Control System Engineering license was discussed, along with the other so-called “title licenses” —Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering,Nuclear Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, FireProtection Engineering and Traffic Engineering.

An overview was given by Walter Okitsu and John Prince of the January11, 2010, hearing on SB275 before the State Senate Business, Professionsand Economic Development Committee in Sacramento, and the recording ofthe June 2009 hearing was be played. This audio recording was a real eye-opener as to the process of how bills are passed. After hearing this, you willnever look at politics the same again. An audio MP3 file of the hearing isavailable for download at www.clcpe.org, along with the latest informationon attempts to correct the PE license law in Sacramento.

Those speaking in the hearing MP3 include bill author Senator MimiWalters, and some of the the other nine members of the committee: NegreteMcLeod (Chair), Wyland (Vice-Chair), Aanestad, Corbett, Correa, Florez,Oropeza, Romero, Walters (bill author) and Yee.

Also speaking at the hearing were representatives from CaliforniaLegislative Council of Professional Engineers (of which ISA is a member); arepresentative from Professional Engineers in Calif Govt (state engineers’union - against SB275), a representative from American Council ofEngineering Companies (civil engr contractors trade org - against SB275),and representatives from supporting organizations, such as SouthernCalifornia Edison, California Chemical Council, Agricultural Engineers and others.

Program Chair Jon Clements presents a certificate ofappreciation to John Prince for moderating the round tablediscussion about the PE license in California. Photocourtesy of Bill Campbell.

PE license legislation update

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Looking Back: Oil Fieldsof North Orange County

This 1910 map of the Fullerton-Brea-La Habra area shows some of theearly twentieth century oil fields developed by Murphy Oil and Union,and the Coyote Hills Oil Company property. Map courtesy of OrangeCounty Archives. This and more early photos and maps of OrangeCounty in high resolution may be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives.

details: 11:30-1:00, Petroleum Club’s 12th Floor Sky Bar, 5060California Ave, Bakersfield. RSVP Seth Olson at 661 203-0463 [email protected]. Website: www.isa.org/~ssjv.

Bakersfield College Student Section Contact Advisor Sean Caras, (661) 395-4393, [email protected]

At press time no information was available. Please contact advisor,Sean Caras, for the latest section information.

Cal State Long Beach Student Committee Contact Advisor Walter Martinez, (562) 577-3605 [email protected]

At press time the Long Beach State students were planning their nextrobotics tournament entry. Please contact advisor, Walter Martinez, forthe latest section information. Website: www.isacsulb.org.

Cal Poly Pomona Student Section Contact President Edgar Valles, (626) 475-3660, [email protected]

At press time no information was available. Please contact the sectionpresident for latest section information. Website: www.isacalpoly.org.

Section Meetings, continued from page 8

Jun 11-15, 2010ISA District 11 Leadership ConfLas Vegas, www.isa.org

Jun 13-18, 2010Design Automation, CleanTechnology, Nanotech, BioNanotech Conf & ExpoAnaheim Convention Centerwww.techconnectworld.com

Regional Events, Continued from page 9

August 2010ISA San Diego Section

I/C Expo 2010www.icexpo10.com

Regional Events, continued page 15


The ISA SSJV and BCtraining table - one of themost critical elements ofracing.

SuperKart Racers without cars. Fromleft: Jimmy Molina (winner of the $100drawing), Oracio Valdez, KevinEdwards, and ISA BC student members.

ISA SuperKart Racersawaiting the green flag.

More photos next month

ISA Southern San Joaquin Valleysection President Bob Jackson (left)with President-Elect Fernando Cejawith son.

SuperKart Racers DelSignorelli, Sean Caras, andDan Bloom compare racingstrategy.

President Bob Jackson presenting the SlowPoke Award.

Photos by Mike Bush, Valin Corp.

President Bob Jacksonpresenting award to overallwinner, Albert Rea.

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Sebastian Zielonka, ISA Orange County President, presenting aCertificate of Appreciation to Randy Warren, President of Aogenesis,who gave the presentation “How OPC and its Various StandardsEnable Integration of Information Across Disparate Platforms” at theJanuary 13, 2010, monthly section meeting held at Fluor in Irvine.Photo courtesy of John Querido.

ISA Orange County Section

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Industry News

ISE Magtech selectsPatten Systems

ISE Magtech is proud to announce the selection of PattenSystems, Inc. as its exclusive sales representative in SouthernCalifornia for their entire line of instrumentation which includes,Magnetic Level Gauges, Magnetostrictive Level Transmitters and RFLevel Switches.

Founded as the Patten Corporation in 1960, Patten Systemscontinues its long tradition of serving the process control andinstrumentation needs for industrial and municipal customers. PattenSystems is located at 15201 Springdale St. Huntington Beach,California and can be reached at 714-799-5656.

Standards & Practices

IEC 61508 subcommitteeby Paul Bodeau, Why Not Engineering

The ISA Los Angeles Section 61508Subcommittee is continuing to meet regularly asscheduled. Minutes are posted at the LosAngeles Section website, www.isala.org >Standards Tab.

Those interested in partcipating in thisleading edge topic should contact Paul Bodeauat [email protected].


Job ShopCirculation is 1400-1500 ISA members and other industry personnel in California and Nevada. To place a Job Shop ad, call (714) 968-5501.The cost to place a job ad is $25 per block of 25 words.

Outside Sales Representative. Applied Valves and Controls, located in SouthernCalifornia specializes in valves, valve automation and process control products, hasan immediate opening for an Outside Sales Rep in the greater LA/OC area. Thisposition requires selling into the biopharm, commercial HVAC, industrial process,and water/waste industries. Applicant must be highly motivated with a positiveattitude and have excellent communication and organizational skills. Minimum 3years sales experience. Engg degree preferred, but not required. Excellentcompensation package including a base salary plus commissions, benefits, and a funprofessionally encouraging environment. For immediate consideration please contactRay Herrera at 760-438-4840 or email resume to [email protected].

Job Search Aides from ISAThe following sites offer assistance to unemployed members:

- www.isa.org/ISAJobs- www.automationtechies.com- www.automation.com/career-job-center

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Outside Salesperson. Orange Countybased manufacturers rep and distributor isseeking an experienced outsidesalesperson to grow an already welldeveloped territory. The territory includesparts or all of Santa Barbara, Ventura, SanLouis Obispo, Kern, Bakersfield andFresno. Please visit our website atwww.flw.com for our company history andlist of product lines sold and forward allresumes or questions to [email protected].


Free membership extension offeredAs just one component of a larger effort on the part of ISA to assistmembers who have become unemployed, ISA is offering an extensionof membership benefits for a limited time during these difficulteconomic times. ISA is granting an extension of membership benefitsto unemployed Members for a period of one year. To find out moreabout this and other benefits, contact your section president orcontact ISA directly at (919) 549-8411 or [email protected].

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Vice President, Engineering - Career Opportunity Available. Key,high visibility and exciting position available in a $15M to $25Mgrowing and profitable California Company for a manageraccomplished in providing leadership to focused high performanceteams developing robust evergreen enterprise software solutions thateclipse traditional SCADA capabilities for Oil and Gas, or relatedProcess Industries operations.This position, which includes equity,reports directly to the President/CEO. Qualified and motivatedcandidates should email their resumes, which reflect theiraccomplishments related to the above listed expected experiences, [email protected] for prompt and confidentialconsideration.

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July 19, 2010PE License ExamApplication Deadlinewww.pels.ca.gov

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Regional Events,Continued from page 11

Analyzer Products Group .................................. 11Applied Valves & Controls ................................ 13Blair-Martin Co., Inc. ........................................ 10Calbay Controls ........................................ Insert, 5Cal State Fullerton Extended Education.. .......... 15Capital Westward Systems & Controls ............... 4Don Wolf & Associates, Inc. ............................... 7Emerson Process Management ............................ 6Electrical Systems Limited ................................ 14FDT Group ............................................... Insert, 8FLW, Inc. ........................................................... 12G-Instrument ........................................................ 7Golden State Controls .......................................... 9Jensen Instrument Company .............................. 11JPR Systems ...................................................... 13Moore Industries ........................................... InsertPacific Parts & Controls .................................... 12Patten Systems ..................................................... 4Precision Instrumentation Co. .............................. 6Rhino Valve USA................................................. 3SpectraSensors. .................................................. 14Valin Corporation .............................................. 10WestMark Sales, Inc. .......................... Back Cover

Oct 2010ISA Society ConfHouston, www.isa.org

Oct 29, 2010Calif PE LicenseExam, pels.ca.gov

Oct 30, 2010Calif Engineer-In-Training Examwww.pels.ca.gov

Jan 6-10, 2011ConsumerElectronics ShowLas Vegaswww.cesweb.org


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