Middle East

EMEA Board of Directors
In addition to our International Board of Directors, MESA has a Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) Board that guides activities in those regions.  The EMEA Board consists of the following officers:

Jan Snoeij, Logica - Chairman
Karl Schneebauer, MPDV - Vice Chairman
Mike James, ATS International - Treasurer

View the full list of MESA EMEA Board Members here.

MESA Working Groups in the Middle East

MESA has established a Middle East Working Group. Various manufacturers, mainly active in the oil and gas industry, have expressed their interest in participating in MESA Working Groups. Despite the preconceived notion that MES has no or little added value to continuous processing, actual examples are proving otherwise. These kinds of experiences will be exchanged in the MESA International Working Group meetings.

MESA's working group in the Middle East is very successful. An increasing number of people are participating in the meetings, which are sponsored by MES solution providers. Four technical teams are formed in order to determine and exchange best practices and guidelines for applying MES.

17th Middle East Technical Exchange Meeting and Sponsor Recognition Event
MESA's Middle East Working Group conducted its final 2009 and 17th monthly technical exchange meeting on November 17th, 2009. The meeting was sponsored by Yokogawa - Middle East. More than 60 engineers from different solution providers and manufacturing users attended the meeting. Yokogawa presented a paper on "Real-time Production Organiser (RPO)". Combining many years of industry experience with proven technologies and leading edge platform products, Yokogawa delivers 'Operational Excellence' through their RPO concept. RPO is a suite of platform applications developed specifically to bridge the gap between production planning and process control providing a fully integrated business to process (B2P) production environment. In which, RPO integrates the vertical production execution workflow across all departments, enabling real-time decision making and allowing all tasks to be executed quickly, consistently and efficiently, enabling 'Agile Plant Operation'.

In addition, following the presentation, MESA ME WG recognized all 2009 events' sponsors. Total of seven sponsors during 2009 namely: Saudi Business Machine (SBM), Naizak, INOVx Solutions, Hyperion, Honeywell Middle East, Invensys Saudi Arabia, and Yokogawa Middle East. The sponsors highly appreciated the recognition and were encouraged to continue to participate annually in MESA Middle-East monthly events. View pictures of the event here.

16th MESA Middle East Technical Exchange Meeting
MESA's Middle East Working Group conducted its 16th monthly technical exchange meeting on October 27th, 2009. The meeting was sponsored by Invensys Process Systems - Saudi Arabia. More than 55 engineers from different solution providers and manufacturing users attended the meeting. Invensys presented a paper on "Beyond Enterprise Asset Management". In the industry, maintenance functions typically strive to maximize asset availability while operation functions strive for maximum asset utilization. Asset performance management (APM) is the holistic approach that has emerged to describe the practice of balancing availability and utilization around business performance. View pictures of the event here.

14th MESA Middle East Technical Exchange Meeting
MESA's Middle East Working Group conducted its 14th technical exchange meeting on May 19th, 2009. The meeting was sponsored by Hyperion an automation solution provider for layer 3 (MOM layer). More than 50 engineers attended the meeting. Hyperion presented a paper on "Batch Tracking System - A better way to manage your manufacturing process and production orders". View pictures from the event here.

12th MESA Middle East Working Group Meeting
MESA's Middle East Working Group conducted its 12th technical meeting on February 24, 2009. More than 60 engineers attended the meeting. The meeting was sponsored by Naizak. Pictures from the event are here.

11th MESA Middle East Working Group Meeting
MESA's Middle East Working Group conducted its 11th technical meeting on January 20, 2009 at the Carlton Moaibed Hotel, Al Khobar. The meeting was sponsored by IBM. Pictures from the event are here.

10th MESA Middle East Working Group Meeting
MESA's Middle East Working Group conducted its 10th quarterly technical meeting in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, November 8, 2008 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Al Khubar. More than 40 professionals attended the meeting, representing various manufacturers/producers and solution providers in the local MES industry for oil & gas. The meeting was sponsored GE Fanuc Automation Solution Saudi Arabia. As manufacturing increasingly becomes an essential part of a company's Extended Enterprise Supply Chain, the role of Manufacturing IT and the integration to plant and business systems is key to many companies success. GE explored the role that standards play in a company's Manufacturing IT solution and importantly the ability for that company to ensure that the People, Plant and Processes can take advantage of Manufacturing IT and adopt it as part of their everyday business. Pictures from the event are here.

8th MESA Middle East Working Group Meeting
MESA's Middle East Working Group conducted its 8th quarterly technical meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at the Le Meridian Hotel, Al Khubar. More than 40 professionals attended the meeting, representing various manufacturers/producers and solution providers in the local MES industry for oil & gas. The meeting was sponsored by Invensys Middle East FZE.  Invensys presented their Collaborative Operations Management Systems (OMS).  OMS is an integrated software systems that helps management to operate one or more facilities in a consistent manner, obtain feedback on how the manufacturing facilities are operating, compare their operation to the desired operating modes and goals, and make the necessary adjustments to operate the facilities in a better and efficient manner.  It is the software automation of the Business Processes that fills in the gap and enable the smooth flow of information between the Process Automation Layer and the Business Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) layer. Pictures from the event are here.

7th MESA Middle East Working Group Meeting in Saudi Arabia
Around 40 professionals from the Oil & Gas industry attended the 7th MESA Middle East meeting sponsored by Matrikon on November 26, 2007. Pictures from the event are here.

6th MESA Middle East Working Group Meeting in Saudi Arabia
Around 40 professionals from the Oil & Gas industry in Saudi Arabia attended the 6th MESA Middle East meeting sponsored by Yokogawa on June 12, 2007. Yokogawa shared with the audience the integration of Netweaver SAP Portal with their Control System, introducing a rich layer of MES applications for their users. The presentation was very informative and well attended. Pictures from the event are here.

MESA Launches Working Group in Israel

For information on the MESA Israel Working Group, click here.