ICT GLOBAL - Key Persons
Gary Workman: Over 45 years of experience at General Motors. Gary started as a Co-op student in 1969 at the GM Research Labs. He has an undergraduate engineering degree from GMI, a Masters degree in computer science from Purdue and an MBA from Harvard.
In 1975 Gary became a Senior Project Engineer working at the GM Tech Center focusing on Energy Conservation. In 1982 Gary was involved with the early versions of Industrial networking on the MAP program, eventually becoming the chief MAP Network Architect leading the GM team participating in ISO/OSI standards development. MAP was a Token Bus Architecture using 10BaseT for Real Time applications. Gary represented GM at the Corporation for Open Systems involving the development of protocol conformance tests for network communications.
For the last 20 Years of his GM career, Gary was responsible for researching, developing and implementing new open system networking technologies for vehicle assembly operations with activities listed below:
Championed GM's selection and implementation of EtherNet/IP as the global Ethernet standard for multi-vendor control system data exchanges.
General Motors official designated liaison to OVDA, recognized as a User Expert and invited to participate in many of their Special Interest Group and Implementer workshops
Co-Chaired Corporate Information Security Committee for Plant Floor Network Segregation
Responsible for plant floor network strategy; including the selection and configuration of a family of tool mountable industrial Ethernet switches and the adoption of a global safety networking standard.
Most recently responsible for GM's Ethernet IO strategy involving linear EtherNet/IP IO Networks
Getting GMIT to accept Manufacturing as being responsible for purchasing, installing, configuring, and maintaining industrial Ethernet control system networks. Championing the agreements for interfacing manufacturing industrial networks to the IT facility information networks.
Jim started a 30-year career with the A.E. Staley Company, which was later purchased by the UK firm Tate & Lyle Sugar. During his time with Tate & Lyle, Jim used both his Chemical and Electrical engineering knowledge to support and improve many different groups in the Tate and Lyle Global engineering/operations teams, including purchasing (sourcing), design engineering, plant automation, electrical design with a strong focus on safety. Jim developed a model that optimized the roles of plant OT and corporate IT to minimize costs and provide improvement in plant automation system uptime. Jim has experience with many international plant designs and startups, including "start-up design strategy" and hands-on implementation. After working with Corporate IT on a successful Y2K conversion and SAP shop floor connections and conversions, Jim left Tate & Lyle to lead the global plant systems and controls group at Cargill.
Jim has spent the last 9 years with Cargill continuing to add value to global plant operations. Working with his technical teams by showing how to blend both the IT and OT spaces in the manufacturing plants to implement changes in multiple plants quickly, keep the costs for change justifiable and develop workgroup models to allow plants to be back online during times of unstable conditions or system failures. Jim is an active member of both AIChE and ISA.