At APCO
Inc., Dale has the pleasure of directing some of the brightest minds and finest
people ever assembled in the field of process control. He has been working within
the industry since 1985 in the area of regulatory, advanced control and optimization.
In 1995 he founded APCO and targeted regulatory and advanced controls in the heavy industries.
Dale has over
twenty years of experience in control technology. He has implemented advanced control
systems in many places around the world including Japan, Germany, Norway, and India. He
now oversees various projects based primarily within the United States. Control
technologies include: optimizing, constrained, multivariable controllers (DMCplus, SMCA),
constraint control, adaptive PID, nonlinear multivariable identification, and multivariable
inferred properties for crude unit quality measurements. Process units include: Fluid
Catalytic Cracking and Gas Recovery, Fractionation / Distillation, Absorption, Ethylene
Furnaces, Caprolactum, Isomerization (UOP Penex), Dewaxing Reactors, Nodulizing and Calcining
Rotary Kilns, Ethylene Refrigeration systems, Glass Annealing Lehr, PH controls and many others.
Dale has experience with a wide variety of DCS systems including: IBM ACS, Yokagowa
Centum, Fisher Provox, Bailey Net 90, Honeywell TDC 2000 – 3000, HP-A900 PMC-1000, and OPTO-22.
Programming Languages include; FORTRAN, BASIC, Matlab, ACSL, and associated DCS languages.
Since 1985 Dale’s professional highlights include:
APCO Inc. - President and CEO of Advanced Process Control and Optimization
consulting company. He leads and manages advanced control projects in many industries.
University of Utah - Involved in the Control Program of the Chemical Engineering department.
Dale also helped develop, as well as taught at, The Teaching Center for Advanced Control Technology.
He taught DCS courses, regulatory, and advanced control short courses to hundreds of industrial clients.
SETPOINT Inc. (purchased by Aspen Technology) - Senior Project Engineer - Participated
in designing, programming, and implementing multivariable model predictive control and
optimization strategies.
Brigham Young University - Instructor - Taught graduate-level applied digital process control courses and
an undergraduate-level FORTRAN programming course.
Kirtland AFB Weapons Laboratory - Engineering assistant in chief scientist lab - One and two dimensional
laser beam profiling and computer interfacing of silicon detectors.
When Dale is not working he enjoys motorcycling, fishing, and spending time with
his wife and children.