Pat Kennedy

Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy is the CEO and majority owner of OSIsoft. Under his visionary leadership, the company has grown from a small software startup in 1980 to a highly profitable $125+ million per year global corporation. Dr. Kennedy has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas.

Vivek Bapat

Vivek is the Vice President, Solutions Marketing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and PLM at SAP. Prior to SAP, he held leadership positions with Rockwell Automation, Systems Modeling, and Alfa-Laval in strategy, business development, M&A, and product management. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of MESA International.

Paul Kurchina

Paul is an Information Technology visionary and a leader in leveraging Wireless, Mobile, Enterprise Asset Management, as well as SAP applications and technologies. He has worked in a variety of roles at Ontario Hydro, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and TransAlta. Paul is coauthor of Mashup Corporations and Mobilizing SAP.

SAP Press Release about the Perfect Plant Book

Under the leadership of the authors, Pat Kennedy, CEO of OSIsoft, Vivek Bapat of SAP, and Paul Kurchina of KurMeta, the team examined the most vital areas of modern manufacturing, including the challenges plants face in planning, asset management, energy management, visibility, quality management, and several other areas.

Using the technique of explanatory fiction, the book presents insights and observations from the authors and experts in a highly readable form.

In addition to OSIsoft, SAP, and KurMeta, the primary sponsors of the book, Cisco and TCS are contributing sponsors of the book and ACSIS is a participating sponsor. Each of the sponsors helped assemble the team of experts who provided content for the book and reviewed the final version.