Regarding drilling off the intercontinental shelf, now we know that natural seepage is actually occurring at greater levels than would occur as a result of any drilling accident. Additionally, importing oil has been proven to be 14 times greater a risk for accidents and spills than drilling ourselves with our own technology. What is even more frustrating is that we have the world’s greatest supply of coal and can produce it into oil for $40 a barrel as well. The fear of carbon emissions has kept us from pursuing this option, yet now we have the technology to pump the carbon back into the earth.

I am proud that I work for a company that provides solutions instead of blockades. This is the core of the American spirit of industrialism and entrepreneurship. Back in the 1930s, my grandfather found an opportunity when the owner of an electric company, Dowzer, promised to make him the foreman of a plant if he could complete power lines across the Rocky Mountains. My grandfather was the only man from the original crew to make it across, and Dowzer made him a foreman. He went on to solve many problems, reducing cost and improving efficiency for plants across the Midwest. He was the only operation willing to repair transformers instead of just junking them. He turned transformer repair and motor rewinding into a huge and profitable business, employing 200 people in the Dowzer Electric plant in Mt. Vernon, Illinois.

I wanted to be part of something important that improved modern American industry and have found that industrial spirit here at MYNAH. MYNAH is helping plants stay green, profitable, and efficient in this age when the government makes it almost impossible to stay profitable with the incredible regulations.

MYNAH’s 3^rd-generation simulation product, MiMiC v3, allows plants to remain green, efficient, and productive while avoiding incidents. It is also helping plants to bridge the skills gap with the aging automation work force. MiMiC v3 has an Operator Training Manager that makes it easy for integrators, end users, and operators to learn to develop simulation models of their plants. The great thing about this is that they can then use these simulations at any stage of the plant’s lifecycle for training, upgrades, tests, etc. This saves a lot of time and money. Recently, a chemical customer claims that we saved them over $3MM USD in quicker time to market and improved batch, not even calculating avoided incidents and the added benefit of having the MiMiC v3 Operator Training Manager available now. Another recent customer (Ethylene Plant) purchased a DeltaV system with MiMiC and services for around $100,000. Our competitors who previously had done the plant’s simulation on the last project had charged them $2.9 MM USD. The plant saw the savings and the benefits of using DeltaV with MiMiC, to say the least!

In this age of government regulation and when everything has to be “green” and environmentally friendly, plants cannot afford to take risks and make automation upgrades and changes to their system without performing a simulation first. It saves so much and reduces the risk….it just makes sense. When legislators are not making sense with some of their policies, we have to depend on American entrepreneurship, innovation, and work together to improve plant efficiency in order to stay competitive in the global market. Here at MYNAH, it is our goal to help do that.