The International Control Systems conference is held every two years and is one of the leading conferences in the area of process measurement and control and systems engineering for the pulp and paper industry.

In 2024 the conference will be held concurrently with the Pulp & Beyond 2024 event at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Center in Helsinki, Finland.

The conference attracts presenters and attendees from all major pulp and paper producing countries, so this will be your best opportunity to network with experts from all around the world. (Open this "Call for Papers" as an A4 size pdf file for download or printing here.)

Suggested Topics:

• Measurement and control of relevant industrial processes
• Novel on-line sensors and sensing techniques
• Methods and tools for improving energy efficiency
• Process and control performance assessment
• Operator decision support and augmentation systems
• Production management and optimization
• Applications related to wood yard systems and logistics
• Process data analysis
• Modelling and simulation
• Measurement and control in biorefinery and bioenergyprocesses
• Applications of soft sensors and multivariate statistics in processcontrol
• Novel applications of AI in pulp and paper industry
• Applications and use cases with fast ROI for new 5G localnetworks
• Applications of 5G networks for millwide monitoring and control
• New functions being facilitated by current and future local 5Gmill networks
• Implementation of wireless sensors (IOT) in a mill environment (e.g. DCS/PLC connection, communication protocols,standards)
• Mobility regarding control systems access i.e. control systems inyour pocket

We will consider technically sound papers on any topic related to pulp and paper control systems and related subjects that can potentially benefit pulp and paper producers, with a specific focus on experiences from real mill implementations.

Important dates:

• Authors interested in presenting a paper at the conferenceshould submit an abstract by mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 15. October 2023
• Notification of acceptance will be sent 15. November 2023
• Full text manuscript or extended executive summary must be provided by 15. February 2024

The submitted abstract should briefly describe the objectives, results and conclusions on maximum 2 pages.
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International Program Committee and hosting organization:

The final scientific content, invited lectures, panels, and sessions for the conference will be developed with the assistance of the International Program Committee consisting of professionals from Canada, Finland, Sweden, and USA among other countries.
The organizers include the leading technical associations within the North American and Nordic pulp and paper industries, namely TAPPI, PAPTAC, SPCI, PTF and PI.

The hosting organization of Control Systems Conference 2024 is Finnish Forest Products Engineers’ Association (PI) with the venue of the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre.

Control Systems event:

• April 9th – Control Systems Conference and PI 110 Years Coctails / Welcome Reception
• April 10th – Pulp & Beyond event and Conference Dinner
• April 11th – Pulp & Beyond event and departure for excursions
• April 12th – Excursions in Central Finland and return back to Helsinki

On behalf of the International Organizing Committee

Antti Lindqvist
Managing Director
Finnish Forest Products Engineers’ Association

[INVITATION TO PRESENT / CALL FOR PAPERS]
CONTROL SYSTEMS 2022

[Note: Past event - for reference only]

You are invited to present at Control Systems 2022 which will be co-located VIRTUALLY with PaperWeek 2022 - February 7 & 8, 2022 on an MSTeams platform.

Held every two years, the Control Systems Conference is an international gathering in the area of process measurements and controls, and systems engineering for the pulp and paper industry. Due to the Covid pandemic, the 2020 edition, which was to have taken place along with SPCI's event, had to understandably be cancelled.

For 2022 it will be co-located with PaperWeek, which is taking place VIRTUALLY February 7-11, 2022. The Process Control sessions are scheduled for Monday February 7th and Tuesday February 8th, from 10:00-11:30.

PaperWeek is PAPTAC’s flagship conference serving the pulp & paper and forest products industry and includes sessions in papermaking, bleaching, energy, environment, reliabiity, safety, manage- ment, tissue making and the bioeconomy.

Control Systems 2022 will emphasize both practical implementation of and leading research efforts on new and emerging process control technologies of interest to the paper industry. We invite you to submit an abstract to present your paper at the conference.  Relevant topics include:

All technically sound papers on various topics concerning pulp and paper control systems and related subjects will be considered and peer-reviewed for acceptance by an international program committee.

6300 Avenue Auteuil, Suite 440, Brossard, (Québec) J4Z 3P2 CANADA

Phone: (514) 392-0265 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - www.paptac.ca

[Note: Past event - for reference only]

Control Systems Sessions at PaperWeek Canada

Downloaded Jan 31. Please refer to PWC program online (Monday or Tuesday) for the latest updates
All schedule is set on North American Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Venue

The conference is held on-line as an MS Teams conference.

With your given credentials you can access it through an MS Teams client, or use a Crome or Edge browser. Read instructions here.

Please note: Whether the links to the presentation papers below will result in the pdf opening in a new window in your browser, or become downloaded to your "Downloads" folder in your computer (to be viewed by a pdf viewer, such as Adobe Acrobat), is determined by your own settings in your current browser.

CS PROGRAM MONDAY FEBRUARY 7

Chair: Kerry Figiel, International Paper

10:00 “Aliasing performance of variable-speed scanning in cross-direction control of paper web”
            Seyhan Nuyan & Calvin Fu, Valmet

10:30 “A different approach to understanding, when it comes to dirt spots in paper”
            Anders Nilsson, FrontWay AB

11:00 “Improving Operating Margins of Pulp Mills with Advanced Process Control”
            Bill Poe, AVEVA & Alec Rancourt, Schneider Electric

CS PROGRAM TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8

Chair: Peter Hansen, RISE

10:00 “Intelligent Process Optimization Utilizing A Novel Control & Monitoring Platform”
          Meagan Walker, Kemira

10:30 “Extended information of product quality and their variability in paper board production using online measurement systems”
          Mikael Magnusson, RISE Research Institute of Sweden

11:00 “How to achieve a profitable ROI during a mill conversion with digitization”
          Alec Rancourt & Chris Apostolidis, Schneider Electric

REGISTER HERE (For reference only, conference was held in February 2022)

How the conference series "Control Systems" came to be

In 1968 Lennart Eriksson started the "Physics Department" (FA) at STFI, the Swedish Research Institute for forest based products. He and Sven Gunnar Edlund built a successful enterprise with a strong focus on research geared at obtaining useful results in the field of new measurement and control systems for the Pulp and Paper Industry.

The work at the physics department resulted in a large number of breakthrough systems. The STFI Cross Machine Control System, the STFI OPTI Kappa and the STFI Fibermaster are just a few of the systems that are worldwide recognized as having opened up for new opportunities in the measurement and control arena.

The two of them recognized the need for an international forum for knowledge exchange and, together with SPCI (the Swedish Association for Pulp and Paper Engineers), they organized the first Control Systems conference in Stockholm in 1982 entitled "Control Systems in the Pulp and Paper Industry - State of the art and the future".

The conference program was very ambitious and had a strong focus on the user perspective. The program was designed around invited speakers, mainly representing users and researchers. Suppliers played a very limited role in the program. This first conference counted over 500 participants and more than 100 exhibitors.

The success inspired cooperation with SPCI sister organisations in Canada, and later also in Finland. A new Control Systems Conference was organised in Stockholm 1986 and it was decided that the conference should thereafter alternate between Canada and Sweden/Finland.

I have tried to compile a list of the Control Systems conferences through the years. A list of all conferences held is presented below. I have also tried to to compile "Call for Papers" and "Conference Programs" for the various conferences as well as statistics about them (E.g. Number of Papers submitted and number of Papers presented, as well as the Number of Attendants, Exhibitors and Posters).

This work is still in progress. Some scanned information is linked to from the "List of all Control Systems Conferences".

If you can provide more info about the conferences I will gladly include them in the compilation for future reference. Send an email to ControlSystems-at-handix-dot-se (ignore the minuses and replace "at" and "dot" with you-know-what).