Biography

Dr. Osvaldo A. Bascur is a Chemical Engineer and Metallurgical Engineer at the University of Concepción. PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. He currently works at OSB Digital, LLC as Principal advising clients on their Digital Transformation. Recently, he has designed a template for the Digital Transformation of Process Plants. This template transforms data into Information for use by people, systems and enables the modeling of industrial processes. It facilitates the use of new predictive modeling and artificial intelligence tools. Worked with Duval Corporation with Process Control Engineer; He was Manager of the Continuous Improvement Group (now Freeport McMoRan) in Tucson, Arizona and then as Director of the Process Control and Optimization Group for Pennzoil in Houston Texas. He developed a Blue Print for the integration of operational data for the optimization of industrial plants. In 2013, he received the most prestigious Antoine Gaudin Award from the Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers He is the second Chilean to win this award from the SME after Dr. Fernando Concha. More than 75 technical works, two books and several chapters of engineering books were published. In addition, Dr. Bascur is a member of the following engineering companies: SME, AIST, AIChE and IFAC MMM. Digital Transformation in the Process Industry: A Road Map. Published 2020 by CRC Press. Available at Routledge.com www.amazon.com Author of the Chapter "Process Control and Operational Intelligence" in the SME Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Handbook, SME 2019, Author of the Chapter "Measuring, Managing Operational Data for Process Optimization", Smart Manufacturing Concepts and Methods, Elsevier, 2020 Edited by University of Texas, 2019. Editor and author of the book "Latin American Perspectives: Exploration, Mining, and Processing, SME 1998".