José María Nougués has over 30 years of experience in Process Simulation and Process Control. After three years as a process manager in the food industry, he joined the Chemical Engineering Department in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he headed up several European Projects. Later, José María joined the Hyprotech/Aspentech Services group. As project manager, he led the service project team focused mainly on steady state and dynamic simulation applications, dynamic engineering studies and the integration of models into plant information systems as part of decision-support applications. At Inprocess, José María is Director of Technology and leads several service projects in the area of engineering studies and operator training systems.