Bishop, N.
Emerson Process Management, Round Rock, Texas
Nikki Bishop, PE, is the director of Emerson’s Global Turnaround program. She has 14 years of experience in the process control industry, including automation projects in oil and gas, industrial energy, pharmaceuticals, power generation, pulp and paper, and refining. She holds a BS degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an executive MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a 3-yr director of the AIChE Fuels and Petrochemicals division, an active SWE and resides in Austin, Texas.
Turnarounds in continuous operating process plants, such as refineries and petrochemical processing plants, are complicated and costly events where each day of downtime equals lost revenue.