John Robert Parraga is director of process automation at ECS Solutions, Inc. He is an experienced process (particularly batch process) engineer with career stops at Sequentia, the firm that gave the world batch management as we know it, and Rockwell Automation where he held several roles. As a global process technical consultant, John advised many customers and integrators on the best way to control their processes; and as FactoryTalk Batch product manager, John was part of the PlantPAx leadership team. His published paper on recipe based clean-in-place remains a standard for implementing the best and most efficient clean-in-place control systems.