Maurice is an Executive Advisor, Marketing HQ for Yokogawa, based in Ilminster, Somerset, UK and returned to the UK in April 2016, after working overseas since 1990.

He has 42 years of experience in standards development and management, decision support, human factors, batch solutions, procedural operations, HMI design, advanced process control, benchmarking analysis and the chemicals and refining industries. He is a Chartered Engineer in the UK, a Fellow of the IChemE, a Fellow of ISA – the International Society for Automation and a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control. Maurice was inducted into the Process Automation Hall of Fame in 2011.

Maurice is co-chair of the ISA101 HMI standard committee and convenor of IEC SC65A WG19 looking to develop a global HMI standard. As a member of several smart manufacturing standards committees and chairman of BSI’s GEL/65 and GEL/001 standards committees, which mirror IEC TC65 responsible for electrotechical standards and TC1 responsible for the Electropedia. He am past VP of the ISA Standards & Practices department and now sits on their executive board and is also a council member and trustee for InstMC.

Maurice has written and presented numerous industry articles and presented papers at conferences around the world. He have been a keynote speaker on several occasions and received  Best Paper Awards for the 1995 ICS conference in New Orleans and the 2003 Emerson User Exchange Conference. He also gave the first non-Japanese keynote at Yokogawa’s Annual Technology Fair in 2008. Maurice was elected to the Process Automation Hall of Fame in 2011, for which he received a Yokogawa Special Technical Award. He was awarded an ISA Fellowship in 2013 for my work in batch and procedure automation, and received a second Yokogawa Special Technical Award in November 2016 for my work on standards and getting approval for the ISA-101 HMI standard.