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Associate Members of CPACT are individuals who were once employed by either Member companies or other industrial organisations and are still active in process analysis and control as consultants.  Each Associate Member has a wealth of experience and collectively they provide unparalleled expertise to help advise CPACT Members on a wide range of technical and business matters.

Through CPACT, the Associate Member Consultants have agreed to form a Consultancy Hub that allows CPACT member organisations to access consultancy support at a preferred rate for an agreed number of days.

Click on the images below to find out more details about each Associate Member and their expertise.

How the scheme operates:

  1. The scheme is only open to CPACT Members.
  2. Contact one or more Associate Members using the email they have provided to request a conversation on the support required. The email should be copied to admin@cpact.com 
  3. It is up to each Associate Members to decide if they are able to accommodate a consultancy request within the scheme, when contacted by a CPACT member.
  4. The Associate Member will decide how many days of consultancy at the reduced “CPACT” rate they can offer on each occasion. This would typically be up to 3 days.
  5. If a consultancy arises, the Associate Member will inform admin@cpact.com .
  6. The “CPACT” rate is £1000 per day plus VAT and any additional expenses such as for travel etc.
  7. The consultancy income at the “CPACT” rate will be split with 25% to CPACT and 75% retained by the consultant.
  8. Consultancy provided beyond the agreed days at the “CPACT” rate will normally be charged at the consultant’s normal daily rate, to be agreed between the consultant and the CPACT member.

The CPACT Consultancy Hub provides unique access to a collection of experienced and trusted advisers who can assist with the design, development and deployment of PAT/Control system equipment/platforms. Their expertise spans multi-national companies (MNCs), and SMEs across most sectors including O&G, F&B, FMCG, and Pharmaceutical (API, OSD, Bio).

CPACT’s Associate Members are:

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David Lovett

I started my career with an electrical, electronic and management degree from the University of Manchester. Early career jobs in the Ferranti Calibration labs, followed by 3 years in the nuclear industry started a path in instrumentation and control. By the early 90’s, I’d joined Predictive Control, designing and commissioning Model Predictive Control systems in many “exotic” locations worldwide, enjoying a wide variety of control engineering problems in Food, Pulp & Paper, Oil and Gas and Power sectors. Post acquisition by Invensys I managed the 40 strong APC Engineering team covering EMEA and APAC.

In 2002, I co-founded Perceptive Engineering with a team from industry and academia to further the capabilities of “Integrated Monitoring and Control systems”. The ethos behind Perceptive fostered strong collaborations between academic centres of excellence and industrial partners, which naturally gelled with CPACT and other non profit communities of practice, striving to bring new ideas, and create innovative practical solutions to the commercial market. For 15 years Perceptive steadily built its reputation in the Pharmaceutical, FMCG and Environmental sectors, working with over 30 multinational companies, helping develop innovative solutions, by “designing in" process analytics, control and machine learning methods around novel process equipment.

In 2020 Perceptive was acquired by Applied Materials multinational semiconductor business and integrated into the Smart Factory Rx Pharmaceutical platform. During the past 3 years, as Chief Strategy Officer within the SF Rx group I have sought to identify cross fertilisation synergies across the Applied business units and assisted the Applied Ventures with due diligence activities. In parallel with this I have provided consultative support to a variety of early stage companies within the UK, accelerating market growth, providing technical advice, business governance and assisting with VC investment.

Throughout my career I have remained passionate about engineering, encouraging others to build on the shoulders of the knowledge base which has been hard earned and, more than ever, is shared amongst a team rather than one individual. As an Associate Member of CPACT I aim to contribute to the community of experts, nuture ideas from the rich knowledge base, interface with academic and industrial practitioners and hopefully bring a mixture of new generation companies into the CPACT community, supporting the next generation of engineers push the boundaries just a little bit further. With a regular presence in SE Asia I’d hope to assist reaching out to provide the CPACT members with an SE Asian hub.  

Contact email: dlovett@ttevol.com

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Associate Members also make other important contributions to CPACT such as:

  • Help raise the profile of CPACT
  • Introduce CPACT to prospective new Members
  • Participate in promotional activities, webinars etc.
  • Make contributions to CPACT’s committees
  • Give presentations at events on behalf of CPACT