SAN ANTONIO, June 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerging Connected
Plant technologies were the highlight today when Honeywell
(NYSE: HON) kicked off its largest annual gathering of
industrial customers, with a focus on showing manufacturers how
digital transformation can help them achieve new levels of
consistently high performance.
The ability of Honeywell Connected Plant's offerings to deliver
higher levels of safety, reliability, efficiency and profitability
will continue to be the primary discussion point at the
43rd Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas symposium,
which runs through Friday. More than 1,300 delegates from across
the oil and gas, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining
sectors are attending the event, which features numerous displays
of the newest technologies along with dozens of Honeywell- and
customer-led sessions and technical discussions.
Throughout the conference, Honeywell will showcase how turning
data into actionable insight requires more than just upgrading
technology; it requires a system for capturing, retaining and
sharing knowledge that allows both the plant and its workers to
perform at their best every day. Honeywell Connected Plant enables
this through proven industry solutions based on decades of domain
knowledge and controls experience.
"Digital transformation has to be about more than just moving
data into the cloud," said John
Rudolph, president of Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS). "It
ultimately has to be about the outcomes, including driving
increased productivity and savings for our customers while allowing
them to increase knowledge capture, knowledge sharing and knowledge
retention among their employees."
Rudolph was named president of HPS on May
31, 2018, succeeding Vimal
Kapur, who was named president and CEO of Honeywell Building
Technologies. Rudolph led the Projects and Automation Solutions,
and Lifecycle Solutions and Services businesses for HPS over the
past six years, driving significant growth. Rudolph also has held
leadership roles with TAS Energy, General Electric and Ingersoll Rand.
HUG attendees will be able to see and experience the Company's
ongoing transformation into a software-industrial provider. As part
of this transformation, several technologies that have been
launched in 2018 will be displayed and demoed in the Knowledge
Center, including:
- Thermal IQ – Enables maintenance engineers and plant
managers to more effectively monitor and manage their thermal
process equipment, minimizing unplanned downtime and maximizing
uptime.
- Uniformance Cloud Historian – This software-as-a-service
cloud hosting solution for enterprise-wide data capture,
visualization and analysis helps customers improve asset
availability, optimize processes and increase plant uptime.
- Asset Performance Management – Integrates asset and
process data for actionable insights to improve asset performance
and plant profitability.
- Immersive Competency – This cloud-based simulation
offering uses a combination of augmented reality (AR) and virtual
reality (VR) to train plant personnel on critical industrial work
activities, empowering them to directly improve plant performance,
uptime, reliability and safety.
- Personal Gas Safety – This solution integrates with
Honeywell's leading plant control system to protect workers and
speed emergency response in case of hazardous leaks or worker
injury.
- Intelligent Wearables – This hands-free, wearable
technology allows industrial workers to more safely, reliably and
efficiently accomplish their tasks in the plant or the field. It
uses a head-mounted visual display that responds to voice and
brings live data, documents, work procedures, as well as health and
safety information into view and can connect field workers with
remote experts in real time.
- Experion® Batch - Combines Experion
distributed control, batch automation, and new visualization
technology for improved efficiency, quality and throughput.
- Measurement IQ for Gas - Provides measurement under
control by transforming metering operations with 24/7 real-time
condition-based monitoring.
For more information about these and other new technologies and
services being showcased at the Honeywell Users Group Americas
conference, please visit Honeywell Users Group.
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Honeywell Process Solutions (www.honeywellprocess.com) is a
pioneer in automation control, instrumentation and services for the
oil and gas; refining; energy; pulp and paper; industrial power
generation; chemicals and petrochemicals; biofuels; life sciences;
and metals, minerals and mining industries. It is also a leader in
providing software solutions and instrumentation that help
manufacturers find value and competitive advantage through
Honeywell Connected Plant, Honeywell's Industrial Internet of
Things (IIoT) solution. Process Solutions is part of Honeywell's
Performance Materials and Technologies strategic business group,
which also includes Honeywell UOP (www.uop.com), a leading
international supplier and licensor of process technology,
catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, and consulting services to the
petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing
industries.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100
software-industrial company that delivers industry specific
solutions that include aerospace and automotive products and
services; control technologies for buildings, homes, and industry;
and performance materials globally. Our technologies help
everything from aircraft, cars, homes and buildings, manufacturing
plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make
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