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Honeywell
Receives $6 Million Order From Shell Affiliates For "Ensure
Safe Production" Program
BRACKNELL, UK,
7 March 2000 -
The
Industry Solutions segment of Honeywell [NYSE:HON] has received a
$6 million order from Shell Oil Products US, Motiva Enterprises
LLC, and the Deer Park Refining Limited Partnership (Shell
Affiliates) for application software and services to support the
companies’ Ensure Safe Production (ESP) process at nine U.S.
refineries.
Honeywell’s
products and services will be used to improve refinery processes
and optimize production to achieve economic targets.
At the same time, they will ensure operations are within
prescribed limits for safeguarding equipment and complying with
safety, health, and environmental standards. Honeywell’s
solution will be delivered by integrating and enhancing the
company’s Business.FLEX® Operations Management and @sset.MAX®
software products.
Tom
Purves, Motiva’s Port Arthur Refinery Manager and the ESP
Executive Process Owner, said, “We had developed an innovative,
new work process for improving our ability to operate
productively, while also ensuring operation within specified
limits. We looked for a technical support system to facilitate
deployment of that work process.”
Terry
Sutter, President of Honeywell Industry Solutions, said,
“Learning how well our existing Business.FLEX Operations
Management and @sset.MAX products meet our customers’
requirements has validated our approach with these products. Now,
working with our customers, we will be able to make them even
stronger best-in-class solutions that drive Abnormal Situation
Management® (ASM®) best practices.”
The
ESP process will establish operating limits for plant processes,
verify that operating targets are within specified limits, monitor
and control to targets, and establish and monitor performance
metrics for learning and continuous improvement.
Anticipated
benefits for the refineries include:
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Lower
costs through improved reliability
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Improved
efficiency through automation and electronic connection
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Ease
of use through integration of applications
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Simplified
implementation through common use of a standard solution.
During
the 27-month project, the Shell affiliates and Honeywell will work
together to pilot the solution, define enhancements needed to
current application software, implement the enhancements, and then
roll out the enhanced products to the nine refineries. Honeywell
software products to be employed include Operations Monitoring,
Operating Instructions, Lab Data Integrator, Alarm Configuration
Manager, Event Analyst, and UserAlert.
Enhancements
made for meeting ESP program requirements will become a part of
the standard Honeywell products. All products will run on
Uniformance® software, Honeywell’s industry-leading
plant information system for the process industries.
Industry
Solutions, a global business
in the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions group (ACS),
provides automation and business solutions that help customers
achieve improved productivity, compliance, safety, and
decision-making. ACS is a US$8 billion global leader in providing
product and service solutions to create efficient, safe, and
comfortable environments and help business and industry improve
productivity and profitability. It comprises four businesses:
Industry Solutions; Service; Security and Fire; and Control
Products. ACS offers heating, ventilation, humidification and
air-conditioning equipment controls, security and fire alarm
systems, home automation systems, energy-efficient lighting
controls, and building management systems and services. It also
provides automation systems, advanced software solutions, and
value-added services used in a variety of industries. ACS is also
a global supplier of sensors, switches, and control products for
industrial applications. For more information about Industry
Solutions, access http://www.iac.honeywell.com
Honeywell
is a US$24-billion diversified technology and manufacturing
leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and
services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry;
automotive products; specialty chemicals; fibers; plastics; and
electronic and advanced materials.
Honeywell employs approximately 115,000 people in 95
countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock
exchanges. It is one
of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and
is also a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.
Additional information on the company is available on the
Internet at www.honeywell.com.
This
release contains forward - looking statements as defined in
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including
statements about the future business operations, financial
performance and market conditions. Such forward - looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties in herent in business
forecasts as further described in our filings under the Securities
Exchange Act
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