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Honeywell
Introduces Experion PKS, Next Gerneration Process Knowledge System
Driven for Results.
BRACKNELL, UK,
19 April 2002 -
Honeywell
[NYSE:HON] Industry Solutions has introduced Experion PKS™, a
revolutionary system approach to comprehensive business, process
and asset management that embeds three decades of Honeywell
industrial expertise into a unified, robust Process Knowledge
System™ architecture.
The
Experion PKS system is used in industrial plants and mills to
integrate, control and monitor complex processes in many types of
industrial settings, including refineries, pharmaceuticals, power
and chemical plants, and pulp, paper and printing mills.
Experion
PKS provides an integrated platform for Honeywell’s complete
Process Knowledge Solution™, which manages process knowledge
through a combination of advanced technologies, industrial domain
expertise and Six Sigma methodologies to realize untapped results ¾
results that cannot be achieved through traditional control or
field system architectures.
Experion
PKS contains state-of-the-art Distributed Control, FOUNDATION*
Fieldbus, Abnormal Situation Management®, Asset Management, and
Information Management technologies.
These technologies are paired with Honeywell’s unmatched
process experience and results generating tools to improve
processes and optimize production to achieve economic targets.
Knowledge-driven decision support and diagnostics tools
embedded with Experion PKS empower plant and mill staff to focus
on improving profitability, rather than routine process
operations.
“Process
manufacturing companies are at a crossroads today,” commented
Dick Hill, Vice President of Collaborative Manufacturing Solutions
for ARC Advisory Group. “They
need to maximize their return on assets while at the same time be
more responsive to their customers’ demands for high quality and
uninterrupted flow of product. With the release of Experion PKS, Honeywell hits the mark by
emphasizing the importance of capturing and deploying
manufacturer’s knowledge and the knowledge of their supplier
partners. Execution
of such knowledge-based systems and solutions will separate the
winners from the losers in the coming decade as the industrial
world strives to achieve operational excellence.”
Terry
Sutter, President of Honeywell Industry Solutions said,
“Experion PKS offers a solution for customers to manage
knowledge faster and easier to realize measurable profitability
and productivity results ¾results
based upon Process Knowledge Solutions that are driven by decades
of applied Honeywell technologies, customer relations and innovative
work processes.”
Distributed
Control features provided by Experion PKS include a complete
continuous, logic, sequential, and drive object-oriented control
environment hosted on fully redundant controllers.
Other key features include native Web technology based
operating displays and casual user environment, a comprehensive
history suite, easy-to-use tools, and unparalleled device
integration including FOUNDATION Fieldbus.
Using open, wireless technology, Experion PKS makes
virtually any plant information available to remote personnel on
handheld platforms. Experion Digital Video Manager turns simple
video feeds into powerful plant sensors.
Scalability is virtually limitless, even across
geographical boundaries, with Honeywell’s patented Distributed
System Architecture technology.
Experion
PKS goes beyond Distributed Control System (DCS) technology to
facilitate knowledge sharing and workflow management that
optimizes work processes, improves routine maintenance
efficiencies, and resolves process issues.
Experion PKS integrates sophisticated asset management
tools, such as a powerful control loop assessment tool that
provides non-invasive, systematic, identification of controller
problems. These types
of diagnostic tools, available even with older non-digital field
devices, make control engineers highly effective troubleshooters,
giving them more time for higher-value activities.
Integrated plant-wide history and data analysis, together
with a plant-wide infrastructure for managing alerts, is also
included.
Incorporating
expert knowledge from the Honeywell-led Abnormal Situation
Management (ASM) Consortium, the Experion PKS operating
environment integrates alarm, event and alert management tools.
These tools provide operators with the knowledge needed to
avoid incidents or respond intelligently to incidents that
diminish asset availability, profitability and productivity.
Standard display object libraries implementing ASM
principles are included. Applying ASM Consortium guidelines has proven to increase
operator awareness, decision-making abilities, and responsiveness,
reducing operator-related incidents by as much as 40 percent.
Experion
PKS continues the Honeywell practice of providing investment
protection for existing Honeywell users, and extends this
protection to non-Honeywell system users.
Operational integration capabilities offered by Experion
PKS enables customers who use Honeywell’s TPS, TDC3000®, TotalPlant®
Alcont, and PlantScape® systems to easily operate their
installed base together with Experion PKS expansions in a unified
manner.
Data, alarms, events and trend history can all be viewed in
a common environment between these systems and Experion PKS.
Non-Honeywell and DCS installed base customers can be
easily integrated to Experion PKS using the most comprehensive and
advanced OPC data, alarm and event suite.
For
more information visit www.experionpks.com
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://europe.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.
PlantScape®,
TotalPlant®, TDC 3000®
and Abnormal Situation Management® are registered trademarks and
Experion PKS™, Process Knowledge System™ and Process Knowledge
Solution™ are trademarks of Honeywell International Inc.
*FOUNDATION
is a trademark of the Fieldbus Foundation.
Honeywell
Industry Solutions
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