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IIoT Spotlight: A Look at Honeywell Connected Plant
January 31, 2018
The following is a conversation with Elinor Price, product marketing manager, Honeywell Connected Plant.
Honeywell Connected Plant is the company's primary IIoT solution that turns data into insights to make plants and businesses run better.
"Our approach involves connecting asset data, process data, and process design with connected productivity tools for people. This allows us to replicate and augment the expertise of the most-experienced operators, maintenance personnel and plant managers. Combining all of this allows people tasked with running plants to understand where the process is going in the next few hours, days or weeks. We do this by combining process data with analytics and thus maximizing asset performance and reliability. We also link our customers with a growing ecosystem of equipment OEMs to leverage their asset domain experience and improve operational decision making," Price said.
Some of the Honeywell IIoT solutions implemented have enabled customers around the world to improve process reliability by capturing and analyzing data, and then identifying the warning signs of potential issues – predicting when process adjustment and equipment maintenance are needed, and preemptively servicing installed assets before problems arise. Ultimately, Honeywell Connected Plant customers can use these insights to produce higher yield, make workers more effective and run plants more efficiently.
Some examples of customers using IIoT Solutions from Honeywell are:
- An offshore oil and gas customer in the Gulf of Mexico, who now monitors all assets, connecting their people with real-time data using predictive analytics for problem diagnosis. The result is increased production efficiency and decreased downtime and operational costs, delivering a savings of $30 million/year.
- A South American mining customer, who now optimizes operations in real time by connecting multiple plants to each other and their mine has yielded improved reliability and reduced energy usage and shutdowns, delivering savings of $2 million/day.
- An Indian refining customer who now connects data from over 18 different systems for better analytics and accurate KPIs has improved optimization across the enterprise, delivering a savings of $4 million per site/year.