‘Sustain.Ability’ theme for 2012 HUG Symposium

The 2012 Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Asia-Pacific Symposium is underway, with this year’s ‘Sustain.Ability’ theme shaping the event. The four-day conference will highlight Honeywell’s latest products, including the next-generation Experion Orion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and the new collaboration software Intuition Executive.

With over 200 customers and partners expected to attend the Gold Coast event, the HUG Symposium is the company’s largest customer gathering in the region.

“Asia continues to exhibit growth as customers in the process automation industry for growth and development. However, with the economic turbulences, customers in the process industry are looking for technologies and solutions that help improve operations, better manage assets, drive efficiency and generate returns on investments,” said Jason Urso, Chief Technology Officer, Honeywell Process Solutions.

“At this year’s Honeywell Users Group Asia-Pacific Symposium, we are showing attendees how they can manage priorities to achieve and sustain good business performance.”

Honeywell’s flagship offering, Experion Orion PKS, has undergone major advancements that can significantly improve plant production by up to 13%, significantly reduce operator-related safety incidents and lower the total cost of ownership by up to 30%. Honeywell says the new Experion Orion PKS is the first industrial process system to use Universal Channel Technology to remotely configure process and safety systems without the need for additional hardware.

The recently launched Intuition Executive collaboration software is another highlight of the symposium. It allows manufacturers to analyse and visualise data across their entire enterprises to better respond to volatile energy costs, complex regulatory changes and real-world safety challenges.

HUG Symposium attendees will experience a live demonstration of a new 3D simulation solution that Honeywell is developing, which combines visualisation technology with its UniSim Design Operations simulation tool. Honeywell says the solution will provide a holistic virtual environment that plants can use to efficiently design, analyse and verify plant operations.

Tuyen Dinh Quang, winner of the 2012 Asia Pacific UniSim Design Student Competition, will showcase the winning solution, designed to simulate the complex petroleum refinery process to help optimise production.

Topics such as plant modernisation, control system migration, oil and gas measurement and simulation will all be covered at the HUG Symposium, which will consist of customer-driven sessions and presentations, as well as demonstrations of the latest Honeywell technologies designed for the process industries.

WNIPT’s editor Glenn Johnson is reporting from the HUG Symposium.