Honeywell Experion R400

Several enhancements to the Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) help process manufacturers more easily and cost-effectively manage their automation and control systems. Experion R400 includes advancements that lower the cost of open system ownership, with features such as an extended support life, flexible, direct on-process migration paths, virtualisation and easier installation and migration. These elements are intended to allow industrial facilities to focus on leveraging open systems benefits to improve business instead of managing the challenges with systems themselves.

The system also offers an integrated turbine control system that allows power generators to improve their plant performance through tighter integration between boilers and turbines. This gives plants the ability to better control their turbines, allowing them to produce energy more efficiently by maximising demand swings while reducing fuel consumption and production costs.

Plants with older versions of Experion can now upgrade to R400 more easily with extended on-process migration and automatic-install features. This allows plants to more quickly upgrade their systems on-process with larger jumps between releases.

The system also features a Profibus gateway that provides redundancy, further improving the reliability of critical process control applications such as intelligent motor control centres and remote critical equipment monitoring.