Honeywell Process Solutions vendor-neutral process control suite

Honeywell has announced a vendor-neutral process control suite, which allows plant operators to centrally monitor and control both Honeywell and non-Honeywell process control systems within their plants. It is designed to let operators and management break out of the information silos that can often occur with advanced process control (APC) systems.

Claimed to be suitable for all industrial applications, the Honeywell Process Solutions’ (HPS) suite has the ability to span not only multiple APC technologies, but also multiple processing facilities, giving consistent performance benchmarking across the enterprise and ensuring proper corrective action is taken when and where necessary. HPS studies have shown the solution can increase service factor and application utilisation by 25% while reducing troubleshooting time by up to 50%, allowing proactive maintenance practices to improve utilisation and increase application service factors.

The suite includes three software products: Loop Scout, which gives control engineers the ability to identify and correct poorly performing control loops; Profit Expert, delivering multivariable controller monitoring for Honeywell’s Profit Controller; and Control Performance Monitor, an application that monitors, identifies, diagnoses and remedies regulatory and APC asset issues throughout the plant.