DES PLAINES, Ill., Sept. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell
(NYSE: HON) UOP today introduced a new software-based
service designed to allow refiners and petrochemical and gas
processing plants to improve performance.
Honeywell UOP's new Connected Performance Services (CPS)
business leverages the Industrial Internet of Things to tap
Honeywell's deep process knowledge, design expertise, and
understanding of catalysis with next-generation software platforms
from Honeywell Process Solutions, the leading provider of
software-based solutions for the process industries.
"This cloud-enabled service makes plants smarter and more
responsive," said Zak Alzein, vice
president for CPS. "Problems that caused plants to be less
efficient or less productive and that went undetected for weeks or
months now can be resolved quickly and proactively, and decisions
that used to take days now can be made in hours. For many plants,
the avoidance of downtime and suboptimal performance, and better
agility, can be worth millions of dollars per year."
The CPS offerings include applications to address critical
challenges for refineries and petrochemical and gas processing
plants, including better asset utilization, unplanned downtime,
energy efficiency, and gaps in expertise as plants becomes more
sophisticated and experienced engineers retire. The CPS offerings
are part of the larger IIoT ecosystem being built by Honeywell to
allow end users to harness IIoT technology to tap the deep
expertise of Honeywell UOP and other leading suppliers and
partners.
At the heart of the CPS offering is a cloud-based software
service that continuously monitors streaming plant data and applies
advanced analytics and machine learning, leveraging UOP process
models and best practices to find latent or emerging
underperformance, alert plant personnel and make specific
operational recommendations. The system runs continuously with
user-friendly digital dashboards that provide highly intuitive
context and actionable understanding of a plant's performance. The
same dashboards are reported simultaneously to a dedicated
Honeywell UOP process advisor who also monitors performance and can
provide additional direction and resources.
In addition to identifying underperforming assets and
anticipating equipment failures and process issues, Honeywell can
monitor and help manage energy use to support compliance with
stricter regulatory standards, and also can bridge knowledge gaps
among personnel who may not be fully experienced with their
equipment. Roughly half of the industry's most highly-tenured staff
are expected to retire in the next seven years.
"The unique feature to this solution is the combination of
customer operating data and UOP expertise that provides plant
personnel with early-stage warnings that identify performance
improvements," Alzein said. "Advancements in software,
instrumentation and Big Data capabilities have finally converged,
which makes it possible for the first time to offer a cloud-based
IIoT solution that brings the connected plant to the oil and gas
industries. That combination is made even more powerful by UOP's
century-long knowledge of process technology, equipment, catalysis
and commercial best practices."
Honeywell UOP's CPS platform is designed around the user
experience, providing a practical interface that is easy to read
and understand and that provides quick and easy analysis and
recommendations.
Operators can get to the bottom of an issue in just a few
clicks, giving staff time to address the problem quickly or before
it becomes more serious. By leveraging powerful embedded root cause
analysis models, it puts critical performance information at the
user's fingertips to improve performance and offers predictive
insights to identify issues well before they could result in costly
problems.
Honeywell UOP (www.uop.com) is a leading international supplier
and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents,
equipment, and consulting services to the petroleum refining,
petrochemical, and gas processing industries. Honeywell UOP is part
of Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies strategic
business group, which also includes Honeywell Process Solutions
(www.honeywellprocess.com), a pioneer in automation control,
instrumentation and services for the oil and gas, refining,
petrochemical, chemical and other industries.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 diversified
technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide
with aerospace products and services; control technologies for
buildings, homes, and industry; turbochargers; and performance
materials. For more news and information on Honeywell, please
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