Record Engagement at Honeywell Users Group Conference

Phil Black - PII Editor 20/11/2014

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Company Spotlights Solutions that Increase Operational Knowledge for Industrial Automation Users

Honeywell today announced it hosted a record number of attendees from the process industries for its 26th annual Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Conference. This year’s event, held in The Hague, drew over 1,000 attendees from major oil and gas, chemical, pulp and paper, and metals and mining companies.

Attendance was three percent higher than last year’s conference, with about 40 percent of attendees attending HUG EMEA for the first time. The record number of attendees represented more than 394 companies from 72 countries and more than 15 industries..

“We’re pleased with this year’s event from an attendance and a quality-of-interaction standpoint,” said Vimal Kapur, president of Honeywell Process Solutions. “HUG gives us a unique opportunity to collaborate with our customers, share our strategic roadmap and gather valuable feedback which is channelled back into our product development approach.”

Session content at this year’s HUG EMEA reflected the theme of Knowledge. Honeywell’s experts and customers alike discussed improving the operational knowledge of automation system users to improve process safety, reliability, security, and sustainability. New solutions demonstrated at HUG EMEA also addressed topics such as cyber security, alarm and operations management, and remote operations.

Products and solutions in the spotlight this year included:

Digital Suites for Oil and Gas: An innovative set of software and services that can help oil and gas producers boost production performance by three to five percent while improving operational safety. The production improvements, which have been validated through customer testing, are driven by a combination of better productivity, higher uptime and more efficient remote operations – and can produce a return on investment in as little as six months
LEAP™: An automation project service designed to help manufacturers decrease the amount of time it takes to get their plants or projects up and running. Using proprietary hardware and software, virtualisation and Honeywell’s cloud engineering technologies, LEAP turns project execution workflow on its head, simplifying what has traditionally been a long and expensive process and enabling measurable time and cost savings so plants can focus on the end goal of getting up and running quickly
Experion® Orion Console: A new interface for Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) which increases operator effectiveness over a greater scope of responsibility. Large ultra-high definition screens allow flexible information layouts; advanced display technology integrates operating data directly into overview displays; and context-specific displays, advanced alarm management and touchpad capability allow better at-a-glance status assessment. Combined with ergonomic design, this combination of technologies increases situational awareness and faster response to changing conditions
Cyber security defence technologies: Used in control rooms at industrial sites around the world. Over the past decade, the Honeywell Industrial Cyber Security group has delivered more than 500 industrial cyber security projects globally and has recently opened the Honeywell Industrial Cyber Security Lab near Atlanta, Georgia

Details for next year’s HUG EMEA will be announced in early 2015. Please visit the Honeywell Users Group website for more information at www.honeywellusersgroup.com.