Chemical Solutions Automation Solutions for Chemical Producers
Honeywell chemical solutions add value to your bottom line. Whether your facility makes millions of tons of ethylene or thousands of pounds of a specialty chemical, Honeywell has the solutions to improve your bottom line. Our solutions are tailored for your industry and can help you achieve a better return on your assets. Honeywell innovated the DCS, we pioneered digital transmitters and have been controlling the world s largest chemical plants for over 30 years. With Honeywell s leading position in automation and controls, you can count on solutions that deliver operational excellence and sustained business value.
Chemical industry challenges. The chemicals industry is amazingly diverse, making an incredible range of products in very different ways using specialized processes. Chemical manufacturers face the pressure of ensuring the safety of their people and community and ensuring compliance with regulations. All this, while showing sustained improvement and making operations and the supply chain more efficient. Let Honeywell help you improve business Global Competition At one time, your competition was local and regional. Now, you are competing in a dynamic marketplace that includes competitors throughout the world. While you must still compete with your neighbor, now you are also competing in a dynamic marketplace that includes competitors throughout the world. Workforce Knowledge Whether you are starting up a plant training new operators, or in an existing plant worrying about retiring staff, maintaining and retaining your process knowledge is critical. Customer Demands Your customers have become much more knowledgeable about your products. They are demanding ever more process and product information. They are now telling you how to make your products. Shareholder Demands Your shareholders are looking at each quarter s results. No matter how well you did last year, you have to justify their investments every day of the year. Safety and Security Today, chemical plants face the challenge of being a target for threats. You must be able to anticipate and respond to threats from the process control network to the perimeter of the plant. With over 30 years of unmatched commitment to the chemicals automation market, Honeywell can help you address these concerns. Honeywell can partner and help with your business improvements. performance while addressing these challenges. Honeywell s column profile prediction was an inventive solution that demonstrated strong process knowledge being applied to solve a difficult control problem. Kamrul Ariffin, PP(T)SB
Your partner for solutions to improve business performance. Honeywell helps you leverage process knowledge to achieve and sustain your operational excellence by bringing process, business, assets and people information together. analyze key performance indicators throughout the business to align objectives and drive further improvements. Better Technology Turning resources into results with technology that solves a larger problem Better Delivery Achieving quicker start-up and more immediate benefits Better Lifecycle Support Process Control and production management solutions can drive real and lasting improvements in process performance, yielding a high quality product at lower costs. Using proven and innovative technology, Honeywell has control solutions for all chemical processes. These solutions improve process control, as well as reduce product variability and off-spec material. Honeywell s suite of control and optimization solutions are complemented by production management and operations management solutions that enable the plant to improve the consistency of its operation and product. Business Business agility solutions provide the tools and information needed to align production with market demand. These solutions help improve tactical and strategic decision making, and enable the organization to meet customer commitments at the lowest cost. Performance management solutions allow you to measure, collect, store and People With the right information available to the right people at the right time, problems can be detected sooner, informed decisions made and appropriate actions taken. For example, training simulators help operators know how to best respond to abnormal situations and make people safer and more effective. With more effective people, your plant can improve production, availability and safety. Assets Improvements in asset effectiveness impact plant reliability and availability. By combining process, asset and operator input, problems can be detected earlier. By addressing these problems quicker, before they cause an incident, you improve reliability and reduce maintenance costs. Supporting continuous evolution and protecting your investment Honeywell technology and services can provide us with efficient, effective solutions that will help us meet our challenges and sharpen our global competitiveness. Joe Benders, Director Manufacturing Europe, Lyondell
This project showed the depth of Honeywell s engineering capabilities. I would not have thought a complete DCS replacement was possible in six weeks. I can see why ENR has ranked Honeywell Process Solutions as one of the top 20 design firms in the world. Steve Cottrell, Engineering Leader, Honeywell Chemicals, Baton Rouge Solution Balance Honeywell knows that too much emphasis in one area will limit your return on investment. Improving your production rate without improving your delivery mechanism will not allow you to maximize your investment. Having the best mix of process, business, people and assets maximizes your value. Honeywell can help you determine, design, develop and deploy balanced solutions that unlock and sustain this value. Honeywell improves your process automation and business decision making and then helps you quickly translate those decisions into actions. Our solutions leverage process knowledge and provide a solid foundation for continuous improvement. These balanced solutions work together to maximize your business value. With Honeywell as your partner you will improve your business s performance. Systems At the core of Honeywell s Chemicals solution is the Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), the only automation system designed to turn process information into knowledge. This robust, highly scalable, control system is open and integrates easily with legacy systems. The Experion platform includes I/O, state-of-the-art sensors and controllers, and a human machine interface (HMI) designed to make configuration easy and operations safe, secure and reliable. Applications Experion applications facilitate turning your information into knowledge allowing faster response to changes. Process applications such as Profit Suite take plant information and increase capacity while reducing quality variability. Production, batch and supply chain management applications such as the Business FLEX suite provide tools to make better decisions and translate these into consistent instructions for execution.
BR-06-04-ENG Services Experion services complement the Honeywell platform and applications by helping our customers assess the highest value opportunities and define solutions to maximize that value. Honeywell s best-in-class engineering organization offers resources with domain expertise that deliver solutions quickly and effectively. Honeywell offers software and system support that helps sustain and build on the delivered value. Benefits We understand that different plants face different challenges. Challenges could include a bottleneck in your production process, a need to reduce energy consumption, a requirement to reduce production variability or an improvement in the plant s agility to satisfy customer demands. Honeywell has the global experience and expertise to meet your needs. Some of the benefits that Honeywell delivers are listed in the table on the right. Honeywell has delivered solutions for customers in the chemicals market from bulk chemicals to fertilizers to active pharmaceutical ingredients. To find out what Honeywell s solution for chemicals can do for your site, please contact your local Honeywell representative. Turn Your Resources into Results Description Benefit Improve Plant Capacity 5-10% Reduce Quality Variability Up to 50% Improve Plant Availability 3-8% Reduce Transition Time Up to 30% Reduce Energy 1-2% Consumption Reduce Catalyst Up to 1% Consumption Reduce Maintenance 3-5% Costs Reduce Operator- Up to 40% related Incidents Reduce Inventory 15-30 % Improve Customer 5-10% Service Reduce Non-optimal Up to 25% Shipments Improve Forecast 4-20% Accuracy Quicker Start-up, Immediate Benefits 98% on-time, on-budget delivery Best-in-class safety record Over 3,000 technicians in over 90 countries Recognized by ENR as one of the top 20 design firms Better Lifecycle Support Support for value-driven migration strategies For More Information Learn more about Honeywell s solutions for chemicals. Visit our website www.honeywell.com/ps or contact your Honeywell account manager. Automation & Control Solutions Process Solutions Honeywell 2500 West Union Hills Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85027 Tel: 877.466.3993 or 602.313.6665 www.honeywell.com March 2006 2006 Honeywell International Inc.