“Chemical facilities are potential terrorist targets because many sites deal with materials and processes that, if tampered with, could have severe consequences in neighboring communities. Honeywell’s PCN Security Services suite helps chemical companies protect against this threat by making sure their business and control systems are safe.”

Mark Rosenzweig, Editor in Chief, Chemical Processing

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“Our panel of experts agreed that R300 is unique to the market and delivers value that was previously unavailable to plant engineers. It’s always a tough decision to narrow the field of finalists, but Honeywell has proven itself a worthy candidate with this product, in particular.”

Bob Vavra, Editor in Chief, Plant Engineering

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“Experion R300 is among the most significant innovations featured in our list of winners this year. It’s always a challenge to draw winners from such an exceptional pool of products and companies, but R300 stood out as a true leader in technology, design and service.”

“The vertical design of the Series C is a real breakthrough in the industry and the incorporation of security and safety measures shows that Honeywell is actively integrating top-of-mind industry issues into products today. Backward compatibility is also a big plus as more products are coming out with limited backward compatibility due to platform choices. This shows that Honeywell is keeping industry realities front-of-mind when developing new products.”

David Greenfield, Editorial Director, Control Engineering

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“Process simulation really has advanced in recent years as the supporting technologies have further developed, and UniSim distinguished itself as an effective tool that meets customers’ design and simulation needs. The system’s key strength overall is its ability to align process designs with critical business objectives.”

David Greenfield, Editorial director, Control Engineering

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“Tying together systems at a 42-year-old facility poses great challenges, but the payoff for Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Plant will be even greater. Honeywell is an ideal partner for this project because of its ability to meet tight project schedules, to improve plant profitability with solutions that drive reliability and efficiency, and its overall integration expertise.”

Soon-Tai Kim, Hydro Power Manager of KNHP

“We looked at a number of vendors but awarded the contract to Honeywell because it can provide the ideal blend of process control, security and reporting capabilities. Another factor was the company’s strong local presence, which will provide year-round support to ensure the smooth running of the plant.”

Vesa Pirtilä, managing director, Kotkan Energia

“We needed a partner that had a history in LNG terminal solutions and could provide the safest, most efficient environment possible. Honeywell’s state-of-the-art Experion system included the safety features we needed and a very robust single point of control that optimizes process management, operational costs and plant performance.”

Miguel Martin, General Manager, Transgas Atlantico, Sines LNG Terminal

 “The Honeywell APS system will have a widespread positive impact on our entire operation. We chose Honeywell for this project based on the company’s many successes in the region. We know Honeywell technology will play a vital role in our effort to modernize PetroChina in becoming a world-class operation.”

Gu Xuejing, Deputy General Manager, Department of Technology and Information, PetroChina Co.

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"OMNOVA chose to partner with Honeywell because of its understanding of the chemicals industry as well as its technical expertise and responsiveness. We assessed Honeywell's Experion PKS solution for its ability to provide the control, batch and data management features required to meet the business needs of our chemical operations.”

Kathy Vanderheyden, Director of Operations, OMNOVA Solutions' Green Bay plant

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“A key reason for choosing Honeywell was that we have worked successfully with the company over a number of years and its process control solutions generate significant benefits to our operational efficiency. Honeywell’s lifecycle management services will enable us to upgrade our existing Honeywell systems with modern technology and continue to utilise our existing hardware and applications. The centralisation of the control room will also undoubtedly help us drive efficiency of our operations.”

Harri Kinnunen, Automation engineer, UPM’s mills at Tervasaari

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“We’ve worked with Honeywell in the past on the fundamental operation of our facilities, so we’re confident in its ability to help us optimize plant performance. We are also impressed by Honeywell’s extensive global resources, which will enhance our ability to compete in the global market.”

Mohamed H. Al-Mady, Vice chairman and CEO, SABIC

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“This solution has already been deployed at 7 locations in the United States with demonstrated benefits to our refineries. Honeywell can support all of our facilities, including those that currently use non-Honeywell systems, so it makes implementing this program worldwide much easier.”

Lynn Elsenhans, Executive vice president, Shell Global Manufacturing.

“As a leader in the chemical industry, one of the primary challenges we face in maintaining a competitive edge is to continuously improve operations, maintenance and reduce costs. Experion will enable us to vastly improve the performance of the plant and give us more flexibility in the future to implement new features like advanced alarm management. With the new system, we're also able to capture critical operator knowledge and keep the expertise for the next generation of operators.”

Jos Benders, Director of manufacturing,  Lyondell Europe

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"We selected Honeywell based on its proven simulation technology, engineering expertise, ease of use and project budget. Our simulator already shows clear signs of returning our investment, saving TransAlta both time and money, and we couldn’t ask for a better partner. The project management team did an excellent job and always looked for ways to make our job easier, anticipating our needs and delivering on time and on budget. Their experience and capabilities exceeded all our expectations."

Larry Fedorek, Project Manager, TransAlta, Poplar Creek

“One of the key reasons we chose Honeywell was its flexibility in meeting our requirements. Honeywell provided a strong, experienced team throughout the bidding and evaluation process and proved that it had the support and development infrastructure in place to handle current and future Linde needs."

Dr. Gabriele Engl, Mnager of Information Systems, Linde Engineering Division

“Under this agreement, OLI has assured that the future user interface for the ESP software is the platinum standard for such tools. Our MSE and corrosion technology will be embedded in Honeywell’s UniSim Design software; a product that we believe will become the best-in-class process flowsheet simulator for the chemical process industries.”

Marshall Rafal, OLI president

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“Working with Honeywell, our committee has put together a well-rounded program that addresses some of the most critical issues and the most innovative solutions.” 

Randy Underwood, Manager of liquids management, Enterprise Product Company

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“Honeywell’s advanced bleaching package saved Catalyst Paper’s Elk Falls facility more than $500,000 annually on chemical consumption alone. However, even more valuable than that was the increased output and reduction in variability we were able to achieve, resulting in better quality paper at greater production rates.”

Dwight Anderson, Senior Process Control Systems Specialist, Catalyst Paper

“The attention to detail of the M-real and Honeywell teams was superb, reducing the business risk to an absolute minimum.”

Mick Jacobs, Projects Manager, M-real, Sittingbourne

"Honeywell was able to meet our needs in terms of product quality and capabilities, delivery and service and support. They had the people with the expertise to provide the support we needed for a rapid three-day upgrade from the Fisher PROVOX system to Honeywell’s Experion PKS, proving their hard work, great teamwork and total commitment."

Dr. Sombat Pyharnvichitnooch, Plant Manager, PeroxyThai

"Our machine operators at St. Marys Paper trust the new Laser Caliper Measurement system on SC 6 even more than the traditional caliper sensor. They say that they are getting superior results without having to worry about defects being caused by paper surface irregularities."

Dan MacKay, PM 5 Line Assistant, St Marys Paper

"Honeywell’s priority throughout this entire project was customer satisfaction. They were concerned about our needs and demonstrated extreme devotion to us as a client. We were able to measure a one-year return on investment and increased sugar production due to Honeywell’s proven technology and service. As a result of the success of this project, we will expand our migration to Experion PKS at other factories."

Mevlut Gunaydin, Maintenance Manager, Konya Sugar

"We have over 20 years of experience working together with Honeywell. The reliability requirements in newspaper production are very high, since production outages or delays are very expensive. The reliability and quality of Honeywell’s products have enabled us to maintain our production capability day after day. Their service organization has always been available to help us. With the implementation of Honeywell’s Closed Loop Color Control solution we experienced improved quality control, stable printing quality in newspaper printing, and the ability to focus staff on those areas in which they are needed most. We look forward to this making the printing job easier and easier."

Teemu Niemi, Process Manager, Sanoma

“With Honeywell’s help we have set a worldwide benchmark in the area of Supply Chain Planning.”

Uttam Kumar Basu, General Manager, Optimization, IOCL

“We can confidently say that one of the major selection criteria for BP was the team for the job and their experience– we had an excellent Honeywell team showing tremendous commitment for the project from day one. At the end of the day we produced a good product and had 95-98% uptime with zero process failures.”

Simon Coleman, Clair Project Manager, BP

"The new Da Vinci QCS quickly provides our operations team detailed information about our product. The integration of fast and accurate sensors with our control strategy has resulted in fast grade changes and additional production after process disturbances."

Wolfgang Schwaiger, Line Manager, MM-Karton

“We are very satisfied with the performance of Honeywell’s SpectraFoil MD paper measurement system. Paper quality has improved and is consistently produced, and paper machine performance has increased.”

Paper Operations Representative

“We had to find a way to upgrade our RS3 system into next-generation technology in order to continue to increase performance and maintain minimal downtime at our plant. Honeywell’s Experion® Process Knowledge System (PKS) provided the perfect migration path at our state-of-the-art production facility to help manage all our business, processes and assets in one unique system.”

Hyun Cho, General Manager, SKC Chemicals

“No one wants to have a plant outage. However, when faced with this, we partnered with Honeywell Process Solutions and successfully and safely started up the Baton Rouge site with a complete DCS replacement in six weeks.”

Lee Hunsucker, Plant Manager, Honeywell Chemicals, Baton Rouge

"We had an older Moore APACS system with legacy technology and hardware that was at the point of failing and had to make a decision on whether to repair old technology or put in a new system. We decided to migrate to Honeywell’s Experion automation and control system and its powerful software packages to bring our Metropolis plant into the next generation of technology."

Jon Price, Process Engineer, Honeywell Specialty Materials

 “Linking UOP models with Honeywell’s Profit® Controller allowed us to embed valuable process knowledge into our advanced control strategies.”

Kamrul Arrifin, Process Control Group Leader, PP(T)SB

 “Our experience with Honeywell was a true team effort resulting in a successful implementation of a powerful and full-functioning control system that integrates directly into our existing Honeywell Total Plant Solution (TPS) system. In fact, we are considering upgrading our entire system to Experion with the passage of time and further integration efforts.”

Richard McCormick, Automation Group Supervisor, Ultramar

 “The migration project was a terrific team effort by Honeywell and Wintershall. We are very happy with the results, and with the passage of time and further integration efforts we expect to realize more and more benefits such as time efficiency, increased platform performance and reliability, ease of maintenance and cost reduction…”

Hans Reijn, Facility Engineer, Wintershall