Honeywell’s Experion® Process Knowledge System (PKS) for Crop Science provides a single platform for control, operation and reporting in a manufacturing plant. Experion can help you get the most out of a plant and process, and provide the tools to achieve business agility to boost bottom line profits.
Our system is highly flexible and can start with the automation of a single production unit. Because business needs change rapidly in today’s Crop Science market, our solution is easily adapted and developed to meet new requirements. This flexibility also means that your process can be automated with precise and accurate control while managing those areas that remain manual from the same system. We ensure that all the information about what you plan to make, together with what you actually make, is stored in a highly accessible way in a single integrated system. That one system can extend in the hierarchy from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integration down through Human Machine Interface (HMI) to controllers, subsystem interfaces and safety systems.
When a manufacturing plant uses highly toxic raw materials and processes, the integrity and reliability of the control system is particularly important to maintain a view of the process. The Honeywell solution is designed for high availability. When required, it can be fully redundant from transmitter or valve to HMI. Extensive diagnostics ensure that any problems are quickly identified.
Many Crop Science processes are batch or discontinuous in nature. For such plants, where large numbers of different products are manufactured with flexible paths, Honeywell’s solution is its TotalPlant® Batch (TPB). TPB is a software product that can optimize throughput, reduce manual input, and in conjunction with our Uniformance® PHD, provide powerful reports on each batch or on the results of multiple batches.