Norm Gilsdorf, President of Honeywell Process Solutions, presents an industry perspective to more than 500 Honeywell customers at the Honeywell Users Group Americas symposium.

This year marked the 35th anniversary of Honeywell Users Group (HUG), a five-day event to enable Honeywell Process Solutions’ (HPS) leaders and customers to share best practices and strategies for enhancing business results. 

The theme of this year’s event was “Dynamic Solutions. Endless Possibilities.” Held in Phoenix, Arizona, the event included the opportunity for customers to come together to learn about the latest HPS technologies and provide input on HPS’ research and development priorities.

Key technologies announcements during HUG included:

• OneWireless™ R200, the process industry’s first truly universal wireless mesh network solution, is now fully compliant with the ISA100.11a standard, which will allow plants to design a wireless network with different types of wireless coverage.
• Experion R400, the newest version of Honeywell’s flagship Experion® Process Knowledge System® (PKS), features enhancements to protect manufacturers from the high cost of evolving technology and includes new turbine-control capabilities for power generators.  Experion PKS is Honeywell’s process automation and control system that sends data from critical plant subsystems directly to operators to help improve decision making in the control room.
• Field Advisor™, Honeywell’s newest addition to its family of mobile productivity solutions, helps industrial facilities keep their equipment running within safe operating limits and at optimum performance.

For more information about the event, visit Honeywell Users Group website.

Honeywell’s Delphi combustion efficiency panel and Reveal touch screen display have been recognized for excellence in product design in the 6th annual Dealer Design Awards Program sponsored by The Air Conditioning Heating & Refrigeration News (The ACHR News), the leading trade magazine in the heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration industries.

Delphi, which won a Silver award in the Miscellaneous category, provides flame safeguard control, fuel air ratio control, O2 trim, and variable frequency drive (VFD) control in a single, integrated panel with an easy-to-use touch screen user interface.  Fuel air ratio control with O2 trim can provide energy savings of 5-7% per year.  VFD control can reduce electrical costs by up to 30% per year.

Honeywell’s Reveal™, which provides real-time building automation status information, also received an Honorable Mention in the Commercial Controls Products category. Reveal is small enough for easy mounting in small equipment rooms and is built on the NiagaraAX Framework®.  It interfaces seamlessly with all WEBs-AX controllers and makes information accessible from all systems connected to these controllers.

An independent panel of 30 contractors served as judges in the contest which had more than 100 entries from different industry brands.

For more information, read the story in The ACHR News.

Honeywell announced it has been selected to help Abu Dhabi Gas Development Company Ltd achieve safe and efficient production at the Shah Gas Development Project, which is expected to significantly increase the Emirate’s domestic gas supply. When it reaches full production capacity in 2014, the site is expected to process some 1 billion cubic feet of gas per day. Abu Dhabi Gas Development Company Ltd is a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC).

Although the Shah Gas field was discovered more than 40 years ago, dangerously high levels of hydrogen sulfide have prevented ADNOC from extracting the gas, which is critical to domestic and industrial growth in the region. To help reduce the risk of safety incidents, Honeywell is providing its Experion® Process Knowledge System® (PKS) and Safety Manager technologies, which can be integrated to give personnel a complete view of process and safety information across the site. This approach helps operators more effectively manage the safety systems throughout the plant. In addition to this core system, Honeywell will design, engineer and implement a broad array of new technologies and advanced applications that will help the plant operate as efficiently as possible from the first day of production.

Honeywell will provide its OneWireless™ industrial wireless network both inside the plant and at the gathering field well pads to track key personnel and assets during both construction and operational phases. Operations staff will be equipped with wireless gas detectors that will transmit alerts when dangerous gases are detected. They will also have Honeywell’s wireless Dolphin™ handheld and Webpad computers that will allow them to develop consistent and safe operating rounds and procedures and view and manage key control parameters.

For more information, read the press release.

More than 300 of Honeywell’s key customers, partners, leaders, and employees attended Honeywell China’s Technology Day, an opportunity for visitors to learn about the company’s great positions in good industries and differentiated technologies.

Honeywell’s products and solutions related to building and industrial controls, energy efficiency and generation, turbocharging, and aerospace were exhibited and interacted with at the event.

Shane Tedjarati, President and CEO of Honeywell China and India, spoke at Technology Day and emphasized the company’s expanding global presence to bring new product development, manufacturing, and service closer to customers.

“The world is placing great importance on China as the platform for global growth and this offers us good opportunities ahead,” said Tedjarati. “Together with all of you here, we have braved through the difficult times and will definitely do the same to capture the great opportunities that are to come.”

Honeywell’s guests were also invited to the Shanghai World Expo where they were introduced to the Honeywell safety, security, and energy efficiency technologies chosen to protect the properties at the World Expo 2010. A VIP tour was conducted at the USA Pavilion, where Honeywell is a sponsor and is enabling the 6,000 square meter venue to optimize energy efficient technologies for visitors’ comfort and safety.

For more information, watch Shane Tedjarati on CNBC discuss Honeywell’s presence at the World Expo and how China is the fastest growing region for the company.

Honeywell has added new video capabilities to its popular, award-winning Total Connect Remote Services.  In addition to remote control capabilities and notifications, Total Connect now integrates with IP cameras that employ video analytics enabling customers to receive event-driven e-mails with video clips when something of interest has been triggered by cameras.

Video e-mails can be received on web-enabled devices, such as laptops, desktops and most new cell phones as well as BlackBerry®, Apple iPhone® and iPod Touch® products. The new Total Connect allows consumers to use the Apple iPhone or iPod touch to look into their homes and businesses and view live video, remotely pan and tilt cameras, manually record video clips and take snapshots.

The new IP cameras and built-in analytics let Total Connect monitor for specific events such as a person approaching a front door or a child returning home from school, and can alert consumers via e-mail or text messages. The system can be programmed, for example, to detect motion in a certain area such as a front door step and use e-mail to alert a homeowner, who can then view the camera images remotely from a mobile device even if they are miles away. The system can also be programmed to e-mail consumers a picture or series of pictures when a specific event has occurred.

For more information, visit the Total Connect Website or watch a video

This Earth Day – and every day – Honeywell is committed to addressing some of the world’s toughest challenges linked to energy efficiency, production, and management.

In fact, roughly 50 percent of Honeywell’s portfolio delivers energy efficiency benefits, including: 

• Avionics that allow planes to use more efficient flight profiles that burn 10% less fuel, while safely doubling the capacity of the skies.
• Building controls and programmable thermostats that help reduce energy usage by 20-30% without sacrificing comfort.
• Demand response technology that enables utilities to remotely lower home thermostats to reduce energy demand during peak periods, a key component of the Smart Grid.
• High-quality, drop-in replacement Honeywell Green Diesel™, which can be used within today’s fuel infrastructure and offers up to 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
• Turbochargers that allow engines one-third smaller to produce the same power as full-size engines, but with 25% less fuel and emissions.

And, that is only a small sample. In fact, if the U.S. and Europe just aggressively adopted existing Honeywell technologies – nothing that would have to be invented, just products and services already in existence – they could save 20-25% of current energy consumption.

Being a responsible steward of the environment is important to Honeywell’s global growth.  We’re committed to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 30%, increasing energy efficiency by 20%, and reducing hazardous waste generated per dollar of revenue by 15% by 2012. And, we are on target to meet these goals. 

For more information about the importance of sustainability and energy efficiency at Honeywell, visit the company’s Sustainability or Energy Efficiency websites, or watch Honeywell Chairman and CEO Dave Cote’s message to the Business Roundtable about the company’s commitment to a sustainable future.

Honeywell launched “Add Honeywell,” a new website that demonstrates how the company’s technologies and innovations are making the world safer and more secure, more comfortable and energy efficient, and more innovative and productive.

Through the use of 3-D animation, dynamic videos and photos, and easy navigation, the site demonstrates Honeywell’s technologies in aerospace, homes, refineries, commercial buildings, automobiles, and a broad range of other sector-specific applications.  “Add Honeywell” features hundreds of facts and statistics about the company’s differentiated technologies.

For more facts and information on Honeywell, visit www.AddHoneywell.com.

Honeywell announced the addition of a Smart Grid application to its Prestige® programmable thermostat, enabling the device to automate energy consumption based on the homeowner’s programming specifications, such as preferred energy cost and usage.

When Prestige is used as directed, Honeywell estimates that homeowner’s can reduce annual heating and cooling costs by up to 33% – or up to $200 each year – depending on geographic location.

Prestige is the industry’s first full-color, high-definition, wireless-enabled thermostat. It has a patented, interview-based interface that walks a homeowner through the set-up process by asking questions such as “what time does the first person wake-up in the morning?” or “what time do you go to sleep at night?” The answers help the thermostat program itself without an owner’s manual.

For more information on Prestige and other Smart Grid-related technologies and solutions by Honeywell, read the press release.

Honeywell and UPS are teaming up on a new-generation handheld computer for UPS drivers that will further improve communications links while adding a number of other industry-leading features.  UPS will deploy more than 100,000 Honeywell mobile computers worldwide.

Known internally at UPS as the DIAD V (Delivery Information Acquisition Device V), the Honeywell mobile computer features innovative cellular technology that provides on-the-fly switching between cellular carriers, meaning the computer can automatically jump to another cellular carrier if the preferred carrier’s signal is lost.  This industry-leading technology, when combined with Honeywell’s sophisticated 2D imaging capabilities, will further ensure the package tracking and reliability that customers expect from the world’s largest delivery company.

UPS will begin field testing the device in late 2010 with plans to begin a multi-year, global deployment in 2011. The DIAD V will be approved for operation in more than 100 countries.

For more information, read the press release.

Honeywell unveiled a new website for consumers looking for products and solutions to meet their home comfort and indoor quality needs.  The site is visually appealing, well-organized and easy-to navigate.  Visitors can tap into consumer-friendly information on home comfort and energy-saving products that pertain to their home environment.

To view the site and for more information, visit http://www.yourhome.honeywell.com/.