Honeywell launches new automation product

Honeywell Automation India has introduced Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) R300 which features an innovative redesign of its automation and control platform hardware, the company informed the Bombay stock exchange.

Experion is used worldwide in a variety of industries including the life sciences, oil and gas, refining, chemicals, pulp, paper, power generation and metals, minerals and mining industries.

Experion's open and secure architecture includes new embedded cyber security technology to help prevent denial of service attacks and message flooding at the control level.

Additionally, Experion has a feature no other competitor offers in its control system, claims the company, an automated backup and restore product. To improve system uptime, the product includes an integrated solution that automates complex procedures to improve operator efficiency.

Says Harsh Chitale, managing director of Honeywell, "Experion R300 is yet another example of Honeywell's long tradition for delivering value to its customers by continuous enhancements. Building on the existing robust and widely accepted Experion R200 platform, the R300 incorporates features that allow users to capture and implement best work practices through procedural operations, bringing a significant departure from functions conventionally available in a control platform."

Features like control firewall, protection against denial of service attacks, automated procedures for disaster recovery are a paradigm shift from what users have been accustomed to, he adds.

An incremental features is a "backup and restore" automated system which provides automated disaster recovery, allowing customers to recover and restore their failed nodes in less than an hour as compared to days in some cases when manual back-up procedures are used.

Enhanced procedural operations help reduce shut-down and start-up incidents by capturing and implementing best work practices. Traditionally, this knowledge is only needed occasionally, so it's easily forgotten, or it's leaving companies with a transitioning workforce.

According to an Abnormal Situation Management Consortium study, an average $3.2 million per year can be avoided by managing operating procedures.