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| Exchange Disseminated Time | Honeywell Automation India Ltd has on May 25, 2005 introduced Experion™ Process Knowledge System (PKS) R300, featuring an innovative redesign of its proven automation and control platform hardware. 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™ R300 has a feature no other competitor offers in its control system, an automated backup and restore product. And, to improve system uptime, the release includes an integrated solution that automates complex procedures to improve operator efficiency.
Experion™ R300 introduces the Series C optionally redundant process input-output (I/O) family. Using a unique vertical design, Series C I/O delivers wiring, maintenance and cost savings. Competitive systems are anywhere from five to 75 percent larger. As a result of the new Series C I/O vertical design, customers also can save in total control room build costs, which can cost as much as $750 per square foot to construct. In addition to I/O, this innovative vertical packing concept has been extended to the controller and the Fieldbus Interface Module, providing both with a smaller and higher performance package.
Adds Harsh Chitale, MD of the Company, "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, etc. are a paradigm shift from what users have been accustomed to."
Specifically, the Experion™ R300 platform delivers these incremental features:
* An additional cyber security layer to Experion's™ High Security Network Architecture, the Experion™ Control Firewall, further protects the controller network against message flooding and denial of service attacks
* A new "Backup and Restore" automated system 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. This is significant because each hour a production line is down can cost a company, as much as $25,000 an hour.
* A new Experion™ Series C innovative I/O form factor that makes wiring installation and maintenance easier, helps reduce energy costs and delivers maximum performance in minimum space
* Enhanced procedural operations that 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 (ASM®) Consortium study, an average $ 3.2 million per year can be avoided by managing operating procedures.
Consistent with the Company's continuous evolution philosophy, Experion™ R300 integrates seamlessly with Honeywell TDC and TPS control systems, has access to HART*, FOUNDATION Fieldbus and ProfiBus devices, and provides tight integration with the Company's Safety Manager™ to deliver a unified TUV SIL3 certified safety system. Using Company's PKS Advantage Program, customers can choose best-in-class field solutions that reap the benefits of integrating with a process knowledge system.
Experion™ is used in a variety of industries including the life science, oil and gas, refining, chemicals, pulp, paper, power generation and metals, minerals and mining industries. Experion™ is used worldwide in North America, South America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It has received wide acclaim from top industry sources, earning Honeywell Control Engineering's 2004 Editors' Choice Award and START magazine's 2003 Technology & Business Vision Award and Hottest Company designation in 2003 and 2004. |
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