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Optimize Asset Life with Lifecycle Management

Honeywell is committed to providing the support and services our customers need to protect their automation investments and migrate to newer technology at their own pace. Our Lifecycle Management (LCM) solution is a multi-year service agreement that guarantees asset support for Honeywell hardware and software products until they are modernized or retired. The goal of an LCM agreement is to establish a committed automation roadmap leading to either electronic refresh or a complete migration during the term of the contract.

LCM offers flexibility in how you manage your plant assets and predictability in how your choices are financed. The customer chooses when to modernize, what components to invest in, how to fund the transition, and how much longer to maintain current capabilities. LCM effectively extends equipment life while providing a cost-effective path forward to the latest technology. A complete LCM solution includes offerings from Honeywell's extensive portfolio of services that best support your long-term strategies. LCM bundles them into a single support agreement that ensures that you achieve your asset management goals.

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Podcast: Aligning Your Business Strategies with Support Strategies for Optimal Asset Life

Case Study: Shanghai Petrochemical Upgrades Technology and Manages Cost with Lifecycle Management

Self Funding Technology Refresh

Older oil and gas production sites and some gas plants are well known for lack of sophistication in process automation. Some have no PLC or DCS controllers and some have minimal automation. Those with automation are often left in manual override of PID control loops and other regulatory control. Control settings are usually placed in very conservative positions in order to minimize plant upsets and trips, resulting in lower levels of production. Significant additional production can be realized with improved automation; and further production increases realized with application of Advanced Process Control.

Honeywell can migrate almost any vintage or brand of control system to contemporary, state-of-the-art automation at very reasonable cost. Often the payback is within months, thereby self-funding the upgrade.

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Case Study: Wintershall Upgraded their Control System with Zero Downtime

Self Funding Technology Refresh

Older refineries have less sophisticated process automation. Those with automation are often left in manual override of PID control loops and other regulatory control. Control settings are usually placed in very conservative positions in order to minimize plant upsets and trips, resulting in lower levels of production. Significant additional production can be realized with improved automation; and further production increases realized with application of Advanced Process Control.

Honeywell can migrate almost any vintage or brand of control system to contemporary, state-of-the-art automation at very reasonable cost. Often the payback is within months, thereby self-funding the upgrade.

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Case Study: Kirishi Migrates from Bailey to Experion to Improve Performance

Improve Performance Throughout the Lifecycle of Your Plant

UniSim offers a series of unified simulation solutions to support improved performance throughout the lifecycle of a plant-from off-line use in process design, steady-state and dynamic process simulation, control check-out, and operator training, to online use in control and optimization, performance monitoring, and business planning.

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Maximize Return on Simulation Investment

Simulation Technology Contributes to Process Optimization