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Secure Online Support Saves Time and Money — for existing Honeywell customers

Honeywell offers many support services that can be delivered online to: identify dormant problems before they surface, facilitate faster resolution, provide direct access to experts, manage your process control network and lower travel costs. A secure online connection allows you to control access to your system by Honeywell experts for troubleshooting. It facilitates generation of comprehensive performance baselines; alerting you when critical services fail or system security or performance is compromised.

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O&G operations are often situated remotely which can make operations staffing difficult, dangerous and expensive. In addition, system support is costly and incurs delays while personnel are transported to the site. Honeywell can support Remote Operations strategies on greenfields and de-manning strategies on existing assets. These strategies are largely enabled by the DSA (Distributed Server Architecture) feature of Experion PKS. Also, Honeywell offers many support services that can be delivered online to: identify dormant problems before they surface, facilitate faster resolution, provide direct access to experts, and manage the process control infrastructure and lower travel costs. A secure online connection allows controlled access to the system by Honeywell experts for troubleshooting. It facilitates generation of comprehensive performance baselines; providing alerts when critical services fail or system security or performance is compromised.

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To further deliver solution value, Honeywell combines UOP technology with Experion PKS technology to improve plant performance. Remote Performance Management (RPM) is a solution that aids in monitoring, optimizing and sustaining the performance of a variety of process units. RPM provides:

• Continuous high-fidelity monitoring of process condition
• Routine process and equipment model tuning
• Early identification of economic opportunities
• Model based scenario analysis (What if)
• Planning function support (automated LP vector generation)
• Kinetic and constraint based optimization of process conditions
• Sustainability of the platform infrastructure

The solution provides timely access to information and recommendations, allowing producers to make better economic decisions on how they operate their assets. The RPM Solution brings UOP engineering and process modeling resources to bear on specific process assets.

Process data is remotely accessed, encrypted, and securely transmitted to our calculation servers. The data is then validated and reconciled before being processed using customized models hosted and maintained by HPS and UOP. The results of the analyses and processing are then stored in a secure database and made available to customers engineering staff via ultra-secure Internet browsing tools.

MMM operations are often situated remotely which can make system support costly and involve delays whilst personnel travel to the site. Honeywell offers many support services that can be delivered online to: identify dormant problems before they surface, facilitate faster resolution, provide direct access to experts, and manage the process control infrastructure and lower travel costs. A secure online connection allows controlled access to the system by Honeywell experts for troubleshooting. It facilitates generation of comprehensive performance baselines; providing alerts when critical services fail or system security or performance is compromised.

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Case Study: OneSteel Reduces Support Costs with On-line Support from Honeywell

Significant value remains to be unlocked by optimizing the broader supply chain. Honeywell offers a variety of tools that enable visibility and improved decision making across the supply chain. Typical benefits are achieved in the following areas:

• Improved forecast accuracy offers significant improvements in aligning production to customer demand. This helps reduce safety stocks and improves customer satisfaction.
• Improved S&OP provides the ability to leverage improved planning capabilities by making use of real time data in the supply chain
• Improved connections between the plant and the supply chain offer an opportunity for significant improvements in agility — the ability of the business to respond to opportunities and mitigate disruptions. This is accomplished through the use of optimized production planning and scheduling.
• Improved visibility and collaboration across the supply chain and between the business and manufacturing.

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Case Study: Indian Oil Improves Supply Chain with Honeywell's Solution

For refiners with multiple sites, another way of reducing cost and improving profitability is to integrate and optimize the supply chain using the Honeywell's Supply Chain Management solution. Typical benefits from such a project include:

• Integrated supply chain planning which optimizes the entire supply chain providing higher margins and increased profitability
• Crude selection and allocation which takes into account product demands, refinery capabilities and effect of crudes already procured,
• Optimal refinery production planning considering crude assays, unit capacities, product specifications and demands; and feedstock availability.
• Optimal distribution planning considering transportation costs, taxes and duties and transportation constraints

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Case Study: Indian Oil Improves Supply Chain with Honeywell's Solution