Honeywell project system to cut costs by 30 per cent 03 June 2014

Honeywell Process Solutions has launched its LEAP project services, aimed, it says, at helping manufacturers in the processing industries get plants up and running faster and at lower cost.

Vimal Kapur, president of Honeywell Process Solutions, explains that LEAP combines the firm's proprietary hardware and software, alongside virtualisation and cloud engineering.

He says users can expect greater scheduling flexibility while reducing risk and total automation costs by up to 30. And he adds that some industries will benefit from an estimated 80% percent reduction in costs related from unnecessary rework.

"Automation projects are increasingly difficult to manage – especially as implementations become larger and more complex, while still needing to be completed quickly and efficiently," comments Kapur.

"LEAP turns project execution workflow on its head, simplifying what has traditionally been a long and expensive process and enabling measurable time and cost savings so plants can focus on the end goal of getting up and running quickly."

According to Kapur, LEAP represents a "major departure" from the way plants are currently designed and built. It uses parallel workflows to keep automation systems off critical implementation paths, as opposed to the traditional sequential workflows, which call for automation and controls to be implemented during a specified timeframe before the rest of the plant can be completed.

That is novel, but plant readers may also see similarities with, for example, Siemens TIA (Totally Integrated Automation) portal.

Brian Tinham

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