–Total Cost of Ownership
–Technology Obsolescence
–Knowledge Drain
–Dealing with Open Systems -- and how Honeywell systems address them.
Chitale also honored two Honeywell systems users. First was Eastman Chemical, Kingsport, TN, whose gasifier, built 27 years ago and upplied with a TDC2000, has 99% uptime. For this record Eastman was named recipient of the System Longevity Award. Then was Atlanta Gas Light, who has implemented an Experion system as a complete process monitoring system that connects 13 plants, scattered from New Jersey to Georgia,as a single control system. Any of the plants can be controlled from any of the ontrol systems, and hand-off is seamless and simple. Chitale presented Atlanta Gas Light with the Experion Ingenuity Award.