Tom Kindervater from Marathon Petroleum talked about the user benefits of the Honeywell User Group and pointed out that this enables end users to influence Honeywell's direction and product development. He made an impassioned pitch to get membership on the Customer Advisory Boards. Current advisory boards include:

• Batch advisory board
• continous web solutions customer advisory board
• experion customer advisory board
• oil and gas industry advisory board
• optivision advisory board
• power customer advisory board
• and others...

HUG is looking for additional membership from global customers. There is a NEW board, a Simulation Advisory Board. They are looking for companies that use the UniSym product. Tell your interest to simulation@honeywell.com. Peggy Hewitt has been appointed the Honeywell lead for these voice of the customer opportunities.