Honeywell Users Group

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“The Honeywell family is growing.” Honeywell’s Pramesh Maheshwari referenced the first DCS installed at ExxonMobil 50 years ago, while explaining the possibilities of change through recent acquisitions of Sundyne and Johnson Matthey's Catalyst Technologies during his keynote address to the Honeywell Users Group meeting this week in San Antonio.
As the company marks 50 years since installing the first DCS, new capabilities enabled by AI and acquisitions promise another productive half century
June 9, 2025
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“We are trying to tackle the biggest challenges our customers are facing today in maintaining their overall automation infrastructure.” Honeywell’s Anand Vishnubhotla on the company’s digital twin technology.
The subscription-based offering helps users better manage their automation infrastructure
July 2, 2025
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“We are dealing with constraints at all points.” Honeywell’s Vineet Lasrado discussed how upstream oil and gas operations can use advanced process control to overcome multiple priorities and constraints to achieve optimal results.
Closed loop production optimization faces challenges upstream, but oil and gas producers are finding new ways to implement advanced process control
June 12, 2025
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“Power instability is costly.” Honeywell’s Travis DeBenedetto revealed how transient events can be costly to industrial power consumers.
A range of preventive measures can help anticipate potential disturbances and ensure operational resilience
June 12, 2025
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“There’s a misnomer in the industry about the ongoing convergence of IT and OT; we’re essentially converged already.” Honeywell’s Paul Smith together with colleague Brandon Cho discussed the latest recommendations for ensuring network cybersecurity.
To reduce downtime from cyberattacks, Honeywell recommends clear response plans, regular recovery drills, and improved visibility across control systems.
June 11, 2025
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“When things break, you don’t want to be the only one that can fix it.” Duke Energy’s Mark Whitman argues that plant networks are a community asset.
Especially during system upgrades, expanding network access and opening lines of communication outside the digital team make the network stronger
June 11, 2025
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“I think it was a very successful project.” Phillips 66’s Carlos Sepulveda on modernizing the refinery’s cogeneration units using modern project execution principles
Lessons learned from an ambitious two-year migration culminating in streamlined operations
June 11, 2025
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“Hydrogen needs extremely high speeds and more power for compression, plus there are multiple safety and material issues.” Ernesto Guevara of Ebara Elliott Energy discussed the company’s commitment to helping develop Honeywell’s Protonium green-hydrogen platform.
Ernesto Guevara of Ebara Elliott Energy discussed the company’s commitment to helping develop Honeywell’s Protonium green-hydrogen platform
June 11, 2025
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Ansys and Honeywell are harnessing the power of digital twins to transform manufacturing and EV battery optimization, using high-fidelity simulations to drive smarter, more efficient...
June 10, 2025
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“Energy instability and outages are on the rise.” Honeywell’s Prudence Hoffman discussed the shifting landscape of challenges we face in satisfying society’s seemingly insatiable demand for energy.
As rising global demand continues to outpace infrastructure capacity, factors like climate change, electrification and AI’s energy appetite are key challenges
June 10, 2025
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“It’s about understanding what value it brings to the organization.” ExxonMobil’s Celeste LBruyere (right) and Chevron’s Allison Paquette anchored a HUG 2025 panel discussion on how to prepare an organization to be open to AI.
Chevron, ExxonMobil and Honeywell experts along with S&P Global Market Intelligence weigh in on how to get started on an AI journey and what to realistically expect
June 10, 2025
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“The world needs more sustainable fuels. We’re not there yet. We need transitional fuels, like liquefied natural gas (LNG) or hydrogen.” Honeywell UOP’s Rajesh Gattupalli explained how the collaboration between process technology providers, automation providers and end users will bring operational efficiency to energy production at the Honeywell Users Group meeting this week in San Antonio.
The process technology provider is a leading innovator in transitional fuels, and is working with its sister companies to exploit synergies between process and automation technologies...
June 10, 2025
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“We can build on this knowledge, and it will be how control becomes an app for the processes it serves.” Honeywell’s Jason Urso explained how the company’s Digital Cognition model will incorporate levels of process understanding into its increasingly autonomous systems.
Control and human loops overlap for better data and decisions
June 10, 2025
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“We depend on them to tell me.” Aker BP’s Håkon Skibeli discussed how the company has configured its off-shore equipment to contact their condition-based maintenance engineer (him) when they need attention.
How real-time monitoring and condition-based maintenance are improving asset performance, reducing risk and optimizing operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
June 10, 2025
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“We have to move away from monolithic systems where we must upgrade everything all at once to take advantage of any new functionality.” Honeywell’s Joe Bastone discussed the company’s modular new system that is designed to speed time-to-market for life sciences companies.
Honeywell’s TrackWise Manufacturing powered by Aptica gives life sciences manufacturers a new way to approach digital transformation
June 10, 2025
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“Now we have actual information from every alarm, what happened, what actually worked and what did not.” Chevron’s Amit Jain on the company’s use of Honeywell’s Experion HALO AI-based software to help build a knowledge graph to help guide its operators’ response to alarms.
With the help of Honeywell’s AI-based alarm guidance, dynamic contextual data provides real-time recommendations for operators
June 10, 2025
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Multiple stacked services enabled by advanced AI and ML algorithms can further optimize supply and demand
Oct. 7, 2024
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Soon, future-ready operations, control rooms and personnel will benefit from AI telling them more about upcoming batch developments
Oct. 7, 2024
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Artificial intelligence not only emulates the way we think, but the entire human system
Oct. 7, 2024
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Integrated operations and functional collaboration can boost plant margins by 10-15%
Oct. 7, 2024
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Quality issues will persist without QMS integration and the ability to perform root-cause analysis
Oct. 7, 2024
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Collaborative partnership builds operational value and creates opportunities for emissions-based profitability for the energy industry
Oct. 7, 2024
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AI, digital twins and automation technologies are moving the needle on efficiency
Oct. 3, 2024
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Schedule adherence and cost-certainty are secondary when it comes to executing these complex projects
Oct. 3, 2024
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Honeywell’s Experion Operations Assistant collaborates with operators to make better process decisions
Oct. 3, 2024
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Battery MXP provides ‘one pane of glass’ with permission-based dashboards detailing gigafactory operations
Oct. 3, 2024
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Strategic assessments made in advance make disaster recovery in OT environments a lot more effective
Oct. 3, 2024
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A one-second scan of a battery destined for an electric vehicle features half a million to 750,000 data points. It’s not just voltage and current
Oct. 3, 2024
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Like the Internet of 1995, companies—and countries—are jockeying for leadership in this exponentially expanding market
Oct. 2, 2024
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Detection alone isn’t enough. Honeywell is out to deliver higher-value business outcomes for its users
Oct. 2, 2024
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Effective human-AI teaming facilitates better performance than humans or machines alone
Oct. 2, 2024
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Honeywell technologies assist and guide performance to an elite level, so every day can be the best day of production
Oct. 2, 2024
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Honeywell Process Solutions is focused on three transformative drivers enabled by digital technology: artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and energy transition
Oct. 2, 2024
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Sept. 1, 2024