Honeywell and Barco presented its Collaborative Wall Solution to key customers at the Honeywell Site Office at Secunda recently. The Honeywell Collaborative Wall is a breakthrough intiative defined by new projection, presentation and collection methods which allow visualisation of multiple streams of process and business information on large display walls around which many people can collaborate for rapid and effective situational awareness.
Nick Meijer, account manager Advanced Solutions at Honeywell said, “The Collaborative Wall is a unique solution in as much that it provides fast graphics, as well as ease of connection and collection of many different sources. These include data, applications, live video, screen capture and an ability to work across multiple networks. The Collaborative Wall is aimed at anybody who designs, operates and maintains large manufacturing facilities where co-operation between personnel needs to be catalysed.
“While various large corporates in South Africa have video walls in place, the novelty of the Collaborative Wall is its application to design, operate and maintain functions in manufacturing facilities. Manufacturing facilities have a large collection of applications in both realtime and business transactional environments. The collaboration wall and supporting technologies allow these to be quickly co-located on a suitably large and fast video wall that provides immediate value as well as defining repeated use patterns that could migrate to a large custom overview.“
Honeywell demonstrated the Collaborative Wall to a cross section of maintenance technicians, operators, engineers and management with a view to presenting new technology on the basis of See-Feel-Change, a crucial pre-step in new offerings in visualisation prior to the Analyse-Think-Change standard to the manufacturing community.
Feedback from the presentation is that the interactive sessions helped trigger many possible application areas. A much discussed area was the assistance collaboration walls offered to less experienced operators and a more rapid method of collecting different views in a single visible space in a flexible manner. Additionally the maintenance community experienced virtual walk-arounds of plant history in a team setting to be greatly enhanced by the collaborative video wall.
The demonstration covered such topics as Common Operational Picture; Common Asset Picture; Security and related infrastructure required to support and integrate the video walls.
For more information contact Debbie Rae, Honeywell Southern Africa, +27 (0)11 695 8000, [email protected], www.honeywell.co.za
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