Record attendance at Honeywell User Conference
January 2012
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Honeywell has announced record attendance at its annual Users’ Group Conference for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), which took place in Baveno from 25-27 October. More than 430 customers from 47 countries attended the conference, demonstrating that this has become the pre-eminent event of its kind for the industry in the EMEA region.
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This year’s agenda featured a diverse range of keynotes, Honeywell breakout sessions and customer presentations from companies such as Saudi Aramco, AKSA, Grupa LOTOS, Total Petrochemicals, Qatar Petroleum, and Lukoil. In addition, a panel comprised of representatives from Honeywell, GPIC, Saipem and ZADCO debated the process industry’s skills shortage, which is becoming more acute every year, and discussed how the industry can promote interest amongst young people in pursuing engineering as a career.
Throughout the three-day conference, delegates shared insights and best practice into how greater safety, reliability, efficiency and sustainability can be achieved across vertical process industries including chemicals, oil and gas and power, through the use of innovative process control solutions. Session highlights included presentations by Honeywell and Lukoil on how pioneering virtualisation and OneWireless technology can be implemented on a large scale in industrial facilities; an area of great interest to many delegates.
Honeywell also made a number of major announcements including an agreement with Cisco which will see it incorporating Cisco’s new Aironet 1552 Access Point as part of the OneWireless solution of products and services, providing customers with coverage for both Wi-Fi applications and ISA100.11a field instruments under a single infrastructure.
The 2011 conference, which featured the theme ‘Where Technology Shapes Solutions’ included an extensive demonstration area where Honeywell showcased a number of new solutions including Experion Batch Manager R410, MeterSuiteT Fiscal Metering Solution and its OneWireless Adaptor, while live demonstrations of the new 3D training simulation solution MindSafe – developed jointly by Honeywell and Virthualis s.r.l – were also available to delegates.
For more information contact Debbie Rae, Honeywell Southern Africa, +27 (0)11 695 8000, [email protected], www.honeywell.co.za
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