Knowledge Center: Process Performance
The process industries face increasing pressures to deliver consistently high quality products at competitive cost while adhering to stringent demands on worker safety, energy efficiency and environmental emissions.
This new Knowledge Center presents the pertinent industry issues and provides targeted, in-depth information on how advanced automation technology solutions are enabling manufacturers to achieve and maintain the necessary high level of Process Performance.
The Wireless PlantThe Business of Wireless
With increasing investment by big players and more momentum in wireless standards, the business case for wire-free industrial solutions is becoming clearer, says Madanmohan Rao. More >
Design the Optimal Wireless Network Solution with an Engineering Assessment
With the emergence of industrial wireless technology, businesses in the process industries recognize significant opportunities to improve safety, productivity and efficiency by implementing a plant-wide wireless network. More >
Wireless: The Interoperability Issue
While the future for wireless deployment in automation is undoubtedly promising, potential users see a perceived lack of interoperability as an impediment to faster adoption, says a report out from Frost & Sullivan. More >
Interference and Security Considerations for Wireless Communications in an Industrial Environment
From traditional narrow-band to more complex spread-spectrum technologies, a variety of radio frequency (RF) communication techniques are available for deployment in industrial environments. More >
Industrial Wireless: Implementation Success Factors
Despite arguments concerning the use of wireless in the industrial environment, there is little doubt the technology is here to stay. Manufacturers recognize the potential of wireless systems to reduce costs and improve efficiency across their plant and business enterprise. More >
OneWireless: A Platform for Wireless Process Management
A steel mill uses new Honeywell wireless instruments to obtain reliable measurements from locations that were impossible to measure using wired instruments. As a result they are able to speed up their melting operations and increase production. More >
Wireless in 2009
With 2009 well under way now, analyses differ on how long the economic downturn will extend (till Q4 2009 or even four more years!), and how this will put pressure on businesses to optimise industrial production using a range of technologies including wireless automation. More >
Interview: The True Value of Wireless
Asheesh Arora, Asia Pacific Leader, Honeywell Field Solutions, says companies should look at wireless not just as a way of saving cabling and maintenance costs but as means for enabling things that could never be done in the wired plant world. More >
