Honeywell Joins System Integrators Organization

Honeywell recently announced it has joined the Control Systems Integrators Association (CSIA), North America’s largest organization for independent control systems integrators. CSIA includes more than 300 member companies dedicated to sharing and developing systems integration best practices. In addition to providing a forum for members to discuss common business issues, the group publishes its Best Practices and Benchmarks reference guide and offers its renowned Certified Member program used to help manufacturers identify leading integrators. “Honeywell is a natural fit for CSIA because the company has made integration a cornerstone of its strategy for helping manufacturers of all sizes improve operations,” said Norm O’Leary, executive director of CSIA. “With deep expertise in integration, system design and the unique needs of various industries, we expect that Honeywell will contribute a wealth of knowledge to the group and help strengthen its resulting research.” Honeywell has more than 3,000 project engineers and designers who work worldwide through a network of 50 design centers. Honeywell provides a wide range of technology platforms and instrumentation that enable manufacturers to coordinate previously disparate systems. For example, the company’s award-winning process control platform, Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS), coordinates critical subsystems dispersed throughout a manufacturing facility to provide greater visibility into plant operations. The latest solution in the Experion product line, Experion LS, allows integrators to offer customers the power and reliability of a traditional distributed control system (DCS) in a smaller, flexible package more commonly associated with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). For more information about the CSIA, visit www.controlsys.org. For more information about Honeywell’s systems integration capabilities and solutions such as Experion LS, please visit www.honeywell.com/ps. Honeywell Specialty Materials, a business unit of Honeywell International,  is aCP 50 company. To view the Honeywell Profile, visit: http://www.chemicalprocessing.com/cp50/2008/honeywell.html. To view the CP 50 list, visit:http://www.chemicalprocessing.com/cp50.