Prosys is here, as a sponsor. Honeywell doesn't always play nice with system integrators-- partly they don't understand how to work with them, and partly, they think system integrators compete with their own services arm. It isn't true, of course. Honeywell can't take a $250,000 integration project...they couldn't handle the cost burden of just overhead... Which is too bad, … [Read more...] about from the "what does a system integrator do?" department…
From the department of "how integrated is THAT?"
Scott Hillman is Honeywell's Manager Marketing Safety Systems. Like many Honeywell managers, he's not based in the US anymore. Scott is based in The Netherlands. Scott and I speak the same language very well, and we agree on lots of important things. I asked him about the basic conflicts in Safety Systems: the integrated safety instrumented system argument, the "unclarity" of … [Read more...] about From the department of "how integrated is THAT?"
from the "another call for papers" department…
The 2007 WBF North American Conference will be held April 30 through May 4 at the Tremont Plaza Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The theme of the WBF 2007 North American Conference, "Mining for Gold - Discovering the value of standardized process automation," embraces automation processes, tools, and applications being implemented in our industry today and in the future. This … [Read more...] about from the "another call for papers" department…
from the "lunching with the brass…" department…
Paul J. Orzeske is Vice President/General Manager of Honeywell Process Solutions for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to this position, Orzeske was Regional General Manager for the Eastern United States. Paul's a homeboy from Naperville, just up the road from my house. He has an engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from DePaul … [Read more...] about from the "lunching with the brass…" department…
from the "surfing at Tofino" department…
I didn't say a lot about the Tofino security appliance, yet it has incredibly vast applications. For example, an integrated asic version of it could be super to include within wireless transmitters. Every networked device in the plant network should have one sitting in front of it. That's a bunchaton of devices. In addition, every Point-of-Use terminal everywhere in the world … [Read more...] about from the "surfing at Tofino" department…
