Walt Boyes' Blog

Ron Parkin, from ConocoPhillips couldn't present his tal about the Customer Adisory Boards, so it was presented for him by Tom Kindervaden. Then, Honeywell PCS president Jack Bolick gave his vision for the future. His talk, as expected, centered extensively on wireless. But he also talked about the wins the Experion R300 has received in the year since release. As Roger Fradin … [Read more...] about More HUG…

Starting off the session was Tanya Tralka, wo noted that last year, she was working for Occidental and making chlorine... This year, she's working for Hershey and making chocolate! That's....wait for it... "Adapting to Change"... which is the theme of the Honeywell User Group this year. Tanya did the obligatory safety note and went through the agenda. Next, big boss Roger … [Read more...] about HUG rolls on!

Here in lovely dessicated Phoenix, it is...well, in a word, hot. It isn't accidental that the totem bird of the largest city in Arizona is the firebird...the one that every year immolates itself and rises from the ashes, reborn. This is unfortunately the time of the fire. It was about 112 yesterday (that's Fahrenheit, for all the rest of you but it could easily have been … [Read more...] about Honeywell User Group

Last week, Emerson agreed to also fork over $2500 to help pay for the Security Consortium feasibility study, so now we have most of the major vendors, as well as many of the major owner/operators (the end users). We're getting ready to have another ad-hoc steering committee meeting this week at Honeywell User Group, since over half of us are here presenting on various … [Read more...] about Another one joins the club…

Agnes Shanley, editor in chief of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, one of our sister magazines sent me this note: Posted a little item in our blog on the process control survey, fyi....it's on our web site too, and wondered if you considered it worth blogging about....in any case, here it is.... Take the Process Control Survey … [Read more...] about (no subject)