Honeywell enhances alert manager for improved asset utilization
Major enhancements in Alert Manager Version 130 include more robust reporting of symptoms and potential equipment failures, via seven different means; identification of the specific assets experiencing problems; modularization, allowing users to select functionality to meet their requirements; and customization capability for flexible implementation.
Virginia Burnell, Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions, said, "The new Alert Manager software can help companies do a better job of capturing unrealized plant profitability. By providing early detection and notification of possible problems, it opens a window of opportunity for repair or replacement of faulty equipment without unplanned downtime."
"Waiting for equipment failures to occur is costly and unproductive," Burnell said. "Alert Manager avoids this inefficiency by bridging the gap between the Operations and Maintenance departments. It focuses the efforts of plant personnel to achieve managed asset optimization by means of a systematic, timely, and cost-reducing process."
Alert Manager is easy to use, providing a visual at-a-glance display of the important assets of a plant, in multiple user-defined asset views. It leverages a plant's existing investments in other systems by using information from a number of different sources, including data from field instruments, event monitoring systems, condition monitoring systems, and historical databases, as well as human input.
The first truly open and comprehensive plant asset management system, Alert Manager supports a broad variety of asset types, and includes open interfaces for integration to the full range of third-party analysis and diagnostic tools. The product integrates with third-party condition monitoring applications, computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS), reliability analysis packages, and mobile tools for workflow automation.
Alert Manager can be quickly and easily installed on any Microsoft Windows NT or 2000 platform. Unlike reliability-based maintenance software that relies on ODBC technology for connectivity and risks database corruption, Alert Manager connects with existing information systems in a secure way.
The modular design of Alert Manager, combined with its ease of integration to other systems, creates a cost-effective means for manufacturers to share and manage knowledge throughout their plants.
Alert Manager is a member of the @sset.MAX family of open, modular, and value-based solutions that maximize plant revenue and profitability by expanding asset capability. The @sset.MAX portfolio enables operation closer to optimal conditions with increased plant availability and fewer incidents, resulting in superior business performance. Honeywell Hi-Spec Solutions provides value-based solutions that maximize revenue and profitability and enhance cash flow of production-centric companies. As a premiere provider of supply chain optimization, Hi-Spec Solutions helps companies maximize their profitability through an integrated approach to improving manufacturing performance, expanding asset capability, and enabling improved decision making across the supply chain. Hi-Spec Solutions is the advanced applications business group of Honeywell Industrial Control, the leading worldwide supplier of industrial automation solutions. The Hi-Spec Solutions website is at www.hispec.com.
Honeywell Industrial Control, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, is a $3 billion global leader in the supply of automation systems, advanced software solutions and value-added services used in a variety of industries including refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, oil and gas, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, and power generation. Industrial Control is also a leading global supplier of sensors, switches and control products for automotive, information technology, consumer, aviation and industrial applications. For inquiries, call 1-800-288-7491 or access www.iac.honeywell.com or www.honeywell.com/sensing.
Honeywell is a US$25-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; power generation systems; specialty chemicals; fibers; plastics; and electronic and advanced materials. The company is a leading provider of software and solutions and Internet e-hubs including MyPlant.com and MyFacilities.com, and it is a founding member of Cordiem, LLC, an aerospace industry business-to-business Internet exchange and applications service provider. Honeywell employs approximately 125,000 people in 95 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. Additional information on the company is available on the Internet at www.honeywell.com.
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