September 26, 2017 – Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) announced the introduction of its Experion Local Control Network (LCN) solution. This offering enables the incremental upgrade of the company’s legacy TotalPlant Solution (TPS) control system to allow for integration with Experion PKS. With Experion LCN, Honeywell is providing a path for continuous innovation to customers around the world. Industrial facilities can gradually move their legacy control system forward to become part of a new, modern solution while leveraging existing automation assets. HPS made the announcement at its annual Honeywell Users Group symposium taking place this week in The Hague, Netherlands.
Today, users of TPS are dealing with compliance issues related to new safety regulations, as well as with increasing system support challenges. As every industrial organization is under pressure to reduce costs while improving performance, plants running outdated control systems need to avoid obsolescence by employing the latest automation technology. The Experion LCN solution provides users with standards-based functionality, regulatory support capabilities, and integrated operations from the field through the plant to the business level.
Honeywell’s on-process incremental upgrade to Experion LCN modernizes the control system infrastructure and enables deployment of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Existing control strategies, field terminations, applications, history and graphics can be retained, allowing users to focus on improvements. Using Honeywell’s Experion Fault Tolerant Ethernet (FTE) infrastructure, the Experion LCN bridge connects Experion to Classic Coax LCN. Once this connection is established, the LCN coax connection can be removed one LCN node at a time. Instead of a hardware connection for every Experion TPS node, only one redundant Experion LCN bridge pair is needed to enable virtualization.
Honeywell’s TPS modernization solution is designed to minimize operating disruptions and maintain overall consistency. After modernization, the control system can have a common Human Machine Interface (HMI) and unified physical control network, enabling control devices to integrate/expand with the latest generation of Experion PKS controllers and safety systems.
About Honeywell
Honeywell Process Solutions is a pioneer in automation control, instrumentation and services for the oil and gas; refining; pulp and paper; industrial power generation; chemicals and petrochemicals; biofuels; life sciences; and metals, minerals and mining industries. It is also a leader in providing software solutions and instrumentation that help manufacturers find value and competitive advantage in through Honeywell Connected Plant, Honeywell’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution.
