PHOENIX, Nov. 01, 2005 - The HART* Communication Foundation announced at the recent ISA show in Chicago that Honeywell's (NYSE:HON) customer, Sasol, has won the 2005 HART Plant of the Year award for its chemical plant at Sasolburg, Free State in South Africa. The prestigious award from the HART Communication Foundation recognizes innovative use of HART Communication in real-time industrial process plant applications. Each year the award recipients include plants that take the capabilities of their HART-enabled instrumentation beyond configuration and calibration to improve operations and optimize asset productivity. Sasol won after rolling out its vision to leverage and maximize its investment in HART enabled equipment purchased for its solvents plant in Sasolburg.
The final solution encompassed technologies that were integrated into a single centralized asset management system.Specifically, Sasol's plant is maximizing the use of all technologies available to leverage the device diagnostic information in their HART enabled instrumentation. The main benefit is the ability to effect instrumentation repairs before a plant trip/shutdown occurs. This work process is supported by a site-wide asset management solution, which is monitoring for failures and guiding the maintenance team in the repair process.Paul Orzeske, General Manager and VP at Honeywell EMEA, commented: "We are delighted that our customer was able to win this excellent award.
Sasol was able to deliver on their vision of plant asset management and their success should be recognized throughout the industry." Johan Claassen, Engineering Manager at Sasol, commented: "We have excellent experience with HART technology and have standardized on HART as a technology for our field devices in the company. In particular, one of the major improvement areas at Sasol that HART has helped deliver is the speed of communication between field operations." The HART Plant of the Year is a unique award in the process automation industry. It is the only public award presented to end user companies to recognize ingenuity in the application of HART technology.
The award showcases end user companies and their suppliers who have demonstrated creativity in using the full capabilities of HART Communication to improve operations, lower costs and increase availability.
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