Integrated Monitoring Software Suite Maximizes Turbo Machinery Availability, Performance and ProfitabilityPHOENIX, Aug. 11, 2003 - Honeywell (NYSE: HON) Industry Solutions today introduced Turbo Suite, an integrated suite of monitoring, optimization and decision-support software for turbo machinery. The software helps maximize availability and performance of turbo machinery assets vital to offshore platforms, floating production system operations, and liquefied natural gas plants. In these settings, turbo machinery must be operated efficiently and maintained effectively to maximize oil production and meet daily targets. The software suite improves turbo machinery operation and performance by providing users with benefits such as more-efficient operation, reduced fuel consumption, reduced emissions, increased production, lower life-cycle maintenance costs and improved machinery availability.Turbo Suite goes beyond traditional turbo machinery performance and condition monitoring. To pinpoint sources of performance degradation and enable proactive maintenance, the Honeywell solution uses rigorous gas turbine, compressor and pump modeling to compare actual performance against expected performance. In addition, combustion diagnostics and life-usage monitoring assist in determining when to carry out maintenance actions.Turbo Suite architecture is flexible enough to support data from a variety of sources, including Honeywell's Uniformance® PHD and OPC data sources. This flexibility allows data input from sources such as condition and vibration monitoring systems. As a result, Turbo Suite functions as a centralized data repository for all turbo machinery monitoring applications.Turbo Suite is also fully integrated with Alert Manager PKS(tm), Honeywell's asset-health monitoring and decision support software. Alert Manager diagnoses turbo machinery faults to help identify appropriate maintenance actions. When the system detects a fault, Alert Manager automatically sends an e-mail or pager notification to the appropriate administrator to initiate review and remedial action. "Turbo Suite significantly extends our equipment monitoring capabilities for turbo machinery," said Marc Duvall, Honeywell Industry Solutions Vice President and General Manager of Energy. "It gives our customers the ability to keep their vital turbo equipment operating at peak efficiency, while avoiding unnecessary maintenance and unplanned shutdowns."Honeywell International is a diversified technology and manufacturing leader based in Morris Township, N.J. With 2002 revenues of $22 billion, the company serves customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; specialty chemicals; fibers; and electronic and advanced materials. The company's shares are traded on the New York, London, Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges. Honeywell is one of the 30 stocks that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average; it is also a component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. For additional information, please visit www.honeywell.com. Honeywell Industry Solutions is part of Honeywell's Automation and Control Solutions group, a global leader in providing product and service solutions that improve efficiency and profitability, support regulatory compliance, and maintain safe, comfortable environments in homes, buildings and industry. For more information about Industry Solutions, access www.acs.honeywell.com.This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about future business operations, financial performance and market conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties inherent in business forecasts as further described in our filings under the Securities Exchange Act.Alert Manager PKS(tm) is a trademark and Uniformance® is a registered trademark of Honeywell International Inc.
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