Legacy PLC Migration: Eliminate Obsolescence and Reduce Risk

Summary

Not everything improves with age. As programmable logic controllers age, growing obsolescence creates challenges for effective operations.

It can lead to a lack of standardization across control devices, networks, and databases, growing vulnerability to cybersecurity risks, interoperability challenges without support for new open protocols, shortages of legacy PLC programming skills, and a host of other problems.

Ultimately, legacy PLCs are hard to maintain and difficult to support. That means higher maintenance costs, reliability issues and a growing risk of unplanned downtime. All while limiting your control capabilities.
Honeywell’s standardized controls migration strategy is for all operators with legacy PLCs no longer supported by original vendors.

It’s a unique, integrated solution that retains your existing intellectual property while ensuring interoperability between plant systems.

Our ControlEdge™ PLC Migration Solution with the latest open communication protocols gives you the full capabilities of Honeywell’s next-generation controllers, and full interoperability between controllers, third-party devices, IOs, instruments and SCADA.

You don’t need to manage multiple configuration software types or maintain separate HMIs for the DCS and PLCs when integrated with Honeywell’s Experion® DCS or SCADA. You do get complete visibility of the process and centralized management of your assets.

Operators can implement a unified database model and exchange data across a single control network, without additional infrastructure and engineering costs. Honeywell lowers the risks of migration and the total cost of ownership.

Integration workflows ensure migration projects are executed efficiently and achieve the expected results.

Our legacy PLC program conversion tools and global engineering teams work with customers to protect their intellectual property.

The ControlEdge™ PLC Migration Solution addresses the risks of obsolescence but gives much more:

• Experion® integration for optimized cost and better decision making;
• Seamless integration with our new Honeywell Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) for efficient energy management.;
• Greater engineering flexibility for reduced project overheads;
• Proven cybersecurity and a built-in control firewall;
• Connectivity and easy integration for Honeywell and other vendors’ assets.

Honeywell Process Solutions is a pioneer in automation control, instrumentation and services for the oil and gas, refining, energy, pulp and paper, industrial power generation, chemicals and petrochemicals, biofuels, life sciences, and metals, minerals and mining industries.

A leader in digitalization, Honeywell delivers software and services that help its customers overcome competitive pressures and uncertain market conditions to achieve game-changing business outcomes. Honeywell’s comprehensive portfolio in process control, monitoring, safety systems and instrumentation provides optimized operations and maintenance efficiencies to meet diverse automation needs. 

Get the most from migration. Choose Honeywell.