Honeywell has unveiled Experion® PKS Highly Integrated Virtual Environment (HIVE), a new approach to engineering and maintaining industrial control systems. This is an evolution of the company’s Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS). Experion PKS HIVE uses Honeywell’s LEAPTM project execution principles, software and networking to unchain control applications from physical equipment, and controllers from physical input/output (IO). This enables control systems to be engineered and implemented in less time, at lower cost and risk, and with simpler, modular builds. The solution also transforms the way control systems are maintained over their lifecycle, shifting day-to-day management of servers to a centralised data centre, where experts and established protocols mitigate cybersecurity risk, allowing plant engineers to focus more proactively on optimisation of their control systems. “ARC market research shows that solutions like Honeywell Experion PKS HIVE address key issues for customers around project risk and ultimately project cost,” said Mark Sen Gupta, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group. “A more fascinating aspect is the greater flexibility in control architecture design and implementation allowing for a more optimal use of physical and computing control system assets.” Experion PKS HIVE incorporates three elements – IT HIVE, IO HIVE and Control HIVE – which can be used individually or collectively, in tandem with customers’ existing systems and infrastructure: “In developing Experion PKS HIVE, Honeywell worked closely with customers across the chemical, refining and oil and gas industries,” said Jason Urso, Chief Technology Officer, Honeywell Process Solutions. “Many of these organisations want a more efficient approach to control system engineering, yet one that can be adopted incrementally and used interchangeably with their existing systems and infrastructure. Experion PKS HIVE provides these benefits and is truly a distributed control as it applies and geographically distributes technology to where it is needed.” Experion PKS HIVE shifts IO to the field and makes it fully accessible to any controller, taking individual physical controllers and distributing the load so that they appear as a single controller to eliminate complexity. The solution distributes IT compute from onsite to offsite providing a seamless operations experience. Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/product-news/11062019/honeywell-releases-new-technology-for-engineering-industrial-control-systems/ Embed article link: (copy the HTML code below):
Honeywell has launched its Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) Highly Integrated Virtual Environment engineering and industrial control system, an evolution of the company’s existing PKS product. The upgrade unchains control apps from physical equipment, allowing control systems to be developed more quickly and at a lower cost. “Experience is one of our most important business drivers for us,” said Jeff Miller, senior vice president of product management in Honeywell’s Industrial Control Systems group. Honeywell said it worked closely with oil and gas, chemical and refining customers who wanted a product that could be introduced gradually and interact with their own systems.