How to create sustainable competitive advantage

January 12, 2016 4:59 pm

Industries with an objective of achieving efficient, reliable and safe design and controls can make an excellent use of simulation technology,
Ulhas Deshpande, Business Leader, Advanced Solutions, Honeywell Process Solutions
  Increasing market pressures and advances in automation and process technologies are seeking innovative methods to make process engineering and control more efficient and reliable. Ulhas Deshpande, Business Leader of Advanced Solutions at Honeywell Process Solutions explains how the company’s simulation and design technologies provide the foundation for a sustained competitive advantage.
Could you discuss on the need and advantages of simulation technology in a process industry?Today, process industries need to optimise their process designs to achieve more reliable and stable operations. Companies should quickly identify optimum designs with technology that has minimum risk of rework to remain competitive and maximise business performance. Simulation technology is one of the enablers that will help users combat all their challenges and achieve an effective process system. A lot of industries are now adapting to simulation technology designed to enhance plant design, operations and optimisation. Simulation technology supports improved performance throughout the lifecycle of a plant – from offline use in steady state design simulation, control check-out, and operator training, to online use in control and optimisation, performance monitoring and business planning.
Additionally, the industry also faces challenges with regards to project cost savings, risk management, engineering time saving, reducing re-engineering etc. Simulation technology provides the users with solutions to mitigate these challenges thereby allowing them to reduce engineering costs as it provides a common environment to manage consistent use of data and models.
What are the solutions Honeywell offers in this spectrum?Lifecycle modelling solution is a powerful methodology that demonstrates how an investment in simulation technology that can provide comprehensive coverage throughout the lifecycle of a plant, from Front End Engineering Design (FEED), to operator training, to operation optimisation can be utilised for maximising returns. Honeywell’s UniSim Simulation Technology helps improve operator skills, enhance plant performance, plant designs etc.
Honeywell’s UniSim Suite of products includes UniSim Design, a powerful steady-state and dynamic simulation tool that helps engineers create optimal process designs based on critical business objectives; and UniSim Operations, which provides an advanced operator training solution plus capabilities for control system checkout. Further the portfolio provides users with capability to perform studies for plant and energy optimisation.

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