HUG 2011: From the Floor

A meeting of minds for a better tomorrow

“This year’s conference was an incredible experience,” says Orhan Genis, vice president of sales for Honeywell Process Solutions EMEA. “There has been an amazing buzz about the event with our latest technologies explored and knowledge shared.”
Bringing together more than 400 Honeywell users to learn and share with Honeywell experts as well as their peers from [...]


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HUG by numbers

435 customers, more than 200 first time delegates, 47 countries represented, and all the sponsors, partners and distributors made it a record breaking conference this year, said Honeywell’s Barbera de Baar closing the 23rd Annual Users’ Group event.
The skills shortage panel session, the Virthualis demo and the student competition were just some of the highlights [...]


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In the Demo Room… OneWireless

There have been plenty of opportunities this week at the Users Group conference to hear about Honeywell’s wireless solutions. Presentations have covered a range of the existing technologies as well as new solutions introduced in 2011 – the OneWireless Mobile Workforce, Rotating Equipment, Terminal, Personnel Safety and Video solutions.
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HUG 2011: More from the Floor

The final day of the EMEA HUG has seen one of the big announcements of the week: The Cisco 1552S Access Point, developed with Honeywell.
It is a sign of barriers coming down, says Honeywell’s Diederik Mols, presenting with Cisco Systems’ Michael Fabian at HUG today.
“It’s a great step forward,” he says. “Every company has an [...]

For anyone suffering from a late night after the conference dinner on Wednesday, Dr. Marijke Gordijn’s keynote on the final day of the EMEA Honeywell Users Group on Thursday had some helpful insights.
A researcher of human chronobiology in the Center for Life Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Dr. Gordijn is an expert [...]

The challenge for many HPS customers is not a lack of data, Geir Simensen observed this morning, the final day of the Honeywell Users Group in Baveno, Italy.
“It’s too much data, not enough insight,” he explained. That’s particularly true of the task facing maintenance, where strategies have not been set up to deal with [...]

The Virthualis 3D technology on show at the EMEA Honeywell Users Group meeting this week is a great example of the main theme of the event: how technology can radically change the way we do business.
“This technology allows us to create a holistic virtual plant,” explains Andy Coward, director of portfolio innovation for Honeywell Process [...]

With this week’s EMEA HUG continuing strongly today, one person who will be looking on with some apprehension is Roberto Simeone, process control superintendent at Saras. This year’s vice chairman of the Steering Committee, he’ll be taking the lead role next year and he thinks it will be a tough act to follow.
“To be honest [...]