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Save the date: The 25th anniversary HUG

“I opened it, so I should close it”: Orhan Genis, Honeywell Process Solutions VP for EMEA sales, took to the stage again this afternoon to wrap up the 2012 EMEA Users Group conference.
More than 900 attendees, 285 companies, 186 first time visitors and 80 countries represented made it the biggest EMEA HUG ever – and [...]


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The delegates give their verdict on HUG

“It’s all about seeing the new technology that’s available and learning from others’ experiences,” says one delegate at this week’s EMEA Honeywell Users Group event, its biggest ever.
Many of the customers here are running older Honeywell systems – TDC2000, TPS, HPM. That’s partly why sessions such as the panel discussion on continuous evolution have been so [...]


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In the Demo Room… Terminal Manager R620

Announcements earlier in the week have already highlighted some of the features of the next generation of Terminal Manager, but visitors to the Users’ Group have been getting some first-hand experience on it in the Demo Room this week. And, according to Narendra Nagalla, Honeywell associate engineering manager, the first thing they notice is the [...]


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More from the Floor

There might have been more than 100 entries to Honeywell’s Student Competition this year, but it’s hard to think many could better encapsulate this conference’s theme than Davide Bocciardo’s winning entry.
Studying a PhD in chemical engineering at Edinburgh University, Davide used Honeywell’s UniSim® Design to model membrane gas separators in carbon capture, which has the [...]

The argument on virtualization is now mostly won, says Paul Hodge, Honeywell’s global product manager for the technology.
Unlike previous years, his presentations at HUG this morning and earlier this week focused more on the practical implementation than the theoretical benefits of the technology. That’s principally because most customers now understand the basics of the technology.
“Virtualization [...]

To open the final day of the 2012 EMEA Users’ Group event here in Turkey, Orhan Genis, vice-president sales, EMEA, for Honeywell Process Solutions, joins HUG Live with a post to give us his perspective on the week.
“It gave me great personal and professional satisfaction to stand on the main stage on Tuesday and welcome [...]

This years’ HUG vice chairman Dominique Rouillé has been using Honeywell systems his entire career. From working with the PMX system for Elf, back in the early 1980s to his role today, as head of process control systems and applications at ExxonMobil’s site in Notre Dame Gravenchon, he’s had a long relationship with us.
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“It’s difficult to miss Experion® PKS Orion in the Users’ Group Demo Room this week in Istanbul. But it’s even harder to find the time to fully explore all its features.
In total, 15 stations in the room are being used to show off the new features of Honeywell’s latest generation control system.
“It’s taken over,” jokes [...]