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Honeywell To Automate American Battery Factory’s New Gigafactory

Honeywell announced today that American Battery Factory, makers of Lithium Iron Phosphate battery cells, has chosen Honeywell’s automation and process safety solutions for its new gigafactory located in Tucson, Ariz. The new facility is approximately 2 million square feet, and will be the largest gigafactory to produce LFP cells in...

Honeywell Fault Tolerant Ethernet and Control Firewall

After a previous article about Honeywell Experion Controllers with PMIO, I received some feedback in regards to how Experion controllers connect to a process control network (PCN). I wanted to provide a short overview in response and hope it provides some useful information about the configuration of Fault Tolerant Ethernet...

Honeywell Experion Controllers with PM I/O

Many Distributed Control Systems (DCS) that were created in the 1970s and 1980s were developed with proprietary hardware and software. These Distributed Control Systems were very robust, and many are continuing to operate until this day. One of those would be the Honeywell TDC 3000 system. I have no idea how...

Honeywell R520

Question of the day for you: Are you an “It works fine and there is no need to change it” personality or a “They have a new release out, lets upgrade” personality? Or maybe you are somewhere in between? Either way, it can be exciting to see what opportunities await...

Honeywell C200 Upgrade Paths

In 1998, Honeywell introduced the Experion Process Knowledge System (EPKS) C200 Controller. This was a much different system than the TDC 3000 DCS that was released in 1985, and created a much more “open” platform for integration with other products and vendors. Image by Brandon Cooper: Honeywell C200 The C200 stayed in...

Control System Changes Over The Last Five Decades

In part four of this series we will look at modern control systems from both their beginnings, as well as, the progress to what they are capable of at present day. Today’s engineer can typically work on multiple systems on any given day that could have been installed in the...