Honeywell Experion Local Control Network

With Honeywell’s commitment to continuous technology evolution, plants can take what

was once a legacy system and gradually, in a step-by-step fashion, move it forward to

become part of a new, modern system while at the same time protecting existing asset investments.

Introduction

Honeywell continues to enable customers to take advantage of state of the

art control system technology while protecting their intellectual property investment.

Honeywell’s on process incremental upgrade to Experion LCN modernizes

the control system infrastructure and enables the Industrial Internet of

Things (IIoT by Honeywell). Existing control strategy, field terminations,

applications, history and graphics can be retained allowing users to focus

on high value improvements.

This strategy maintains safe and reliable controls while modernizing and

evolving with the most advanced technologies. It keeps established, reliable

systems running longer, extends uptime, and preserves investments in

hardware and network infrastructure.

Challenges

In an uncertain global economy, every manufacturer is under growing

pressure to reduce costs while improving performance.

Plants running the TotalPlant™ Solution (TPS) system need to avoid

obsolescence by employing modern technology. TPS introduced in 1998.

helped establish open plant automation with a host of advanced

applications. However, its users are now dealing with compliance issues

related to new safety regulations, as well as increasing system support challenges.