HONEYWELL EXPANDS HONEYWELL FORGE PERFORMANCE
Honeywell introduced new products
and enhanced applications for its Honeywell Forge Performance+ software
suite aimed at increasing productivity and driving key digitalization outcomes.
These new features and enhancements come at a time when industrial data is
doubling roughly every two years, and organizations are challenged with how
best to turn data into insights and profitable outcomes.
“It’s critical that companies learn how to harness this data at an
enterprise level to drive intelligent, sustainable, safe and secure operations.
Without it, they will continually be playing catch-up in operational efficiency
and productivity,” said Kevin Dehoff, president and chief executive officer,
Honeywell Connected Enterprise. “Honeywell Forge, which is purpose-built SaaS
for vertical markets, is designed to deliver better insights to help address
these problems and improve performance.”
For Honeywell’s industrial and supply chain customers, new and enhanced
applications to the Honeywell Forge Performance+ suite are now
available or will be available soon. These include:
· Honeywell Forge Performance+ for Industrials |
Production Intelligence, an advanced
analytics and insights solution for industrial end-users, offers key customer
benefits, including up to 30% improved worker productivity and up to 3%
improved plant throughput. These benefits underscore the fact that business is
now entering a new industrial revolution powered by digital innovation. Through
outcome-based insights and persona-driven dashboards, Honeywell’s new digital
insights solution empowers industrial users by allowing them to spend less time
sorting through operational data and more time optimizing performance.
· Within supply chain, Honeywell is introducing several enhancements
to Honeywell Forge Performance+ for Distribution
Centers to better enable intelligent operations. Enhanced analytics
capabilities include new visualizations of operational KPIs and the
introduction of trends for operational KPIs, to help users to see changes over
time so they can make productivity adjustments. A new mobile incident response
feature allows workers to manage incidents on the go from a mobile device.
“Honeywell Forge has helped with recognizing where there are
opportunities to either improve productivity and efficiency or prevent any sort
of breakdowns with some of our machinery,” said Shawn Keena, director of
operations at Gordon Food Service, the largest family-owned food service
business in North America. “Honeywell Forge has empowered us to ensure that our
systems are running properly. That type of consistency has been very important,
and our customers feel that.”
According to the Abnormal Situation Management (ASM)
Consortium and the
National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST),
U.S. process plants may lose more than $20 billion a year from process deviations, 50% which are directly attributable
to human errors.[1] To further
help industrial personnel expand their skills and capabilities, Honeywell
Connected Workforce Competency – a new cloud-deployed operations
training tool – provides easy access to comprehensive experiential training
content, anywhere and anytime, with the addition of new enterprise-wide
competency KPI aggregation and reporting. Organizations can now train their
personnel to help them prevent abnormal events and human errors, creating the
opportunity to decrease training time and to enhance employee effectiveness.
“More than ever, the industrial workplace and employees require new technology
and training to meet challenges with process modeling and technical knowledge
gaps,” Dehoff said. “Our solutions not only help upskill and support the
training of industrial workers, but also provide enhanced analytical features
to enable organizations to achieve their best performance.”
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