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Industrial wireless solutions can help to reduce manufacturing costs as well as improve safety, reliability and productivity. This Knowledge Center is designed to equip you with the information you need to get started in wireless, especially how to make choices that will migrate forward as your applications grow, as well as maintain your investment as the technology continues to evolve.

White Papers

Preparing for Industrial Wireless

The decision to implement wireless technology in your industrial facility is probably one of the most strategic decisions you will make in the next few years. Wireless is a complex, enabling technology that merits careful consideration before broad deployment. This whitepaper outlines questions to consider as you investigate wireless technology. Click here to download.

Choosing the Right Industrial Wireless Solution

Wireless technology provides a low-cost solution for unlocking value in the industrial plant and for enabling a mobile and more productive workforce. But with a seemingly limitless scope of wireless choices, how do you make the right ones for your specific needs? In this whitepaper, we cover what you might consider for improved safety, plant optimization and ensuring compliance. Click here to download.

Resources and Wireless Success Stories

Wireless Plant Network Architecture Diagram

Study this comprehensive diagram on how one optimized multi-functional wireless mesh network can support many applications. Learn about the wireless features available through a mesh network. Click here to download.

Roche Diagnostics Reduces Data Access Costs

Roche Diagnostics, a leading U.S. healthcare company, needed to meet stringent U.S. Food and Drug (FDA) compliance regulations, as well as increase access and availability of data for improved decision making. Find out why Roche selected Honeywell's wireless transmitters as a solution. Click here to download.

Lyondell Improves Data Collection and Analysis

Find out why Lyondell Chemical Company, a global manufacturer of basic chemicals and derivatives and also a refiner of heavy, high-sulfur crude oil turned to Honeywell for an integrated software and mobile hardware solution. In this case study you will learn how Honeywell's solution meet Lyondell's challenge to provide field operators at a Texas olefins plant with the most updated information to efficiently track and integrate valuable field data. Click here to download.

Repsol Secures Pipeline at Lower Costs

Understand why Repsol YPF, a multinational energy and chemical company, turned to Honeywell for a wireless solution to monitor pipelines crossing the Colorado River in Argentina. Find out how Honeywell's wireless transmitters helped Repsol reduce costs by more than 37 percent and adhere to security and environmental standards. Click here to download.

 

Audio Cast

Walt Boyes Talks Wireless with David Kaufmann


Walt Boyes

David Kaufmann

ControlGlobal.com's Walt Boyes talks wireless with Honeywell's David Kaufman, director of new business development for Honeywell's Industrial Measurement and Control Business Unit. In this 19 minute podcast, Kaufman and Boyes discuss Honeywell's proposal for a product architecture, and a draft for the upcoming RFP from SP100. Click here to download. Podcast length: 19:01

Video

Industrial Wireless Technology

This 3 minute video will give you an overview on Honeywell's industrial wireless technology. You will find out how Honeywell's mesh network provides a cost-effective wireless solution optimized for ever-changing industrial wireless needs. Click here to download.

The Latest on ISA's SP100 Standards Work

Users want an industrial wireless standard

Wireless industrial standard begins to take shape

ISA SP100 keeps on its wireless path

General information on the ISA's SP100 committee, Wireless Systems for Automation

Wireless Market Research Studies

 

Use of wireless in manufacturing expected to grow 26% annually

 

Wireless sensor network growth expected in 2007

Key Articles

 

Honeywell develops layered security and safety system at Geismar plant

 

Highlights from the 2006 Honeywell Users Group Symposium

 

Honeywell's wireless considered at 2006 User Group conference

 

Honeywell unveils secure industrial wireless roadmap

 

Secure your wireless information channel

 

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