HONEYWELL DONATES SOFTWARE TO MICHIGAN TECH
PHOENIX, AZ--Honeywell Industrial Automation and Control is reinforcing its nine-year relationship with Michigan Technological University by providing Honeywell Uniformance(tm) PHD (Plant History Database) software to the Process and Simulation Control Center within the university's Chemical Engineering department. Valued at more than $50,000, the software combines a high-performance process historian with a relational database to store plant and process information.
Speaking recently at MTU's Chemical Engineering Honors Convocation, Frank Lynott, vice president and general manager of IAC's Solutions Business, cited Honeywell's membership on the MTU Chemical Engineering Industrial Advisory Board as an example of the close relationship that Honeywell and MTU have enjoyed. He went on to note that, "At Honeywell we believe a company's most important asset is people; therefore, support of key university programs such as MTU's Process and Simulation Control Center is a high priority for Honeywell."
"Honeywell's strong continuing support and involvement ensure that the Process Simulation and Control Center remains the premier facility of its type in higher education," said Curtis J. Tompkins, president of MTU. "Without the extraordinary participation by Honeywell and other corporate patrons, Michigan Tech simply could not afford to maintain the center at the cutting edge."
The Process Simulation and Control Center is part of MTU's pilot plant facilities, which include processes for liquid / liquid extraction, solvent recovery, and polydimethylsiloxane reaction.
"The addition of Honeywell's PHD product to our pilot plant facilities provides a tremendous boost to our undergraduate Chemical Engineering program and a first step in upgrading our TDC 3000 control system to the latest technologies," said Kirk H. Schulz, chair of Chemical Engineering at MTU. "Our students will use statistical process control methodologies to analyze historized and real-time process data through a PHD Server to better understand unit operations and the chemical processes in our plant."
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