Honeywell Awarded Manufacturing Execution System Contract From QAFCO
Honeywell (NYSE:HON) Process Solutions today announced that it has signed a $1 million contract with the Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO). Honeywell will supply its Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for information management and performance monitoring at QAFCO’s ammonia and urea production facility in Mesaieed, Qatar. Honeywell’s MES will help the facility streamline data handling to reduce manual entry tasks, provide better validation and reconciliation of data, and ensure that information is received and transmitted efficiently.
This is one of several contracts between Honeywell and QAFCO. Under this contract, Honeywell provides QAFCO with Honeywell’s Information Management and Analysis solutions and Business.FLEX(R) PKS(R) execution and performance monitoring solutions.
“QAFCO made the decision to go with Honeywell after a thorough techno-commercial evaluation of short-listed integrated Plant Information Management system providers in the market,” said a QAFCO spokesman. “Honeywell solutions meet our company’s business needs with advanced, flexible and dependable systems that are also cost-effective.”
“QAFCO’s selection further reinforces Honeywell’s outstanding reputation and leadership in delivering advanced manufacturing execution and information management solutions to the process industries,” said Jerry Walker, Vice President and General Manager of Honeywell Process Solutions for Europe, Middle East and Africa said.
Additional Honeywell solutions employed at the site include: Uniformance(R) Plant History Database, Advanced Formula Manager, Workcenter PKS(R), Laboratory Information Management System, Production Balance, Event Monitoring, Operations Monitoring, Production Costing and KPI Manager. The MES project will result in better information and data management, improved process reliability, quicker decision-making and plant optimization. Successful implementation of this project will add QAFCO to the proud reference list for Hi-Spec solutions of Honeywell in Qatar, which includes neighboring Qatar Petroleum Refinery.
QAFCO is currently expanding its operational facilities. Upon completion of its ongoing expansion program by mid 2004, QAFCO will be the world’s largest single-site producer of urea (2.8 million MT per annum production capacity) and a major producer of ammonia (2.0 million MT per annum production capacity).
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