| The interview with Praveen Shetty, Vice President of Engineering at Honeywell Connected Enterprise, India, delves into Honeywell’s Connected Enterprise initiative in India’s industrial landscape. Highlighting Honeywell Forge’s role in enabling intelligent operations across sectors such as industrials, life sciences, and distribution centers, Shetty emphasizes its ability to integrate real-time data for informed decision-making.
Can you briefly overview Honeywell’s Connected Enterprise initiative in India and how it fits into the current industrial landscape?
Both Honeywell and its Connected Enterprise software arm have a strong employee presence in India. Honeywell India employees deliver innovative technologies to customers in tackling some of the toughest challenges in energy, security, safety, and sustainability. Similarly, Honeywell Connected Enterprise boasts a highly skilled team in India, proficient in software development and possessing extensive domain expertise across various industries. This team is actively engaged in developing innovative solutions across multiple sectors, including industrials, buildings, life sciences, supply chain, and aerospace, among others. The diverse skill set of our employees encompasses software development, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
One of HCE’s notable achievements is the creation of Honeywell Forge, a premier industrial IoT software architecture, specifically designed for digital transformation. Honeywell Forge connects assets, processes, and people utilizing consistent technology architecture and common data models to capture horizonal scale. Honeywell Forge’s outcomes-based solutions are focused on operational performance, sustainability, security and safety.
In the era of digital transformation, Honeywell’s wealth of experience in process control, cybersecurity, and managed performance is instrumental in elevating business operations. India’s prominence in the global digital transformation landscape, marked by its innovation in the digital sphere, underscores the significance of this journey.
As India endeavors to bolster its manufacturing capabilities and establish itself as a key player in global value chains, digital transformation fueled by emerging technologies like AI, ML, IoT, robotics, blockchain, and cloud computing will drive economic growth. The rapid adoption of Industry 4.0 principles further accelerates the utilization of these emerging technologies to enhance competitiveness.
Our product portfolio is tailored to meet the evolving needs of the Indian market, which is witnessing growth in infrastructure, air travel, giga factories, data centers, and energy transition. Anticipating rapid expansion across these segments, our Honeywell Forge suites for buildings, industrials, cybersecurity, and sustainability are designed as outcome-based solutions. We are confident that these offerings will significantly contribute to driving digital transformation, sustainability, workforce productivity, quality, and OT cybersecurity initiatives.
In what ways does Honeywell Forge contribute to enabling intelligent operations in various sectors such as industrials, life sciences, and distribution centers?
The Honeywell Forge software seamlessly integrates real-time data spanning assets, personnel, and operational processes to drive intelligent operations. This architecture empowers informed decision-making, enabling opportunities to increase efficiency, identify risks, and enhance operations. Tailored to address global challenges, Honeywell Forge solutions cater to diverse industries such as aerospace, life sciences, buildings, industrials, warehouses, and beyond. By leveraging Honeywell Forge, our clients can accelerate their digitalization, sustainability, and OT cybersecurity endeavors.
Key features of Honeywell Forge include:
Portfolio: Facilitating informed investment decisions through near real-time site-to-site comparisons and advanced analytics.
Site: Digitizing manual processes and facilitating remote operations while enhancing inventory management capabilities.
Asset: Enhancing productivity and promoting transparent and cost-effective maintenance contract negotiations.
Energy: Automating energy management processes and key performance indicators to reduce expenditure and carbon emissions.
Worker: Strengthening safety protocols and compliance measures, digitizing manual processes, and equipping workers with tools for handling complex tasks more efficiently.
Could you elaborate on the role of digitalization in driving sustainability within these sectors?
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have accelerated digital adoption globally, including in India, presenting opportunities and challenges for developing economies. The widespread adoption of connected technologies not only enhances efficiency, productivity, and the creation of new services and occupations but also fosters greater connectivity among various agents. India’s rapid pace of ICT diffusion makes it a compelling case study for examining the impacts of digitalization on economic development. As digital capabilities continue to improve and connectivity becomes ubiquitous, technology is poised to revolutionize nearly every sector of India’s economy. This presents an opportune moment for Indian companies to embrace digitalization, leveraging digitized resources such as cloud-based software and sensor-equipped machines to create new sources of profitable revenue. Moreover, integrating sustainability principles into digitalization efforts can further drive economic growth while mitigating environmental impacts, fostering a more sustainable and resilient economy for India and the world. Digitalization enables companies to optimize resource use, reduce waste, enhance supply chain transparency, and raise awareness about sustainable practices, ultimately contributing to a more sustainable future.
How does Honeywell Forge differentiate itself from other similar solutions in the market?
Honeywell Forge distinguishes itself from other similar solutions in the market through its comprehensive applicability across diverse industries, leveraging Honeywell’s extensive legacy of over a century in asset and process control technology. It seamlessly integrates massive amounts of data from equipment, processes, and personnel into actionable insights, allowing for near real-time monitoring of enterprise operations from a centralized view. Its advanced data analytics capabilities help enable customers to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, safety, and profitability without the need for costly system replacements, thanks to its hardware- and software-agnostic approach to integration. Honeywell Forge also stands out with its predictive analytics and learning capabilities, empowering users to identify maintenance issues, optimize labor management, reduce costs, and enhance productivity, all while maintaining the highest cybersecurity standards. By addressing the common challenges faced by large enterprises, such as fragmented systems and limited visibility, Honeywell Forge enables leaders to transform their operations efficiently and with minimal disruption, thereby facilitating a focus on innovation and achieving broader business objectives. Its versatility extends across various industries and customer needs, making it a reliable choice for organizations worldwide seeking to enhance their operational performance and drive sustainable growth.
What is Honeywell Forge Sustainability+ and how does it cater specifically to industrials in terms of emissions management?
Traditionally organizations have struggled to track emissions due to the lack of a single system of record. Honeywell Forge Sustainability+ for Industrials | Emissions Management and Honeywell Versatilis™ Signal Scout™ IoT sensors can provide organizations with an end-to-end software solution that includes emissions monitoring, analytics, visualization, and proactive insights to assist with emissions reduction. The solution provides a foundation for organizations to measure, monitor, reduce, and report their emissions performance against their carbon reduction goals.
It is a sustainability solution for carbon emissions monitoring and optimization which it has launched for earlier adopters and has also been deployed at its own facility. The sensors will enable organizations to monitor and visualize emissions in near real-time. The new solution will help customers in the industrial sector as they strive to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and meet their carbon reduction goals.
This comprehensive platform serves as a single system of record, allowing organizations to measure, monitor, reduce, and report their emissions performance against carbon reduction goals. It offers several key features and benefits tailored to the needs of industrial sectors:
Enterprise Solution for Comprehensive Emissions Management: Honeywell Forge Sustainability+ provides a holistic approach by measuring fugitive and process GHG emission leaks, continuously monitoring sites for new or remediated emissions, and reporting on emissions’ status. It also drives emission reduction strategies and solutions.
Innovative Gas Detection Technologies: The integration of Honeywell Versatilis™ Signal Scout™ gas detectors and Gas Cloud Imaging enables continuous measuring and monitoring of emissions in near real-time. This proactive approach allows organizations to better manage GHG emissions and swiftly address potential leaks.
Process Emissions Reporting and Visualization: The platform offers detailed reporting of process emissions with site- and enterprise-level trending and visualization. This functionality enables organizations to pinpoint methane leaks that may disrupt production or pose safety risks to workers. Additionally, it provides access to metrics and alarms associated with gas leaks for timely intervention.
Enterprise-wide Accounting and Reporting: Honeywell Forge Sustainability+ eliminates the need for periodic manual reporting by providing enterprise-wide accounting, visualization, and reporting capabilities. This feature offers a holistic, near real-time view of Scope 1 emissions for both Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) professionals and executive teams.
