Honeywell Trace

Honeywell Trace is the software for change management and documentation, approval of work of industrial management systems.

2019: Release of Honeywell Trace R130

On April 16, 2019 the Honeywell company announced an exit of upgraded version of the software for change management which will provide to users from the different industries of processing industry powerful benefits in the form of performance improvement and saving of time. Honeywell Trace R130 daily saves pictures of data of a configuration, changes and technical violations in system operation of management which help to increase awareness of users on a situation and to optimize system operation.

According to the company, thanks to use of developments of Honeywell and the patented methods of data collection upgraded version of Honeywell Trace reduces the general time of data collection for the majority of systems from several days or even weeks till four-six o'clock. Trace collects data, without having any impact on system performance of management. Besides, given software displays a picture of a current status of a system in all completeness, thereby reducing troubleshooting time for 40% that helps to improve quality and to reduce time of idle times. Production engineers or other technical specialists, using Trace R130, can increase the performance to 50% thanks to permanent availability of exact status information that in turn will allow to plan better daily maintenance, troubleshooting and actions for quality improvement and efficiency.

For April, 2019 Honeywell Trace gives to users the broad picture of all changes in the last 24 hours. Now heads of the enterprises, production engineers and controls engineers and also security experts can practically take the answer-back measures at detection of changes at once, improving working indicators of technical processes and management systems and reducing a downtime. Nick Parker, the vice president and the CEO of division "Industrial automation" according to solutions and services for management of lifecycle

In release of Honeywell Trace R130 a number of the advanced functions, such as viewing components and support of search in an APCS of Honeywell Experion PKS, including following features is implemented:

• files of the user displays;
• change of browse modes for search simplification;
• filtering on columns and change of their sizes for more accurate display of anomalies and changes;
• enhanced capabilities of data storage;
• the improved detailing of parameters and function of search;
• licenses of system level with a possibility of transfer together with users at software updating;
• termless and temporary licensing.

2017: Output to the Honeywell Trace market

On March 30, 2017 the press service of Honeywell company announced an output to the market of software Honeywell Trace for change management and documentation, approval of work of industrial management systems.

Honeywell Trace gives the chance to replace paper documents and spreadsheets with the automation equipment. The technology helps to minimize errors of changes in a configuration, to increase labor productivity of personnel and to simplify management, providing the uniform integrated idea of interaction of complex systems^[1].

Use of Honeywell Trace helps to reduce quantity of manual activities of search and troubleshooting by 20%, to accelerate data collection for 300%, to reduce amount of works on ensuring quality of the project by 33% and volume of factory acceptance tests to 33%. Users can estimate economy due to performance improvement.

In view of expansion of our programs focused on the end results, and our permanent aspiration to optimization of all processes and tools it is very important to have an opportunity quickly and precisely to collect and analyze information on work of systems, history of a configuration and operating conditions. Honeywell Trace meets these key requirements, providing users with important data, informing them on when these or those actions in a management system were for what purpose taken and as they are approved with actions in the past. John Rudolph, vice president and CEO of division "Industrial automation", direction of solutions of maintenance of lifecycle

Honeywell Trace represents the solution for data collection capable to adjust control over a configuration of management systems. It automatically documents collective knowledge of the organization and data on actions of personnel. These improvements will help customers:

• conform to regulatory requirements,
• reduce quantity of errors in a configuration,
• reduce time expenditure by project planning
• simplify search and troubleshooting, investigations of incidents.

A system collects and stores data on a configuration through certain intervals (each 3-4 hours). By means of the mechanism of change control Honeywell Trace reveals and registers changes, automatically detecting deviations, providing users with information necessary for operation of the equipment.

Users of the Trace system can achieve reduction of volume of manual transactions by search and troubleshooting, to reduce labor input of processes of quality assurance and factory acceptance tests and also to accelerate data collection. John Rudolph

Honeywell Trace allows division of an object into logical segments that management of the enterprises, security experts, engineers and other employees had a possibility of change control in groups of components, analyzing instant pictures of a system status.

Managing alternative channels of input-output, Honeywell Trace simplifies status monitoring of the equipment, reservation of hardware and optimizes project planning.

Software contains functions of search and argument solicitation. As a part of the solution are offered:

• possibilities of the intellectual analysis of changes,
• the sensors of violations configured by the user,
• appraisal remedies of system performance in real time
• the user interface with dashboards and logical network networks.

Representation of Honeywell Trace, (2017)

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