Danfoss Drives and Honeywell join forces to tackle downtime
Danfoss Drives and Honeywell have entered into a joint agreement to explore collaboration on automation systems with integrated architectures, aiming to reduce downtime and engineering expenses.
The joint initiative aims to address the challenges posed by traditional automation systems, which often force operators to choose between rigid, highly integrated, closed architectures and flexible, open architectures that suffer from limited data integration and interoperability.
The collaboration seeks to overcome these issues by developing an open, integrated platform that could impact sectors such as battery manufacturing, speciality chemicals, mining, and metals and minerals.
This solution would enable both companies to deliver advantages to customers, such as reduced time-to-operation, reduced engineering costs, support for predictive maintenance, and enhanced information for operators.
"With this collaboration, we will finally be able to improve data integration while addressing the lack of flexibility across automation platforms," explains Danfoss Drives’ president, Mika Kulju. "The potential to drive growth and deliver enhanced value to our customers is enormous, hence I can only emphasise our strong commitment to making this partnership a success."
Pramesh Maheshwari, president of Honeywell Process Solutions, adds that the partnership "marks a transformative step in automation for the industry, ensuring process operators can work with the most accurate data available. Together with Danfoss, Honeywell will help drive efficiency and flexibility through automation solutions for our customers."
Whilst it might be a while before the market sees the results of this collaboration, Foxmere knows a great deal about reducing downtime and operating costs, and it's a topic that we’re somewhat emphatic about.
In the meantime, please get in touch if you want to know more about the products and solutions that Foxmere can offer to help you reduce your downtime and operational costs. Foxmere is well-established in automation and control, and our expert team is only a phone call away.
