Honeywell Intelligrated (booth # 7619a)

Summary of Innovation

Competitive distribution center networks have many teams interacting with complex systems. Corporate and local leadership, operations, maintenance, and system operators must all work together flawlessly to consistently deliver competitive business results, while avoiding risks. Historically, these teams commonly operate with isolated islands of data and manual analytics, struggling to produce clear and accurate operational and business metrics. The consequences of inaccurate downtime, misinformed operations teams, and uninformed maintenance technicians set the business up for failure. Just misreporting a critical metric like downtime, (80% of distribution centers fail to report this KPI accurately) reactive maintenance programs fall behind without any accurate, data-driven guidance to allocate resources.

High-performance distribution center teams require accurate, insightful, and actionable information that can easily be accessed by any team, from anywhere, and from a reliable source. At Honeywell Intelligrated, we’ve developed a platform that allows teams to collect, visualize and analyze their operational data to improve their productivity, coordinate efforts, and mitigate risks. With Connected Assets, critical systems like sorters, scanners, merge and transportation conveyors are connected to the cloud for advanced analytics, vibration monitoring, and customized visualization. Within this virtual control room, DC operators have access to real-time, system performance metrics, insights into system operation, and fault alerts delivered via mobile devices.

Innovation Statement

Connected Assets combines control system data and machine level sensors to provide historic trends and actionable insights that are easily translated to operational and maintenance activities.

Applicability

Connected Assets enables every DC to visualize and manage critical system performance and key asset health to ultimately improve operational efficiency, predict and avoid risks, and deliver a lower cost per case shipped. The net benefits are delivered across distribution center departments and accumulate to several hundreds of thousands of dollars.

 

Posted Date	12/18/19
Contact	Kristan Viox
Contact Email	kristan.viox[at]honeywell.com
Category	Best IT Innovation

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