Honeywell solutions help streamline manufacturing and shipping processes for Abu Dhabi Gas Industries

The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) will help enhance access to GASCO's online planning, scheduling, analysis and measurement tools, enabling the company to avoid demurrage costs, optimize its inventories and capture business opportunities by enabling management decisions based on real time information.

The MES solution for GASCO integrates a number of Honeywell products, including Production Balance, Business Hiway, Production Control Centre, Capacity Distribution Planner, Workcenter and Uniformance PHD, on a common platform. In addition to enabling more efficient monitoring of processes, the system will automate GASCO's existing measurement, planning and analysis practices allowing access to accurate production forecasting, shipping coordination tools and predictive environmental monitoring systems on a single, integrated platform.

"Honeywell is proud to have been selected by GASCO to develop and implement such a wide-ranging MES project. This is further evidence of Honeywell's capacity to develop scalable solutions that are designed to fit customers' specific needs and our ability to seamlessly integrate a number of different software solutions on one platform. In addition to the benefits of investing in a state-of-the-art MES platform, GASCO also gains from Honeywell Advanced Solutions' proven track record in helping customers reduce operational costs while extending asset effectiveness and increasing process efficiency."

said Ged Blenkharn, Regional General Manager of Honeywell Process Solutions Middle East.

Honeywell's MES offerings manage production information, including the status of production runs, detailed unit operations, inventory and movement quantities, and conversion factors. By capturing production plans and schedules, communicating approved activities to operators, and enabling efficient capture and validation of actual production information, collaboration between supply chain planning, production planning and plant operations is improved.