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Advanced Formula Manager, A Solution For the Collection of Process History Data
The Industry Solutions business of Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions introduced today Advanced Formula Manager (AFM) — a calculation solution that easily transforms critical plant data from Honeywell’s Uniformance® Plant History Database (PHD) into valuable process information through user-defined equations and formulas. AFM can be used in industries that include refining, oil and gas, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, power and chemical plants and pulp, paper and printing mills.
AFM’s equation-building capabilities increase users’ efficiency in collecting process data that can be shared across the organization in a centrally managed, flexible environment. Even users who don’t have programming experience can easily formulate equations.
Combining Uniformance PHD with the AFM, calculation formulas and data can be accessed by and shared with all authorized users across the organization or distributed to other value-added systems and applications. The AFM Designer interface enables building of complex calculation libraries that can access historical and updated process data and store the calculated results in the historian database.
Custom calculation solutions are typically difficult to maintain. AFM simplifies the formulation and management of many process engineering, production and operational calculation tasks such as performing complex scientific calculation and analysis and developing complex, near real-time decision logic. This simplified approach increases productivity by reducing the time needed to access and distribute valuable process history data.
AFM, combined with Uniformance PHD, is a Process Knowledge Solution™ available with Honeywell’s Experion PKS™ Process Knowledge System™, which controls, monitors and manages complex production processes. Process Knowledge Solutions provide employees with knowledge-driven applications and technologies for capturing and managing information ¯ optimizing production and improving profitability throughout the organization.
For more information please contact:
Contact: Erik Rasmussen
(602) 313-4054
Industry Solutions
erik.rasmussen 'at' honeywell.com






