Motorola, Apprion, and Industrial Mobility Team to Deliver Safety and Environmental Excellence while Driving Bottom-line Performance
ISA Expo, Houston, TX â€" Oct. 6, 2009 â€" Apprion, the leader in industrial wireless applications networks, Industrial Mobility, a leading provider of field applications for the process manufacturing industry, and the Enterprise Mobility Solutions division of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced they have completed work at Huntsman Corporation’s facility in Port Neches, TX on one of the largest and most ambitious industrial wireless application networks to date.
(Media-Newswire.com) - ISA Expo, Houston, TX – Oct. 6, 2009 – Apprion, the leader in industrial wireless applications networks, Industrial Mobility, a leading provider of field applications for the process manufacturing industry, and the Enterprise Mobility Solutions division of Motorola, Inc. ( NYSE: MOT ) today announced they have completed work at Huntsman Corporation’s facility in Port Neches, TX on one of the largest and most ambitious industrial wireless application networks to date.
Huntsman Corporation ( HUN: NYSE ), a global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated chemicals, undertook an aggressive program to eliminate injuries, product defects, and environmental releases at their Port Neches facility. Termed “Project Zero”, this program required a completely mobile solution to empower operations and maintenance personnel to capture defects, track work progress and make process and safety related decisions in real-time.
“At Huntsman, we strive to achieve the highest levels of safety and operations excellence in chemical manufacturing”, said John Prows, Vice President of Manufacturing for Huntsman’s leading Performance Products Division. “Our goal with Project Zero is to eliminate defects, safety incidents and unscheduled downtime at our facilities.”
To help deliver on the objectives of Project Zero, Huntsman partnered with Industrial Mobility, Apprion, and Motorola. Industrial Mobility contributed their MobilOps field mobility software that enables field operators to execute inspections of rounds, enter work requests for defects in real-time, monitor and control Standard Operating Conditions ( SOC’s ) for each piece of equipment, and access the most up to date Standard Operating Procedures ( SOP’s ) for execution in the field including Consequences of Deviation ( COD’s ) and Corrective Actions ( CA’s ).
To ensure that Huntsman personnel have a reliable, high-performance, mobile platform to run MobilOps, as part of its ION System, Apprion selected Motorola’s industry-leading, MC9090 rugged mobile computer. Motorola’s MC9090 is a versatile device – empowering mobile workforces with the reliability and performance to provide real-time visibility into business-critical information. Designed to withstand the rigors of everyday use in the harshest environments, the MC9090 mobile computer offers rugged construction and support for multi-mode wireless connectivity to ensure maximum accessibility to workers and business systems.
Using Motorola’s MC9090 mobile computers, Huntsman personnel can connect throughout the four-square mile plant via the Apprion ION System – a Class 1, Div 2 rated wireless application network. Apprion’s ION System provides easy wireless application deployment ( applications include video, voice communications, energy efficiency and condition monitoring ) and a centralized dashboard that brings together application data, regional maps, and equipment status and maintenance views and reports.
“Manufacturing IT executives view mobility as strategically important to their business,” said Tom Gleason, MSSI vice president for sales, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions. “Together with its ecosystem of partners, Motorola is helping manufacturers streamline operations, improve quality control and empower their workers with real-time information when and where it is needed.”
Initial results are impressive. With real-time wireless tracking of the rounds activity, the number of pumps requiring daily inspection has reduced by 50% - allowing more time for other more crucial inspection areas. Tracking work requests initiated in the field automatically identifies redundancies, makes work planning more effectively and will lead to significant reduction in the average “time to closure” for each request. Real-time monitoring of SOC’s have led to significant process improvements and cost savings due to increased uptime and longer equipment lifetime.
“By increasing the effectiveness of our defect capture, maintenance costs will be reduced, redundancy eliminated in the work process, and key equipment prioritized”, remarked Huntsman’s John Prows. “The increased uptime from the improvement in Overall Equipment Effectiveness will increase both production quality and quantity. But, most importantly, Huntsman has a tool that drives safe operating data to the worker in the field to ensure that the safest approach to each task is followed.”
“Once again, we see how safety, productivity, and environmental stewardship go hand-in-hand. Huntsman’s approach to providing real-time operational information to their people in the field is a great example of the type of mobile application we will see more broadly adopted over the next few years” commented ARC Advisory Group analyst Harry Forbes. “The value provided to Huntsman by the Mobile Ops application and the solid coverage and reliable services delivered by the Apprion wireless network enable workers to rely on the information in the field. Huntsman was able to get this system operational quickly because the availability of network services was a given, not a question mark.”
About Apprion Apprion delivers wireless application networks and services for the process manufacturing industry. These wireless application networks are based on Apprion's ION System - the first and only open, scalable, and extensible foundation for managing and integrating multi-vendor wireless devices and applications.
Whether it is the need to address safety or security concerns, reduce maintenance or material costs, or improve productivity or asset utilization, a wireless application network from Apprion will assure that any wireless application are easier to deploy and manage while delivering value faster, more efficiently. For more information, visit www.apprion.com.
About Industrial Mobility Industrial Mobility is focused on providing integrated process and data management solutions to manufacturers and other high risk, process intensive industries ( refining, chemical, petro-chemical, upstream and discreet manufacturing ). Through considerable experience gained in business process, data integration and operational procedures, Industrial Mobility offers technology based solutions that manage workflow and integrate vast quantities of information for real time deployment. Downstream energy, process intensive and discrete manufacturing clients are seeking integrated reliability solutions to bring operational procedures, safe operating conditions and maintenance systems to the point of need in the field or industrial plant.
Industrial Mobility believes the future of true business integration is not only linking physical data, but also mapping data to business processes and deploying information to field applications to provide ongoing accuracy of information at the point of need.
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to high-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave of innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more connected and more mobile. Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) had sales of US $30.1 billion in 2008. For more information, please visit www.motorola.com. Media Contacts: Bart Lipinski Office: +1 847-576-6931 Bart.Lipinski@motorola.com Motorola, Inc.
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