Affiliates
HONEYWELL PROCESS SOLUTIONS
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) helps industrial customer around the world operate safe, reliable, efficient, sustainable, and more profitable facilities. They offer leading technologies from the plant floor to the boardroom, as well as comprehensive lifecycle services that help to ensure more productive and stable operations. A business unit of Honeywell International, HPS has pioneered process automation control for more than 40 years with a continuous evolution from legacy process control systems to today’s leading innovations such as Experion® PKS, protecting their customers’ investments in automation assets.
In 2018, Lin and Associates and Honeywell Process Solutions reached an agreement for Lin and Associates to become an Authorized Technology Provider for HPS. Under this agreement, HPS and L&A are teaming up to improve operator efficiency for successful plant operations by formalizing HPS support for the continued development of L&A’s ALTIUS® Hi-Performance HMI Solution for Honeywell’s Experion® Process Knowledge System (PKS). Honeywell will be the exclusive global reseller of licensing and support agreements for the human machine interface (HMI) software outside of the existing ALTIUS install base.
USER CENTERED DESIGN SERVICES, INC.
User Centered Design Services, Inc. (UCDS) a Division of CCE, Inc. is a Practical Human Factors consulting company focused on Operational Excellence. The collective background of UCDS pools over 100 years of experience in the Processing industries. First-hand plant experience enables UCDS to design an overall work environment that optimizes operator and organizational performance.
The company’s extensive expertise, coupled with key industry affiliations, provides the framework for successfully meeting clients’ business objectives. Since its inception, User Centered Design Services, Inc. has demonstrated its diversity by actively engaging clients in all regions of the world.
The UCDS vision is to implement Best Practice solutions for reducing the frequency and severity of abnormal situations, which will dramatically improve the nature of operations in production facilities. These Best Practices impact all aspects of plant operation and will result in improved plant performance, a reduction in incidents, and improved safety and profitability.
OSIsoft®
OSIsoft® is a proven leader in enabling operational intelligence. They deliver an open enterprise infrastructure. The PI System™ , to connect sensor-based data, systems and people. The result: real-time, actionable insights that empower companies to optimize and transform their business.
Lin & Associates became an OSIsoft® partner in February 2020. Our partnership will allow L&A to expand our control systems integration and visualization experience to the OSIsoft® platform. L&A can leverage our deep DCS knowledge and experience as well as patented visualization design to the OSIsoft® platforms to meet your operating needs. In additional to visualization and tight integration of DCS information with PI, L&A can expand visualization and analytics to leverage real-time and historical data available in PI into information useful to site operators, engineers as well as enterprise-wide overviews.