After many years of "supporting OPC" by producing their own, incompatible, Honeywell OPC, Honeywell has acquired one of the fountainheads of OPC technology. For years, customers have complained that HOPC is a proprietary implementation of an open standard (!).

Now they'll be able to get both Honeywell service and support, and the real deal from Matrikon. That's a genuine win for all the Honeywell ecosystem...and for any third party that has ever tried to connect to a Honeywell OPC server.

From the press release:

exida CERTIFIES HONEYWELL’S SAFETY MANAGER FOR FUNCTIONAL SECURITY

From the press release:

Norm Gilsdorf, president of HPS, spent a half hour
with me on Tuesday discussing the strategic reasons
for and the implications of Honeywell's acquisition of
RMG, Regel Messtechnik. Here's the podcast, for you to
listen to what Norm said:

One Honeywell Brings Synergy to Users Group

I've just finished the rough edit on my recorded interview with Norm Gilsdorf, the new CEO of Honeywell Process Solutions.

It's a pretty far ranging interview, and it will be available as a podcast sometime next week on www.controlglobal.com.