Check out this video from Family Night.

"Maybe to counteract their seemingly empty and arid environments, deserts
are often rumored to hide buried treasures," says our Executive Editor, Jim Montague. Then just to prove his metaphor is grounded in reality, he goes on to describe the hidden (in plain sight, surely) treasures in the Demo Room at the Honeywell User Group meeting in Phoenix. For a view of all the goodies, click here.

Things are popping in Phoenix. It's only the middle of the afternoon there, and we have reports on

how Nigeria LNG uses the OTTER system to improve rounds efficiency at its Bonny Island site;

 The new Experion roadmap;

 and the global business report from Honeywell executives, Norm Gilsdorf, Harsh Chitale and Vimal Kapur.

Mike Bacidore just posted this report from the Honewell User Group meeting: Norm Gilsdorf talks about four major trends in business and process automation. 

For a lighter look, check out these pictures of Day 1 of the event.

Well, I'm back from a whirlwind tour of Rockwell Automation's process automation customers in China, and I've managed to mostly dig out from under all the accumulated desk-coverings. That said, we are off to Phoenix on Sunday for the Honeywell User Group Americas for 2010.

We invented the e-show daily for HUG a few years ago, and so now we're on to newer things. Instead of an email newsletter every evening with the highlights of the day, we're going to be blogging and tweeting as close to real time as we can.

One Honeywell Brings Synergy to Users Group

Last week I attended Beth Wozniak, president of Honeywell Sensors and Controls' keynote address at the Sensors Show in Chicago. Yesterday, I listened to Norm Gilsdorf, president of Honeywell Process Solutions, give his keynote address at the 2009 Honeywell User Group Americas. As I noted, both even used some of the same slides to describe what HON has chosen to refer to as "One Honeywell."