Honeywell Loop Scout PKS

Control Loop Performance Management Solution

The Honeywell Loop Scout PKS solution helps prioritize control loop maintenance
across an entire facility. A Web-enabled software service, Loop Scout gives control
engineers the means to focus their efforts on the critical activities capable of
producing truly significant business results.

Honeywell Loop Scout Improves:

The average control engineer is responsible for over four hundred assets, most of • Day-to-day operations—enabling a
them PID control loops. The specific challenge of control loop maintenance is identifying Six Sigma program to proactively
problems and deciding the best way to focus maintenance and repair efforts. prioritize loop maintenance based on
performance and importance
Honeywell Loop Scout® PKS® meets the challenge. It automatically collects
configuration, event, and time-series operating data. Then, it suggests maintenance • Turnarounds—avoiding unnecessary

and engineering actions to resolve the worst performing loop problems in order maintenance by pulling valves and
upgrading positioners, based on need
to achieve the highest business impact. Loop Scout turns data into action.
• Troubleshooting—identifying the
Fast Implementation Speeds Results source of plant oscillations
Loop Scout automates the mundane, yet critical, tasks of data collection, metric • Project execution—receiving objective
calculation, and metric presentation—leaving more time to prioritize and resolve guidance during control system,
problems. It self-configures in order to sample fast control loops rapidly, and slow advanced process control (APC), valve,
control loops slowly. And it respects control system bandwidth limitations. and pump upgrade projects

Loop Scout centralizes monitoring through use of 60 Percentage of control

loops that are performing
the Internet. This one feature alone:
50 poorly or only fairly in
• Lowers the total cost of ownership by minimizing representative sample

40 of process industry
on-site software configuration, training, and
plants (115 facilities)
maintenance costs
30
• Ensures analysis results are consistent, accurate,
and precise 20

• Focuses Honeywell technology to identify the most

10
common and important control loop faults

• Facilitates cross-unit/cross-site performance 0

1st Quartile 2nd Quartile 3rd Quartile 4th Quartile
benchmarking. Facilities Facilities Facilities Facilities
Prioritize Control Loop Maintenance for Improved Economic Return
Downloadable Utility Collects Real-time Data Better Decisions by Focusing on Specific Failures
for Superior Analysis and their Impacts

With only a few exceptions, process historian data resolution Loop Scout detects specific failures of PID control loops
is too low for use in regulatory control loop monitoring. across the facility by:
Reconfiguring the historian to collect uncompressed one-second • Showing the probability of valve stiction for every loop
data often entails significant effort, making this option unrealistic in the facility—not just smart valves
for ad hoc or whole-facility monitoring. That is why Loop Scout • Giving a facility-wide representation of loops cycling at the
relies on its own real-time data collector to acquire time-series same frequencies

and configuration information directly from the control system • Indicating the poorest performing loops—those with the
using OPC or Honeywell TPS system interfaces. highest number of alarms and operator interventions
• Tracking mode and configuration changes across the facility
The small, Web-downloadable, wizard-driven Loop Scout
• Classifying different loop types differently, such as level
utility can be installed and configured by end-users in as little
control loops with surge attenuation objectives.
as 15 minutes. Data collection and transport is reliable,
secure, and flexible. Loop Scout goes far beyond the calculation and display of
difficult-to-interpret performance metrics and graphs. It gives
each loop a numerical score and a performance classification,
ranging from “excellent” to “poor.” These evaluations enable
performance benchmarking, aggregation, prioritization, and
tracking, making collaboration with management, operations,
and maintenance stakeholders more straightforward
and objective.

Customer Testimonials Prove Value

Loop Scout has helped analyze approximately 100,000 loops “We originally thought it would be better to have the analysis
across hundreds of facilities around the world. Here’s what on site, but having a remote solution provides each site with the

customers have to say about Loop Scout: latest revisions quickly and consistently across the corporation.”
Reliability team leader at a paper mill
“We wanted to implement a solution that would effectively
monitor and manage process control loop performance and “Loop Scout allows frequent but non-intrusive diagnostics
control system alarms, and be able to tie these factors to to be performed on the plant regulatory control loops, allowing
measurable business objectives. We wanted a standard solution problematic valves to be quickly identified and rectified, and
that we could replicate from mill to mill on different control permitting more aggressive regulatory tuning and consequently
system platforms, and provide visibility at the corporate level. enhanced performance from the higher-level Profit applications.”
The Honeywell solution best answered this need.”
Special projects supervisor at a major refinery
Corporate engineering manager at a major paper company
Tailored to Meet Your Needs

Open Solution
Loop Scout works on most Honeywell
Loop Scout comes in a variety of configurations, tailored to match the and non-Honeywell control systems
activities and infrastructures of individual sites. This flexibility supports (some features are not available on
corporate-wide implementation across multiple sites with different control all platforms). The facility must have
platforms, network topologies, and maintenance workflow. Internet connectivity, although the
control system itself does not need
Loop Scout works with other Honeywell advanced applications, including:
to be connected to the Internet.
• Advanced Process Control—Profit® Controller and Profit PID
• Alarm Management—Alarm Performance Assessment Services Benefit of Web-hosted Solutions

• Asset Management—Alert Manager Decision Support System. Users of Web-hosted solutions have
confirmed their value, as shown in a
High Security for Your Protection recent survey 1 by the Automation
Loop Scout takes data security to an exceptional level. It provides: Research Corporation (ARC) Advisory
• Secure sockets for Internet transport protocol (HTTPS) Group. Users indicated that the primary

• Unique username/password authentication for every customer reason for considering Web-hosted

• Packet encryption and compression based on a byte-oriented, solutions is to lower the total cost of
variable-key-length stream cipher. application ownership. The reasons,
listed in order of importance, were:
Versatile Solution Serves Wide Variety of Applications
• Reduce total cost of ownership
Loop Scout can be used in many ways. For example, users can:
• Lower implementation and
• Analyze a single loop after it has been repaired, and see whether its operational costs
performance has improved
• Focus on core competencies
• Analyze the most critical loops every day, automatically
• Faster time to implementation
• Analyze all loops once a quarter.
• Access to best-of-breed solutions

• Protection against obsolescence

• Access from anywhere at anytime

• Fixed monthly expenses: lower

capital expenses.

“Managing our regulatory control loops with a Six Sigma methodology 1

ARC Insights, Feb 14, 2001, “Web-hosted

centered around Loop Scout contributed to a 2.3 percent increase in Solutions Migrate to Manufacturing” by Tom Fiske
and John Moore, ARC Advisory Group
refrigerant production at our facility, valued at $1.7 million per year.”
Control engineering team leader at a multi-products chemical plant

“We employed a systematic approach using Loop Scout to identify

and resolve regulatory control problems in support of Profit Controller
maintenance. This approach led to a rapid resolution of poor hydrocracker
performance, resulting in throughput increases of 2.1 percent—
an estimated benefit of $850 per day.”
Control engineer at a major oil refining company
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Loop Scout Detail reports provide rapid visualization of performance changes, substantiated by
objective analyses, easy-to-understand performance classifications, and records of tuning changes.

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