New Zealand Engineering 1998 May

Hephaestus was the "steadiest" of the ancient Greek Gods. He was also the God of Fire and the Forge. Hephaestus was an engineer, and his fellow deities needed him to design and build their objects of beauty and function.

Honeywell, like Hephaestus, but with a name more readily recognised, also relishes the challenges of engineering. As arguably the world's largest automation and control company, Honeywell's business is to enhance comfort, improve productivity, save energy, protect the environment and increase personal and plant safety.

In New Zealand, where we have traded for over 65 years, Honeywell Limited provides control systems, products and service support to commercial buildings, private homes, airports, utilities and all scale of industrial manufacturing enterprise. We are particularly proud of our association with the New Zealand Refining Company at Marsden Point where Honeywell has supplied, maintained and modernised the primary control systems since computerised equipment was first installed there in the early `80s.

Our pride as individuals and as employees of Honeywell also resides firmly in our being a New Zealand business. Although recently affiliated, in an organisational restructure, to be part of a Pacific regional group, Honeywell New Zealand retains its focus on Kiwi customers and Kiwi projects - such as the automation of ECNZ's North Island hydro stations and upgrading access control at Christchurch International Airport. As professional engineers we are fortunate to be able to draw on huge global resources of equipment, experience and expertise. Honeywell's R & D budget alone rivals that of many nations. We expect Honeywell global revenues in 2000 to exceed US$10 billion. Yet our attitude is that these advantages are worthless unless they help to provide the best solutions we can for New Zealand's engineering challenges. Today, from branches in all the main centres, Honeywell New Zealand staff have over 400 years of collective employee experience to provide automation and control solutions for our clients.

And what are some of the solutions we bring to the marketplace?

• Optimum maintenance and equipment health strategies

• On-site and remote plant support - 24 hours, 365 days

• Traceable temperature testing

• Parts management - bonded and guaranteed available

• Project management

• Performance contracting - return on investment and savings linked

• Automation systems - SCAN 3000/PlantScape/TotalPlant/Excel 5000

• Measurement, sensing and environmental control products for industry, commercial buildings and the home

• ERP solutions.

Honeywell as a technology company has a track record of looking ahead and shaping the future. However, we also understand the importance of ensuring that our clients are never left "stranded" by leaps in technology. Therefore Honeywell has always designed their systems to work effortlessly with their predecessor products. We call this "consistent evolution" and believe this to be one of the most important ongoing differentiators Honeywell brings to the marketplace. It is also an attribute the steady Hephaestus could relate too and, we're sure, would commend.

For more information contact Honeywell Limited

Phone: 0-9-623 5050

Fax: 0-9-623 5060

PO Box 2196

Auckland 1000