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CASE STUDY

C ONTR OL P ANELS

SUPPLIER:
The Company and Project Bensons Control Panels

Control panels for Building Management Solutions CLIENT:
Honeywell
With over 110,000 employees globally, the Fortune 500 company Honeywell
produces a wide range of commercial and consumer products, engineering services PROJECT:
and aerospace systems. Control panels for
The company manufactures technologies to address some of the world’s most building management solutions
critical challenges in energy, safety, security, productivity and global urbanisation.
Bensons first began working with Honeywell in the early 1970s and now provides the RESULTS:
company’s Building Solutions team with over one hundred new control panels each Fast turnaround projects and
year. Bensons also regularly provides engineers to modify and maintain systems at
Honeywell customer sites around the UK and Republic of Ireland. cost effective tooling

The Challenge
How to upgrade with minimum disruption to the business

A key element of Honeywell’s Building Solutions business is the building
management controllers that facilitate effective building management
solutions.
With a reputation for innovation, Honeywell continually researches new
services for its many customers. This leads to the introduction of new
ranges of building management controllers, such as the Excel 800 which
superseded the Excel 500.
When new products are launched, Honeywell customers using legacy
systems have the opportunity to upgrade to enjoy the increased
functionality and all the business benefits this offers.
The challenge is how to upgrade with minimum disruption to the
business. Typically, the cost of downtime for such system upgrades is
high, so any upgrade needs to be completed quickly and effectively. In
addition, the cost of a complete new control panel is likely to be high,
with the physical access to replace it often limited – so an innovative
solution is required. Bensons looked carefully at the options available,
exploring different solutions to meet the challenge.

The Solution
Pre-wired backplates, with swing frame configuration.

Working closely with Honeywell engineers and their customers,
Bensons considered the capital cost and operational impact of
different approaches. Bensons then developed a solution using
pre-wired backplates that house the replacement controllers. By
using a swing frame configuration for the backplates, Bensons was
able to manage the installation and access processes with minimum
disruption to Honeywell and its customers.

The swing frames were assembled, wired and tested at Bensons’
own site before being fitted by Bensons’ engineers into the existing
control panels at Honeywell’s customer sites.

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