Safety, security, disaster: Recovery's all in a plan
Honeywell users got another round of application presentations today at the Honeywell User Group conference as engineers covered a wide range of topics like alarm management, how to recover from a disaster like Hurricane Katrina, security, and safety systems, among others.
But one of the funniest events of the day occurred during the Microsoft breakfast when during a demonstration of the new operating system Vista, which is now in beta, the system crashed and the blue screen came up.
The audience roared in laughter and gave the incident a round of applause. However, after a short delay, the presentation continued.
Without going into the detail of all the presentations, the glaring message that comes out is, you need a plan or your need to plan for every conceivable incident.
That is where standardizing your company’s platform and procedures from plant to plant, across the globe is vital.
Guy Wiles from DuPont had a disaster recovery plan at his plant in DeLisle, Miss. When Hurricane Katrina hit his plant, he lost 20,000 points of I/O and they had 100,000 determinations/re-terminations.
After the storm surge hit, they had 20 feet of standing water. They hit the plan immediately after the storm and because they documented everything, they were able to get a devastated plant up and running again in 11 weeks.
“Everything was done like we were supposed to do,” he said.
There is no way a company can survive today without planning for any kind of an event whether it is man made or a natural event.
As Wiles said, “natural disasters can happen anytime, anywhere. You need a plan.”
The same idea came from ExxonMobil’s Johan Nye, who gave a presentation on managing security for open control systems.
“Everyone has to know what their role is.”
Does your company have a plan? Talk to me.
But one of the funniest events of the day occurred during the Microsoft breakfast when during a demonstration of the new operating system Vista, which is now in beta, the system crashed and the blue screen came up.
The audience roared in laughter and gave the incident a round of applause. However, after a short delay, the presentation continued.
Without going into the detail of all the presentations, the glaring message that comes out is, you need a plan or your need to plan for every conceivable incident.
That is where standardizing your company’s platform and procedures from plant to plant, across the globe is vital.
Guy Wiles from DuPont had a disaster recovery plan at his plant in DeLisle, Miss. When Hurricane Katrina hit his plant, he lost 20,000 points of I/O and they had 100,000 determinations/re-terminations.
After the storm surge hit, they had 20 feet of standing water. They hit the plan immediately after the storm and because they documented everything, they were able to get a devastated plant up and running again in 11 weeks.
“Everything was done like we were supposed to do,” he said.
There is no way a company can survive today without planning for any kind of an event whether it is man made or a natural event.
As Wiles said, “natural disasters can happen anytime, anywhere. You need a plan.”
The same idea came from ExxonMobil’s Johan Nye, who gave a presentation on managing security for open control systems.
“Everyone has to know what their role is.”
Does your company have a plan? Talk to me.
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