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Huntsman Chemicals uses wireless application networks to get a perfect score: zero process safety related incidents, zero injuries, zero environmental releases and zero product defects.

Huntsman Corporation, a global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated chemicals, undertook an aggressive program to eliminate injuries, product defects, and environmental releases at their Port Neches facility. Termed "Project Zero", this program required a completely mobile solution to empower operations and maintenance personnel to capture defects, track work progress and make process and safety related decisions in real-time.

Learn more about Huntsman's Mobility Solution and the successful results they have realized to date including reduction of daily pump inspections by 50%, process improvements and cost savings due to increased uptime and longer equipment lifetime.

Read the case study by ARC analyst Harry Forbes: Huntsman Extends IT to its Field Operations

Learn more about the successful mobility solution at Huntsman: Watch The Video

ION Video analyzes motion, tracks, counts, and identifies objects, and delivers video intelligence from live video streams by performing real-time video data mining. The ION Video system makes this intelligence actionable by issuing alerts to appropriate security, safety, and operational personnel, and archiving video for intelligent search, event correlation, and performance auditing. With ION Video, plants are equipped with an intelligent, secure, reliable, low-cost way to significantly increase security, safety and productivity.

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Debunking Wireless Myths Part 3
By Larry Allhands – Apprion Wireless Advisor

Wireless Myth: Our wireless infrastructure is the most vulnerable segment of our network.

In nearly every site I have worked on, the most vulnerable segment of the network has universally been the hard wired copper/fiber segment. Let's take physical security as an example: It is infinitely easier to plug a device into an unsecured switch than it is to break wireless encryption schemes, and in most sites, finding an unsecured switch is child's play. Any hacker worth his or her salt will be able to gain access to your hard wired network once given physical access to your network devices (Switches/Firewalls/Routers).

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Apprion delivers wireless application networks and services for the process manufacturing industry. These wireless application networks are based on Apprion's ION System – the first and only open, scalable, and extensible foundation for managing and integrating multi-vendor wireless devices and applications.

Whether it is the need to address safety or security concerns, reduce maintenance or material costs, or improve productivity or asset utilization, a wireless application network from Apprion will assure that any wireless application is easier to deploy and manage while delivering value faster, more efficiently. For more information, visit www.apprion.com.

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