Its confirmed that Honeywell is moving themselves into a purely tech company that focuses on designing hardware but never manufacturing them. The manufacturing will be up to the thousands of suppliers at our disposal.
Don't believe the baloney being uttered by several ALT about software needing hardware to run. That might be true but the hardware ain't going to be made in any Honeywell site but by some cheap outhouse supplier. Thats how you get those margin gains displayed ever so prominently in every townhall. All the shop closures we have seen lately is glaringly obvious where Honeywell is going to next. Working for ISC? Better make that career move quickly before you get yanked out of a job soon.
To those design engineers tasked in designing that next best thing out there. If you have a conscience and want to save livelihoods of those working at the sites, design something complicated yet practical and only sites in Honeywell can produce. Make it almost impossible for it to be manufactured by some supplier without hurting their cost or efficiency.
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Honeywell management could turn the company into a "software industrial" if their sorry a$$es depended on it. These are people that could f*&k up a free lunch and have done so for decades. Puhleeese!
The only reason Honeywell would get out of the business of manufacturing THEIR designs are the designs are not conducive to manufacturing. This way they can pass off the poor designs and blame the outside 'manufacturer' for not performing as Honeywell managers expect. Passing the buck and kicking the can and blaming the suppliers is what Honeywell management does best.
honeywell strength has always been about great hardware. We produce things not binary crypto.v
The connected plants hoax UOP developped for PSA's has cost millions and so far only 1 licence sold.
The concept was engineered and tuned using a unit that later on turned out as having been overhauled by competitors without UOP knowing. i.e., all the data gathered and algorithms develloped are useless.
That's the future of Honeywell's software dream!
Software?! This mo--nic platypuses in charge can’t even invest in improving the processes. They would be the virus and anti-virus software, endless loop of mediocrity
Software is easily offshored to low-cost sweatshops now, hence the appeal to the brain trust. The "licensed name" is another tiresome re-tread from the empty suits - let's do nothing and just sell our name - money for nothing, as it were.
Do you really think HON wants to spend efforts in designing hardware?
Look at Jetwave connected AC, outsourcing the design, build and certification.
All HON wants to do is brand it, market it and take a royalty.
Same for the latest weather radar replacement.
'Software' is DA's wet dream just like his Quantum Computing, a science project if I ever did see one. DA's in the wrong company if 'Software' gives him a stiffie. Engines found Garrett is spinning in his grave.
Meanwhile no supplier in their right mind would try to manufacture the —— that Honeywell aero hardware team put out. Good job using bad designs to protect our manufacturing jobs.