CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (Nasdaq:
HON) today announced plans to build a new advanced research and
development (R&D) testing facility for its Honeywell
Intelligrated warehouse automation business to meet growing demand
for technologies that enable faster, more accurate supply
chains.
The 150,000-plus square foot (14,000 square meter)
state-of-the-art facility will be built on Honeywell's Brno,
Czech Republic, campus – home to
Honeywell's existing research and development hub for Central and
Eastern Europe – and is expected
to open in mid-2022. The facility will enable Honeywell hardware
and software engineers to design, prototype and test innovative
warehouse automation systems used by logistics companies to improve
the accuracy, efficiency and throughput of packages within
distribution centers and warehouses.
Toward the latter part of 2022, Honeywell will open a customer
training facility at the new site. The company will hire dozens of
highly skilled technical specialists over the next 18 months as the
facilities come online.
"For businesses and consumers alike, expectations regarding
e-commerce and logistics have changed rapidly, spurred on by the
impact of COVID-19," said Ben
Cardwell, president of Honeywell Intelligrated. "This means
a growing reliance on cutting-edge technologies that can automate
and accelerate distribution centers, warehouses and other parts of
the supply chain. The emerging technologies we are developing in
Brno will help meet that demand head on."
The facility is Honeywell's first European test and development
site for its portfolio of digitally enabled technologies for supply
chains, which spans conveyors, sortation systems, palletizers and
robotics, automated storage and retrieval systems, warehouse
software and voice- and light-directed picking technologies. Once
fully operational, warehouse and logistics companies from across
Europe will use the facility to
test, prototype and train on Honeywell's technologies to help them
maintain an advantage in what is an increasingly dynamic and
competitive market.
The new facility extends Honeywell's warehouse automation
capabilities in Central and Eastern
Europe, following this year's opening of the company's
Intelligrated advanced manufacturing site in Chorzów, Poland, where many of the systems being
developed at Brno will be assembled.
Honeywell Intelligrated is one of the largest material handling
system suppliers in the world, providing warehouse automation
solutions for retail, wholesale, e-commerce, food and beverage,
consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical and medical supply,
third-party logistics and postal and parcel industries. Sixty of
the top 100 global retailers and 50 of the top 100 e-commerce
retailers rely on automated material handling solutions from
Honeywell Intelligrated.
Honeywell Intelligrated offers one of the broadest portfolios of
advanced automation technologies and software in the industry, from
conventional solutions to the latest warehouse robotics to hybrid
solutions that combine the strength of multiple technologies. For
more information on Honeywell Intelligrated services, visit
sps.honeywell.com/us/en/products/automation.
Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) provides
products, software and connected solutions that improve
productivity, workplace safety and asset performance for our
customers across the globe. We deliver on this promise through
industry-leading mobile devices, software, cloud technology and
automation solutions, the broadest range of personal protective
equipment and gas detection technology, and custom-engineered
sensors, switches and controls. For more information, please visit:
sps.honeywell.com.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology
company that delivers industry-specific solutions that include
aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings
and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies
help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and
workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and
more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell,
please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
Contacts:
Media
Whitney
Ellis
(803)
835-8137
whitney.ellis@honeywell.com
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