HOUSTON, TX, Oct. 6, 2009 (Marketwire) --

HOUSTON, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 10/06/09 -- ISA Expo -- Apprion, the leader in industrial wireless applications networks, Industrial Mobility, a leading provider of field applications for the process manufacturing industry, and the Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced they have completed work at Huntsman Corporation's facility in Port Neches, TX on one of the largest and most ambitious industrial wireless application networks to date.

Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN), 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.

"At Huntsman, we strive to achieve the highest levels of safety and operations excellence in chemical manufacturing," said John Prows, Vice President of Manufacturing Excellence for Huntsman's Performance Products division. "Our goal with Project Zero is to eliminate defects, safety incidents and unscheduled downtime at our facilities."

To help deliver on the objectives of Project Zero, Huntsman partnered with Industrial Mobility, Apprion, and Motorola. Industrial Mobility contributed their MobilOps field mobility software that enables field operators to execute electronic "smart" rounds and checklists, enter real-time defect elimination work requests in the field, monitor and control Standard Operating Conditions (SOCs) for each piece of equipment, and access the most up to date Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for execution in the field including Consequences of Deviation (CODs) and Corrective Actions (CAs).

Huntsman believes it is crucial to centralize and manage safety critical information in one place rather than building nested safety data into each round, checklist or procedure. The MobilOps solution contains an SOC database engine that provides safety critical data to operators and mechanics at the point of decision making in the field. All field executable procedures, rounds and checklists pull their safety critical data from this same central source. Legacy information such as process and instrumentation diagrams, process flow diagrams, drawings, procedures, incident reports, etc are also immediately available on demand in the field.

To ensure that Huntsman personnel have a reliable, high performance, mobile platform to run MobilOps, as part of its ION System, Apprion selected Motorola's industry-leading, MC9090 rugged mobile computer.