A page of history.
Yesterday…
• 1956: On April 10, the first stone of the factory of Amiens is
posed.
• 1965: Creation of the Engineering
and design department and the Service Quality. The factory starts to produce its
own products.
• 1970: Installation of the
information processing system and the control of
management.
• 1980: The factory becomes a
center of excellence E.F.A.C. (European Factory Application Center). The center
becomes responsible on a European or world scale for the evolution of one of
technologies of the company.
• 1989: The
department marketing, hitherto established in Saint-Aubin, settles in
Amiens.
• 1992: The factory Honeywell
Amiens obtains certification ISO 9001 and receives the 2nd Price Picardy
Quality.
• 1993: By the introduction of
industrial products of measurement, the name of the center of Amiens becomes
M.C.P.C. (Measure & Control Product Center).
• 1994: The organization of the center is transformed according to
horizontal processes' what allows a better orientation towards the customers and
a responsibilisation of the employees.
•
1995: Honeywell Amiens obtains the 2nd Price Picardy
Quality.
• 1996: Honeywell Amiens arrives
15th at the Price France Quality and receives the 2nd Price Picardy Quality.
Regrouping of the 2 factories, located face to face, in same the buildings, a
preoccupation with an improvement of the
communication.
• 1997: The company obtains
the 2nd Price France Quality and the 1st Picardy
Price.
• 1999: - September: Fusion of
HONEYWELL with ALLIED SIGNAL which becomes INTERNATIONAL HONEYWELL (120 000
people in the world).
- October: The center
“Measures & Control” (M&C) of HONEYWELL Amiens becomes a center “Sensing
& Control/Control Product” (S&C/CP).
Center “S&C/CP” of Honeywell Amiens employs 158 people and, is
equipped with all the functions of an industrial company, except the sale which
is managed by the 45 subsidiary companies distributed on all
planet.
The center with the responsibility to
serve our European markets of Measurement and Control and a responsibility for
the development for the recording products for physical and transmitting data of
temperature.
Honeywell is also a center of
configuration of the products of the group manufactured in other countries (the
U.S.A., Asia,…) and intended to be sold in
Europe.
• 2001: (January 16) the
discontinuance of business could intervene before the end of the
year.
For the Group, “it is a question of
reorganizing the activities of the branch, in order to preserve its
competitiveness, to simplify its structure and in particular to ensure the
future growth of the activities systems of control and measuring
instruments”.
And tomorrow…?