Honeywell Joins Field Device Tool Group


Honeywell Continues Leadership Role In Delivering Technology Benefits to
Customers

PHOENIX, Oct 11, 2005 - Honeywell (NYSE:HON) announced today it has joined
the Field Device Tool (FDT) Group, a collaboration of international
automation companies that supports the advancement of FDT and Device Tool
Management (DTM) technology.
Expanding device connectivity and integration with Honeywell's Experion®
Process Knowledge System will enable customers to reduce maintenance costs
and improve process uptime with Honeywell's asset management and automation
solutions. Honeywell will be able to offer innovative solutions to support
its own and other supplier's devices through this open technology.
"Honeywell is investing in technology and open standards that provide the
market with a wide range of choices when interconnecting devices and
subsystems with automation solutions. Honeywell is committed to providing
solutions based upon open-systems standards that will benefit the end-user
community, and by joining the FDT Group, we can continue to do just that."
said Paul Butler, Honeywell Process Solutions Vice President of Technology.
Honeywell remains firmly committed to its investments in DDL technology for
HART* and FOUNDATION Fieldbus. "FDT technology is complementary to DDL
technology and holds promise in other areas, specifically around the support
of configuration and diagnostics for more sophisticated subsystems,
especially in the discrete and hybrid industries. The new FDT Group
organizational structure makes it much easier for companies to collaborate
on this open technology and deliver benefits to our customers," said Butler.

Honeywell International is a $26 billion diversified technology and
manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products
and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry;
automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Based in Morris
Township, N.J., Honeywell's shares are traded on the New York, London,
Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up
the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard &
Poor's 500 Index. For additional information, please visit
www.honeywell.com. Honeywell Process Solutions is part of Honeywell's
Automation and Control Solutions group, a global leader in providing product
and service solutions that improve efficiency and profitability, support
regulatory compliance, and maintain safe, comfortable environments in homes,
buildings and industry. For more information about Process Solutions, access
www.honeywell.com/ps .

This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in Section 21E
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about future
business operations, financial performance and market conditions. Such
forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties inherent in
business forecasts as further described in our filings under the Securities
Exchange Act.

Experion® is a registered trademark of Honeywell International Inc.
*All other product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Erik Rasmussen
602-313-4054
erik.rasmussen@honeywell.com

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