Every high-technology product from Yokogawa has to fulfill three basic criteria: Quality, Innovation, Foresight. We are one of the world leaders in industrial automation and control, test and measurement, information systems and industrial services. Besides being high quality, innovative and advanced, our products are also safe and durable. In other words, we supply smart technology, made by smart professionals. Many of our customers are household names in oil and gas upstream and downstream process, power generation, and the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Continuous improvement. That's a key principle at Yokogawa. It's essential to building our future. Our goal: sustainable growth, satisfied customers and personal development of our employees. An attractive new European office is under construction in Amersfoort. In 2008 we will relocate there from our three present sites in the Netherlands. This move will efficiently bring together the know-how and experience of our European headquarters, the Dutch sales and service organisation and our European systems engineering centre.
Yokogawa Service Center Europe, based in Apeldoorn, is looking for a student who wants to do his/ her final project at Yokogawa.
How to connect the operational management layer towards the business management layer
Final project description
The student we are looking for shall be interested to develop him/her at the plant automation industry, with special attention for optimizing the Plant Asset environment. Keywords which Yokogawa is interested for are:
- Dashboard KPI plant operation via performance monitoring of Plant Equipment
- Efficiency increase to be embedded with the production environment.
- Maximization of the production capacity
- Prompt alignment of assets meeting the dynamic market demands.
- Autonomous decision making processes
- Optimization of the decision making process.
Concrete projects which are currently considered are:
- Self learning autonomous process cells.
Current plants operate via a centralized, hierarchical control concept. This concept does not allow self-organization of parts of the plant. Setting the hundreds of parameters in the plant is a complex manual process, which does not facilitate learning. One major technological bottleneck for this state of affairs restricts this development which is that major units in a plant are not engineered as autonomous units.
Each of the purchased components of a plant is nowadays equipped with networked sensors and actuators. Control engineering is properly applied for process control, but focuses on hierarchical communication in the plant. Therefore, the resulting systems and subsystems are not engineered to behave as autonomous units, which are as such predictable and understandable both in operation and in maintenance.
- Energy management.
This subject is detailed out of the previous description.
It is targeted to develop the engineering knowledge and a platform environment enabling Yokogawa to provide the correct control environment towards our customers to operate their plant at the utmost optimum way.
- Balance Scorecard process modelling
The Balance Score Card principle controlling a company should be converted as a methodology for process operation. Starting from the field level by defining KPI per measurement device / control devices KPI’s will be escalated to loops, units, process cells, area, site and finally the enterprise. It is targeted to develop such a model within Yokogawa’s Asset Management software sweet.
Interested?
We’d like to receive your application and resume by e-mail eefke.ruisbroek@nl.yokogawa.com to Ms. E. Ruisbroek.
Department: ATS
Contactperson: Herman van Veen
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