Amersfoort, The Netherlands -
March 19, 2001
Yokogawa Releases World’s First Windows 2000-based Total Production Control System
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced today the launch of CENTUM CS3000 R3, a total production control systems line-up for medium and large-scale process manufacturing plants. The CS3000 R3, available since January 22, 2001, is the first version of its class in the world to employ Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system and other mission critical solutions to deliver significant gains in process production performance and management.
The latest CS3000 is a major upgrade over the R2 version, designed to integrate advances in the information technology framework with the rapidly evolving needs of the modern manufacturing environment. Its Windows 2000 OS enables superior connectivity between enterprise resource planning, manufacturing execution and other management information systems for hard, real-time management control and communications. A new Input/Output system is an open-environment platform that offers an expanded range of end user options, higher cost savings and space efficiencies, thereby greatly enhancing overall system flexibility. The R3 is also backward compatible, with older versions (R2) easily upgraded in phases or replaced with minimal investment.
Yokogawa is a leading global provider of production control hardware and solutions, delivering some 15,000 distributed control systems since it developed the world's first DCS in 1975. For the next few years, the company targets to upgrade and replace these and similar systems, with minimum cost at client site. CS3000 R3 provides a sophisticated migration path for the systems.
Equally important, demand among manufacturers for open-environment process control platforms that heighten productivity gains and reduce costs in the supply chain, customer relationships and other facets of the enterprise has escalated since the 1990's. Yokogawa therefore targets sales of 240 R3 Systems to the chemical, steel, petrochemical, paper and pulp, oil and other industries by 2003.
CENTUM CS3000 R3: Salient Features
- New I/O system offers superior functional optionality to provide customers with a greater range of choices to meet budgetary constraints; hardware size reduced by up to 20 percent over previous Yokogawa systems
- Enhanced connectivity to enterprise-wide business applications via Windows 2000 operating system, employed for the first time ever for medium- and large-scale total production control systems
- World's first redundant FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus network applying redundancy technology of new I/O system
- 100 percent backward compatibility with existing R2 application
About Yokogawa Europe B.V.
The European headquarters were founded in Amersfoort, the Netherlands in 1982. Throughout Europe Yokogawa has its own sales, service and engineering operations. This dedicated network has been extended to Central and East Europe and Southern Africa to further enhance the coverage and support associated with serving the process control and automation market place. We develop and produce flowmeters at Rota Yokogawa in Germany, liquid analysers and industrial safety systems in the Netherlands. In addition to this dedicated network of Yokogawa subsidiaries is a select organisation of Test & Measurement (T&M) subsidiaries and distributors established in certain areas to support the specific customer needs of this continuously developing and specific market of T&M instrumentation.
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