Yokogawa GMSC of Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, the Global Manufacturing Execution Solutions (MES) Center for the Yokogawa industrial automation group, today (18th October 2005) announces the sale of its 500th Exaquantum PIMS system.
Yokogawa’s market-leading and functionally-rich Exaquantum Plant Information Management System (PIMS) has been widely accepted worldwide since its first release in 2000 and reflects the growing importance of Indian industry.
This milestone Exaquantum installation is being delivered to India’s largest public oil refinery and is part of a major upgrade at the plant. The project is being engineered by the solutions team at Yokogawa India and includes the provision of a Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000 Distributed Control System (DCS) and programmable Emergency Shut Down (ESD) facility for controlling the naphtha hydro treater, continuous catalytic reformer, extractive Merox, reformate and gasoline splitter functions. The upgrade will be completed by February 2006.
The Exaquantum PIMS family of process products provides the core MES/MIS systems for Yokogawa and includes Exaquantum/Batch, Exaquantum/SER (Sequence of Events Recorder) and Exaspot (oil and gas process optimizer).
Nigel Bowden, MD of GMSC says “This Indian installation was achieved through the hard work of our two Yokogawa India sales managers, Sunil Abraham in Solutions and Belavadi Shankar in Systems, and through our highly-valued track record with the customer. Exaquantum is going from strength to strength as shown by the significant number of orders being received and we expect to receive our 600th order early next year. With many old plants now being retro-fitted with new control systems to provide greater efficiency and return on investment, it is not surprising that so many top international companies have chosen Exaquantum PIMS as their platform of choice.”
Notes for Editors:
1. Yokogawa is a world leader in information management systems for process industries. The company provides a systems development and integration capability specializing in integrated information systems for process industries throughout the world. The Yokogawa ‘Exaquantum’ Plant Information Management System (PIMS) delivers benefits for plant operators in many process industries in most parts of the world. Yokogawa PIMS integrates data from many systems in a plant and produce high value business information for use by decision makers at all levels of the enterprise. Yokogawa PIMS automatically integrates data from process control systems, including Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC), with other data from quality, maintenance, laboratory, planning, scheduling, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and many other systems. Yokogawa PIMS convert Plant Data into Business Information.
2. Exaquantum PIMS is in use in oil & gas, chemicals, food, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation, semi-conductors and general manufacturing throughout the world, providing monitoring, management, optimization, modeling and control of many diverse, dynamic, and hazardous processes, often in the world’s largest plants.
3. Issued for and on behalf Christian Beasley: Yokogawa Marex Ltd (GMSC), Marex House, 34 Medina Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, PO31 7DA. Tel: +44 (0)1983 296011. Fax: +44 (0)1983 291776 e-mail:Christian.Beasley@ymx.yokogawa.com
4. Yokogawa Marex is now known as Yokogawa GMSC, reflecting its new role as the Global MES Solutions Centre for Yokogawa.
5. Yokogawa Marex (GMSC) Website: www.yokogawa.com/iis
6. Issued for and on behalf of Yokogawa GMSC by John Ockenden, John Ockenden international public relations, Whindrum House, Methven, Perth PH1 3QU, United Kingdom. +44 (0)7710 391 054. e-mail:john@jockenden.freeserve.co.uk
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