Yokogawa Participates in ARC Forum 2010

It was a great opportunity for the Yokogawa Electric Corporation and Yokogawa Corporation of America leadership team to meet with some of their top customers such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Valero, Savannah River, Petrobrás and to be able to discuss their future plans, business needs, and how Yokogawa can help them to solve their most challenging issues.

Yokogawa's press conference and showcase table at the exhibition featured highlights of VigilantPlant Services™, a comprehensive package of automation service solutions to help manufacturers achieve safe, environmentally friendly and profitable plant operations and an interoperable wireless demonstration in collaboration with the Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI). Yokogawa's showcase table attracted customers such as Shell, BASF, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Procter & Gamble, DOW Chemical, Savannah River, Nova Chemicals, and many others!

This is the sixth consecutive year that Yokogawa has participated in the forum as a Silver Sponsor. Many important Yokogawa IA marketing campaigns such as VigilantPlant®, Safety Excellence, Asset Excellence, RPO, and Production Excellence have been announced at this forum.

The interoperable wireless communication standard ISA 100.11a and Modular Procedural Automation (MPA) applying procedural operations as standard were also discussed at the conference. During the announcement about ISA 100.11a, Dave Kauffman from Honeywell explained: “WCI is a group of vendors and end users working together to commercially deliver interoperable products for the ISA 100.11a standards. WCI currently has 18 members including end users like ExxonMobil, BP, Procter & Gamble, as well as large automation vendors like Yokogawa, Yamatake, Honeywell and GE. WCI successfully completed a public demonstration of the ISA 100.11a standard technologies working in an interoperable multi-vendor environment at the ISAEXPO 2009 at Houston, TX.”

We also had Patrick Schweitzer from ExxonMobil mentioning “Users have been heavily involved in the development process of the ISA 100.11a standardization. We have designed ISA 100.11a in such a way that it has enough flexibility to handle different applications. This standardization will bring a lot of benefits to both end users and vendors alike.”

This year, Yokogawa introduced three customers in the process automation track session.

1. Automation Services Strategies: Nitriflex, Brazil
2. Remote Operation Management: Valero Energy, USA
3. Operator of the Future: Savannah River, USA

ExxonMobil, Chevron and MAVERICK Technologies presented at the Automation Services Strategies session where they mentioned how they solved their problems using Yokogawa products and solutions. ExxonMobil explained MAC project executions are based on Golden Pass LNG in which Yokogawa's CS 3000 is utilized. On the other hand, Chevron mentioned the basic concept of MAC from their current replacement projects which is implemented by Yokogawa. Finally, Nitriflex presented how Yokogawa helped them to achieve their goals to become the leader in their market.

Kurosu-san, Dave Johnson and other members of the Yokogawa leadership team were interviewed by Control Magazine, Control Engineering, Industry Week and InTech. They were asked for their views on the current state of the automation industry, how it is affecting Yokogawa and what plans we have for coming out of the recession. Control Engineering made a video of their session, which will soon be posted on their website.

After the forum had ended ARC management complimented Yokogawa on their presence at this year's event and said it was one of our best showings ever.

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