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Yokogawa Introduces Advanced Decision Support Concept

Yokogawa Introduces Advanced Decision Support Concept

The various elements incorporated within Yokogawa’s Advanced Decision Support (ADS) approach are new. But as a whole, the pieces provide an integrated approach for helping improve operator effectiveness.

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Yokogawa CENTUM VP Evolves to Meet New Challenges

Yokogawa CENTUM VP Evolves to Meet New Challenges

With the development of CENTUM VP Release 5, Yokogawa is making effective use of integrated information at the field,　subsystem and plant level, to meet new customer challenges.

Yokogawa VigilantPlant Services Revisited

Yokogawa VigilantPlant Services Revisited

To compete successfully in today’s business environment, manufacturers must achieve continuous performance improvements. This includes improvements in efficiency, production, product quality and consistency, productivity, energy and resource consumption, emissions reductions, regulatory reporting, and supply chain.

Yokogawa’s Comprehensive Lifecycle Approach to Process Control System Cyber-Security

Yokogawa’s Comprehensive Lifecycle Approach to Process Control System Cyber-Security

Today’s cyber-security threats mean that industrial process control system users and suppliers alike must be increasingly vigilant against current and future intrusions that could compromise the security of the system itself, the production process, intellectual property, or negatively impact health, safety, or the environment.

Yokogawa vigilantplantservices®.: Using Applied Industry Knowledge to Solve Key End User Issues

Yokogawa vigilantplantservices®.: Using Applied Industry Knowledge to Solve Key End User Issues

CombustionONE and InsightSuiteAE are great examples of how Yokogawa VigilantPlant Services can combine hardware, software, applications expertise, and services to solve some of the most persistent and costly problems in the process industries today.

Yokogawa's Wireless Solutions Show a Long-Term Commitment to ISA100 Standard

Yokogawa’s Wireless Solutions Show a Long-Term Commitment to ISA100 Standard

Using the ISA100 standard, Yokogawa’s strategy is to develop a new field digital network platform that enhances productivity by eliminating the difficulties users currently face with incompatible wireless communication protocols, making the systematic integration of wired and wireless technologies possible.

Yokogawa VigilantPlant Services™ Provide a Sustainable Approach to Continuous Plant Improvement

Yokogawa VigilantPlant Services™ Provide a Sustainable Approach to Continuous Plant Improvement

Yokogawa is one process automation supplier that has a good understanding of what it takes to develop a good operational services business. Today, the company has reorganized its operational and consulting services business under the name, VigilantPlant Services.

Yokogawa's Modular Procedural Automation is a Knowledge Preservation Tool for the Process Industries

Yokogawa's Modular Procedural Automation is a Knowledge Preservation Tool for the Process Industries

There is no equivalent to the ISA-88 standard in continuous process manufacturing, and operations such as starting up and shutting down a refinery operation, for instance, are normally considered by many end users to be a craft or an art form that relies heavily on experience and knowledge of the particular plant and its quirks.

Real-time Production Organizer: Yokogawa's New Approach to Production Management

Real-time Production Organizer: Yokogawa's New Approach to Production Management

Yokogawa has taken a huge step forward by developing Real-time Production Organizer™, a production and operations management solution that is seamlessly integrated with its automation system, but also has the ability to stand alone on top of other vendors' automation systems through the incorporation of standards-based technologies and work processes.

Yokogawa Matures a Best Practice Culture for Successful Project Execution

Yokogawa Matures a Best Practice Culture for Successful Project Execution

Many of the world’s leading end users, particularly in the process industries, are applying the MAC concept to all of their capital projects. End users have reported up to a thirty percent savings on projects versus the traditional approach.

Yokogawa’s VigilantPlant Road Map to Operational Excellence

Yokogawa’s VigilantPlant Road Map to Operational Excellence

"Yokogawa has developed a model for operational excellence (OpX) based on its VigilantPlant offerings that allow users to place Yokogawa’s capabilities in context with a real economic value proposition and business goal rather than simply evaluating features and functionality."

Yokogawa Unveils VigilantPlant

"The VigilantPlant philosophy eliminates unplanned downtime and allows businesses to adapt and change quickly and with agility to shifting market conditions and customer demands. This is consistent with ARC’s view that giving personnel access to the right information at the right time combined with the ability to take action is crucial for achieving OpX and is the foundation of real time performance management (RPM)."

Vigilance : Yokogawa's Roadmap for the Future

Vigilance:Yokogawa’s Roadmap for the Future

"Yokogawa has given substance to the Vigilance campaign by clearly outlining its value proposition, which is based on the three basic principles of quality, innovation, and foresight. Yokogawa’s Vigilance philosophy emphasizes maximizing throughput while minimizing cost as well as providing a clear path for control system migration, evolution, and upgrade."

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