Customers' Challenges and Yokogawa's Solutions

Quality

Operational standards of many plants emphasize quality but still have leeway for further improvement. Yokogawa provides operational optimization to minimize the waste remaining in that leeway and improve energy efficiency. Yokogawa also helps optimize and standardize the plant's production procedures to ensure quality and keep energy usage to a minimum.

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Challenges and Solutions Top

Ｑ	How to improve plant operations without sacrificing quality?

Ａ	The advanced control system minimizes control variations caused by process disturbances. This ensures stable plant control and makes it possible to improve operational standards.

Ｑ	How to reduce non-conformance products?

Ａ	Using a high-precision measuring instrument and a manufacturing execution system (MES) can determine production quality in real time. This combination makes it possible to monitor feedback for equipment operation thus preventing the waste of producing products that do not meet the quality standard.

Ｑ	How to ensure traceability?

Ａ	The industry-specific manufacturing execution system (MES) based on a wealth of experience ensures manufacturing traceability by centrally managing a wide range of detailed process information using the plant's planning information capabilities.

Ｑ	How to raise the value of human resources that are involved in operations?

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Integration of an operator-training simulator with the distributed control system (DCS) makes it possible to train and improve operator skills for the same operations as those actually being used in the plant. The operation support system, which turns the tacit (learned) knowledge of experienced operators into formal knowledge, is able to standardize operations and further improve training efficiency.