Sistema de Control Distribuido (DCS)

• El CENTUM VP Batch sustituye al sistema Legacy y mejora la eficiencia de producción en la planta acrílica.
• La capacidad del CENTUM VP Batch puede manejar la administración de procedimientos para el manejo de los informes por lotes y la administración de unidades.

• Exapilot automates comlex and non-routine decoking process of NCUs.
• Operator workload has been drastically reduced.

• Cumplir con las normas funcionales de seguridad IEC 61508/JIS C 0508
• Proactivamente introducir tecnologías de vanguardia
• Adaptarse a las licencias de la planta, los requisitos de seguridad, confiabilidad y de mantenimiento
• Mejorar las funciones de monitoreo y operación del sistema de paro de emergencia

• Integrando los sistemas CENTUM VP y ProSafe-RS garantizan una Operación Ininterrumpida de los procesos ADU/DKU.
• "¡Este es un verdadero VigilantPlant! Vamos a seguir mejorando nuestra eficiencia de producción."

• Se minimiza la intervención del operador durante los procesos de puesta en marcha de la turbina y el apagado automatizado de la planta
• Reduce enormemente la carga de trabajo del operador y los errores y mitiga las tensiones térmicas y físicas en la turbina

Yokogawa provided CENTUM DCS, APC, Exapilot, and Exaquantum for the migration project at Juhua Group's methane chloride plant. The entire management and optimization solution contributes to improving economic benefits, plant safety, quality, etc.

• Highlyadvanced biopharmaceutical plant uses CENTUM, VP Batch, Exaquantum and PRM.
• Total system integration for large-scale biotech production facility.

• Residuos para las Instalaciones de Energía en el Reino Unido utilizan CENTUM CS 3000 y ProSafe-RS
• Lakeside exporta al menos 34MW por hora a la red nacional del país.

Yokogawa provided an integrated and comprehensive solution for ethylene cracking process optimization.

SMOC APC controller improved control level of ethylene cracking unit and reduced operators workload.

• La implementación rápida de la integración de los sistemas CENTUM CS 3000 y ProSafe-RS.
• El sistema altamente confiable CENTUM CS 3000 también ha ayudado a TOL a mantener una alta productividad en esta planta.

• All correct operation procedures are carefully configured in the CENTUM CS 3000 and smoothly in operation
• CENTUM CS 3000 ensures stable supply of electricity and steam to Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport

• La Excelencia Operativa a través de la Maximización de Activos, utilizando DCS, SIS, Analizadores, y los Instrumentos de Campo de Yokogawa
• El CENTUM VP PCS y ProSafe-RS SIS se integraron utilizando el mismo entorno de ingeniería.
• Casi 60 cromatógrafos de gases y un gran número de otros tipos de analizadores en varias casas analizadores.

• Stable operation and proactive maintenance were realized at new coal-chemical plant in China.
• Yokogawa engineers ensured a successful and efficient commissioning and startup.

• Se unifica la interfaz de operación gracias al CENTUM CS 3000/UOI
• El arranque y el apagado de la planta de manera automatizada utilizando los nuevos bloques de secuencias
• Manejo de alarmas avanzada utilizando el software consolidado de manejo de alarmas 

• Yokogawa provided control solutions for expansion project in sugar and bio-energy plant.
• Consolidated central control room was designed for safe, comfortable, and efficient work environment.

• Thai SPP uses CENTUM CS 3000 to improve efficiency of Biomass Power Plant
• The burning of the ground rice husks in the boiler's furnace chamber is a complex process that must be carefully controlled

• Como el contratista de automatización principal (MAC) para este proyecto de construcción de planta, Yokogawa Brasil diseñó, instaló, y puso en marcha una solución de control e instrumentación integrada.
• Yokogawa Brasil completó la puesta en marcha de estos sistemas antes de lo previsto y la producción de polímeros verdes se inició tan sólo una semana más tarde.

• La Primer Terminal de Regasificación Offshore del Mundo confía en el ICSS  de Yokogawa (CENTUM CS 3000, ProSafe-RS)
• Programación del operador de LNG, descarga, almacenamiento de tanques, y vaporización son todas los procedimientos basados en operaciones.

• World's largest LNG terminal relies on CENTUM to maximize safety and reliability.
• It is very important for KOGAS to be able to adjust flexibly to shifts in demand in the gas that it supplies to power plants, industrial companies, and residences.

• Yokogawa's CENTUM CS 3000 DCS Monitors and Controls Operations at Poultry Litter-to-energy Plant
• The boiler and turbine startup procedures reduces operator workload and helps to ensure a smooth and safe startup

Okinawa Prefecture is promoting clean energy with the aim of becoming a low-carbon society in the 21st century. Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology is particularly well suited for this purpose, and is expected to both reduce the environmental impact that power generation has in the prefecture and lessen the prefecture's dependence on imported fossil fuels.

• El OTS sirve para familiarización de los procesos de licuefacción y entrenamiento para los operadores.
• Las soluciones integradas de Yokogawa contribuyen a una producción segura y estable en la planta de licuefacción de gas en Noruega.

Samsung Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (SPCL), a major Korean petrochemical company, produces 700,000 tons per year of purified terephthalic acid (PTA) at its Daesan plant. PTA, a white powder substance that is produced by oxidizing and refining para-xylene, is a precursor to polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a polyester material that has excellent thermal resistance and wear resistance and is widely used as a substitute for natural cotton fibers and in film packaging, beverage bottles, tire cords, paints, adhesives, and other applications.

• Power supply made dramatically reliable thanks to CENTUM CS 3000 with seven-nines availability
• Visualization of almost all plant data on the same HMI by linking up subsystems via Modbus
• Improved plant performance

• Exapilot contributes to safety, reduces cost, and retains operational know-how.

The construction of Tuas Power Station started in the mid 1990s. The plant has steadily grown to be a significant player in the competitive Singaporean electricity market. Stage One of Tuas Power Station is equipped with the country's largest steam generators which are capable of producing 600 MW each.

• Replacement of legacy control system by CENTUM CS 3000
• Replacement of 4 – 20 mA protocol to FOUNDATION fieldbus™

• Exapilot smoothly starts up and shuts down the world's biggest experimental distillation unit.
• Data visualization is the key, giving operators a complete understanding of what is is going on in the process, in real time.

• Monitoring and control of the entire cogeneration plant including the two once-through steam generators
• Reliable and cost-effective power supply
• Operator-friendly HMI

Yokogawa contributes to the education of process industry talents by providing its own products.
TAFE Queensland students learn process industry by controlling the color of toast with CENTUM VP DCS.

• 2009 PACE Zenith joint winner project
• Reduced operating and maintenance costs
• Increased power generation
• Improved plant operating flexibility
• Modernized, screen-based operations
• Reduced emissions

Unified operator interface solution enables remote operation

• Steady power supply and safe operation thanks to reliable Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000 and transmitters
• Environmentally optimized operation by fine-tuned boiler combustion control and strict monitoring and control of CO, NOx and SOx in flue gas and pH of water from cooling towers
• Full replica plant simulator for effective plant operation and engineering staff training
• Annual maintenance contract

• Based on a careful review of all operational procedures and operator roles and configured new SOPs in Exapilot.
• As a result, SFC has been able to reduce operator workload, improve product quality, and reduce production losses.

• Steady boiler control by CENTUM CS 3000 with dual redundant CPUs and seven 9s availability
• Total plant information integrated into supervisory information system via OPC interface
• Reduced water, coal and other resource consumption

• Las soluciones integradas de Yokogawa controlan los procesos de FGD en la central eléctrica más grande de Rumania
• Las emisiones de SO2 y partículas de polvo son controlados dentro de los estándares medioambientales de la Unión Europea.

Yokogawa China successfully replaced control system with CENTUM VP at 4th phase of caustic soda production plant in China.
Thanks to their project execution capability, the replacement was completed within a shorter period than the planned shutdown time.

• CENTUM CS3000 seamlessly integrates with multivendor control systems through OPC interface. 
• Challenging predictive maintenance to monitor many transmitter data through PRM.

The customer has successfully brought online a greenfield 800 MW supercritical power plant, using a Yokogawa full-replica plant simulator to ensure a fast and smooth plant commissioning process.

• At the company's Ulsan resin plant, six Exaquantum servers were connected to CENTUM CS 3000 and other vendor's systems.
• KKPC needed to expand its SBC capabilities and improve production efficiency at its plants.

• Up to 90% of all manual tasks can now be carried out automatically.
• Increasing productivity by means of partially automated start-up and load change procedures.

• Installation of Exaquantum PIMS package improves efficiency of process data management.
• Improve quality and yield through proactive maintenance of plant assets.

• Implementation of control system supported by global maintenance, service, engineering, and technical support capabilities
• Improved stability and safety of plant operation

• Yokogawa Proporciona CENTUM CS 3000 y ProSafe-RS para la Terminal de LNG Más Grande de Europa
• El simulador de entrenamiento de operador de la planta (OTS) OmegaLand de Yokogawa ayuda a reducir costos, optimizar los procesos de las terminales de LNG.

• ABS plant migrates from CENTUM XL to integrated CENTUM CS 3000 solution.
• CENTUM CS 3000 Integrated Production Control System together with CCTV equipment, a plant information management system (PIMS), the Exaplog Event Analysis Package, and the CS Batch 3000 package.

• La refinería AR1 recientemente reemplazó su DCS Legacy con el CENTUM CS 3000 de Yokogawa.
• Completar con Éxito un Sistema de Movimiento Inteligente del Petróleo. 

La Corporación INPEX (INPEX) es la mayor compañía de desarrollo de petróleo y gas de Japón y está involucrada en todos los aspectos de este negocio, desde la investigación hasta la exploración, producción y ventas. La INPEX se dedica a proyectos en todo el mundo, con un total de 29 países, incluyendo Japón, en donde opera una planta de producción de gas cerca de Oyazawa, una ciudad en la prefectura de Niigata.

The AFCO project is a showcase of the good coordination between Yokogawa Middle East, Yokogawa Thailand, Yokogawa Singapore, and Yokogawa Electric Corporation. Yokogawa Middle East and Yokogawa headquarters both were involved in the project execution.

• CACT Offshore platform reduces unplanned downtime by migrating from Legacy PLC System to reliable CENTUM CS 3000.
• It is possible for CACT engineers to modify the system configuration, download software updates, and hot-swap I/O cards while the process control system is online.

• CS 3000 efficiently controls and monitors coal gasification process.
• Once an operator selects "Start", the necessary instructions are sent to all plant equipment via the sequence control.

• The solution was a remote connection via Microsoft Terminal Services across the internet.
• It enables an Ausmelt technical expert in Melbourne to log on to the Yokogawa control system at Karabash in Russia.

• El sistema de control de producción del CENTUM CS 3000 contribuye a la producción sencilla de HDPE.
• El desafío para este proyecto de reemplazo fue completar el trabajo y poner en marcha el nuevo sistema CS 3000 tan pronto como fuera posible, manteniendo el tiempo de inactividad al mínimo.

• Finalización del Primer Proyecto FPSO para los Servicios de Producción ProSafe Pte Ltd
• El Control Integrado y el Sistema de Seguridad (ICSS) hacen posible la supervisión de plantas y la administración centralizada de todas las funciones de control y seguridad en esta FPSO.

Since entering commercial operation in 2000, the environmental control facilities at the Tachibanawan Thermal Power Station have been managed effectively by the CENTUM control system, achieving a stable electricity supply with minimal impact on the environment.

An international corporation based in Duisburg, Germany that was able to secure a US$ 780 million contract to construct a project marketly known as "Musi Pulp Mill". Construction started Sept. 1997 after financial agreements between the plant's owner, PT TEL and 32 foreign banks has been sealed-off.

• Complete automation and control of glass plant
• Improved production cycle time and stabilized product quality with reduced energy consumption and costs

• Complex starting up and shutting down operations of a biomass power plant were automated with CENTUM VP.
• Operator errors and interventions were eliminated in all critical processes.
   

• Exapilot improves operations and reduces energy use at PTT Khanom Gas Separation Plant #4.
• This is a real solution package and a good tool for the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle to achieve operational excellence in the plant.

• Smooth upgrade for fully redundant system and advanced information technology
• Stable and high-quality sulfonate production around the clock

The Itoigawa Power Plant was constructed adjacent to a cement plant in Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture, and is operated by an IPP that supplies electricity to Tohoku Electric Power, one of Japan's major power companies. The use of a 149 MW coal-fired CFB boiler in this power plant is a first for an IPP in Japan, and this effectively reduces NOx emissions.

• La tecnología de FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus fue introducida para realizar mantenimiento predictivo y preventivo.
• El ISAE sirve para mejorar la confiabilidad del diagnóstico y el ajuste de parámetros, utilizando los datos recogidos por el PRM.

Nishi Nippon Environment Energy Co., Inc. was founded in 1990 with the concept of a full, safe and comfortable urban life by harmonizing the global environment with energy-savings. Also, as a total energy industry corporation, which is promoting the efficient use of heat energy for the region, it is developing a broad business on the theme of civic improvement in the 21st century by preparing a stable city infrastructure.

• CS Batch is used to automate a wide range of Reichhold's batch processes and multi-product/multi-path processes.
• Using PRM, process engineers can immediately find out the status of every field device without having to do an onsite inspection.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has completed a unique control system project in Arcadia, Florida, which is located in the heart of a beautiful citrus-growing region. Peace River Citrus Products has installed a Yokogawa CENTUM CS 1000 R3 control system to control a proprietary orange juice production process at its citrus processing plant.

• HMEL seleccionó una solución integrada de Yokogawa
• Yokogawa India supervisó e implementó la ingeniería, instalación y puesta en marcha de la refinería.

Eraring Power Station, located just north of Sydney, is one of the largest power stations in Australia, comprising four 660MW coal-fired units. The power station has operated reliably since 1981. To ensure continued reliability for the next few decades, Eraring Energy, the owner of the power plant, decided to replace the original hard-wired control equipment with a modern integrated control and monitoring system (ICMS).

• El CENTUM CS 3000, altamente confiable, reemplaza al sistema Legacy y automatiza la operación de la planta de lotes.
• Trabajando en conjunto, Hanwha Chemical y el personal del proyecto de Yokogawa Corea completaron este trabajo a tiempo y según lo programado.

• Esta es la primera plataforma offshore en Tailandia que está diseñada para hacer uso completo de la tecnología de FOUNDATION Fieldbus.
• Gracias a los sistemas y productos de altamente confiables de Yokogawa, se ha logrado un ambiente de trabajo seguro.

• Innovative GEOLIDE waste water treatment complex in Marseille uses CENTUM and Exaquantum. 
• The visualization of all data on items such as motor and pump operating time and chemical consumption amount allows operators to optimize key operation items.

• Introduction of CENTUM CS 3000 maximizes productivity and improves product quality at special polymer plant.
• A major improvement as a result of this project is that butadiene monomer recovery efficiency jumped huge.

• Implementation of multivariable optimizing controllers and robust quality estimators within a record short period
• 3% rise expected in CCR feed amount

Successful project completion of control system, configuration engineering, customer training, and commissioning assistance for proprietary methanol production

• El Sistema Legacy fue reemplazado con CENTUM VP y ProSafe-RS en la planta de PTA en Indonesia.
• Los Parámetros PID fueron importados al CENTUM VP sin cálculos complejos.

• Implementation of AOA package for improved grade-change operation
• Dramatically reduced operators' workload and transient products, as well as sharable operation know-how

• To decrease downtime and maintenance costs, the decision was made to introduce Yokogawa's CENTUM DCS.
• With well-experienced MAC approach, Yokogawa replaced successfully legacy DCS.

• Successful, economical implementation of control system
• Increased process availability, reduced maintenance costs, and lowered cost of ownership

• Modernized controls, assured stable power supply to Ulaanbaatar by a highly reliable, expandable distributed control system
• Fully automated boiler, burner, balance-of-plant operations
• Power plant simulator for efficient DCS operator training

• World's largest control systems and PIMS for securing production over an extended period
• Fully-automated, alarm-free operation and reduced total cost of ownership

• Kaneka Corporation has urgently needed to implement countermeasures that would reduce this facility's energy costs.
• Optimization of control strategy helps BTG plant save energy and operate more efficiently.

• Migración del sistema de plantas de Polietileno y Petroquímica de PetroChina Dushanzi.
• La renovación incluyó la desafiante creación de las especificaciones de diseño de función (FDS), así como las pruebas FAT y SAT.

PT. Tanjung Enim Lestari Pulp and Paper (PT. TEL) operates a pulp mill in Muara Enim, which is 130 km west of Palembang, the capital of Indonesia's South Sumatra province. This is the only pulp mill in the world to produce high-quality, bleached-hardwood kraft pulp solely from plantation grown Acacia mangium trees.

• Proyectos de Re-instrumentación en la Planta HDPE para Reemplazar los Instrumentos Neumáticos Legacy y los PLC’s integrados con CENTUM CS 3000 PCS y ProSafe-RS SIS
• Los dispositivos de campo HART se pueden monitorear desde la sala de control central con el paquete de administrador de recursos de la planta (PRM), lo que permite un enfoque de mantenimiento más predictivo y proactivo que reduce el costo total de adquisición.

• El PRM permite un enfoque de mantenimiento preventivo en donde el mantenimiento se puede programar y llevar a cabo antes de que falle un dispositivo de campo.
• El Exaquantum recoge los datos de la planta de la CENTUM VP para generar una variedad de reportes sobre el proceso de polimerización.

• Smooth and safe switchover to the new system
• Easy-to-use, easy-to-engineer system, plus various post-installation enhancements
• Tuned controllers for smooth plant operation and better traceability of process upsets
• Various other improvements thanks to advanced process control and MVC implementation

Saudi Aramco's operations span the globe and the energy industry. The world leader in crude oil production, Saudi Aramco also owns and operates an extensive network of refining and distribution facilities, and is responsible for gas processing and transportation installations that fuel Saudi Arabia's industrial sector. An array of international subsidiaries and joint ventures deliver crude oil and refined products to customers worldwide.

• El paquete de lotes de CENTUM VP mejora la productividad.
• Reducción de la carga de trabajo del operador y un funcionamiento seguro.

• Integrated automation solutions for high reliability and availability system
• Reduced consumption of steam, bagasse, and bunker fuel oil with increased daily throughput of massecuite

• Smooth and safe migration to CENTUM VP enhances production efficiency at major Australian gold mine.
• The HMI stations instaled at the central control room, training system, primary crusher, workshop, and office are all connected via thesame communication bus.

• Successful migration of in-line blending distributed control and oil movement systems.
• To minimize operator intervention and to keep the product properties on specification.

• TOKUYAMA improves productivity by migrating from MicroXL to CENTUM CS 3000.
• TOKUYAMA appreciates the high reliability of this Yokogawa system.

• NAM needs to remotely monitor field devices and organize their maintenance schedule.
• True value in instrument diagnostics and preventative maintenance with powerful software tools like DTM.

Universal Terminal (S) Pte Ltd, one of the largest independent petroleum products storage terminals in the Asia Pacific, has been built on Singapore's Jurong Island at a cost of S$750 million.

• Smooth project execution with no schedule and/minimal safety incidents.
• Easy to use, easy to reconfigure interface that has resulted in numerous post-installation enhancements.
• Minimizing day-to-day plant operation problems including reducing the alarming factor.

• CENTUM CS 3000 distributed control system to control the ethanol plant and it's utility boilers
• Batch processes that require careful automated control for maximum efficiency and product quality

• Smooth replacement of old control system by early involvement and close teamwork
• Improved security, flexibility and quality of production

• La planta fue diseñada para ser operada sin tripulación, a excepción de algunos miembros del personal de mantenimiento que están estacionados en la planta.
• A través del uso de la última versión del sistema de control y tecnología FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus suministrada por Yokogawa, control de procesos y el monitoreo de diagnósticos de instrumentación de campo se realiza desde ubicaciones remotas.

• Cambio en un día
• Mejora de la productividad y la rentabilidad

• Yokogawa installed a B/M9000CS quality control system with various cross direction profile control functions.
• The installation improves product quality and efficiency at pulp & paper mill.

• This has considerably improved the safety, quality, and efficiency of off-site operations.
• Yokogawa was the clear choice for installation of the OMS.

• All logistics of raw materials, intermediate products and final products are controlled and managed by MAS.
• MAS enables Operational Excellence with its seamless interface to enterprise resource planning system.

• The project goals emphasized schedule, quality, cost and safety.
• More than 40 sub-system interface cards are utilized for b14 partners company7s system integrated with CENTUM CS 3000.

• Yokogawa provides CENTUM CS 3000, Exaquantum and PRM solutions for China's largest refinery/petrochemical complex.
• Process data management by Exaquantum is a key issue in the petrochemical complex.

• State-of-the-art FOUNDATION fieldbus technology
• Plant Resource Manager (PRM) field device management system
• Remote data monitoring via WAN

• Yokogawa provides CENTUM VP with Batch Recipe Management Package for new fine chemical plant.
• Yokogawa's CENTUM VP complies with the requirement of Good Automation Manufacturing Practices(GAMP).

PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Company has completed construction of a combined refinery and petrochemical production complex in Qinzhou, a port city in China's Guangxi Autonomous Region. With a 10 million ton per year capacity, the refinery is one of China's largest, and is truly world class, using a highly advanced hydrogenation process, with the main process technologies coming from the USA and France.

• Using the CENTUM CS 3000 system, many kinds of plant key performance indexes are calculated and analyzed to produce further improvements.
• During plant start-up, PRM helps the customer's engineers perform all the loop checks.

• Yokogawa recibe la concesión para la transición urgente de la planta DCS de BP Sharjah.
• Yokogawa fue seleccionada por BP como el principal contratista de automatización (MAC) para un proyecto para reemplazar el DCS existente de la planta de Sharjah con el CENTUM VP de Yokogawa.

• Yokogawa revamp of control systems at NAM Den Helder plant ensures stable gas supply in the Netherlands.
• Site survey, creation of a function design specification (FDS) from the existing TDC system database, documentation verification.

• To replace the existing CENTUM XL control station with the latest Yokogawa CS 3000 hardware and upgrade the control network.
• The plan was to minimize plant downtime by doing a hot cutover from the old to the new control system.

• Yokogawa's CENTUM VP and PRM improve efficiency at new nylon plant in Thailand.
• At the plant startup stage, PRM was used together with FieldMate to thoroughly check all loops.

• Exapilot was introduced to maximize operational efficiency at an experimental refining facility.
• To prevent operator errors, it was essential to standardize operating procedures.

• La solución integrada de Yokogawa ha contribuido a una operación confiable y eficiente.
• Toda la información del instrumento está totalmente integrada con el sistema de manejo de instrumentos.

Shree Renuka Sugars Limited (SRSL) is a global agribusiness and bio-energy corporation. The company is one of the world’s largest sugar producers and refiners.

• Yokogawa Taiwan successfully replaced 3rd party DCS, which had worked over 20 years, with CENTUM VP.
• CENTUM VP's high reliability and easy engineering function realized a silent control room for the customer.

La refinería Mathura es una instalación de gran importancia estratégica que suministra diésel, gasolina, combustible para turbinas de aviación, queroseno, gas licuado de petróleo, fueloil, y el asfalto de petróleo a clientes de todo el noroeste de la India.

• Yokogawa joined forces with Air Liquide to co-innovate the step-by-step revamping plan based on Air Liquide's specific requirements.
• Customer was satisfied that Yokogawa was able to deliver its solutions on time and on budget.

El Proyecto Mars B agregó la siguiente infraestructura totalmente nueva para aumentar la producción en el Mars Field y descubrimientos exploratorios cercanos: la plataforma Olympus  Leg Tension (TLP), que tiene 24 ranuras y así una plataforma de perforación autónoma; el sistema submarino West Boreas / South Deimos; y un sistema de exportación de petróleo y gas, que incluye la plataforma en aguas poco profundas WD- 143C. La plataforma de tipo TLP de Olympus (TLP) comenzó a producir el 4 de febrero de 2014. El TLP es el segundo en el Mars Field y el sexto de su tipo para Shell en el Golfo de México.

In this eBook we explain how to improve fired heaters safety & efficiency by controlling combustion using TDLS technology. Download it now and learn:

• The 4 top industry challenges related to fired heaters
• How to efficiently and safely manage combustion
• How TDLS technology can improve operational excellence in fired heaters

Los usuarios finales de procesos automatización están bajo más presión para hacer más con menos. La situación económica actual hace que muchos proyectos de capital de automatización estén en espera. Con los presupuestos de capital más limitados que nunca, los usuarios en lugar de enfocarse en los presupuestos de operaciones (en donde también la reducción de costos es una preocupación clave), o en las inversiones de automatización con un rápido retorno de inversión.

Alarm management is not just a project that has a start and end date; it's a continuous cycle. Once the alarm system has been reviewed and improvements have been identified, we must check that controls are in place to ensure the alarm system remains functional. The key is to ensure that the system is continuously monitored and any changes are fully documented. There are seven key steps for alarm management. Rationalization is one of those critical steps.

This technical white paper will discuss Yokogawa's CENTUM VP DCS (Distributed Control System) product, hereafter referred to as "CENTUM VP", and the extent of its compliance with Part 11 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, (21 CFR Part 11), the Electronic Records / Electronic Signatures Rule.

As LNG moves from a niche to a major area of the oil and gas industry, experienced suppliers are required to deliver the technologies that support it. 

FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus is an enabling technology with the potential to revolutionise operation and maintenance in the process industry and thereby to contribute significantly to reducing these costs, everyday of the lifetime of a plant. Specifically with regard to maintenance, FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus opens the way to proactive diagnostics and to virtually eliminating preventive maintenance and to avoiding shutdowns.

The worlds of process automation and production management have been converging for some time. What once used to be islands of automation and production management functionality connected through highly proprietary integration schemes that were costly to maintain have developed into integrated platforms that provide seamless data exchange between the world of automation and the plant floor, the functions of production and operations management, and integration with business level systems.

Network-IO can help reduce projects by decreasing the amount of time needed to implement the physical part of the process control system. A system with configurable I/O allows flexible "binding," in which the soft- ware configuration of the system can be loaded into the physical system at a late stage in the project.

Recientemente, varios analistas del ARC Advisory Group y miembros de la gerencia tuvieron la oportunidad de sentarse con el nuevo Presidente de Yokogawa y COO, Sr. Takashi Nishijima, y varios otros altos ejecutivos de Yokogawa para discutir la presencia mundial de la compañía en la industria del gas y el petróleo.

In today's dynamic industrial marketplace, the only constant is change. Raw material costs, energy costs, market demands, environmental and safety regulations, technology, and even the nature of the labor force itself are constantly changing, and not always in predictable directions.

Network and system security is now a necessity in process automation industry. YOKOGAWA provides a service lifecycle solution for cyber security to ensure that the security measures and deployments are continuously enhanced, monitored and inspected.

This white paper explains the details of the security design, implementation, operation and validation solutions from the technical perspective.

As plant operation becomes more intelligent and complex, the alarm system for safe and stable operation is becoming increasingly important. An alarm warns operators of an abnormal situation in a process and urges them to respond to it.

Recently, there is an increasing demand for operation and monitoring of all the various controllers distributed in the field on the same screens to improve plant operation efficiency. The purpose of the Unified Gateway Station (UGS) is to connect external controllers, such as the STARDOM's FCN/FCJ autonomous controllers and other vendors' controllers, to the CENTUM VP integrated production control system and to operate and monitor those external controllers on the Human Interface Station (HIS) screens, the operation and monitoring screens for the CENTUM VP.

In 2005, Yokogawa announced "VigilantPlant" as a concept to ward the realization of a type of plant operation that is considered ideal by our customers.

The specifications of the ISA100.11a wireless communication standard of the International Society of Automation (ISA) for industrial automation were published, and companies are developing products based on the standard. The ISA100.11a has many features such as high reliability including redundancy, network scalability, and support for various protocols for industrial automation.

Recently, manufacturing industries are trying to slash the total cost of ownership (TCO). Batch processes are not exceptions. Until recently, in comparison to continuous processes, batch processes have generally not yet undergone systematization and standardization.

The purpose of blending in a petroleum refinery is to mix semi-finished products that have been rectified during various refining processes so as to manufacture a product that meets specification.

The manuals of control systems such as a DCS provide a vast amount of information depending on their multi-functionality and functional integration. A conventional large-scale control system our company offers comes with more than 10,000 pages of paper documents.

To improve efficiency and quality in the DCS application coding and inspection phases for an entire CENTUM CS system, engineering tools have been developed, along with the training required to operate these tools. In consideration of the time needed for development, the need for adequate operability, the basis of standard CS software architecture, and the use of freeware (e.g., Perl² and Tcl/Tk³), we began development of these engineering tools with the objectives to reduce development costs and increase efficiency.

A fieldbus is a bidirectional, multidrop, digital communication system developed to replace the conventional 4-20 mA communication lines that connect intelligent field devices with a control system. Fieldbus is continually reviewed in an effort to standardize the fieldbus specifications to comply with the specifications of the IEC and ISA.¹

The first stage in creating next-generation production control system that achieves innovative plant operation is providing "Visualized operation". "Visualized operation" for the customer means that he can reliably access and visualize plant data regardless of plant location and time.

One of Yokogawa's corporate philosophies is to contribute to society through broad-ranging activities in the areas of measurement, control, and information. To achieve this philosophy in the control industry, Yokogawa launched CENTUM, the world's first distributed control system (DCS), in 1975.

As the world's societies become more connected, market competition is becoming more ruthless and transactions are performed at ever increasing speeds. Deregulation has ignited global competition throughout the world. The proliferation of Information and Internet technologies have accelerated the growth of global competition, with life cycles for high tech products having lives measured in "dog years" (in each normal year they advance seven years).

The consolidation of control rooms was conducted in several refineries in the 1990s and early 2000s as a means of reducing the number of operators and improving the efficiency for enhancing competitiveness. The characteristics of consolidated control rooms vary, reflecting the history of a refinery.

The manufacturing industry has grown based on solid production technologies for creating quality products. However, the economic environment is changing dramatically, forcing manufacturing firms to face tough global competition; firms must ship the right products at the right time as the market requests.

The phenomenon of the current era, coined the information age, involves a global trend toward digital technology and open architecture. Field devices are no exception to this trend.

For large scale geographically dispersed projects, there may be a hierarchy of individual Process Automation systems, which in turn are each responsible for a specific region, and are managed by a higher level system. Engineering of systems on this scale is a huge challenge, because each individual system has its own database and its own configuration.

As a company that has strong relationship with nature and provides products using nature's blessings, Mercian Corporation is committed to the environment. Its environmental philosophy is "Mercian thanks nature's blessings and capability that sustain life, and seeks to balance environmental preservation with creating an affluent society."

Recipe management software refers to the computer software used to manage product names and their corresponding recipes and set the recipe data in the control system in order to control the operations of a plant in which multiple materials are blended to manufacture a number of different products.

As for a controller used in a distributed control system (DCS) shown in Figure 1, covering as many applications as possible with a single controller will bring cost reduction effects such as easy engineering and a small controller installation area. Therefore, the controller is required to process large amounts of data more quickly.

There are already safety systems on the market that have achieved safety integrity level SIL3 of the functional safety standard, IEC61508. However, most of them have achieved SIL3 by conversion of modules into dual-redundant or triplex form.

For safe plant operations, it is critical to correctly understand the conditions encountered by operators inside the plants. In relation to this topic, human cognition has been studied in various fields such as human factors and ergonomics.

In industrialized countries, social trends such as the aging of workers and the decrease in working population are becoming obvious. Substantial problems such as a lack of skilled engineers and increases in the labor cost of knowledge workers are significantly impacting industrial automation users. These problems cause greater economic loss to the users. 

The power generation facility in a pulp and paper plant is comprised of units, each of which is composed of a boiler, a turbine, a generator, and auxiliary equipment, and these pieces of equipment were traditionally controlled on a unit/equipment basis. This paper presents an application of CENTUM, Yokogawa's distributed control system (DCS) that integrates the independent control systems of such power generation facilities to achieve labor saving through operations via CRT display and keyboard.

In recent years it has become increasingly common for plants to be provided not only with the control layer of a production control system (DCS, etc.), but also with the protection layer of a safety instrumented system (SIS) to reduce the risk of industrial accidents. The safety instrumented system is indispensable for avoiding risks to a plant failure.

The requirements for water supply and sewage services are becoming increasingly strict, such as consolidation of facilities, operational efficiency, lower cost, and information transparency due to stagnant demand. There is also demand for greater use of information technologies (IT), encouraged by the government's e-Japan strategy.

Instrumentation devices and equipment serve for plants as the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin, which are responsible for the five senses, and act as the central nervous system and brain do for human beings. The reliability and availability of such devices and equipment are the most important requirements of customers.

CENTUM VP is a next-generation Integrated Production Control System which provides solutions to improve operation efficiency (Operational Excellence) based on Yokogawa's VigilantPlant concept. In the development of Integrated Production Control Systems, we have expanded the functions of the Human Machine Interface (HMI) maintaining the main essence of CENTUM series, regardless of the changes of platforms.

Yokogawa proposed the VigilantPlant concept as an ideal plant that achieves fully optimized operation where all the necessary information is given to all the operators involved in the plant operation. In VigilantPlant, operators are able to quickly respond to changes in the external environment while the production activities run without any interruption.

FCSs, the control stations in a CENTUM CS system, have already demonstrated that they are highly reliable, effective and maintainable. These advantages are the result of such features as the dual-redundant hardware configuration, the online modification of application data, and so on.

The environment surrounding process control systems has changed dramatically as the performance of personal computers improves and the Windows operating system advances, there has been a move towards the trend of open architecture. As we are already aware, in addition to the traditional high reliability level and the unique operability there has been an increase in demand for the interoperability of human- machine interfaces (HMI), which are responsible for the operation and monitoring of our distributed control system (DCS).

In process control it is not uncommon for systems to be affected by dead times, due to material transfer times. This is evident typically in pipelines. A fluid of density ρ and flow rate w in a section of pipe A the length of d takes the amount of time τ = ρAd/w to cover the whole distance (see Figure 1).

Industrial automation (IA) systems and products, which utilize measurement, control and information technologies, are used across the world as fundamental infrastructure for achieving safe, stable and highly efficient plant operation. In order to keep the systems and products effective throughout the plant lifecycle, customers need to periodically check their effectiveness and take prompt action if any problem is identified.

In Japanese industries which grew rapidly until the early 1990's, solid production techniques for creating high-quality products supported the development of manufacturing industries. However, the economic environment has been changing rapidly and tough global competition has become unavoidable. Particularly, the manufacturing industry must adapt not only to changes in economic environments but also to changes in social conditions such as emphasis on health, safety, and environment (so called HSE).

Recently, standardization of procedural automation of manual operations has been promoted mainly by the International Society of Automation (ISA), and the functional requirements necessary for automation are being studied by the ISA106 committee in the US.

Upgrading and renewal of plant facilities, including production control systems and safety instrumented systems, are essential for maintaining safe and efficient plant operation. Even though these activities are categorized as R&R, they require investment and customers are often required to evaluate the profitability for obtaining approval.

Conventional safety instrumented system (SIS) is typically installed separated from a distributed control system (DCS) to eliminate interference from the DCS and assure safety. However, users increasingly wish to integrate SIS with DCS while maintaining the safety of safety controllers.

Yokogawa's ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system is used for many applications as a system conforming to the safety integrity level (SIL) 3 defined in the IEC61508 international functional safety standard. To deal with temperature inputs, systems were conventionally configured using signal conditioners.

Report functions in process control are often positioned as part of the logger functions. However, plant operation data in a batch process should be not only logged regularly but also acquired and managed for each batch execution. The report function for logging plant operations in a batch process mainly comprises a function to print out plant operation data collected for each batch execution, and there are various approaches available to implement this function.

Drastic changes in the economy of manufacturing industries, has led to increasing demand for plant operations to reduce personnel, improve efficiency, and increase the operation rate of facilities. On the other hand, for plants to operate safely, improvements in reliability and operational safety cannot be neglected.

The CENTUM CS 3000, a reliable distributed production control system, has been introduced worldwide with the objective of operating plants efficiently 24 hours a day, every day. The CS 3000 handles abnormal conditions in a plant appropriately and minimizes the chance of them developing into faults.

In recent years, expectations for control systems using wireless communications have been increasing in the process control market. This is because these systems do not require power and communication wiring for field instruments, enabling reduced initial and maintenance costs, and easy installation.

In this day and age, just simply buying a personal computer, taking it home and turning it on will enable you to be taken to the world of Internet. In such an era, communication connection capability and prospects is increasing in importance. DCSs are no exception for concern.

To date, Yokogawa has focused on DCS (Distributed Control System) which control the entire power generation plant, including boilers, in the electric power industry. In contrast, turbomachinery control has been handled by turbine manufacturers, but as the electric power market has been active internationally, especially in China and India, in recent years, Yokogawa has been developing turbomachinery control systems to to further develop the electric power industry.

For a transfer system in a plant, such as a transfer between tanks in a brewery, the transfer of pellets in a pneumatic transport system, or the transfer of oil at an offsite location, it is necessary to monitor the open/close status of valves or the on/off status of motors or blowers in reference to the transfer pattern (a combination of the transfer source(s) and destination(s), route, etc.).

Due to emerging competitors from the rapidly growing countries such as India and China and the global economic downturn triggered by the Lehman shock, many companies in the process industries are struggling to survive the severe global competition.

The operation and monitoring functions of a plant control system are important means of understanding the condition of the plant and how it operates. Traditionally, user needs for the system focused on such features as increased operability and durability. As a result, these functions were developed for a dedicated machine in the form of dedicated human-machine interface software.

The innovation of wireless technology increases the use of wireless communication in the industry. The introduction of wireless communication to plants, however, requires strict features such as robustness, real-time responsiveness, and low power consumption. This has restricted the use of wireless communication to limited applications such as data logging and device status monitoring that does not require strict real-time responsiveness and data arrival reliability in communication.

La migración de DCS de una refinería proporcionó una oportunidad para volver a configurar y consolidar las salas de control y sistema de administración operativo.

Control Engineering Asia, June 2014

Your next automation system will have to do far more than real-time control,as the demands for new capabilities are rapidly growing. Bruce Jensen writes.

By Bruce Jensen, General Manager, Technical Solutions Support Center, VigilantPlant Solutions and Services, Yokogawa Corporation of America, and Joshua Kyaw Zwa, Executive Engineer, System Marketing Department, Marketing Operation, Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte. Ltd.

...and then you plan an intelligent automation solution.

In an ideal automation project, time is unlimited, and project budgets are generous. The plant implementing such a project has the luxury of automating all of its field actuators, great and small. 

September 2008

Yokogawa is helping a large chemicals site in China manage product transfer by road, ship and pipeline.

September 2007

Yokogawa's web-based DCS Anywhere has simplified commissioning at the Nanhai petrochemicals complex. With a total investment of 4.2 billion US dollars, the Nanhai petrochemicals complex at Daya Bay in Huizhou, China, has attracted a lot of attention because of its sheer scale.

Industrial Automation Asia, August 2012

For the past 35 years, developments of a distributed control system (DCS) have been evolving to raise productivity and enhance plant operation. As field instruments advance, there is a need to exchange large amount of process data and parameters among various diagnostic devices for stability of plant operation.

As industrial facilities take on more complex tasks and lose in-house expertise, they ought to be able to rely on suppliers to show the way and help them achieve their goals.

October 2008

The 2008 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Company of the Year Award for Distributed Control System (DCS) market is presented to Yokogawa. Yokogawa is the market leader with a dominant market share in the Asia Pacific market. 

Control Engineering Asia, May 2012

An exception level of engineering expertise tailored for the local market is one of the primary reasons why Yokogawa has managed to capture and keep the process automation top spot in the Land of Smiles, says Somkid Teraboonchaikul, managing director, Yokogawa Thailand.

As a world's leading supplier of instruments and control systems for industrial process automation, Yokogawa has committed itself to the development of advanced solutions and products in three focused areas – measurement technologies, industrial automation and control, and information technologies.

Greg Hallauer discusses the importance of selecting a reliable automation partner.

March 2008

Yokogawa has taken a vital step in their plan to make the world's plants 'silent and boring', and therefore, well-managed, with the release of their new integrated production control system CENTUM VP last month.

Process automation in oil refineries is undergoing major changes, driven by customers frustrated by what they consider to be slow and incremental advances from the main automation original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the industry. ExxonMobil has become a de facto industry representative and is driving vendors like Yokogawa and others to reevaluate how large-scale automation projects are implemented.

At ARC Process Management Academy (PMA) in Antwerp Yokogawa's contribution to plants in Europe was introduced.

Honeywell and Yokogawa have both been producing Distributed Control System (DCS) platforms for decades, and both are very active in this area. In 1975, Honeywell introduced its TDC2000 platform and Yokogawa brought out CENTUM. These two competing systems emerged from a similar place, oil refining and petrochemical industries, so they started out with similar basic concepts and use cases in mind. 

Oil producers looking past today's difficult world markets understand development of new sources will bring a growing list of challenges. An ever-increasing amount of oil and natural gas is being produced by techniques once considered unconventional: tar and extraction, fracking, and deep water offshore drilling. As the costs of these extraction methods have gone down, the range of economically recoverable deposits has increased. When crude oil markets return to more normal levels, these difficult fields, including deep water offshore oil and gas, will become increasingly important.

By Eugene Spiropoulos, Yokogawa Corporation of America

Many lubricant blending businesses find themselves in a challenging situation: there are opportunities to increase their overall business volume and profits by improving production flexibility, expanding their product slate and optimizing high-margin blends. At the same time, they find themselves constrained by current manufacturing limitations. However, launching a capital project for a significant manufacturing expansion may not be possible, and it may not be necessary.

CENTUM batch is designed for multi-product, multi-path processes and is based upon the ISA88 standard.

The CENTUM VP is the flagship integrated production control system for Yokogawa VigilantPlant Solutions.

Yokogawa virtualization system is optimized for process control to satisfy the quality and performance requirements of process control, and achieve operations similar to existing systems using physical computers.

The CENTUM VP R5.01 is latest release of our flagship integrated production control system for Yokogawa VigilantPlant Solutions.

UGS is a Vnet/IP station that unifies subsystem controllers such as STARDOM controllers and third party PLCs to a CENTUM VP system.

0:00 "La estrategia de Yokogawa Corporation of America en EU, Canadá y México" por Chet Mroz, Presidente y CEO, de Yokogawa Corporation of America

4:13 "Creando Valor e Innovación en la Automatización Industrial (IA) a través de alianzas estratégicas" por Chiaki Itoh, vicepresidente de marketing HQ IA, Yokogawa Electric Corporation

8:47 "La Alianza Estratégica Global con Dell" por Nobuaki Konishi, VP, Div. de Sistemas de Negocios, HQ Plataforma de Negocios IA, Yokogawa Electric Corporation

20:24 "La Ventaja OEM de Dell" por Joyce Mullen, VP y Gerente General, Soluciones OEM, Dell Inc.

Chet Mroz, President & CEO Yokogawa North America, discusses the benefits of IoT at the 2015 ARC Industry Forum in Orlando.

Whether they are brownfield migration or greenfield, major automation and control system projects present a challenge to owner operators. Learn how others prepare and execute successful automation and control system projects. 

This Webinar will present a detailed look at a software demonstration of how to configure Yokogawa's Consolidated Alarm Management Software (CAMS) for HIS (Human Interface Station). How users can implement CAMS to meet some of the recommendations from EEMUA 191, ISA 18.2 and other published guidelines for alarm management will also be presented.

Descubiertos hace más de una década, se espera que los campos Jack y St. Malo entregarán más de 500 millones de barriles de petróleo. La unidad flotante de producción Jack St. Malo es la cuarta instalación en aguas profundas que Chevron opera y es la más grande que tiene en el Golfo de México. Escuche lo que se necesita para implementar la tecnología y entregar el petróleo de este desafiante megaproyecto. 

The legacy model of automation project execution is linear and rigid, defined by milestones that depend on the completion of previous phases. Little parallel work is typically possible, and late changes in data or re-work cannot be easily accommodated.

The Agile Project Execution model allows field signals to be configured by software at any phase of the project. These universal IO channels can even be software-configured as soon as they are wired without requiring a completed system, adding significant flexibility to the project schedule and, most importantly, reducing the risk in your plan and investment.

This webinar will explain how you can take advantage of Agile Project Execution through Yokogawa's Network IO technology and FieldMate Validator.