FAST/TOOLS Features

Yokogawa offers a complete set of professional services that can be tailored to your specific needs. Our highly praised consultants provide services that offer a quick, cost-effective way to ensure success in developing and implementing your FAST/TOOLS systems.
Yokogawa has many years of experience assisting users from the process control industries, as well as in many other application areas. In addition, the company invests in the continuous education of our professional service staff.

Yokogawa consultants can give you advice on the following subjects

• Conceptual study
• Proof of concept study
• Feasibility study
• Project handling
• Networking study
• Communication protocol interfacing
• Custom graphics
• Application prototypes
• Performance tuning

Yokogawa is dedicated to providing quality customized consulting services to our customers. Our consulting services are offered by a team of professionals who are highly experienced in conceptual, detail application and third parts software integration. The Yokogawa consulting staff includes senior developers and expert application builders with many years of experience.

Yokogawa consulting services are available in any form that fits your unique configuration and programming needs. Services range form simple, day-rate advisory to complex, ongoing projects. Our staff can assist in any or all phases of your integration process, from conceptual study to implementation and maintenance.

A unique feature of FAST/TOOLS allows you to keep your application specific data apart from the FAST/TOOLS environment. Loading this data in one turn is a quick way of loading the entire configuration, without using HMI. Even while your FAST/TOOLS application is running you can use this feature to load additional data. The big advantage of developing and keeping the data apart from the FAST/TOOLS environment is that you can perform version management on the data.

You can ‘quickload’ configurations online without stopping the system. During loading the configurations FAST/TOOLS continuously checks the quickload data. Errors in configurations will be reported instantly, stopping the loading process or skipping the error if wanted.
The following configuration data can be prepared off-line without needing FAST/TOOLS.

• Items
• I/O-driver configurations
• Alarm collections
• History groups
• User-profiles
• Programming code