Engineering Services

Yokogawa Middle East & Africa has accumulated considerable experience in the execution & implementation of projects. Combining a full understanding of customer requirements with professional management of multiple vendors, YMA is strongly positioned to deliver the set objectives of any project. YMA’s Project Execution Team applies excellent communications with all parties including the Contractor, End user, Licensor, etc. to ensure successful project delivery.

Yokogawa Middle East & Africa Project Execution Capabilities

Green Field Projects
Basic and detailed engineering, system hardware assembly and wiring, procurement of non Yokogawa products, system engineering, complete integrated testing at factory, installation, site acceptance testing, commissioning, hand over and maintenance.

Main Automation Contractor “MAC”
The MAC approach involves earlier involvement in the project, which reflects a greater influence over the costs and benefits of a project.

Front End Engineering Design “FEED”
YMA has bundled its project and industry expertise to conduct the FEED study to ensure that the design will meet the project’s time, budget, ROI and operating cost criteria.

Functional Safety Management
YMA implements a TUV certified Functional Safety Management system based on the standards IEC 61508:2010 and IEC 61511:2003 covering the aspects of Management of Functional Safety, Documentation, Functional Safety Assessment and company specific Safety Lifecycle Phases. YMA has 3 FSM certified facilities (Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Dubai). This certification covers integration of E/E/PE-safety related Systems and Safety Instrumented Systems for the process industry specifically to cover the activities configuration, application programming, assembly, test and safety loop calculations.

Brown Field Projects Systems Migration/Replacement Projects (Hot/Cold Cutover)
For “Lifecycle Excellence” initiatives, Yokogawa provides solutions for replacement, revamp and/or migration of legacy systems (DCS/SIS/F&G) without time frame constraints or interruption of plant operation. Minimum shut down time, smooth migration/replacement plan and non-interruption of operation are key to customer satisfaction. The YMA project team approach ensures easy migration or expansion of earlier versions of CENTUM and ProSafe-RS. Other vendor’s obsolete system(s) can also be replaced by Yokogawa’s latest systems.

(DCS/SIS/F&G) using tools developed for engineering such replacements. YMA’s team of experts specialize in the site works related to transfer of control loops, safety loops, instruments and systems based on hot or cold cutover methodologies, enabling customers to decrease risk and downtime and to increase operational performance.


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