{"id":984,"date":"2018-04-10T06:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T04:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.blogs.yokogawa.de\/chemical-pharma\/uncategorized\/hmi-2017\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:28:01","slug":"hmi-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yokogawa.com\/eu\/blog\/chemical-pharma\/en\/hmi-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"HMI 2018 – Yokogawa’s part in Modular Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yokogawa in partnership with NAMUR<\/a>, PROCESSNET<\/a>, ZVEI<\/a> members will showcase our commitment to Modular Production at Hannover Messe 2018<\/a> under the topic “Integrated Industry – Connect & Collaborate<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

Someway or other everyone should have come across the terms “Modular Automation”,”Modular Production” Yokogawa’s “Module Based Engineering” with Automation Design Suite. What are the differences and relations between these terms? <\/p>\n

Modular Production<\/h1>\n

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More information you find here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Keep modularity in mind<\/h1>\n

Modular Design or “Modularity in design” exists already in many fields such as consumer market (kitchen, furnitures, computer hardware etc.) to software programming and also in some industries (automobile). Process industry is also looking to reap the benefits of Modular Design (refer to image above) through “Modular Production”<\/strong> in process plants. To achieve Modular Production the Mechanical Design, Process Design and the Automation Design should be designed with modularity in mind. The design process from the automation perspective, its engineering and design is “Modular Automation”<\/strong> which is the basic principle of Yokogawa’s Automation Design Suite (AD Suite)<\/a> and Module Based Engineering. Create generic class modules, instantiate them based on your plant structure to create your application.<\/p>\n

NAMUR Module Type Package (MTP)<\/h1>\n

What about the package units? Or other modular equipments with its own control system? How can you integrate them fast into your plant without reengineering in the control system. Here arises the necessity of a standard interface specific for Modular Automation where the challenge is the interoperability of different modules from different vendors together as one production plant. This need is addressed by NAMUR Module Type Package (MTP)<\/a>, a standardised interface which will provide all the necessary information and services for the interoperability of modules irrespective of the vendor.<\/p>\n

The MTP consists of <\/p>\n