FAST/TOOLS SCADA and Enterprise Automation Solution (EAS)

• Easy set point definition for all plant power generation operations
• Stable electric power generation
• Power plant optimization
• Control of electric power generation based on net performance

Territory Generation supplies electricity to the NT's grid with their 8 geographically isolated power stations.
Territory Generation selected FAST/TOOLS to integrate new & renewable energy to the power grid.

RDR operates total 67km long race and supplies irrigation water to vast agricultural land in NZ's South Island.

FAST/TOOLS and STARDOM RTU were selected for management of the race and hydropower systems.

The Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) needed to improve its water supply system to keep up with the growing demand.
Yokogawa installed field instruments at a total of 143 locations in MCWD’s water distribution network and a SCADA system with water leakage management software at the main office to reduce non-revenue water and improve stability of water supply.

• Integration of the current Bangalore Water Supply and Sewage Board (BWSSB) water and sewage facilities located widely in Bengaluru over VHF and GPRS.
• Stable Centralized SCADA Monitoring Center (CSMC) operation.

• OTS for familialization of liquefaction processes and operator training.
• Yokogawa's integrated solutions contribute to safe and steady production at gas liquefaction plant in Norway.

Alewijnse provides Yokogawa's FAST/TOOLS package for a variety of marine applications, including the world's largest yachts (megayachts) built by Oceanco of The Netherlands. Alewijnse has selected FAST/TOOLS because of its quality and support, and this software has allowed them to both streamline the engineering process and reuse data.

INPEX Corporation (INPEX) is Japan's biggest oil and gas development company and is involved in all aspects of this business, from research to exploration, production, and sales. INPEX is engaged in projects all over the world, in a total of 29 countries, including Japan, where it operates a gas production plant near Oyazawa, a town in Niigata prefecture.

• Australian National University's "Big Dish" controlled by Yokogawa PLC and FAST/TOOLS SCADA
• FAST/TOOLS benefits us in many ways and allows us to clearly see the entire process, giving us the information we need to take immediate action

• Scalable, flexible configuration with functions distributed to multiple controllers on a facility basis
• Redundant architecture optimally designed for requirements of entire plant
• General-purpose communications network used for control bus
• Integrated operation environment through web-based human-machine interface (HMI)

• Cooperation with WISAG introduces building automation solutions and reduces energy costs.
• The particular advantage of FAST/TOOLS is its standardized and open interfaces.

As the demand for food is increasing worldwide, fertilizers are playing an essential role in improving agricultural productivity. OCI Nitrogen (hereinafter OCI) is a leading producer of mineral fertilizers and the world's largest producer of melamine, which is used to make adhesives and resins for a wide range of applications, such as furniture panels, laminate flooring, coatings, paints, and plastics.

• FAST/TOOLS SCADA system has helped NAM reduce its operational costs.
• By installing this onto the existing system, the ever greater data streams became easier to manage.

• FAST/TOOLS SCADA system to remotely monitor the optimization of the process and make any required engineering changes to the live system.
• The Yokogawa control system (FAST/TOOLS, STARDOM, HXS10) monitors not only the sunlight but also the weather conditions.

• The NEP Solar team developed the control strategy and the Yokogawa engineers programmed the controller accordingly. 
• The FAST/TOOLS software could be installed on the notebook PCs used by the development team, eliminating the need for costly dedicated servers.

Water Supply Treatment
FAST/TOOLS, STARDOM, Flowmeters, Liquid Analyzers

• Bali's water treatment plant decided to employ the latest reliable control system in order to increase availability and quality of operation.
• Centralized control system using FAST/TOOLS provides the sophisticated and flexible operation.

Granite Power is a geothermal company that has developed GRANEX^®, a patented direct supercritical fluid heat transfer technology for the efficient, eco- nomic, and zero carbon emission generation of electricity from low grade geothermal sources using the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC).

• STARDOM and FAST/TOOLS integrated SCADA solution for Indian Oil Corporation's multiproduct oil pipeline.
• STARDOM facilitates the total visualization of data needed for safe and reliable pipeline operations.

• Uninterrupted Medical Oxygen Production with FAST/TOOLS Monitoring.
• Audits are performed periodically, requiring traceability and the keeping of historical records for all batch production activities.

• Reliable monitoring and control system of the world's first, 16" seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membrane desalination plant.
• Accurate measurements of the SWRO parameters with Yokogawa conductivity meters, pH meters, and magnetic flow meters contribute to a longer SWRO membrane life and reduce Total Cost of Ownership.

India's flagship natural gas company GAIL Limited integrates all India's Gas Pipelines by a Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS SCADA system.

• FAST/TOOLS SCADA system centralized monitoring & control of India's gas pipelines.
• All operation data can be directly utilized for gas allocation and billing.

• Yokogawa provides STARDOM and FAST/TOOLS for biomass pilot plant.
• FAST/TOOLS is an "all in one" SCADA solution that functionsa a data historian.

• Yokogawa's HXS10 solar controller optimizes conversion efficiency at Australian solar cooling plant
• Accurate sun tracking and visualization of all process data

Many different types of gases are consumed in industries as varied as chemicals, food & beverages, and medical. These gases are normally delivered in liquid form by trucks and dispensed at the customer site. Although the flow volume of cryogenic liquefied gas is used for billing purposes, it is not easy to accurately measure this because the gas is always at saturation temperatures.

An automatic custody transfer system for unmanned LNG gas stations that embeds PC oriented functions such as e-mail, FTP, and the Java runtime environment in a robust hybrid controller.

STARDOM field control node (FCN) autonomous controllers allow both Modbus master and slave functions to run simultaneously.

Yokogawa ensures a reliable heat and CO₂ transfer system by using the standard GPRS protocol. The exclusive use of webbased technology enables the market gardeners to go online to order heat and CO₂ and view information.

Yokogawa is one of a few companies worldwide that is able to successfully execute large SCADA host migration projects, i.e. data item counts in excess of 500,000 points. This advantage plus our robust technology coupled with the knowledge of previous Systems installed within various customers and our overall integration and knowledge of third party systems should give Yokogawa a clear technical advantage.

To make the most of the advantages of GPRS, Yokogawa's STARDOM FCN/FCJ intelligent RTUs and FAST/TOOLS SCADA package have several functions that reduce the number of packets that must be sent. This dramatically lowers communication fees.

Recently, several ARC Advisory Group analysts and management team members had a chance to sit down with the new Yokogawa President and COO, Mr. Takashi Nishijima, and several other top Yokogawa executives to discuss the company's burgeoning presence in the worldwide upstream and midstream oil & gas industry.

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.

One solution packaged for production control systems today is a system comprising a PLC and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) software that runs on a PC. An advantage of these systems is that they can be configured at considerably lower cost than systems that use dedicated devices as they use commercially available PCs.

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.

To improve the efficiency of operations, production control systems are working together more closely with information systems. As a result, security measures have become indispensable for production control systems though they have not been emphasized to date. Because many production control systems are used for critical infrastructure, some malware tries to attack them.

Only 5% of data is transferred into meaningful information so, asks Frank Horden, Business Development Manager, Yokogawa Global SCADA Center, USA, how to ensure pipeline management data is translated into valuable knowledge?

Many global industrial companies and utilities rely on Yokogawa's FAST/TOOLS system to deliver high levels of data integration and guaranteed data integrity demanded by these companies. Yokogawa says that the secret to FAST/ TOOLS success in these critical applications is the highly reliable design, combined with exceptional performance and the online configuration capability. 

Eduard van Loenen and Frank Horden, Yokogawa, describe utilising a modern SCADA system as a collaboration centre platform for bringing 'real-time' operations, maintenance and business information sources together in one integrated visualisation environment.

LNG Industry, Summer 2012

Martin te Lintelo, Yokogawa, The Netherlands, discusses the need for better automation, measurement and control instruments to cope with the rising popularity of LNG.

Industrial Automation Asia, August 2012

SCADA brings "real-time" operations, maintenance and business information sources together in one integrated Visualization environment. Data from different sources needs to be interrelated and translated into KPIs of the most elementary operational and business functions.

September 2009

Partnering with Saudi Aramco, Yokogawa is providing local project execution including testing and implementing a continuing policy of Saudisation.

Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems have been part of the process industries for many decades and cyber security measures need to grow as technology advances. SCADA systems are used in oil and gas pipeline and other remote control and monitoring applications, such as electrical transmission and distribution, and water/wastewater.

Modern historians do much more than just store process data. They also provide analysis, reports, and valuable operational and business information.

Yokogawa presents a quick review of FAST/Tools SCADA Visualization Editor. This video covers some of the most commonly used features within the visualization editor including layers, trending, and properties.

Yokogawa presents a demonstration of FAST/Tools Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Operator Interface. A sample application covers the basics of navigation, trending, alarming, diagnostics, reporting, and operator interaction playback.

Yokogawa presents a demonstration of how the combination of Stardom FCN-RTU and FAST/TOOLS SCADA can be combined to provide a powerful control and data collection system where in the event of a network disconnection or computer outage - Stardom internally buffers data that would otherwise be lost and on reconnection or restoration of the SCADA Server FAST/TOOLS is able to back-fill missing data in its trend.

Yokogawa presents a tutorial on the trending and historical data logging capabilities of the FAST/TOOLS Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software. The tutorial covers the key features of the trend application as well as setting up historical data collection.

Yokogawa presents a quick review of the FAST/TOOLS SCADA Collaboration Decision Support Solution (CDSS) option. The CDSS option allows FAST/TOOLS traditional operator interface screens to be combined with outside Internet based information for incorporation of Multimedia like camera feeds, video, news feeds, weather-feeds, stock prices, reports, and other sources of information that are critical to planning and operations.

Yokogawa is pleased to present a quick walk through of a demo application that is hosted through FAST/TOOLS SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) mobile web server. The mobile operator interface is a pure HTML 5 implementation which is suitable for any web browser that supports this standard. No accessory applications or plug-ins are required beyond a web browser. Mobile browsers such as Chrome, Dolphin, Safari on platforms such as Android, iOS, and Windows should work equally well. The mobile clients offer a reduced set of functionality compared to the regular FAST/TOOLS rich client and are primarily intended for mobile process and alarm updates.

Yokogawa presents a quick tour of a demo application for a Gas Pipeline SCADA Host. The tour shows Scheduling, EFM/EGM Metering Management, Storage, Compression, and Line Pack functionality.

Yokogawa presents a quick walk through of a liquids handling pipeline SCADA Host implemented in FAST/TOOLS 10.01. It features the fictitious AlbertaSouth Pipeline that includes tank farms, pump stations, block valves, metering stations, provers, pig launchers and receivers. It features applications like leak detection, batch scheduling, and strapping tables for storage tanks. Although it is a demonstration pipeline it does feature functionality that Yokogawa has deployed across the world on real pipeline SCADA Host projects.