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Increased Reliability and Security Through the Use of a Data Acquisition System

Yokogawa provided the Smart Industry Readiness Index (S.I.R.I.) consulting service to Taiwan's Everlight Chemical Industrial Corp.
S.I.R.I. helps identify the digital maturity level of the customer's plant for future transformation.

ADMAG AXG Magnetic Flowmeter Helps to Optimize Production Throughput and Reduce Energy Consumption in Chlor-Alkali Plant

• Sumitomo Seika achieved the quality stabilization by cross-department project.
• The fusion of process knowledge and data analysis technology was a key to the success.

Sumitomo Chemical improved process stability and reduced operator workload by automating filter regeneration, startup, and shutdown with Yokogawa Exapilot. The solution eliminated up to 56 manual adjustments per day and reduced recovery time by up to two hours.

Kuraray Engineering provides IoT big data analysis solution in collaboration with Yokogawa.
Collaborative process data analysis achieved a high level of quality stabilization at a customer site.

Nippon Sanso Vietnam JSC (NSVN) equipped a digitalized supply-chain management system to optimize efficiency of industrial gases delivery.
The ODMS (Order delivery management system) was rapidly developed using the DevOps agile approach in collaboration with NSVN and Yokogawa.

Nitrogen Fertilizer Manufacturer Cyber Security Implementation Success Story

Osaka Gas Chemicals selected Yokogawa to solve long-standing problem at carbon fiber manufacturing process.

Osaka Gas Chemicals established unique problem-solving method using Yokogawa's process data analytics solution.

Operator Training Simulator helps improve human reliability in a young plant of PetroVietnam Ca Mau Fertilizer.

PVCFC and Yokogawa implemented OTS for third-party control and safety system as a team.

Yokogawa & Nouryon Co-Innovation Leads to New pH-Analyzer
 
 

Ube Corporation Europe and Yokogawa co-created the Field Assistant mobile solution.
Field Assistant innovates inspection patrol, supervisory management, and O&M efficiency in the plant.

Yokogawa CENTUM VP and SIS were selected for the Evonik Oxeno's BTX facility expansion project.
CENTUM provides the operational transparency, and more efficient diagnosis of compressors which are the heart of the facility.

Yokogawa's network healthiness check service helped the customer identify what they need to protect against cyber-attacks.
By “visualizing” network traffic in control system, the customer was able to detect unauthorized communication in their system.

Accurate reactor level measurement enables flow optimization to enhance yield.

Yokogawa’s Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy (TDLS) is the ideal solution for both oxygen and carbon monoxide measurements in process furnaces that have aggressive and corrosive components.

Yokogawa's Paperless Recorder series offers a multi-point touch panel to improve intuitive operator control with predictive monitoring for early detection during sake production and managing brewery wastewater. 

Avoid flashing issues while loading cryogenic liquids with safe, reliable, and accurate density fluid measurements utilizing Yokogawa’s industry-leading Coriolis flowmeter to eliminate measurement issues and increase the accuracy of inventory. 

Prevent costly downtime and process equipment failures with real-time pressure monitoring. Yokogawa’s Sushi Sensor is the optimal choice for industries depending on bottled gas in essential procedures.

Ensure minor issues in Vinyl Chloride Production can be identified before becoming serious problems with Yokogawa’s In-Situ Gas Analyzer TDLS8000 and Probe Type Analyzer TDLS8200.

Boosting efficiency in Chlor-Alkali Plants with the ADMAG Magnetic Flowmeter provides accurate, stable flow measurement for Brine and Caustic in Chlor-Alkali electrolyzer cells, improving production efficiency and reducing energy consumption.

Advanced solutions improve plant safety and product quality while reducing power consumption, emissions, and operator workload.

Accurate and reliable measurement of wash oil in a high temperature process to avoid solidification of the chemical, it is essential to adjoin heat and insulation to the piping and equipment. Therefore, thermal management of the pipe runs is required, to avoid any heat loss in the fluid to maintain the fluid properties. 

Conductivity measurement can be used as a reliable indicator of the real-time brine concentration. Using an online process analyzer removes the need for timely grab sample analysis. 

Yokogawa’s Sushi temperature sensor is a cost-effective, reliable, long-range wireless communication for monitoring and recording to boost reliability, and also able to configure the network with redundant gateways for chemical manufacturers.

Yokogawa’s distributed temperature sensors ensure comprehensive monitoring of thermal events in real-time, limiting facility damage by decreasing the risk of fire/duct explosions in exhaust air/fume ducts, allowing for early detection and quick response.

Reducing waste in the separator and electrode drying furnaces with Yokogawa’s distributed temperature sensors ensure comprehensive monitoring of thermal events in real-time.

Best Solution for Automatic Boiler Control
Sensors and controllers for the efficiency and environmental performance

Enhance the efficiency and safety of your vapor recovery systems and flare/vent headers with Yokogawa's cutting-edge Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometers – the TDLS8000 and TDLS8220. Elevate your oxygen measurement capabilities with our interference-free analyzers, providing direct measurements. Experience unparalleled reliability, ensuring minimal upkeep and secure operations without the need for system shutdowns.

The EJX910A with Micro-Orifice can measure ultralow flowrates for samples and carrier gases, and allows the technicians to access shelter readings remotely without performing time-consuming manual rounds.

The Yokogawa DTSX1 Fiber Optic Heat Detector protects your equipment against abnormal heat events while being more affordable than other heat detection solutions.

To meet state requirements for calibration checks, use Meter Verification (part of the Total Insight concept of the ADMAG TI - AXG) to verify the calibration and functionality of each meter. The reliable accuracy of the AXG magmeter results from Yokogawa’s proprietary, dual-frequency excitation method. It combines traditional high/low-frequency excitation methods to ensure greater stability and quicker response even if noise or other problems are present in the line. With EtherNet/IP, an operator can initiate a verification from the HMI to ensure the gallery is running optimally.

SMART digital sensors and advanced data management software enhance reliability and process safety.

Corrosion, permeation, or drift can cause a degradation of pressure measurement readings, which, in turn, can put the electrolysis cell out of balance and risk damage to the cell membranes.

Flow performance extends cell membrane life with accurate, reliable, and stable performance - saving millions of dollars in membrane repair costs, reducing instrument maintenance costs and production downtime, and production loss.

Accurate and durable magnetic flow meters (magmeters) were difficult to maintain in the process as the corrosive and abrasive nature of the process degraded their operation. That led to leaks that not only reduced the flow but also contaminated the product and the magmeters. Since Sigura maintained strong vigilance, the company needed to replace some magmeters monthly...

Ideal for various tank and vessel level measurements, diaphragm seal systems with compensating capillaries set a new standard for high performance, safety, and reliability.

Electrolysis plants create hydrogen and chlorine from a brine solution. Chlorine gas generated from the anolyte of the electrolysis tank generally contains between 0.5 to 2.0 vol% H₂O. The sample is then cooled and filtered to remove brine, subsequently coming out as wet chlorine gas. The wet gas is sent to a drying tower where it is treated with sulfuric acid to get moisture down to the ppm level. 

DPharp performance in boiler drum level measurement applications is superior to metallic capacitance type pressure transmitters. Improved performance can be attributed to the unique resonant silicon sensor design with dual resonators.

Heat exchangers are devices that provide the flow of thermal energy between two or more fluids at different temperatures. Heat exchangers are used in a wide variety of applications. These include power production; process, chemical and food industries; electronics; environmental engineering; waste heat recovery; manufacturing industry; and air-conditioning, refrigeration, and space applications. Yokogawa offers a means to control heat exchanger leakage and prevent costly maintenance, repair and downtime with an easy-to-use, virtually maintenance-free condensate conductivity measurement method.

Ion Exchange is a method for the exchange of ions between two electrolytes or between an electrolyte solution and a complex molecule. In most cases the term is used to denote the processes of purification, separation, and decontamination of aqueous and other ion-containing solutions with solid polymeric or mineralic ion exchangers.

Hydrogen is the simplest and smallest atomic element. Water, acids, bases, and the immense family of organic compounds all contain hydrogen. Even though hydrogen is not corrosive, it can cause problems for pressure transmitters through Hydrogen Permeation.

Plants increasingly are turning to machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize precise patterns in sensor data. The technologies ease differentiating between normal and abnormal equipment behavior and also detecting specific patterns that lead up to failures — and, so, enhance capabilities for predictive maintenance.

Read this report to learn how more insightful data and better analyses can boost uptime.

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

Download this eBook and learn:

• The top challenges that drive reinstrumentation
• How to plan for and achieve a successful project
• Best practices in identifying your project scope
• 5 ways to improve operator effectiveness
• Different scenarios and best practices for updating, migrating or replacing process controls, safety systems, and instrumentation in plants

This eBook explains why implementing IIoT based digital operator monitoring solutions for autonomous anomaly detection enhances operations.

A Basic Guide to Accurate & Reliable Flow Measurement.

In this Yokogawa RAP Best Practices eBook, you’ll discover how our wealth of knowledge about Integrated Safe Systems and Control of Work is available to help you and your teams design and implement a system that best suits your needs.

Get Connected: Advancing Workers and Capabilities
In this whitepaper by Shahzad Khan, you will learn how to use collaborative, integrated, optimized, and autonomous operations to integrate your systems and emerging performance metrics.

By downloading this whitepaper you will learn how to:

• Connect operations, systems, processes, maintenance, and goals
• Empower employees digitally, to improve their decision-making skills
• Gain access to immediate improvements to production efficiency

The agnostic approach to cybersecurity and solution integration, built around the concept of modularity, offers a scalable and flexible way to reduce the risk of cyberattacks on OT networks.

The whitepaper discusses the importance of safety culture in achieving a smarter and safer working environment. It highlights statistics on work-related accidents and diseases, the cost of poor safety culture, and the need for a true safety culture achieved through company leadership.

On-site digital champions can drive your operation towards data integration and a more aligned way of working.

In a landscape defined by relentless technological progress and sweeping global change, the manufacturing sector stands at a crossroads, compelled to either adapt to digitalization or risk falling behind. Enter the Smart Industry Readiness Index (S.I.R.I.) assessment, a guiding resource for organizations navigating their digital transformation. Highlighting the urgent necessity of digital evolution, this index illuminates the myriad challenges confronting businesses today and sets the stage for exploration into how S.I.R.I. can drive them toward digital maturity.

Digital twins are dynamic digital representations that enable companies to understand, predict and radically reorient their business processes.

Learn how industrial leaders can transition from assisted intelligence to governed autonomy. Discover frameworks for AI governance, operational resilience, cybersecurity, accountability, and trusted autonomous operations at scale.

When selecting a Level Measurement device, what to consider in order to be accurate and repeatable?

Smart devices, like Yokogawa’s line of Total Insight transmitters and flowmeters contribute to Digital Transformation during operations and throughout the lifecycle of the instrument.

This article will not get into evaluating potential safety hazards or designing safety systems, which are extensively covered elsewhere. Instead, we will discuss ways of interpreting and implementing the findings of these evaluations.

With work injuries on the increase, migrating to digital platforms to address worker safety has become a priority. Digital transformation simplifies the integration of new digital applications such as alarm lifecycle management, functional safety lifecycle management, shift team effectiveness, and permit-to-work.

When other methods fail, AI provides critical tools to help plant personnel find and solve process problems

Optimizing automated equipment condition monitoring calls for a different wireless protocol than that used with process instruments.

Podcast: The benefits of a tried-and-true pressure-based level measurement technology.

A Perspective on New Technology Impacts on the Chemical Processing Industry by Sergio Fernandes, Chemical Market Leader, Yokogawa Corporation of America

Protect Plants from Process Perils, Up Your Fired Heater Safety with TDLS Technology - Chemical Processing - eHandbook April 2022

Vibrating element (VBE) type gas measurement devices measure refinery reformer stream compositions, power generator hydrogen purity, centripetal compressor gas inputs, process heater fuel gas quality, and others in multiple process control environments.

The accuracy of pH measurements depends upon maintenance; maintenance frequency largely depends upon the application. Understanding and addressing the causes of pH measurement difficulties comprise key to ensuring stable and accurate readings.

Machines can support humans when facing a stressful situation. Using a standards-based approach can reduce the likelihood of a problem escalating.

Extend your differential pressure transmitter's range with affordable isolation solutions, shielding it from extreme process temperatures and corrosive fluids.

Immunize Plant Instrumentation Against Uncertainty

Get the most from what exists currently and take advantage of new methods. Appeared in the March 2021 issue of an ISA.org publication.

Remember, the goal is to transform your business. Data and digital technology are but means to that end.

Optimizing the maintenance cycle is not always straightforward. In some cases, cleaning once a week is sufficient and other processes may require every 8 hours.

With a testbed plant nearing full OPA system operations, the dream is becoming reality.

ESG-focused institution offers a framework and a guide for manufacturers to be sustainable.

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Learning these four lessons will help you improve your engineering skills and most importantly extend the life of your pH sensors.

While cyberattacks and countermeasures are likely to evolve forever, there’s no reason the trip can’t prove successful and satisfying.

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Is it a harmless duck or a venomous male platypus lurking in the bushes? Trish Kerin helps identify the biases that cloud our safety judgment.

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When it comes to digital transformation, Petronas’ Sharul Rashid wants to see more collaborative efforts.

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Select the correct pH glass and reference type to improve your pH sensor lifetime and you can limit or even eliminate the effects of temperature and pressure on especially the reference sensor.

The lifetime of a pH sensor has a significant impact on the overall annual costs of a pH measuring loop. Optimizing four key factors will decrease these costs and optimize process control and overall plant efficiency.

ROTAMASS is the integral and remote type Coriolis Mass Flow Meter. Both types have highly refined digital signal processing electronics, so that accurate and stable mass flow measurement is achieved.

It is the most technologically advanced mass flow meter yet. By combining the superior design of the application specific flow sensor and transmitters with the Total Insight philosophy and functionality, the flexibility of the ROTAMASS to adapt to changing  requirements guarantees performance throughout the lifecycle of the process measurement.

TDLS8100 & TDLS8200 Features and Benefits Video

Showcases the OpreX Intelligent Manufacturing Hub, an AI-enabled platform that enhances manufacturing with seamless data integration, intelligent reporting, optimized workflows, and advanced visualization for smarter decision-making and efficiency.

The GC8000 is a process analyzer that uses gas chromatography to measure the composition of multiple components in a stream. Engineered with reliable electronics and intelligently designed columns and valves, the GC8000 improves ease of maintenance while reducing operating costs. Its intuitive touchscreen HMI with system diagnostics reduces operation and maintenance headaches, maximizing measurement accuracy, reliability, and uptime. More Information

Open up control. Open Process Automation (OPA) opens the door to expanded choices, leverage, and customization.

Create a scalable, sustainable architecture. Remove the restraints of proprietary systems. OPA enables you to leverage all available technologies to open up solutions. Explore the possibilities today.

As a gateway to further expand Yokogawa's messaging as a One-stop Solution Business, Yokogawa has partnered up with INCIT, to introduce the S.I.R.I. framework. 

Watch the film by KBC who are supporting their clients in their efforts to address climate change and sustainability.

Podcast: The benefits of a tried-and-true pressure-based level measurement technology.

Whether you are a safety professional, an industry leader, or someone passionate about fostering a culture of safety excellence, this on-demand webinar is a must-attend event. Join us to unlock the potential of digital technology in driving safety culture forward and ensuring the well-being of your workforce.

Fired heaters are the largest energy consumer in the manufacturing sector and represent a tremendous opportunity for energy savings. However, energy efficiency is not the only concern for fired heaters. Compliance and safety are continuous challenges.

In this one-hour presentation, we will discuss:

• How to improve fired heater safety and efficiency by controlling combustion using Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometers (TDLS) technology
• 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

Here come our experts discussing the Visual MESA® Energy Management System, anticipating the future of energy management technology to reduce carbon footprints and cash outflows.

Addresses productivity challenges in the chemical industry and how digital field instruments can improve productivity.

This workshop provided by industry partners Yokogawa and ThreatConnect will show you a way to strategically manage cyber risk within an industrial environment. Learn how to transition from the “break/fix” model of industrial cybersecurity to a business risk management strategy through cyber risk quantification, return on investment (ROI) for industrial cybersecurity solutions calculations, and cyber risk identification.

Our experts review the theory behind flow measurement technologies. Discuss common flow application challenges and evaluate the different technologies when selecting a flow meter. They also give examples of best installation practices for successful measurements.

Sample systems are a crucial component of and have a significant impact on the performance of a process gas chromatograph analyzer. When working on sample systems, you must have a constant awareness of time delays. This fundamentals webinar will take the mystery out of lag times.

Discover how to achieve industrial autonomy step by step through one of the 75+ inspiring presentations.

In this webinar, we will:

• Share best practices for monitoring, recording, and transferring data 
• Challenges in data acquisition and how Yokogawa can help
• Demonstrate GA10 Data Logging Software capabilities

In this webinar, industry-leading experts will describe how OPAF is selecting standards that will achieve the vision of truly open systems, the status of its efforts, and what this exciting change to the process automation world means to you.

In this webinar, we will:

• Introduce Yokogawa AI, including Sushi Sensors
• Demonstrate GA10 AI Dashboard and simple setup
• Discuss applications and real-world examples

DX value delivery at scale requires high-quality data to be accessible to the users and systems that rely on it.