Yokogawa Enhances Production Control System

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced the release of Centum VP R4.02, an enhanced version of the company's integrated production control system. This version of Centum VP has been enhanced to help Yokogawa's customers improve productivity. It includes a more intuitive human machine interface (HMI) and strengthened consolidated alarm management. For increased reliability, a Foundation fieldbus engineering function is provided to improve reliability and allows full use of the intelligent capabilities of field devices.

Centum VP R4.02 features closer linkage with Yokogawa's latest safety instrumented system - version R2.03.00 of the Yokogawa Prosafe-RS SIS. It is now possible to operate and monitor this system and the Centum VP production control system through the same HMI. This linkage between the two systems is said to improve safety and efficiency. Enhanced consolidated alarm management functions incorporated in version R4.02 include the ability of alarm engineering to define operations such as monitoring and notification in the same engineering environment used to configure operations such as control and monitoring.

This linkage of the engineering for the alarm, control and monitoring functions is designed to improve efficiency. Version R4.02 of Centum VP incorporates a function that can automatically check data after configuration changes are made to Foundation fieldbus-compatible sensors and final control elements such as valves. Main target markets and applications include the monitoring and automatic control of plants and manufacturing equipment in industries such as oil and natural gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, iron and steel, pulp and paper, electric power and water treatment.

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