Yokogawa Electric Corporation has developed Release 3.06 of the CENTUM CS 3000 R3 Integrated Production Control System. Featuring improved integration with safety systems and other production control systems, this upgrade was released to the market on 18 February. The CS 3000 production control system is widely used by plants both large and small in process-oriented industries such as petroleum, petrochemicals, natural gas, chemicals, pulp and paper, food processing, and water treatment.
Development background
The CS 3000 is a core building block of Yokogawa's VigilantPlant solutions that promise to bring operational excellence to visionary plants, creating an environment where plant personnel can 'See clearly, know in advance, and act with agility'. Release 3.06 enables operational excellence by plant-wide monitoring and seamless integration with Yokogawa's new safety system.
Core concepts in the development of the CS 3000 have been the continual adoption of new functions with assured continuity and the simultaneous pursuit of openness and reliability. The CS 3000 is the product of improvements that are finely calibrated to customer needs and the steady development and introduction of new cutting-edge technologies.
This CS 3000 upgrade adheres to this fundamental approach. Its system integration functions have been upgraded in response to users' need for improved integration with safety systems and other control systems. By strengthening its solutions for customers with continuous enhancements to CS 3000, Yokogawa aims to win the number one position in the global industrial automation business by the year 2010.
Product features
1. Integration with the ProSafe-RS safety system
Yokogawa has developed a platform that integrates the CS 3000 with its latest safety system, the ProSafe-RS, which was released on 2 February. This platform enables the integrated display of CS 3000 and ProSafe-RS process data and event messages on the CS 3000's operations and monitoring station, thereby improving operating and monitoring efficiency. System configuration costs have been reduced and maintenance efficiency improved by unifying the control network.
2. Development of System Integration OPC Station (SIOS)
Yokogawa has developed a SIOS gateway function for the CS 3000 that enables the monitoring of process data and event messages from other control systems. Because it uses the industry-standard OPC interface, it is possible to connect with other manufacturer's production control systems without adding significantly to the engineering work required for tasks such as the configuration of data integration. For example, the operator of a CS 3000 controlling a plant's upstream operations can now use this system to monitor downstream operations that are controlled by another control system.
3. Integration with the CENTUM CS 1000
It is now possible to use a CENTUM CS 1000, which is intended for small- and medium-sized plants, as a CS 3000 without making any modification or addition of hardware. When expanding the production capacity of a plant to a level where control is no longer possible with the CS 1000, it is possible to control the upscaled plant by expanding the functions of the existing CS 1000 to the CS 3000 level. In addition for plants that have both CS 3000 and CS 1000 production control systems, it is possible to carry out engineering works and to operate and monitor the entire plant from the CS 3000.
Yokogawa's approach toward this field
Yokogawa introduced the world's first distributed control system (DCS) to the market in 1975. With their ability to achieve dramatic improvements in productivity, DCSs were rapidly deployed throughout the late '70s and '80s, and to date Yokogawa has supplied more than 16 000 such systems worldwide. The time has come to begin replacing the DCSs that were introduced in the early period and it is expected that the need to replace these systems will grow for several years to come. Through continuous effort to develop and ensure a stable supply of new products that feature superior cutting-edge technologies, Yokogawa is developing the CENTUM series into a leading brand worldwide.
About Yokogawa
Yokogawa's global network of 18 manufacturing facilities, 82 affiliate companies, and over 650 sales and engineering offices spans 28 countries. Since its founding in 1915, the US$4 billion company has been engaged in cutting-edge research and innovation, securing more than 7000 patents and registrations, including the world's first digital sensors for flow and pressure measurement. Industrial automation and control, test and measurement, information systems and industry support are the core businesses of Yokogawa.
About Yokogawa South Africa
Yokogawa South Africa was originally founded in 1978 as Delta Controls, the exclusive distributor of Yokogawa Process Control and Instrumentation (PCI) products in South Africa. In 1997 Delta Controls became a wholly owned subsidiary of Yokogawa Europe B.V.
The head office is in Johannesburg, and there are branches in Vanderbijlpark, Durban and Cape Town. The main Yokogawa product groupings are: recorders, controllers, transmitters, flowmeters, analytical (liquid and gas) as well as distributed control systems. The company is also the exclusive SA distributor for American Meter and Dresser gas equipment, Barksdale pressure and level devices and Kinetrol actuators.
For more information contact Johan Pretorius, Yokogawa, SA, 011 681 2500, [email protected], www.yokogawa.com/eu
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