Yokogawa announces development of new CENTUM VP control system version.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced the development of Release 5 of the CENTUM VP integrated production control system, the company’s flagship product and a cornerstone of the VigilantPlant concept that aims to help customers realise the ideal plant. With Release 5 as a key platform, Yokogawa says it will continue to provide automation and control solutions designed to help manufacturing organisations achieve operational excellence.
Development background
Field digital technology has been introduced in many industries and is helping to increase maintenance efficiency in manufacturing plants. Yokogawa started developing field digital technology in earnest when it first released Foundation fieldbus compliant products in 1998. Since then, company has been a leader in defining international standards for Foundation fieldbus that reduce the need for wiring, allow the introduction of intelligent field devices and improve the management and diagnostics essential for plant optimisation.
Customer benefits
Control systems today must be capable of handling a massive amount of field data at high speeds. This prompted Yokogawa to develop a new field control station (FCS) that can meet such needs adequately in the field digital era.
CENTUM VP Release 5 demonstrates its powerful capabilities by improving the use of plant information and reducing lifecycle costs with simplified engineering. It also enables unified plant operations through open integration with other systems.
Features
* New FCS with industry leading performance. The new FCS features four times the processing performance, twice the application storage capacity and five times the control network throughput of the old platform.
* Unified gateway station (UGS) for better system integration. Release 5 will includes a unified gateway station (UGS) that improves integration with other systems, allowing CENTUM VP to control and monitor all the systems at a plant, including PLC systems. Despite the differences in such systems operation windows have the same look and feel, meaning operators only need to learn the CENTUM VP HMI to get overall easier system operation. In oil and gas fields and other applications where facilities may be scattered over a very wide area, the UGS can establish a link with the small-scale systems at each site as well as with Yokogawa’s Stardom network-based control system. As such, the UGS makes possible the integrated control and monitoring of an entire system comprised of both central large-scale and smaller remote facilities via one HMI.
* Enhanced alarm management. Yokogawa’s Consolidated Alarm Management Software for Human Interface Station (CAMS for HIS) includes new functions that have been optimised for the management of change process specified in the ISA18.2 standard’s alarm management lifecycle model.
* Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support.
Support for Microsoft’s latest 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems is included so that customers can reduce the cost of maintaining the PCs connected to plant networks.
Applications include process control and monitoring in industries such as oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, electric power, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, iron and steel and water treatment.
For more information contact Wimpie van Tonder, Yokogawa SA, +27 (0)11 831 6300, [email protected], www.yokogawa.com/za
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