Brochure about Yokogawa's presence in the Petrochemical industry. Yokogawa's VigilantPlant solutions deliver visibility, predictability and agility for your petrochemical business.
A Guide to Instrumentation for Ethanol Fuel ProductionMead O'Brien, Inc.
Ethanol, the common name for ethyl alcohol, is fuel grade alcohol that is produced through the fermentation of simple carbohydrates by yeasts. Fueled by growing environmental, economic, and national security concerns, U.S. ethanol production capacity has nearly doubled in the past six years, and the Renewable Fuel Association (RFA) projects another doubling of the industry by 2012. Ethanol can be made from renewable feedstock’s such
as grain sorghum, wheat, barley, potatoes, and sugar cane. In the United States, the majority of the ethanol is produced from corn.
A Guide to Instrumentation for Ethanol Fuel ProductionMead O'Brien, Inc.
Ethanol, the common name for ethyl alcohol, is fuel grade alcohol that is produced through the fermentation of simple carbohydrates by yeasts. Fueled by growing environmental, economic, and national security concerns, U.S. ethanol production capacity has nearly doubled in the past six years, and the Renewable Fuel Association (RFA) projects another doubling of the industry by 2012. Ethanol can be made from renewable feedstock’s such
as grain sorghum, wheat, barley, potatoes, and sugar cane. In the United States, the majority of the ethanol is produced from corn.
Complying with New Functional Safety StandardsDesign World
Better understand functional safety and how it applies to the equipment you build and use. As EN ISO 13849-1 (EN 954) and IEC 62061 become more prevalent in North American design and industry segments request Safety Integrity Level (SIL), Control Category and Protection Level (PL) ratings, our approach to machine safety stands to change.
This webinar provides practical advice for adopting these new standards by providing an overview of:
- Market trends
- Applicable standards
- Considerations for applying relevant standards
- Determining your level of machine safety design
Hosted by Design World, this educational webcast helps original equipment manufacturers and end users better understand functional safety and how it applies to the equipment you build.
YSI aquaculture monitoring & control w24 02 0712Xylem Inc.
The YSI aquaculture monitoring and control instrumentation measures water quality continuously to allow for complete control of water quality in aquaculture facilities or aquariums.
Omicron Testing Solutions for Protection and Measurement Systems - Datasheet ...Angus Sankaran
Omicron 100TX to 100FX-SC Converter
Connects the CMC 356, CMC 353 or CMC 256plus to a network via Fiber Optics
Transfers data from a 10/100Base-TX copper to a fiber interface
Receive both data and power from PoE networks and pass on the data to a fiber optics
Since 2007 there has been a choice of harmonised standards
to use for Functional Safety in the machinery sector.
The choices are:
ISO standard EN ISO 13849
IEC standard EN 62061
source TUV-SUD
www.regeltechnieken.org
www.ie-net.be/reg
In this ebook, we will look at consensus recommendations for preventive maintenance including industry standards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and regulatory requirements specific to utilities as stipulated by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).
As these standards and regulations outline minimum maintenance activities, we will also share how many critical facilities can and should go beyond these minimums for additional system protection and added peace of mind.
Complying with New Functional Safety StandardsDesign World
Better understand functional safety and how it applies to the equipment you build and use. As EN ISO 13849-1 (EN 954) and IEC 62061 become more prevalent in North American design and industry segments request Safety Integrity Level (SIL), Control Category and Protection Level (PL) ratings, our approach to machine safety stands to change.
This webinar provides practical advice for adopting these new standards by providing an overview of:
- Market trends
- Applicable standards
- Considerations for applying relevant standards
- Determining your level of machine safety design
Hosted by Design World, this educational webcast helps original equipment manufacturers and end users better understand functional safety and how it applies to the equipment you build.
YSI aquaculture monitoring & control w24 02 0712Xylem Inc.
The YSI aquaculture monitoring and control instrumentation measures water quality continuously to allow for complete control of water quality in aquaculture facilities or aquariums.
Omicron Testing Solutions for Protection and Measurement Systems - Datasheet ...Angus Sankaran
Omicron 100TX to 100FX-SC Converter
Connects the CMC 356, CMC 353 or CMC 256plus to a network via Fiber Optics
Transfers data from a 10/100Base-TX copper to a fiber interface
Receive both data and power from PoE networks and pass on the data to a fiber optics
Since 2007 there has been a choice of harmonised standards
to use for Functional Safety in the machinery sector.
The choices are:
ISO standard EN ISO 13849
IEC standard EN 62061
source TUV-SUD
www.regeltechnieken.org
www.ie-net.be/reg
In this ebook, we will look at consensus recommendations for preventive maintenance including industry standards from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and regulatory requirements specific to utilities as stipulated by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).
As these standards and regulations outline minimum maintenance activities, we will also share how many critical facilities can and should go beyond these minimums for additional system protection and added peace of mind.
Yokogawa’s Vigilant Plant solutions deliver visibility, predictability and agility for your chemical business.
Being a producer in the chemical industry has
become more and more challenging over the years.
Customer needs for products, pricing, and delivery
are more demanding and material requirements
are complex and ever-changing. Additionally,
health, safety, security, and environment (HSSE)
compliance has always been a primary requirement
for doing business.
Over the years, Yokogawa has worked with many
chemical companies to provide technology
solutions that meet these challenges. We stand
ready to partner with you to take on whatever
challenges you face and help you achieve your aims
safely and profitably.
Secured Remote Solutions for Critical Plant AssetsYokogawa
Process industries face continuous competition in enhancing productivity and efficiency, improving plant asset availability, avoiding unplanned outages, and managing plant safety. These industry users also face a wide range of operational challenges in cybersecurity as a pervasive threat to safety and availability. Most companies take a relatively simplistic plant-by-plant approach in implementing operating system security patches and anti-virus pattern file updates. As a result, security levels tend to vary at each plant.
VigilantPlant is Yokogawa's automation concept for safe, reliable and profitable plant operations
Our concept is for a plant to be a place where people can be watchful and attentive, while the business responds quickly and efficiently to change. Non-stop production is assured as the plant’s personnel confidently expand their capabilities.
Continuous improvement in process equipment efficiency is an
important business driver. Process analytic measurement solutions
that enhance product quality and yield, while simultaneously
reducing operating costs, are going to be of increasing
value.
The pharma industry offers little margin for error. Hence Automation is required right from the Formulation stage to the final preparation of medicine in the form of pills, tablets, capsules, vials etc. Medication has a significant impact on people's health - and indeed, life - so quality control is of paramount importance.
Senstation pH/ORP Measurement Solution - A scalable, integrated system that i...Yokogawa
SENSTATION from Yokogawa is a new concept that combines the company’s SENCOM smart sensors with the SMART data logger and SMARTDAC+ modular data-acquisition system to provide a scalable integrated pH measurement solution
Yokogawa’s new TDLS8000 houses all of the industry’s leading features in one robust device.
The platform design is for in situ measurements which negate the need for sample extraction and conditioning.
The non-contacting sensor allows for a variety of process types including corrosive, abrasive and condensing.
The first generation platform has been proven in many others for the measurements of O2, CO, CH4, NH3, H2O and many more NIR absorbing gases.
This second generation platform has improved reliability and ease of installation and maintenance while still meeting or exceeding designed application demands.
Hydrogen is not corrosive, but it can cause problems for pressure transmitters through Hydrogen Permeation. Learn how Yokogawa can improve the permeation resistance of your pressure transmitter with this application guide.
CENTUM VP is Yokogawa’s latest integrated production control system, also known as a distributed control system (DCS). Nearly 40 years of knowledge and experience with DCSs has gone into its development.
Whitepaper: The Next Evolution of Yokogawa CENTUMYokogawa
In 2014 Yokogawa is adding significant new capabilities to CENTUM VP. Now the New CENTUM VP becomes the platform for delivering four new innovations; Hyper-intuitive
Operation, Total Automation Management, Intelligent Plant Conductor, and Sustainable Plant Operation. Each innovation addresses pain points felt by today’s plant owner-operators as they strive for greater operational
integrity. Yokogawa has emphasized its objective to especially leverage two enabling technologies in this development program; field digital technology and dynamic process simulation.
Yokogawa has delivered high quality products to the Analytical Industrial automation for more than 65 years. Now Yokogawa combines its proven expertise in pH and ORP technology with innovative digital communication to produce the SENCOM range of smart sensing solutions.
The SENCOM platform initially consists of:
> pH and ORP sensors enabling improved maintenance management and diagnostics, including laboratory calibration possibilities before returning it to the field.
> Dedicated SENCOM SPS24 management software utilizes historical measurements, calibrations and diagnostic data from the sensor to predict maintenance, calibration frequency and estimate the sensors lifetime.
> The SENCOM module will give it powerful digital signal processing capabilities required to work together with the new SENCOM sensors.
The SMARTDAC+ series is a simple and flexible data acquisition control system designed for ease of use in a variety of ways to provide an ideal operating experience for the user.
Energy management solutions. A Framework for your Energy Management SystemYokogawa
ISO50001 International Standard, a Framework for your Energy Management System. Energy security, energy cost and climate change are global concerns. As a first step to cope with these challenges, top management need to measure energy metrics effectively and look for formal processes to execute energy management policies.
Drive your Energy Management Effectively and Sustainably. With EP-Analytics you can transfer data into useful information for operator, engineer and management for decision making and assist to find the cause of energy wastes by drilldown function. EP-Analytics uses Production Supervisor of Yokogawa standard dashboard.
Whitepaper | Network Security - How to defend your Plant against the threats ...Yokogawa
Yokogawa offers a range of cyber-security solutions for control systems, including network security assessment, network and firewall design, PC/server and network device hardening, antivirus and patch management, backup and recovery systems, and network management systems. By seamlessly integrating these solutions with its proven control system solutions, Yokogawa is also aiming to meet its customers' needs for control system security management. Read more about Yokogawa’s approach to cyber security in this whitepaper.
Interview with the President | Annual Rapport 2014 YokogawaYokogawa
Orders, net sales, and operating income were all up compared with the previous year due mainly to efforts aimed at expanding the industrial automation and control business, which remains strong outside Japan thanks to energy-related investments growth and continued weakness in the value of the yen.
Company profile: Yokogawa Marex (industrial software)Yokogawa
Tom Stroud, editor Island Business Magazine, goes behind the scenes at “the masters of reinvention” - a software company - MAREX - with record results, owned by Yokogawa and operating independently in Cowes, United Kingdom. Articles offers a nice company profile of Yokogawa Marex. (source: Island Business - July 2014)
Naast de bekende papierrecorders blijft Yokogawa innoveren op het gebied van papierloze recorders. Met trots introduceren wij u hierbij een aantrekkelijke actie voor de GX & GP SMARTDAC + lijn.
U ontvangt 25% korting bij inlevering van uw oude recorder!
Voor meer informatie: http://www.yokogawa.com/nl/smartdac/actie.htm
As plants often have sensors from multiple vendors that rely on more than one communications standard, versatile software tools are required for device configuration, adjustment, and management. FieldMate, a PC-based software package that supports all major industry-standard communications protocols (such as HART, FOUNDATION™ fieldbus, PROFIBUS® and BRAIN), is ideal for such requirements.
Centum VP - Evolution of Yokogawa System Solutions (2014)Yokogawa
Yokogawa’s system platforms combined with proven execution experience provide the highest quality and innovative solutions for secure and optimized process automation and management. Yokogawa’s global customer centric focus together with strong local support reduces users’ business risks and provides the lowest total cost of ownership. With a long history of progressive compatibility, Yokogawa is your dependable automation partner.
Already the 7th European Users Conference will take place, this year in Berlin, Germany, from 2-4 July. In this 3 day event attendees can meet their peers, learn from expert speakers, network with Yokogawa management and see live demonstrations.
Petro IndustryNews | 'Full redundant field wireless automation solutions base...Yokogawa
This article discusses the key features and user benefits of Yokogawa’s ISA100.11a based dual redundant split architecture Field Wireless Access Point and Field Wireless Management Station concept, integrating sensors and actuators into a plant wide wireless infrastructure.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf
Yokogawa in the Petrochemical Industry | VigilantPlant
1. Yokogawa in the
Petrochemical Industry
Yokogawa’s VigilantPlant solutions deliver visibility,
predictability and agility for your petrochemical business.
Bulletin 53C01A01-01E
2. The clear path to operational excellence
Envision a plant where people are watchful and attentive while your business
responds to change quickly and efficiently. Now picture an operation that delivers
non-stop production while confidently expanding your capabilities into the future.
Imagine no further. This is the vision and promise behind VigilantPlant, the clear
path to operational excellence.
Does your petrochemical plant look silent and boring?
To a casual observer, a petrochemical plant, well-managed by Yokogawa
VigilantPlant solutions, looks "silent and boring" - a phrase used by Peter Drucker.
Plant profitability is maximized. Automation systems help plant personnel manage
operational knowledge, increase productivity and comply with health, safety, and
environmental regulations. Information in context is clearly delivered to the right
people at the right time, giving responsible personnel the foresight to deal with events
calmly and efficiently. VigilantPlant solutions help all petrochemical companies to
achieve a "silent and boring" plant.
SEE CLEARLY
Minimize reactive measures,
unexpected downtime, quality variations
ACT WITH AGILITY
Free of bottlenecks
Less blind spots
Avoid guesswork, instability,
sub-optimization
Fewer surprises
KNOW IN ADVANCE
Reduce delays, lost opportunities,
knowledge silos
1
2
3. Long-Term
Business
Success
How can Yokogawa help you achieve
long-term business success?
Business
Agility &
Flexibility
Plant
Availability
Reliability
and Maintainability
1
2
Plant-wide Automation
“Reliability and maintainability” of automation
systems maximizes plant availability
Profitability
Safety
Production Efficiency
Improvement
3
4
One of the most fundamental and often overlooked factors for
maximizing revenue is the reliability and maintainability of automation systems. Utmost system availability is a key prerequisite
for petrochemical plants.
Yokogawa is an automation supplier with extensive hands-on
understanding of the usage of information for complex and varied
petrochemical production processes. Yokogawa is a premier supplier of integrated plant-wide automation solutions that delivers
agility and flexibility to the petrochemical production workflow.
“Plant-wide automation” enhances agility and
flexibility of petrochemical production workflow
“Production efficiency improvement”
increases profitability and enhances
health, safety and environment
“Lifetime partnership” maximizes total
value of ownership
3
Life
Lifetime Partnership
Customers’ needs are extremely diversified. To come out ahead in
today's highly competitive marketplace, petrochemical companies
are striving for quality and productivity improvements. At the same
time, they share a greater commitment to addressing HSE issues.
Yokogawa provides tailor-made solutions to these needs based on
its long and wide-ranging experience in this field.
Long-term business success needs a long-term strategy. A longterm partnership with Yokogawa will help provide the highest total
value of ownership for automation solutions.
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4. 1
“Reliability and maintainability” of automation
systems maximizes plant availability
All automation suppliers take system reliability - a key
factor for petrochemical plant availability- seriously.
However, none matches Yokogawa in its extreme
commitment. At the heart of all of the company’s system
is the unique “Pair and Spare” controller architecture,
consisting of a redundant set of CPU modules that, in
turn, each contains two micro processors. The two micro
processors constantly compare each other’s outputs,
initiating a bump-less switchover if any mismatch is
detected.The actual availability track record of Yokogawa
CENTUM CS 3000 DCS reaches 99.99999% (seven 9s).
is the reliability and maintainability of automation systems.
Utmost system availability is a key prerequisite for petrochemical plants.
Improving maintainability
by diagnostic technologies
Reliability is in our DNA
Reliability of the production
control system
One of the most fundamental and often overlooked factors for maximizing revenue
The largest FOUNDATION fieldbus™
installation in the world
Nippon Petrochemicals
Co., Ltd.
Improved plant maintenance
“We employed the ProSafe-RS Safety
Instrumented System because it is
compliant with the IEC 61508/JIS C 0508
functional safety standards.
Safety Instrumented System (ProSafe-RS)
System Configuration
CENTUM CS
Modbus communication (redundant)
FCS
ICS
By taking advantage of FOUNDATION fieldbusTM, or HART
connections with the field devices, Yokogawa’s asset
management system, PRM (Plant Resource Manager)
system greatly improves device maintainability that reduces
maintenance costs. Now maintenance staff can gain
access to field device information anywhere anytime. The
system enables staff to set and modify field device
parameters, and to check detailed device alarm information. Standard audit trail management allows the tracking of
changes to device information.
V net
Device diagnosis
Reliability of the safety
instrumented system (SIS)
Yokogawa’s safety instrumented system, ProSafe-RS, is
the world’s first, truly integrated safety instrumented
system and more than just a shutdown system. Its
integrated architecture with the production control
system enables unified monitoring and an operation
environment for the operator. TÜV Rheinland (TÜV), a
German certification organization, has certified
ProSafe-RS to be compliant to both IEC 61508 and IEC
61511 international standards. Additionally, TÜV has
approved its use in Safety Integrity Level3 (SIL3) *1
applications, such as Emergency Shutdown (ESD), Fire
and Gas (F&G) and Burner Management (BMS). This
latest certification of IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 compliance attests to the high level of Yokogawa’s technology
and the quality of its safety instrumented system.
(*1) To be certified for SIL 3, safety systems must be
tested by a third party for a risk reduction factor that
measures more than 1,000.
5
V net
(redundant)
SENG
Maintenance PC
Our ProSafe-RS system has improved
reliability by incorporating redundant
CPU and I/O modules to avoid unnecessary trips triggered by system abnormalities, not by true safety concerns.
We feel that safety instrumented
systems are becoming essential in
emergency shutdown systems in Japan
With the introduction of FOUNDATION fieldbusTM technology
and compatibility with HART, the results of field device
self-diagnoses can be accurately reflected in DCS control
operations. Examples of self-diagnostics include:
Valve positioner
- Signature diagnosis
- Valve stick-slip diagnosis
Differential pressure / pressure transmitter
- Clogging diagnosis
- Orifice wearing diagnosis
- Diaphragm corrosion diagnosis
Temperature transmitter
- Temperature element diagnosis
Vortex flowmeter
- Clogging diagnosis
- Vibration diagnosis
and in other countries, and that we must
add corporate value by further strengthening plant safety.”
CNOOC and Shell
Petrochemicals Company
Limited (CSPC)
For even greater maintenance efficiency based on
predictive maintenance, the system also provides
advanced diagnostic functions. With these functions, staff
can define and perform diagnostics using information from
multiple devices or higher level process-dependent
diagnostics. Advanced diagnosis examples include:
PRM, a real-time device management and
advanced diagnostics software package,
connects to the 16,000
FOUNDATION ieldbus devices and enables
a problem to be diagnosed and an alert
issued before the instrument actually fails
and disrupts a process. The system
continuously monitors the health of the
instrumentation, resulting in increased
reliability and fewer suspect measurements. With this preventive maintenance
capability, plant operators can have
greater confidence that their facility will
perform as expected.
There are 200,000 software I/O tags and
around 3,000 segments, and these are
controlled by nine CENTUM CS 3000
distributed control systems and 120 field
control stations (FCS).
Differential pressure / pressure transmitter
- Impulse line blocking diagnosis
- Steam tracing diagnosis
Valve positioner
- Instrument air-line clogging diagnosis
Temperature transmitter
- Environmental temperature monitoring
Yokogawa’s innovative asset management system
provides all the functionality necessary for efficient
maintenance of your field devices.
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5. 2
“Plant-wide automation” enhances agility and
flexibility of petrochemical production workflow
Yokogawa is an automation supplier with extensive hands-on understanding of the
usage of information for complex and varied petrochemical production processes.
Yokogawa is a premier supplier of integrated plant-wide automation solutions
that delivers agility and flexibility to the petrochemical production workflow.
Petrochemical Complex
Ethylene
Naphtha
LPG
Gas Oil
Ethylene
Plant
Refinery
LDPE
LLDPE
HDPE
EO
EG
PET
SM
PS
VCM
PVC
Propylene
Phenol
PP
AN
Natural Gas
B-B Fraction
BD
Cracked Oil
Field Sensing and Actuation
“Install and forget” digital field instruments deliver stable and accurate process measurement
with low installed cost, near zero maintenance and intelligence of self-diagnostics. As a true
leader in fieldbus, Yokogawa brought the world’s first FOUNDATION fieldbusTM enabled device to
market and has since developed a complete range of FOUNDATION fieldbusTM instrumentation.
Analytical System
Highly responsive analytical systems contribute to accurate measurement of
product/intermediate property and boiler/furnace combustion, helping petrochemical
companies meet tighter quality control and environmental regulations.
Harsh-environment CCTV
Compact, high performance and explosion-proof monitoring cameras exemplify Yokogawa’s
commitment to constructing reliable field instruments that are able to withstand even the
most severe environments. They are used in a petrochemical plant for monitoring
operations day and night.
Production Control System
SR
BTX
Production Management Solutions
Production Management Solutions from Yokogawa help operations achieve more plant
profits and provide a bridge between real-time process systems and corporate
systems.OPC communication, Process Historian, Batch Historian, Alarm and Event
Analysis, Knowledge Based Automation, Electronic Log Book, Yield Accounting, Tank and
Inventory Management, and EPR System Communication solutions are available.
Advanced Process Control & Optimization Systems
Advanced Process Control and online optimization achieve more profitable operations in
petrochemical plant. The solutions are available for ethylene, polyethylene, polypropylene and
aromatic plants, etc.
Asset Management System
Plant Resource Manager (PRM) makes predictive maintenance easy. Early detection of
system and device failure can help prevent catastrophic failure.
Alarm Management System
Ultra-reliable broadband control systems increase profitability by maximizing production.
Safety Instrumented System
Control Room Consolidation
Yokogawa offers a full-lineup of safety instrumented systems from solid-state and
hard-wired types to fully integrated DCS-SIS integrated types, covering all safety integrity
levels (SIL 1 to 4) for the petrochemical industry.
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The Consolidated Alarm Management System (CAMS) is practical and has an immediate
effect. Rather than solely relying on rigorous top-down alarm design and redesign, Yokogawa
enables a practical, overarching real-time alarm management system that delivers the right
information to the right people at the right time.
Yokogawa helps design the central control room and delivers solutions for the control room
consolidation, entire and effective plant operations, workforce rationalization and optimum
organization.
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6. 3
“Production efficiency improvement”
increases profitability and enhances health,
safety and environment
Customers’ needs are extremely diversified. To come out ahead in today's highly competitive
marketplace, petrochemical companies are striving for quality and productivity improvements. At the
same time, they share a greater commitment to addressing HSE issues. Yokogawa provides
tailor-made solutions to these needs based on its long and wide-ranging experience in this field.
LPG
The Aromatics Thailand
Public Co. Ltd. (ATC)
“ We are impressed by Yokogawa APC
Solutions, and we are satisfied with
Yokogawa service. Currently, our
operators enjoy working with APC.
Our APC uptime can meet with ATC’ s
KPI which is at least 95%.
We look forward to have more
technology and service from Yokogawa.”
The Clear Path to Production Excellence
Production
Management
MES integration
Workflow
standardization
Operating philosophy
Real-time
production
management
Real-time
optimization
Advanced
automation
Loop tuning
Production
Control
CNOOC and Shell
Petrochemicals Company
Limited (CSPC)
Production
Excellence
Production
navigation
KPI monitoring
Ms Jeeranee, Technical Department
Manager, ATC
Alarm rationalization
Production
Monitoring
Resource
optimization
Control room
design
Operator training
Production
Environment
Production
Management
- Raise throughput 3%
- Improve product quality
- One year project delivery schedule
Results with Yokogawa
APC and CENTUM
- Raised throughput 3% when post
audit test
- Generated US$1M annual benefit
- Achieved higher process stability
- Achieved product quality specifications
and minimized quality giveaway
- Knowledge and skills of plant staff
upgrade
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Production
Monitoring
Production
Environment
MES integration
Customer Challenges
Production
Control
Loop tuning
Alarm rationalization
PID control plays a fundamental role in
process control. Proper tuning is
required for stable process control and
is a prerequisite for advanced-level
control.
An approach to alarm management
based on the well-known Engineering
Equipment & Materials Users’
Association (EEMUA) No.191 guideline
is recommended. Alarm root cause
analysis is also an effective approach
to successful alarm rationalization.
Control room design
A wide variety of key performance
indicators (KPI) should be monitored by
each person. KPI monitoring requires
comparison with targets and drilling
down for detailed information.
The VigilantPlant concept of seeing
clearly, knowing in advance, and acting
with agility will play an important role in
achieving a flawless plant startup.
Operator training systems allow
operators to gain experience in
handling various situations such as
equipment malfunctions and in
performing start-ups and other routine
operations. It helps operators upgrade
their skills.
KPI monitoring
To control the field instrumentation,
there are three control centers and
fifteen field auxiliary rooms, and they are
connected by fiber optic cables to form
a plant control information
network (PI-LAN).
Operator training
A variety of individual systems that
perform scheduling and other functions
are included in the manufacturing
execution systems (MES) domain. The
connectivity among systems is a
fundamental key enabler for agile
production management.
At CSPC’s request, Yokogawa
developed “DCS Anywhere” technology
that will give access to the control room
from any location within the site.
Control room design needs to take into
consideration all aspects of the work
environment including ergonomics,
safety, ease of communication,
functionality, automation of systems,
and business policy.
Workflow standardization
Production workflows should be
defined and monitored for reliable
production management. The
standardization of workflows is
especially effective at companies with
multiple production sites.
Real-time production
management
Overall real-time production
management is required to speed up
the production Plan-Do-Check-Action
(PDCA) cycle.
Advanced automation
Advanced process control and
knowledge-based navigation systems
are key contributors to a
well-automated operation.
Real-time optimization
Plant-wide optimization can be
achieved with a real-time optimizer
using rigorous model calculations.
Production navigation
Production tasks need to be managed
correctly by the system. Task progress
monitoring is a valuable bridge
between planning and manufacturing
that facilitates cooperation in
production management.
Resource optimization
A central control room is desirable for
an effective production environment. All
production-related units should be
stationed nearby to ensure good
communication. In addition to
centralizing the control room, the
optimization of human resources and
other activities can be considered to
achieve production excellence.
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7. 3
“Production efficiency improvement”
increases profitability and enhances health,
safety and environment
Health, Safety and Environment Measures
The economic environment is changing rapidly and
competition now takes place on a global scale. In addition to
adapting to these changes in the economic environment,
the petrochemical industry must also respond to society’s
increased emphasis on health, safety and environment
(HSE) issues. For the petrochemical industry to achieve
growth under these conditions, it is crucial to develop
competitive, value-added products, and to install flexible
production systems that can quickly adjust to market
changes. This means that plant operations are now at a key
turning point. They must reduce manpower and pursue
other initiatives to operate more efficiently while at the same
time maintaining safety and stability and implementing
measures to protect the enviroment.
A number of Yokogawa solutions are introduced below that
can help ensure plant efficiency and enhance HSE. The
Yokogawa ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System
(page 5) is also highly effective in improving plant safety.
Stack
BEFORE
A Recurring Problem ...
Workloads often increase faster than process
reengineering efforts, causing operators to be inundated
with recurrent alarms.
Alarm flooding going unattended:
Continuous emission monitoring
Infrared gas analyzer
Our continuous emission monitoring system for utility
boilers and heating furnaces utilizes an infrared gas
analyzer to monitor CO, CO2, NOx, SO2, CH4,
and O2 concentrations in flue gas, helping bring
petrochemical companies into compliance with
environmental regulations.
Avoiding unnecessary plant shutdowns with effective alarm management
Sampling probe
with heated filter
- Results in oversights, delays, and incorrect operations
- Leads to a higher risk of overlooking critical information
that can lead to a hazardous situation
Filter with steam
From boiler
AFTER
Drain separator
Operator training
Less experienced operators tend to run into difficulties
when they encounter new situations and unexpected
problems, and this presents a serious challenge in
maintaining HSE. Training operators with a simulator is
one effective way to address this concern. Plant operators can be quickly brought up to speed in performing
both routine and non-routine operations as well as
troubleshooting.
.... and a Vigilant Remedy
Avoid alarm flooding and empower your operators for safe
and effective operations by using a practical, overarching,
and real-time alarm management system.
Consolidated Alarm Management System (CAMS) :
Alarm rationalization
- Suppresses nuisance alarms
- Enables the right information to be delivered to the right
people at the right time
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Yokogawa’s OmegaLand, integrated environment for
dynamic simulator provides operators realistic training in
a virtual environment. Training is available for
procedures such as plant startup and load change,
abnormal conditions such as an instrument or
equipment failure, and emergencies such as earthquakes, fires, and runaway reactions.
Well-managed and real-time alarm management
- Sorting by priority in case of alarm flooding
- Alarm with operation instruction
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8. 4
“Lifetime partnership” maximizes
total value of ownership
Long-term business success needs a long-term strategy.
A long-term partnership with Yokogawa will help provide the highest total
value of ownership for automation solutions.
Three decades
of compatibility
Shell Oil Co., Norco,
Louisiana
Fieldbus reinstrumentation
project yields significant
benefits
Long-life product stability
Consistency and long-term support are the hallmark of
Yokogawa production control systems.
From the very first CENTUM system introduced in 1975
to the latest CS 3000 R3 system, Yokogawa policy
ensures effective migration and the smooth evolution of
your plant.
Here’s how Shell upgraded
from a pneumatic
instrumented system to a fully
digital control system
Successes to date
Our latest DPharp EJX series pressure transmitter
exemplifies Yokogawa commitment to delivering stateof-the-art yet field-proven solutions. Inheriting the DPharp
full-digital silicon resonant sensor technology, the
DPharp EJX sets a new standard for DP measurement. In
addition to its unique capability to measure both differential pressure and static pressure, it is the world’s leading
transmitter in accuracy, stability, and response time.
The control strategies for the loops
remained unchanged except for
reinstrumentation. Improvements,
therefore, resulted primarily from
process stabilization and more efficient
utilization of the overall control system.
Some milestones include:
DPharp EJX’s stability guarantee incorporates overpressure effects as well as temperature and static
pressure, making it the world’s most reliable transmitter
in field applications. As a clear testimony to its fundamental stability and fail-safe design, TÜV has certified
the DPharp EJX in its standard configuration (no options
required) as a SIL2 safety transmitter.
The Norco facility has long been one of
Shell’s most profitable chemical plants.
But to remain profitable and competitive,
Shell realized several years ago that it
would have to update its instrumentation
and controls. Also important were
- Improved operations through control of
key variables to reduce process
variability in several major units
- Early detection of potential device
problems
initiatives to reduce maintenance costs
and, above all, meet the “bottom-line”
- Zero unscheduled shutdowns or
Error (%@max span)
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goal of reduced steam-per-unit output for
the entire plant. Shell entered into a
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Long term stability: ±0.1% of upper range limit (URL)
for 10 years with DPharp EJX transmitters
mented plant into a fully digital plant
using FOUNDATION fieldbus™ technolo-
Preventive maintenance
gies. That investment is paying off with
significant results. The essence of Shell’s
CENTUM CS 3000
CENTUM CS
decision was to replace its legacy
EWS
HIS
Vnet
integrated production control system.
benefits through predictive
maintenance provided by FOUNDATION
fieldbus and asset management
technology
Time Based Maintenance (TBM)
- Maintenance performed at predetermined points based
on an assumed failure rate
PICS
ICS
pneumatic control system with an
- Significant operation and maintenance
10 MBPS
Dual Redundant
Token Pass
FFCS
CENTUM-XL
CENTUM V
ENGS
COPS2
COPSV
HF-Bus
EOPS
1MBPS
Dual Redundant
Token Pass
CENTUM
F-Bus
COPS
250 KBPS
Dual Redundant
Token Pass
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CFCS2 CFCD2
CFFS
1983~
CFCS CFCD
1975~
CFCS
EFCD
1988~
FCS
BCV
1993~
KFCS
1998~
Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)
- Individual equipment is monitored periodically.
- Reliability is judged by use of diagnostics.
Yokogawa has developed advanced CBM diagnostics
that include stress quantitative technology, deterioration
failure detection analysis, and strength performance
measurement. In the era of digital field networks, this
digital information enables accurate equipment monitoring and predictive diagnostics.
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