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Gauges, Indicators and Instruments
News Release from: Yokogawa UK
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 31 January 2001
Control system upgrades finished with
100% success
Yokogawa UK has ended the year 2000 with a 100% successful upgrade of customers' systems, many of which control plant safety and other critical applications.
Yokogawa UK Ltd., the leading independent supplier of distributed control systems and process instrumentation, has ended the year 2000 with a 100% successful upgrade of customers' systems, many of which control plant safety and other critical applications Yokogawa carried out most of the work involved in the upgrade free of charge within existing maintenance contracts, and implemented a planned schedule which gave customers over one year's notice of modifications to allow for scheduled shutdowns
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Commenting on the successful completion of the Y2K programme, David Whiting, Manager of Yokogawa's Customer Service Division, said: "Feedback from our customers indicated that they appreciated the advance planning, and 'painless implementation', which contrasted with the last-minute panic, and costly measures, adopted elsewhere in the Industry, and 'headlined' in the information technology area." Yokogawa's distributed control systems handle many safety-critical applications in areas that include nuclear power, offshore oil exploration and extraction, and the chemical industry.
The company's process instrumentation systems also make extensive use of digital technologies, including advanced exploitation of Fieldbus communications systems.
"The critical nature of many of the application sectors meant that we had to be able to assure our customers that their systems would carry on operating normally over the Y2K period", adds David Whiting: "Our efforts have now paid off in terms of a complete lack of operational problems and a satisfied customer base.".
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