Process expertise hits the road

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Apr 30, 2004

The Yokogawa Roadshow, touring the UK in April and May 2004, is a major initiative to bring Yokogawa's systems, products and unrivalled process expertise directly to the plant doors of customers.

The Yokogawa Roadshow, touring the UK in April and May 2004, is a major initiative to bring Yokogawa's systems, products and unrivalled process expertise directly to the plant doors of customers.

The roadshow, which takes the form of a customised, self-contained articulated truck measuring 16.5 x 2.6 x 4m on the road and expanding to 17 x 9 x 7m on site, will enable process engineers to see the latest in Fieldbus integration, flow and transmitter technology and Yokogawa's renowned Prosafe safety system.

"This engineer-to-engineer forum will connect customers directly with Yokogawa engineering experts who will be available to answer question relating to existing or planned applications", comments Martin Ward, Managing Director of Yokogawa UK.

"Yokogawa UK places customer satisfaction as its number one priority, and this Roadshow will reinforce our determination to be the supplier of choice for quality process-control instrumentation products and automation solutions".

A wide variety of products and systems are featured in the Yokogawa Roadshow.

Measurement solutions include: the very latest developments in measuring instrumentation including self-diagnostic low-maintenance pH, conductivity and zirconia analysers; a wide range of accurate and stable flowmeters using vortex, magnetic, variable-area and Coriolis technologies; the new EJX pressure transmitter, the world's first to be supplied with SIL level 2 as standard; and a multitiered temperature transmitter range providing enhanced functionality and self-diagnostics.

Offering unrivalled performance in the field of control and data acquisition, the Yokogawa product range provides information gateways from the process-control arena to the office environment.

The range covers paperless recorders and controllers, 21CFR11 compliant recorders through, fast multi-sample-rate data-acquisition systems and controller-based solutions.

The Yokogawa Centum CS3000 R3 integrated control system is the world's most scalable, supporting small to large-scale applications.

Embracing the latest Windows XP technology, it provides an open architecture with full backward compatibility of legacy systems with an unrivalled reliability.

It also provides full support to a range of fieldbus technologies including Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus, DeviceNet and field OPC connectivity.

By combining the functionality of regulatory control and sequence control, Yokogawa's Stardom controller incorporates leading-edge redundant Ethernet network technologies to deliver high reliability and high-speed execution for automation solutions.

The system also features IEC61131 standard programming, an embedded web server, and OPC and Foundation Fieldbus connectivity.

Fastools provides the ideal HMI interface for Stardom, having gained wide acceptance in pipeline, electrical and RTU data acquisition application.

Yokogawa is also the world's most experienced safety system supplier, embracing the IEC61508 standard to provide customers with total life-cycle support.

The Yokogawa ProSafe family of products covers all industrial safety requirements, including ProSafe SLS for SIL 4 safety-critical applications and Prosafe PLC for emergency shutdown and fire and gas applications up to SIL3.

MULCOM (Multiple Protocol Communications Interface) modules fully integrate these applications into the Centum CS3000 R3 to provide features such as maintenance override, trip status and SOE recording to 1ms resolution.

All these functions are provided on one common HMI platform while maintaining system segregation.