Logbook program updated

Yokogawa GMSC has announced the latest release of its flagship ELogbook product, which incorporates a revised web-enabled user interface facility.

Yokogawa GMSC has announced the latest release of its flagship ELogbook product, which incorporates a revised web-enabled user interface.

The software can now be deployed without the IT overhead of installing and maintaining a client application on numerous computers.

ELogbook is a computer-based replacement for traditional control-room paper-based logbooks.

It enables the capture of events, instructions and non-automated data within the control room and throughout the plant, making this information available to all production and business users across an organisation.

Non-automated plant events are traditionally recorded in paper logbooks.

This can cause problems with lost data, the difficulty of identifying priority actions, handwriting that is hard to read, and the lack of awareness of control-room activities among other parts of the plant.

The software allows the easy input of data through click menus and drop-down screens, with little typing required.

Important events can be announced by email, pager or SMS.

It will prompt for relevant data, for example if downtime is reported then there is a need to know the cause and duration.

It can be used as a standalone system or as a core component of a larger MES set-up, with the application providing form-based manual data entry for non-automated plant events.

Linked to company email systems, it can dispatch integrated end-of-shift reports to the in-coming team leader, providing awareness of all outstanding activities and their level of priority.

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