Control system offers explosion protection

A Yokogawa Europe - Industrial Automation product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Apr 27, 2007

The latest version of Yokogawa Electric's Stardom network-based control system has been certified to comply with Canada's CSA standard.

Yokogawa Electric has released an enhanced version of the Stardom network-based control system with new features including CSA explosion protection certification.

Stardom has already been certified as meeting the FM standard in the United States and the Type 'n' explosion protection standard in Europe.

This latest version has been certified to comply with Canada's CSA standard.

In addition to having certification for the FM explosion protection standard, Stardom is now certified to meet the CSA explosion protection standard (nonincendive Type 'n').

Yokogawa will capitalise on this enhancement by strengthening its sales efforts to promote Stardom's use in oil upstream processes in North America.

With the conventional FCN and FCJ autonomous controllers, the monitoring screen displayed only numeric values.

An enhanced graphic screen now displays operation status and process data superimposed over images of monitored devices such as valves and sensors.

This gives a more intuitive overview of device status.

The Versatile Data Server (VDS) Scada/HMI software supports dual-core processors and hyper threading technology, which increase the speed of arithmetic processing.

With these advanced processing capabilities, the latest PCs can be used to build control systems.

Stardom is an open network-based control system that allows the construction of a supervisory control system from the combination of components that perform functions such as control, operation, and monitoring.

Stardom employs the international standard IEC61131-3 programming environment and supports a wide range of communication protocols such as Foundation Fieldbus, HART, Modbus, and DNP3.

Stardom combines the high reliability of a distributed control system (DCS) with the universal and economical features of a programmable logic controller (PLC), and makes possible the low-cost construction of a full-scale instrumentation system with network functionality.