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Centum VP integrated production control system now at R4.02

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Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of CENTUM VP R4.02, an enhanced version of the company’s flagship integrated production control system.

This new version of CENTUM VP offers enhanced information visibility, a more intuitive operator interface, improved consolidated alarm management, a new FOUNDATION™ Fieldbus* engineering function, and linkage with the ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System (SIS). With these enhancements of functions that provide a foundation for VigilantPlant, Yokogawa’s vision for the ideal plant, this new version will bring our customers a higher level of stability, reliability, and productivity at their plants.

Development Background
To respond to changing needs and keep pace with the drastic changes currently underway in the marketplace, it is imperative that companies optimize their plants, equipment, and other facilities. Yokogawa provides the products, solutions, and services that help its customers enhance plant safety, reliability, and productivity, and the foundation for these improvements is the company’s CENTUM VP Integrated Production Control System.
This version’s functions have been enhanced to help our customers improve productivity, and include an easier to use human machine interface (HMI), strengthened consolidated alarm management, and linkage with the ProSafe-RS SIS for improved safety. For increased reliability, a new FOUNDATION™ fieldbus engineering function is provided that improves reliability and allows full use of the intelligent capabilities of field devices. Taking a long-term perspective, Yokogawa continues to enhance the products that its customers depend on to grow and develop their businesses.

CENTUM VP R4.02 Features

  • Closer linkage with Yokogawa’s latest safety instrumented system
    With the recent release of version R2.03.00 of the Yokogawa ProSafe-RS SIS, it is now possible to operate and monitor this system and the CENTUM VP production control system through the same HMI. This linkage between the two systems improves safety and efficiency.

  • Enhanced consolidated alarm management function
    With version R4.02, alarm engineering to define operations such as monitoring and notification can be performed in the same engineering environment used to configure operations such as control and monitoring. This linkage of the engineering for the alarm, control, and monitoring functions improves efficiency.

  • New FOUNDATION™ fieldbus engineering function
    R4.02 has a new function that can automatically check data after configuration changes are made to FOUNDATION™ fieldbus compatible sensors and final control elements such as valves. This improves the quality and efficiency of engineering work done in the field and saves time.

Main Target Markets
Manufacturing and processing industries such as oil and natural gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, iron and steel, pulp and paper, electric power, and water treatment

Applications
Monitoring and automatic control of plants and manufacturing equipment

* Fieldbus - A digital communications protocol linking production control systems, field sensors, and final control elements that is gaining in popularity worldwide

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Complete guide to the selection of Yokogawa Temperature Sensors 

Temperature sensing in the process automation Industry is one of the most important measurement technologies, requiring accuracy, repeatability and safety. A comprehensive range of temperature sensors complement our YTA series head and field mounted Temperature Transmitters providing a full integrated temperature supplyOur temperature sensor solutions include Resistance Temperature detectors (RTD’s), Thermocouples (TC’s), a wide selection of Thermowells and the capability to supply special engineered temperature assemblies.

 

Temperature Sensors
An assortment of temperature sensors are readily available. These include Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTD’s) and Thermocouples (TC’s) to suit all process automation applications. Wire wound RTD’s represent the most common temperature sensors because of their inherent accuracy and stability, used extensively in process measurement and control. Thermocouples deliver high temperature capability and are more vibration tolerant than RTD’s. Furthermore, they can be manufactured in small diameters for asset monitoring purposes. The quality of the sensor remains essential to the overall health of your process and plant.

Thermowells
Thermowells are an important part of the temperature measurement and the plant’s containment solution, providing protection against potentially dangerous process mediums. Quality of design and manufacturing is essential to meet the requirements of a variety of process environments.

A correctly designed thermowell can withstand:

  • Erosion

  • Abrasion

  • Corrosion

  • High pressures and velocities

  • Various mechanical stressors

Thermowells can be manufactured from barstock, forgings or tubular construction and in a variety of materials ranging from stainless steel to exotic alloys. These ensure mechanical integrity, safety and longevity. A welded flanged thermowell can be an acceptable solution for many applications, however, a full penetration welded flanged thermowell (double “J”) delivers the maximum mechanical strength for high pressure service. Once welded and heat treated the thermowell becomes effectively a one piece construction of similar alloys. Quality assurance testing, such as; dye-penetration, X-Ray, ultrasonic and pressure testing confirm the welding process.

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