May 19, 2009 - Control Station's csTUNER PID tuning application integrates seamlessly with Yokogawa’s CS3000 distributed control system (DCS). csTUNER is based on Control Station’s LOOP-PRO Product Suite. The strength of LOOP-PRO is its ease-of-use and the application of Control Station’s patent-pending Non-Steady State (NSS) Modeling Innovation. The innovation enables end-users to accurately model both transient and noisy process data, a significant economic benefit to manufacturers across the process industries. csTUNER integrates seamlessly with the Yokogawa DCS and is offered as an option to CS3000 installations.
The application applies the CS3000’s standard tag structure to access critical loop information, including existing tuning coefficients, controller spans, and the associated algorithm. Although basic tuning capabilities are included with the CS3000, csTUNER offers more intuitive and advanced PID analysis and optimization capabilities. Yokogawa’s CS3000 DCS has been recognized widely adopted within each of the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Power and other key industrial sectors. Featuring a flexible and open architecture, the CS3000 was designed for compatibility with a manufacturer’s existing production systems. It provides a framework that readily draws upon field networks and results in a fully integrated production control system.
Through diagnosis of that process data, csTUNER is capable of further improving the performance of business-critical production processes and it offers a natural product extension to the CS3000. “The relationship with Yokogawa Corporation of America aligns two leading automation innovators,” shared Control Station’s President, Dennis Nash. “Integrating our state-of-the-art process modeling and controller design technologies with Yokogawa’s highly reliable production control solutions presents end-users with immediate opportunities to optimize plant performance. This is essential to providing them with a sustainable competitive advantage.”
“The introduction of csTUNER amplifies the value proposition of our CS3000 DCS, and it offers further proof that Yokogawa understands the current economic reality,” commented Richard Gaas, Senior Vice President of Yokogawa Corporation of America. “As a company, Yokogawa is fully aware of the pressures facing industry and actively seeks technology relationships that will produce immediate value for our customers.”
About Yokogawa Corporation of America
Yokogawa Corporation of America is the North American unit of $4 billion Yokogawa Electric Corporation, a global leader in the manufacture and supply of instrumentation, process control, and automation solutions. Headquartered in Newnan, Georgia, Yokogawa Corporation of America serves a diverse customer base with market-leading products including analyzers, flowmeters, transmitters, controllers, recorders, data acquisition products, meters, instruments, distributed control systems, and more.
About Control Station
Control Station, Inc is a leading provider of process control solutions, including and easy-to-use software technologies, practical training and skills development services, and onsite optimization services. Control Station’s process control solutions are utilized by leading companies across the process industries.
