June 20, 2006 - Tokyo, Japan - The VigilantPlant™ suite of products and services has received the 2005 Editor’s Choice Award from Control Engineering magazine.Since March 2003, Yokogawa has been carrying out the Vigilance marketing campaign to showcase its business approach. In February 2005, Yokogawa launched the VigilantPlant campaign to help customers achieve excellence in their plant operations.
In order to realize the VigilantPlant concept, Yokogawa offers products and solutions in line with three key slogans: “See Clearly - achieve stable and accurate real-time information exchange,” “Know in Advance - anticipate changes and plan actions in advance,” and “Act with Agility - make fast and intelligent decisions.”Thousands of products and services were featured in Control Engineering magazine during 2005. These were classified into eight award categories that included Instrumentation and Process Sensors, Embedded Control, and Process and Advanced Control.
Winners for the Editor’s Choice Award were selected based on criteria such as technological advancement and market impact, and Yokogawa’s VigilantPlant won this award in the Process and Advanced Control category.Satoru Kurosu, Vice President of Marketing, Industrial Automation Business Headquarters, commented, “Yokogawa is aggressively developing its operations with the objective of becoming the number one global industrial automation player by 2010. Encouraged by this award, we will step up our efforts to promote the VigilantPlant concept.”
About Yokogawa
Yokogawa's global network of 18 manufacturing facilities, 81 companies, and over 650 sales and engineering offices spans 30 countries. Since its founding in 1915, the US$4 billion company has been engaged in cutting-edge research and innovation, securing more than 7,000 patents and registrations, including the world's first digital sensors for flow and pressure measurement. Industrial automation and control, test and measurement, information systems and industry support are the core businesses of Yokogawa.
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.