- July 26, 2011
- Yokogawa Corporation of America
July 26, 2011 - Yokogawa Electric announces Release 5 of CENTUM VP integrated production control system. Enhancements include a field control station (FCS), with four times the processing performance, twice the application storage capacity, and five times the control network throughput of the previous .control station. CENTUM VP Release 5 also includes a unified gateway station (UGS) that improves integration with other systems, allowing CENTUM VP to control and monitor all the systems at plants, including PLC systems. Despite the differences in such systems, all of their operation windows will have the same CENTUM VP look & feel. Operators will now only need to learn how to use the CENTUM VP HMI, making the overall system much easier to operate. In oil and gas fields and other applications where facilities may be scattered over a very wide area, the UGS can establish a link with the small-scale systems (such as utilities) at each site as well as with the STARDOM network-based control system. As such, the UGS makes possible the integrated control and monitoring of an entire system comprised of both central large-scale facilities and remote facilities via the CENTUM VP human machine interface. Yokogawa’s Consolidated Alarm Management Software for Human Interface Station (CAMS for HIS) includes new functions that have been optimized for the management of change process specified in the ISA18.2 standard’s alarm management lifecycle model.
Support for Microsoft’s latest 64 bit Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems are included so that customers can reduce the cost of maintaining the PCs connected to their plant networks. Main Target Markets Process control and monitoring in industries such as oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, electric power, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages, iron and steel, and water supply and sewage treatment
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