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News Release from: Yokogawa UK | Subject: CENTUM CS 3000 R3 integrated production control
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 March 2005
Production control has better safety
integration
New version of an integrated production control system offers improved systems integration capability with safety systems and other production control systems.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has introduced Release 3.06 of its CENTUM CS 3000 R3 integrated production control system, featuring improved integration with safety systems and other production control systems The new system provides a platform that integrates the CS 3000 with Yokogawa's newly released ProSafe-RS safety system
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 31 Jul 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This platform enables the integrated display of CS 3000 and ProSafe-RS process data and event messages on the CS 3000's operations and monitoring station, thereby improving operating and monitoring efficiency.
In addition, system configuration costs have been reduced and maintenance efficiency improved by unifying the control network.
Yokogawa has also developed a System Integration OPC Station (SIOS) gateway function for the CS 3000 that enables the monitoring of process data and event messages from other control systems.
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Because it uses the industry-standard OPC interface, it is possible to connect with other manufacturers' production control systems without adding significantly to the engineering work required for tasks such as the configuration of data integration.
For example, the operator of a CS 3000 controlling a plant's upstream operations can now use this system to monitor downstream operations that are controlled by another control system.
The new upgrade also provides easy integration with Yokogawa's CENTUM CS 1000 system.
It is now possible to use a CENTUM CS 1000, which is intended for small and medium-sized plants, as a CS 3000 without making any modification or addition of hardware.
When expanding the production capacity of a plant to a level where control is no longer possible with the CS 1000, it is possible to control the upscaled plant by expanding the functions of the existing CS 1000 to the CS 3000 level.
In addition, for plants which have both CS 3000 and CS 1000 production control systems, it is possible to carry out engineering works and to operate and monitor the entire plant from the CS 3000.
The CS 3000 production control system is widely used by plants both large and small in process-oriented industries such as petroleum, petrochemicals, natural gas, chemicals, pulp and paper, food processing, and water treatment.
It is a core building block of Yokogawa's VigilantPlant solutions that promise to bring operational excellence to visionary plants, creating an environment where plant personnel can 'See Clearly, Know in Advance, and Act with Agility'.
Release 3.06 enables operational excellence by plant-wide monitoring and seamless integration with Yokogawa's new safety system.
Core concepts in the development of the CS 3000 have been the continual adoption of new functions with assured continuity and the simultaneous pursuit of openness and reliability.
The CS 3000 is the product of improvements that are finely calibrated to customer needs and the steady development and introduction of new cutting-edge technologies.
This CS 3000 upgrade adheres to this fundamental approach.
Its system integration functions have been upgraded in response to users' need for improved integration with safety systems and other control systems.
By strengthening its solutions for customers with continuous evolution of the world-leading CS 3000, Yokogawa aims to win the number one position in the global industrial automation business by the year 2010.
Yokogawa introduced the world's first distributed control system (DCS) to the market in 1975.
With their ability to achieve dramatic improvements in productivity, DCSs were rapidly deployed throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, and to date Yokogawa has supplied more than 16,000 such systems worldwide.
The time has come to begin replacing the DCSs that were introduced in the early period, and it is expected that the need to replace these systems will grow for several years to come.
Through its non-stop efforts to develop and ensure for its customers a stable supply of new products that feature superior cutting-edge technologies, Yokogawa is developing the CENTUM series into a leading brand worldwide.
* OPC interface: - OPC stands for Object Linking and Embedding for Process Control.
This is a standard interface for developing measurement and control systems which uses object-linking technology developed by Microsoft.
It enables data interoperability between systems from different manufacturers.
An American non-profit organisation called the OPC Foundation is dedicated to promoting and popularising the use of the OPC interface.
Yokogawa participates in the management of this body, as a member of the OPC Foundation's board of directors.
* About Yokogawa Electric Corporation - Yokogawa's global network of 18 manufacturing facilities, 82 affiliate companies, and over 650 sales and engineering offices spans 28 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 Europe - the European headquarters were founded in Amersfoort, the Netherlands in 1982.
Throughout Europe Yokogawa has its own sales, service and engineering operations.
This dedicated network has been extended to Central and East Europe and Southern Africa to further enhance the coverage and support associated with serving the process control and automation market place.
We develop and produce flowmeters at Rota Yokogawa in Germany, liquid analysers and industrial safety systems in the Netherlands.
In addition to this dedicated network of Yokogawa subsidiaries a select organisation of Test and Measurement (T and M) subsidiaries and distributors is established in certain areas to support the specific customer needs of this continuously developing and specific market of T and M instrumentation.
* About Yokogawa UK - Yokogawa UK, part of the global Yokogawa Corporation, is a supplier of enterprise technology solutions to the process, manufacturing and utility sectors.
The company is a technology and market leader in instrumentation and control, and holds many key patents and national and international approvals.
Yokogawa UK's headquarters are in Runcorn, Cheshire, with additional system sales support operations in Milton Keynes.
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