Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will release an enhanced version of the ProSafe®-RS safety instrumented system on April 26. This latest release, R4.03.00, includes an improved engineering function for configuring fire and gas systems (FGS) and new operation faceplates for the FGS operation and monitoring screens. These enhancements make it easier to adopt and…
Yokogawa Corporation of America makes big announcement
Yokogawa Corporation of America has announced that it has received TUV Rheinland certification for Functional Safety Management (FSM) IEC 61511-1:2003 SIS Integration Phase 4 (Design and Engineering), FSM 159. The scope of certification covers integration of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) Logic Solver in the process industry up to and including Safety Integrity Level 3…
Cloud data services
Yokogawa Electric acquired Industrial Evolution to strengthen its ability to deliver solutions to the process industries. Industrial Evolution is a provider of cloud-based plant data sharing services. Based on Industrial Evolution’s cloud business environment, Yokogawa will provide Data-as-a-Service (DaaS). Using its cloud-based DaaS technology, Industrial Evolution collects real-time process data from devices and systems at…
Optical spectrum analyzer for precisely assessing the properties of 3-µm lasers
Yokogawa Meters & Instruments Corporation has announced that it has developed the AQ6376 optical spectrum analyzer. The AQ6376 has a wide dynamic range and can perform precise, high…
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Yokogawa launches Industrial Knowledge business unit to enhance cloud-based advanced solution business
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the establishment of Industrial Knowledge, a new business unit that will play a key role in accelerating expansion of Yokogawa’s business in asset intensive industries through the provision of cloud-based advanced solutions. Expansion of the advanced solution business, whose goal is to maximize performance for our customers through the attainment of…
Yokogawa Corporation of America releases TDLS8000 Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometer
Yokogawa Corporation of America announces the release of the TDLS8000 Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometer. This new product can quickly make in-situ measurements of gas concentrations in various process…
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System delivers views of operations
Exaquantum R3.01 delivers a six-fold increase in data acquisition performance and can handle five times as many data points (tags). This latest version delivers a quantum increase in the data acquisition speed and the number of tags that can be handled by a server, giving operators a more detailed understanding of plant processes. Including closing…
Yokogawa releases enhanced version of ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will be releasing an enhanced version of the ProSafe®-RS safety instrumented system (SIS) on November 27. This new version, R4.01, features an exciting expansion of Yokogawa’s lineup of I/O devices and introduces crucial new SIS components. In addition, the FieldMate™ Validator software has been enhanced to work with this…
Yokogawa’s releases enhanced version of ProSafe®-RS Safety
Yokogawa Electric Corporation released the ProSafe®-RS R3.02.20. This enhanced version of the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system (SIS) offers improved connectivity with the ProSafe-SLS SIS, enabling the status of both systems to be monitored onscreen by operators of the CENTUM® VP integrated production control system. In addition, R3.02.20 offers enhanced support of widely used open communication…
Wireless, paperless recorder for SMARTDAC+
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the development of the SMARTDAC+® GX20W wireless paperless recorder. This new product supports the ISA100 Wireless™ industrial automation wireless communication standard and is expected…
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Yokogawa Releases SMARTDAC+® GM Data Acquisition System
The SMARTDAC+ GM data acquisition system improves operational efficiency due to its modular design, which facilitates the mounting and removal of modules. In addition, the SMARTDAC+ GM system…
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Yokogawa releases energy performance analytics software
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the November release of Energy Performance Analytics (EP-Analytics), a software tool that uses energy performance indicators (EnPI) to track how energy is being consumed…
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Yokogawa Obtains ISASecure® EDSA Certification for CENTUM®
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its CENTUM® VP production control system has obtained the ISASecure® Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification from the ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI)…
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Yokogawa Enhances YS1000 Series Single Loop Controllers
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has enhanced its YS1000 series single loop controllers, and will be releasing them on June 13, 2014. The controllers feature a new…
Yokogawa Announces ISO 17025 Accreditation for Calibration Lab
Yokogawa Corporation of America has announced that its Newnan, GA facility’s Calibration Laboratory has been awarded ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). Yokogawa…
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Yokogawa Releases Oil Transloading Application
Yokogawa Corporation of America announces that it will release a panel packaged solution for metering truck/railcar unloading and loading based on the FCN-RTU* low-power autonomous controller of the STARDOM™ network-based control system on April 14, 2014. This new packaged solution has been developed to meet the requirements of our customers in the high-growth upstream oil…
Faustel Adds Yokogawa Guage to Battery Electrode Coating Lines
Yokogawa announces the inclusion of its WEBFREX3ES online thickness gauge to Faustel’s battery electrode coating lines. The gauge is used to monitor the thickness of the coatings on…
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Faustel Updates Technology Center with Sensors from Yokogawa
Yokogawa announces the inclusion of its WEBFREX3ES online sensor to Faustel’s Technology Center. The sensor performs accurate online measurements of film and sheet thickness. It produces graphs (profiles)…
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Yokogawa Obtains ISASecure® EDSA Certification
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its ProSafe®-RS safety instrumented system has obtained the ISASecure®* Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification. Cyber crime and cyber warfare are on the…
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Wireless Module Speeds Design of Industrial Sensing Systems
Many industrial applications can benefit from using wireless sensing for device feedback or system health monitoring. Rather than adding wires, the wireless approach can reduce installation costs and…
Yokogawa Releases SENCOM Platform Products
Yokogawa Corporation of America announces the October 25 release of the new SENCOM platform product series for the digital measurement of pH and ORP. This will join an…
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Yokogawa Enhances the FA-M3V Range-free Multi-controller
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of an enhanced version of the WideField3 programming tool for the FA-M3V range-free multi-controller. Development Background The FA-M3V is a high-performance controller…
Yokogawa Receives Order from SIPSC for Project in Saudi Arabia
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that Yokogawa Electric International, a subsidiary that oversees Yokogawa’s IA and control business outside Japan, has received an order from Sinopec International Petroleum Service…
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Yokogawa Installs Blink EV Charging Stations
Yokogawa Corp. of America is offering electric vehicle charging stations to employees at its Newnan, Ga. facility. ECOtality Inc. has installed two Blink Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations there as part of its Electric Vehicle Project. The EV Project is a public-private partnership with the Department of Energy that evaluates the effectiveness of EV charger…
Yokogawa Releases Enhanced Version of CENTUM VP R5.03
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of CENTUM VP R5.03, an enhanced version of the company’s flagship production control system platform. Yokogawa is continuously developing and enhancing CENTUM VP as the foundation of its IA business’s VigilantPlant vision for operational excellence. In accordance with the strategies set out in the Evolution 2015 mid-term business plan, CENTUM VP…