Integrated Production Control System Overview The core platform for Yokogawa’s VigilantPlant ® Solutions

CENTUM history Nearly 40 years and still counting Is your plant silent and boring? “A well managed plant is silent and boring.”- Peter. F. Drucker Yokogawa has maintained exclusive ownership of CENTUM development throughout the history of this product series. The upgrade path for each legacy system is always taken into consideration before a new version is released. Yokogawa's commitment VigilantPlant is Yokogawa's vision for the ideal plant. Our vision is for a plant to be a place where people can be watchful and attentive, while the business responds quickly and effectively to change. Non-stop...

Advantages CENTUM VP ushers in an operating environment that keeps everyone fully aware, well informed, and ready to face the next challenge. Versatile and Efcient Engineering Improved Project Execution and Reduced Cost The Automation Design Suite, Yokogawa's new engineering environment, is designed for faster and more flexible engineering. This radical innovation ensures a standardized and consistent engineering framework, thereby maintaining data integrity and facilitating management of change. It streamlines engineering workflow, eliminates redundant work and increases reusability. N-IO (Network...

Operation True Integration of Production Excellence, Safety Excellence and Asset Excellence CENTUM VP achieves the Operational Excellence that is the focus of Yokogawa’ s Production Excellence, Safety Excellence and Asset Excellence initiatives. It offers integrated viewing and data handling functions. For example, alarms from the ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System and Plant Resource Manager, Yokogawa’ s Asset Management product, can be seen and handled seamlessly in the Human Interface Station (HIS). Dedicated Operation Keyboard Optimized allocations of the function keys and buttons enable...

Control Ensuring the Highest Availability and Reliability Yokogawa’s CENTUM series achieves high availability thanks to a dual-redundant design, online maintenance capability, and other advanced features. The FCS processor module, power supply, I/O modules, and I/O networks are all dual redundant. Active and stand-by processor modules work in synchronization: even if a failure occurs, control switches over seamlessly to the stand-by module and the FCS continues running. Failed modules can be replaced online, ensuring that not even a hardware failure will interfere with plant operation. Control...

Engineering Yokogawa accelerates plant startup and Ensures sustainable performance Yokogawa paves way for a new engineering paradigm for the next-generation. It is not uncommon for a project to experience backsliding and signicant rework, all of which affects the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Yokogawa's engineering prevents these inefciencies and ensures our customers reap all these benets throughout a plant’s lifecycle. Conventional Engineering Automation Design Suite effects Manufacturing & HW FAT Yokogawa’s Engineering Ship & wiring Ship & Install Field wiring The Automation Design Suite...

Lifecycle management Yokogawa is committed to sustaining your business With vast experience in maintenance technology and an extensive support structure, Yokogawa maintains the reliability and availability of the control system throughout a plant's lifecycle. Yokogawa’s services for plants lifecycle Security We are in a new age of controlling security risks. The spread of malware and a rise in increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks are causing even more serious damage. The threat of cyber-security risks extends beyond information technology systems and into control systems. The use of information...

System architecture Scalable and interoperable architecture CENTUM VP has a simple & common architecture consisting of human machine interfaces, eld control stations, and a control network. PRM Asset management Business domain Firewall Automation Design Suite Control network Wireless Fieldbus Wireless access point Field wireless management station Wireless access point Wireless transmitter Wireless transmitter Human Interface Station (HIS) Control Network (Vnet/IP) Windows based operating system, commercial-off-the-shelf PC hardware, and optional specialized operator keyboard for a large variety...

With the release of the world's first DCS nearly four decades ago, Yokogawa helped empower an entire generation of plant operators. With our focus on creating a sustainable future, we are committed in our efforts to support a new generation of plant operators. The clear path to operational excellence CLEARLY I IN ADVANCE I WITH AGUTY VigilantPlant is Yokogawa's automation concept for safe, reliable, and profitable plant operations. VigilantPlant aims to enable an ongoing stole of Operational Excellence where plant personnel are watchful and attentive, well-informed, and ready to take actions...