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News Release from: Yokogawa Europe - Industrial Automation | Subject: VigilantPlant Asset Excellence
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 November 2006
Building sustainable asset performance
Predictive maintenance allows companies to schedule plant maintenance before a failure occurs only when it is necessary, greatly reducing unnecessary inspection and improving productivity.
Yokogawa VigilantPlant Asset Excellence helps maximise asset availability and utilisation Predictive maintenance allows companies to schedule plant maintenance before a failure occurs only when it is necessary, greatly reducing unnecessary inspection and improving productivity
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 25 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Yokogawa Asset Excellence initiative helps its customers make their plant asset condition predictable and performance sustainable.
The Asset Excellence initiative was launched in February 2006, as a VigilantPlant Asset Excellence initiative that aimed to apply the Yokogawa VigilantPlant vision to plant asset management in order to achieve operational excellence and create an environment where plant personnel can "See Clearly, Know in Advance, and Act with Agility".
Through this initiative, Yokogawa will introduce a suite of new solutions that work together to help customers achieve plant-wide collaboration for maximum asset availability and utilisation.
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The clear path to Operational Excellence.
The basis for Asset Excellence is the VigilantPlant Operational Excellence (OpX) Model, which is comprised of three key initiatives that aim to achieve.
* Production Excellence by driving forward operational agility and adaptability.
* Asset Excellence by ensuring asset availability and utilization.
* Safety Excellence through the protection of health, safety, and the environment (HSE).
The common centerpiece of this model, Lifecycle Excellence, seeks to improve and sustain these three initiatives for long-term business success.
Each of these initiatives corresponds to suites of product and service offerings under the VigilantPlant umbrella.
Combined, these three initiatives create a path to lifecycle excellence, continuous improvement, and sustainability.
The four success factors for Asset Excellence.
The Yokogawa approach to Asset Excellence combines four success factors that are essential for customers to get the most out of their plant assets over the long term: Asset Reliability, Asset Availability, Asset Predictability, and Asset Performance.
Through the VigilantPlant Asset Excellence initiative, Yokogawa is delivering innovative solutions to its customers that help them secure these key success factors.
More specifically, the Yokogawa Asset Excellence portfolio consists of offering such as the Yokogawa Plant Resource Manager (PRM), FieldMate, and fieldbus solutions.
ASSET RELIABILITY - setting the foundation.
The first key success factor, Asset Reliability, is an often overlooked yet fundamental prerequisite for non-stop production.
Customers that put Asset Reliability firmly in place can sustain the daily use of their plant assets for safe and agile production.
The Yokogawa Centum CS 3000 R3 control system secures Asset Reliability for mission critical applications by using reliable technology such as Pair and Spare CPUs and the Vnet/IP open and secure control network to maintain an unmatched 99.99999% (seven 9's) availability track record.
All Yokogawa field devices such as the DPharp EJA and EJX digital pressure transmitters provide the system with stable and accurate process measurement under the severest of conditions.
In a plant instrumented with the Yokogawa control system and field devices, operators can focus on true process concerns, trusting in the reliability of key automation assets.
ASSET AVAILABILITY - enhancing maintainability.
The second key success factor, Asset Availability, is achieved by securing maintainability in addition to the inherent reliability of Yokogawa products and systems.
Customers can enhance Asset Availability through quick engineering and efficient maintenance of their field assets.
The Yokogawa FieldMate Versatile Device Management Wizard is a new Field Device Tool (FDT) compliant PC-based integrated software tool that handles parameter setting for intelligent field devices, regardless of their make or field communication protocol.
FieldMate speeds up device configuration and problem solving, and automatically stores a work log for a traceable field maintenance database that consolidates the maintenance work flow and facilitates the sharing of maintenance know-how.
With its versatility and integrated features, this new Yokogawa PC-based field maintenance solution is a tool that field technicians can count on to save time and reduce the complexity of their engineering and maintenance tasks.
ASSET PREDICTABILITY - adding foresight.
The third factor, Asset Predictability, relies on recent advances in online monitoring and predictive diagnosis technologies.
Yokogawa customers that are early adopters of emerging Asset Predictability solutions report both quick returns and on-going advantages in optimising maintenance and maximising plant uptime.
The Yokogawa PRM Plant Resource Manager is an integrated asset management solution that enables centralized online monitoring of automation assets.
An upcoming new version, PRM R3, will take a step forward with its capability to create and integrate innovative diagnostics applications.
Its new PRM Advanced Diagnostics Application (PAA) environment will facilitate diagnostics application development at the control loop and process unit levels, going beyond device health and device/process interface diagnostics.
Furthermore, PRM R3 will support the FDT open standard, integrating diagnostics applications designed by the best-in-class fellow field device suppliers in the FDT Group.
In a plant where assets are centrally monitored by the Yokogawa integrated asset management solution, maintenance personnel can easily diagnose asset conditions, ensuring asset availability while optimizing maintenance.
ASSET PERFORMANCE - ensuring sustainability.
The fourth and final factor, Asset Performance, is an on-going achievement.
It is more of a journey than a destination, demanding continuous performance improvement over the life cycle of a plant.
Yokogawa InsightSuiteAE Asset Excellence Services is a suite of consultancy, diagnosis, and optimisation services delivered over the plant life cycle to maximise Asset Performance.
When customers have established a long-term relationship with Yokogawa, their plant managers can tap its wealth of diagnosis know-how and use its performance improvement solutions to ensure continuous improvement and Asset Excellence over the plant life cycle.
Driving profitable growth of customers' business In process industries, customers need a compelling business value proposition to justify investment in any kind of automation.
Vigilance and VigilantPlant were created with this in mind.
VigilantPlant is rooted in the philosophy of Peter Drucker, who espoused that a well-managed plant is "silent and boring", where the role of the operator is transformed into that of a knowledge worker that spends more time optimizing production rather than reacting to emergent problems in the plant.
Building on this message, the Yokogawa philosophy with VigilantPlant is to become a business partner with its customers by providing them with the tools they need to drive growth and productivity to produce profitability with OpX as a foundation.
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