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News Release from: Yokogawa Europe - Industrial Automation | Subject: Alarm management
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 November 2006
Alarm management system launched by
Yokogawa
Yokogawa Industrial Automation and Control recently organised a European User Group Conference, to present their achievements and current plans, plus to launch their CAMS alarm management system
Yokogawa Automation sales, and European overall sales, have been showing significant growth, demonstrated by the 150 user companies attending the conference, compared to 50 at the 2004 event These users said they wanted to see far more Yokogawa involvement in FEED and pre-bidding activities, leading to a role as MAC or MIV on significant projects: plus further development of the Lifetime Services activities already available with the SIL assessments and Network Security Assessments, currently under the InsightSuiteAE banner
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 24 Nov 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Yokogawa response was to point to the growth in the engineering resource in Yokogawa Europe, with 350 engineers full time and 300 more contracted, a new European HQ in Amersfoort and a major systems engineering base established and growing in Bucharest.
Where Yokogawa as a group does not have a necessary product technology, Business Partnerships have been created: for example with Vega, MTL, Moore Industries, P+F, plus several valve manufacturers listed as Metso, Samson, Flowserve and Dresser.
This has led to the establishment of global engineering standardisation across the whole of Yokogawa.
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The Yokogawa VigilantPlant concept current phase is 'Plant Resource Management' (PRM), and most of the User Group Workshops were devoted to the use of AMS and primarily FF device health data and the derivation of plant performance indicators.
The Yokogawa loop and performance diagnostics run on PRM, which, just as in FieldMate, supports FDT and EDDL, and can pull data in from equipment originating from other suppliers such as Endress + Hauser or Emerson, as well as the Business partners, plus also Bently Nevada.
(It is interesting that after over 25 years of ignored isolation, condition monitoring sensors and systems are the height of popularity with everyone! Hugh Conway always said this was a growing field, back in 1979, but as ever maybe Hugh was ahead of his time!*) Yokogawa see their wireless sensor developments slotting nicely into this condition monitoring area, and some wireless devices are promised very soon: they also mentioned the use of a PDA to record manual gauges and visual plant checks as a development for this area.
(A topic also recently covered on Processingtalk by Terrington Data Management, http://www.processingtalk.com/news/tez/tez102.html).
Yokogawa have produced some industry solutions brochures to expand on explaining VigilantPlant by industry sector, with examples: these brochures are promised as available 'soon', for Oil and Gas, LNG, Refinery, Chemicals, Life Science, Power.
Their current major project list for Europe included the Exxon South Hook LNG terminal, and the Sonatrach LNG liquefaction plant in Algeria.
Accessing the LNG capability on the VigilantPlant website http://www.yokogawa.com/iab/industries/lng/iab-lng-index-en.htm gave some interesting data: possibly because of the Japanese reliance on LNG, Yokogawa control systems are used on 58% of the world's re-gasification plants, and 30% of the liquefaction plants, with 38% of the world's LNG carriers 'powered' by Yokogawa.
So what's next? Yokogawa now announce the next phase of VigilantPlant as CAMS, Consolidated Alarm Management Systems, part of the plan to help improve production excellence, http://www.processingtalk.com/news/yog/yog108.html.
Running on the latest Centum CS 3000 R3 Integrated Production Control System (http://www.processingtalk.com/news/yog/yog109.html available Jan 07), CAMS offers a higher level control room console, a single window to display and annotate the alarms and alerts arising from all plant control systems, such as the DCS, SIS, AMS, the network control system, and others you can think of: like the Bently Nevada and Vibration sensors, Tank Management systems, wireless systems, Boiler Management Systems, security fences, safety showers et al.
The concept is that CAMS sorts the alarms, prioritises them, eliminates duplication, provides guidance on what the consequences are, and enables the use of previous plant experience.
It will involve a lot of Yokogawa assessment and engineering expertise on site, but Yokogawa see this as essential to provide the Production Excellence input that is their goal.
Plus it fits with their objective of getting the right information to the right person, at the right time.
Further articles on Alarm Management systems are shown in the Processingtalk pages devoted to Alarms, on http://www.processingtalk.com/indexes/categorybrowsece.html.
One notable story is from ICS, http://www.processingtalk.com/news/ics/ics121.html, who have already won an award from the Northern Offshore Federation for the results of applying their alarm management systems offshore.
For Asset Management stories see http://www.processingtalk.com/indexes/categorybrowsebg.html and for condition monitoring, including vibration measurement, see http://www.processingtalk.com/indexes/categorybrowseam.html.
*Editor's note: Hugh Conway, who gave his name to the Rolls Royce Conway turbo-jet engine, if my facts are right, was an enthusiastic Deputy Chairman of the Design Council of the UK in around the late 1970s, and frequently expounded on the value and potential for vibration measurement and condition monitoring: this led to my involvement with the Servodyne range of accelerometers, used on large fans and ships bearings, and their inductive position measurement sensors similar to those of Bently Nevada used on power generation turbine shafts.
Servodyne equipment is no longer produced.
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