Yokogawa Releases Enhanced Version of Centum VP

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces the release of Centum VP R4.02, an enhanced version of the company’s flagship integrated production control system. This new version, says the company, offers enhanced information visibility, a more intuitive operator interface, improved consolidated alarm management, a new Foundation fieldbus engineering function, and linkage with the ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System (SIS).

With the recent release of version R2.03.00 of the Yokogawa ProSafe-RS SIS, it is now possible to operate and monitor this system and the Centum VP production control system through the same HMI, to improve safety and efficiency.

Additionlly, alarm engineering to define operations such as monitoring and notification can be performed in the same engineering environment used to configure operations such as control and monitoring. This linkage of the engineering for the alarm, control, and monitoring functions also aims to improves efficiency. R4.02 also features a new function that can automatically check data after configuration changes are made to Foundation fieldbus compatible sensors and final control elements such as valves.

“With the enhancements of functions that provide a foundation for VigilantPlant, our vision for the ideal plant, this version will bring our customers a higher level of stability, reliability, and productivity at their plant,” says Yokogawa.