Yokogawa CENTUM VP Release 5 integrated production control system

Release 5 of the CENTUM VP integrated production control system includes a field control station (FCS) with four times the processing performance, twice the application storage capacity and five times the control network throughput of the previous version.

It will also include a unified gateway station (UGS) that improves integration with other systems, allowing CENTUM VP to control and monitor all the systems at plants, including PLC systems. Despite the differences in such systems, all of their operation windows will have the same CENTUM VP look and feel. Operators will now only need to learn how to use the CENTUM VP HMI, making the overall system much easier to operate.

In oil and gas fields and other applications where facilities may be scattered over a very wide area, the UGS can establish a link with the small-scale systems (such as utilities) at each site as well as with Yokogawa’s STARDOM network-based control system. As such, the UGS makes possible the integrated control and monitoring of an entire system that comprises both central large-scale facilities and remote facilities via the CENTUM VP human machine interface.

Yokogawa’s Consolidated Alarm Management Software for Human Interface Station (CAMS for HIS) now includes functions that have been optimised for the management of change process specified in the ISA18.2 standard’s alarm management life cycle model.

Support for Microsoft’s latest 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems will also be included so that customers can reduce the cost of maintaining the PCs connected to their plant networks.