Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the May 31, 2024 release of CENTUMTM VP R6.11.10, an enhanced version of the CENTUM VP integrated production control system that is a core product in the OpreXTM Control and Safety System family of solutions.
With this new version of CENTUM VP, plant uptime is improved through the addition of a redundancy function to a new IO card that supports communications via the PROFINET communications protocol for industrial networks. Furthermore, to reduce project costs and improve efficiency in plant operations, functional enhancements have been made to the Unified Alarms and Conditions Server (UACS) and the CCC InsideTM for the Yokogawa CENTUM VP compressor control solution.
PROFINET is one of the most widely used Ethernet-based industrial communications protocol worldwide, boasting superb real-time performance. In 2019, Yokogawa developed an IO card that supports PROFINET. While this enabled the monitoring of the operation of PROFINET-compatible devices from CENTUM VP, more needed to be done to improve reliability and uptime.
To meet this need, Yokogawa has developed a new PROFINET IO card that supports a redundancy function, and by doing so, has made high reliability and high uptime a reality. As per the press release, this new CENTUM VP release also features functional enhancements to the UACS and the CCC InsideTM for the Yokogawa CENTUM VP compressor control solution that will improve the efficiency of operations and engineering at plants.
