Yokogawa CENTUM VP is the Yokogawa's latest integrated production control system, which has a more intuitive human machine interface and more powerful field control stations capable of processing data faster and more reliably, optimum plant operation for various industries. It has been keeping the operation continuity and the application compatibility for customers to use the CENTUM continuously for a long term, achieves 99.99999% (seven‐9s) availability. Up to now, more than 20,000 systems have been installed worldwide.
CENTUM VP consists of four components which are operation and monitoring functions, engineering functions, control functions, and a network communication system. It can be flexibly configured to suit the requirements of plants both large and small in a wide variety of industries. In addition, integration with ProSafe-RS safety instrumented systems, STARDOM network-based control systems, and different generations of CENTUM systems extends its scope of operations. CENTUM VP also manages plant assets with Plant Resource Manager.
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