Food & Beverage

Shree Renuka Sugars Limited (SRSL) is a global agribusiness and bio-energy corporation. The company is one of the world’s largest sugar producers and refiners.

Yokogawa provided Mewah, one of the largest vegetable oil processors, with a structured Smart Manufacturing Assessment Workshop.
The company's Industry 4.0 roadmap was clarified through the Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) based workshop.

NISSIN FOOD PRODUCTS selected Yokogawa as a partner to realize a next-generation smart factory.
An integrated MES solution helps fully automate the large-scale food factory in Japan.

Success Story:

CENTUM VP Cuts Clean-in-place (CIP) Time by 50% and Improves Productivity

• Yokogawa provided control solutions for expansion project in sugar and bio-energy plant.
• Consolidated central control room was designed for safe, comfortable, and efficient work environment.

S&B Sankyo uses the GX20 Paperless Recorder to monitor temperature and pressure in a food processing plant's sterilization process.

Rousselot Ghent won Belgium Factory of the Future Award. Yokogawa has supported Rousselot with automation systems since 1993.

Data of 20,000 tags gathered by Exaquantum helped to find the ideal production parameters.

Kyowa Hakko Bio monitors vibration trends with Yokogawa's Sushi Sensors to prevent unexpected equipment failures.
By using eServ, sensor data and maintenance information are shared with everyone involved in manufacturing.

The Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) is a set of standards and requirements that regulate aspects of dairy plants producing Grade “A” products. It is the “dairy bible” that dairy producers, manufacturers, and balancing plants must follow to verify food safety. Discover how Yokogawa recorders (PMO compliant) are helping Michigan milk producers.

The TC series of temperature controllers is perfect for controlling the heating temperature of sealing parts and the temperature of sealing rolls (pre-heating) in a variety of different wrapping machinery.

Significantly reduce downtime, improve heat exchanger efficiency, and reduce steam wastage with Yokogawa’s Wireless Steam Trap Sensors.

During MSG manufacturing it is crucial to control flow during the neutralization process. Unfortunately, traditional magnetic flowmeters encounter accuracy issues due to coating on electrodes from liquids like crystal, slurry, and high-viscosity fluids. Learn how our innovative technology ensures stable measurements even with challenging fluids. Don't miss out on improved accuracy and reduced maintenance downtime.

Vertical farming is an emerging solution to the existing challenges of rising food demands, dwindling arable land, and climate instability. Yet, with innovation comes complexity. Discover how Yokogawa, in collaboration with a leading vertical farming end-user, addresses obstacles that threaten product yield and profitability.

Trappist monks, brewers of the infamous Trappist beer, leverage the precise and reliable measurement of the Rotamass TI Prime Mass Flow Meter.

• For remote monitoring (of temperature, pressure, and flow volume), installing the SMARTDAC+ GM in the plant and the SMARTDAC+ GX in the office provides for a scalable, pc-free on-site data monitoring solution.
• You can centralize management of large quantities of data by automatically transferring acquired data to a FTP server.

Ensure the preservation of milk quality and prevent degradation.

Yokogawa’s Touchscreen GX10 Paperless Recorder eliminates the cost and labor associated with paper-based data recording.

SMARTDAC+ GX series records the clean room temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, door openings and closings, etc.

Risk management is crucial when expanding your business.

High-capacity memory, network, and part 11 compliant paperless data recorders greatly increase work efficiency while eliminating data recording errors.

Milk should be processed within 4 to 6 hours of production to make it fit for human consumption. Temperature is a very important parameter which has to be monitored at different stages of milk processing.

Challenge: The customer's existing measurement device was disturbed by vibration and could not be compensated or corrected by the product that was installed.

In the plants of food and beverage manufacturers, there are times when monitoring and recording of production equipment is necessary inside clean rooms. This is an introduction to monitoring and recording in clean rooms using paperless recorders.

Temperature is essential to the pasteurization process in beer manufacturing. Yokogawa’s fiber optic temperature sensor DTSX provides precise temperature measurements throughout the tunnel, eliminating blind spots.

The paperless recorder DX series automatically calculate the Fo value from the heating temperature and are useful in managing the sterilization process by displaying and recording the value together with the heating temperature.

Questionable flow and conductivity measurements during CIP could raise questions about food quality and safety.

By using the Multibatch function (an option added with SMARTDAC+), you can efficiently record data from multiple devices onto a single SMARTDAC+.

Using the custom display function that comes standard with DXAdvanced means that you can combine the recorders, displays, and switches used in various kinds of equipment.

Using the batch name + lot number system, past measured data can be recalled for reference by batch name.

Yokogawa's Paperless Recorder series offers a multi-point touch panel to improve intuitive operator control with predictive monitoring for early detection during sake production and managing brewery wastewater. 

Yokogawa's ceramic liner can offer the customer superior resistance to thermal shock and the failure that can occur due to liner cracking. This is due to Yokogawa's use of 99.9% pure Al2O3 for the liner.

• Universal inputs provide support for thermocouple, RTD, voltage, and a variety of other input signals.
• Lineup of models for up to 450 inputs.
  Allows multipoint monitoring and recording on a single unit.
• Easily enables network-based data management. 
  file transfers, Web monitoring, and alarm e-mail

By using the computation function of the SMARTDAC+ series Paperless recorder GX/GP, computation option computes the "F-value," or sterilizing value for the sterilization process, so that the computation results can be recorded in the form of data.

With industrial and economic development comes increasingly large and advanced power plants and factories. Nevertheless, we find many cases where the original cables, cable tunnels, and other components of the power infrastructure have languished under continuous operation.

The sterilization temperature prior to the filling process is monitored in the field or office. The temperature data is recorded in an external storage medium.

Fish are totally dependent upon water to breathe, feed, grow, maintain a salt balance, and reproduce. Water quality determines the success or failure of an aquaculture operation.

• Temperature monitoring at a tank farm
• Temperature and pressure monitoring in tank jungles, three vertical monitoring points.

To defray energy costs, many industrial plants have their own boilers to generate steam to produce a portion of their energy needs. In addition to generating power, the steam may also be used directly in plant processes or indirectly via heat exchangers or steam jacketed vessels. 

Tank level measurements must be simple and accurate in order to maintain the milk quality, reduce waste and clean-up costs, and enable facility profitability.

Difficulties in measurement and monitoring can arise, however, when the recycled milk from the pasteurization process is introduced to the balance tank.

Temperature plays a key role in storage of Molasses to maintain the chemical properties of molasses. When temperature rises over 40.5 degree C, destruction of structure in sugar occurs, which results in losing the feeding property of molasses. There is also a safety concern that a rise in temperature can lead to a rise in storage tank pressure leading to an explosion of the tank.

Heat exchangers are devices that provide the flow of thermal energy between two or more fluids at different temperatures. Heat exchangers are used in a wide variety of applications. These include power production; process, chemical and food industries; electronics; environmental engineering; waste heat recovery; manufacturing industry; and air-conditioning, refrigeration, and space applications. Yokogawa offers a means to control heat exchanger leakage and prevent costly maintenance, repair and downtime with an easy-to-use, virtually maintenance-free condensate conductivity measurement method.

Ion Exchange is a method for the exchange of ions between two electrolytes or between an electrolyte solution and a complex molecule. In most cases the term is used to denote the processes of purification, separation, and decontamination of aqueous and other ion-containing solutions with solid polymeric or mineralic ion exchangers.

Yokogawa's best-in-class panel mount paperless recorders are fully integrated data acquisition and display stations with secure, built-in data storage and network connectivity. Panel-mount solutions are NEMA compliant and integrate the data acquisition equipment into a control panel. Yokogawa's paperless recorder lineup meets rigorous industry standards such as PMO, HTST, and FDA 21 CFR Part 11.

Brewers recognized that correcting flowmeter inefficiencies in out-of-date technology would help them achieve the increased and consistent throughput they needed. 

Dairy wastewater is a mixture of organic compounds, suspended solids, fats, and bacteria that can produce a film or coating on equipment in the process. 

Optimizing four key factors will decrease pH sensor costs and optimize process control and overall plant efficiency.

This eBook explains why implementing IIoT based digital operator monitoring solutions for autonomous anomaly detection enhances operations.

In this Yokogawa RAP Best Practices eBook, you’ll discover how our wealth of knowledge about Integrated Safe Systems and Control of Work is available to help you and your teams design and implement a system that best suits your needs.

A Basic Guide to Accurate & Reliable Flow Measurement.

This technical white paper will discuss Yokogawa's CENTUM VP DCS (Distributed Control System) product, hereafter referred to as "CENTUM VP", and the extent of its compliance with Part 11 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, (21 CFR Part 11), the Electronic Records / Electronic Signatures Rule.

Sugar and alcohol market are increasing, due humanity needs to find alternatives for fossil fuels dependence. Brazil joins climactic and technologic features to place itself at the forefront of this industry.

Get Connected: Advancing Workers and Capabilities
In this whitepaper by Shahzad Khan, you will learn how to use collaborative, integrated, optimized, and autonomous operations to integrate your systems and emerging performance metrics.

By downloading this whitepaper you will learn how to:

• Connect operations, systems, processes, maintenance, and goals
• Empower employees digitally, to improve their decision-making skills
• Gain access to immediate improvements to production efficiency

The worlds of process automation and production management have been converging for some time. What once used to be islands of automation and production management functionality connected through highly proprietary integration schemes that were costly to maintain have developed into integrated platforms that provide seamless data exchange between the world of automation and the plant floor, the functions of production and operations management, and integration with business level systems.

The world of process automation is governed by procedures. While we like to refer to the process industries as being largely "continuous", this could not be further from the truth. Process manufacturing is constantly in flux.

This document describes the operation and data flow of the Yokogawa Print Wave software using the DX-P Reporter. It will provide a detailed explanation of the Advanced Alarm Reporter functions. The functions described in this paper were first released in Print Wave version 5.5.

Discovering your Baseline with OT Security Risk Assessment

Discovering your Baseline with OT Security Risk Assessment

When selecting a Level Measurement device, what to consider in order to be accurate and repeatable?

The whitepaper discusses the importance of safety culture in achieving a smarter and safer working environment. It highlights statistics on work-related accidents and diseases, the cost of poor safety culture, and the need for a true safety culture achieved through company leadership.

On-site digital champions can drive your operation towards data integration and a more aligned way of working.

Digital twins are dynamic digital representations that enable companies to understand, predict and radically reorient their business processes.

Honeywell and Yokogawa have both been producing Distributed Control System (DCS) platforms for decades, and both are very active in this area. In 1975, Honeywell introduced its TDC2000 platform and Yokogawa brought out CENTUM. These two competing systems emerged from a similar place, oil refining and petrochemical industries, so they started out with similar basic concepts and use cases in mind. 

Thanks to a two year upgrade project, Foster's Yatala brewery is now one of the country's most efficient integrated brewing and packaging operations. More than 1,100 measurement and control devices from instrument manufacturer Yokogawa Australia will help keep it that way.

Interview with Ryon Shaw, project engineer at the Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA), to get his perspective on the current state of digital recording in the dairy industry and his thoughts on the challenges facing facilities today.

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ROTAMASS is the integral and remote type Coriolis Mass Flow Meter. Both types have highly refined digital signal processing electronics, so that accurate and stable mass flow measurement is achieved.

It is the most technologically advanced mass flow meter yet. By combining the superior design of the application specific flow sensor and transmitters with the Total Insight philosophy and functionality, the flexibility of the ROTAMASS to adapt to changing  requirements guarantees performance throughout the lifecycle of the process measurement.

UACS alarm shelving allows operators to temporarily suppress or "shelf" certain alarms. This can be useful in situations where an alarm is not critical or requires further investigation before an action is taken. Shelving an alarm typically means that it is acknowledged but not actively alarming, so it can be reviewed for later action.

This video introduces Unified Alarms and Conditions Server (UACS) for CENTUM VP. It covers some basic capabilities of UACS. UACS is a centralized alarm management system that helps to drive compliance with ISA 18.2. UACS is responsible for implementing and maintaining the alarms throughout the management life cycle.

As a gateway to further expand Yokogawa's messaging as a One-stop Solution Business, Yokogawa has partnered up with INCIT, to introduce the S.I.R.I. framework. 

Discover how to achieve industrial autonomy step by step through one of the 75+ inspiring presentations.

This workshop provided by industry partners Yokogawa and ThreatConnect will show you a way to strategically manage cyber risk within an industrial environment. Learn how to transition from the “break/fix” model of industrial cybersecurity to a business risk management strategy through cyber risk quantification, return on investment (ROI) for industrial cybersecurity solutions calculations, and cyber risk identification.