Tokyo, Japan - October 2, 2014
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that one of its major platform products for the industrial automation and control business, the ProSafe®-RS safety instrumented system (SIS), has received a Science and Technology Award in the Excellent Product category from the China Instrument and Control Society (CIS)*.
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The award was presented on September 23 in a ceremony that was conducted at the opening of the 25th International Conference and Fair for Measurement Instrumentation and Automation (Miconex 2014), a CIS-sponsored event in Beijing, China. Yokogawa China Co., Ltd., a Yokogawa subsidiary, accepted the award certificate on Yokogawa's behalf.
The CIS Science and Technology Award was established by the National Office for the Science & Technology Awards and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, and is considered to be highly prestigious and influential. This year, 21 products won this award in the Excellent Product category, and it is particularly noteworthy that Yokogawa was the only non-Chinese company to receive this honor. This award for ProSafe-RS is the first time an SIS has won this honor, and it comes in recognition of our success in supplying many ProSafe-RS SISs in China which can be attributed to the high reliability of the ProSafe-RS and the enhancement to plant operations that comes through integration of ProSafe-RS and the Yokogawa CENTUM® VP integrated production control system. CENTUM VP received this award last year, making this the second consecutive year that we have received this award.
In energy and raw materials industries such as oil, natural gas, petrochemicals, and chemicals, there is a strong demand for solutions that will help to ensure a safer workplace. Safety instrumented system can detect hazardous conditions and initiate an emergency shutdown. To improve plant safety, the Chinese government is recommending the use of safety instrumented systems. Yokogawa will continue to provide products and other solutions that can enhance both operational efficiency and safety in China.
* The China Instrument and Control Society (CIS) is a registered academic and public nonprofit organization made up of professionals from the measurement & control and instrumentation science & technology fields who participate on a voluntary basis. The CIS is an important voice on topics related to the development of measurement & control and instrumentation science & technology. It was founded on March 29, 1979.
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