Agile Project Execution

OpreX Agile Project Execution

Realize CAPEX and OPEX Efficiencies with OpreX Agile Project Execution

OpreX Agile Project Execution (APEX) merges innovative project execution processes with enabling hardware and software technologies in order to remove automation from the critical path in a greenfield plant project.

APEX improves time management, minimizes project expenses, reduces risks in project execution and delivery, and ultimately maximizes the value of the automation system throughout the plant lifecycle.

APEX Benefits

Using APEX, automation project teams have realized savings including up to:

APEX Project Implementation

Predictable, Reliable, High Quality Project Execution

Deterministic cost and schedule
Scope clarity in terms of deliverables and services

Change Management

Minimized impact of late changes
Standardization instead of customization

Cost and Schedule Reductions

Improved engineering efficiency
Automated commissioning
Optimized lifecycle costs

Flawless Start-up

Replication - design once, deploy often
Fit for purpose, high quality products and services

APEX Tackles the Key Challenges in Automation Projects

In all projects, the primary challenges are:

Pressure to freeze the design early to meet the schedule
Requirement for an integrated Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) with all components
Automation commissioning activities are on the critical path
Time between delivery and hand over is a lost opportunity for managing changes as the process design matures

The overriding challenge is the late availability of high quality design information, which results in multiple submissions of low quality information in order to meet contractual milestones.

APEX Project Execution Model

APEX focuses on risk management in order to improve capital efficiency.

Eliminating all dependencies between application software engineering and hardware engineering allows flexible binding virtually any time during the project.

Not only does this enable risk management, it substantially increases the project team’s productivity.

APEX-Enabling Technologies

Cloud-based Project Engineering
Network I/O (N-IO) with Flexible Binding
Pre-engineered Smart Enclosures
System Virtualization
Automated Commissioning

Cloud-based Project Engineering

Yokogawa’s yi-Cloud is a collaborative, global virtual engineering environment that enables reductions in project scheduling, hardware costs and travel expenses.

Global Engineering Standards (GES) provide best practices in all aspects of project management. Project engineers have at their disposal a Process Application Library that deploys standard applications in place of custom software that require multiple coding/testing/modification iterations.

Network I/O (N-IO) with Flexible Binding

N-IO greatly streamlines project execution by completely decoupling application engineering from field wiring and hardware installation.

Universal I/O modules at the edge eliminate marshalling and reduce wiring by up to 80%.

Cabinet delivery, skid integration, and wiring termination can be done anytime during the project.

Last-minute changes result in nearly zero project delays. With project decoupling, no factory acceptance test (FAT) is required.

Pre-engineered Smart Enclosures

Yokogawa’s standard enclosures for Servers, Controllers, Safety Instrumented System (SIS), I/O, and Networking Components eliminate the costs and risks that are associated with customized engineering.

By considerably simplifying the drawing and documentation work, pre-engineered smart enclosures allow the project team to reduce these efforts up to 90%.

System Virtualization

A virtualized environment greatly simplifies the deployment of hardware and software.

Users realize considerable CAPEX savings plus OPEX benefits such as higher reliability, improved version management and system lifecycle extension.

Automated Commissioning

CENTUM VP technology and APEX have come together to automate the processes of verification, binding, configuration, testing, and documentation for multiple field devices.

Compared to traditional methodology, project teams can realize reductions of up to 80% in documentation, 90% in wiring design work, and 95%+ in commissioning time.