Plant Information Management System (Exaquantum)

• Yokogawa supplied an integrated boiler and turbine control, monitoring and protection system for each of the four generating units in a coal-fired power plant in Australia.
• Yokogawa also delivered two high fidelity operator training simulators for this plant.

• Highlyadvanced biopharmaceutical plant uses CENTUM, VP Batch, Exaquantum and PRM.
• Total system integration for large-scale biotech production facility.

• CENTUM CS 3000 and Exaquantum PIMS improve production efficiency at Chinese synthetic rubber plant.
• Exaquantum provides data on long-term trends needed to make improvements to plant processes.

• Rapid Implementation of Integrated CENTUM DCS and ProSafe-RS.
• The highly reliable CENTUM DCS system has also helped TOL maintain high productivity at this plant.

• Yokogawa's CENTUM CS 3000 DCS Monitors and Controls Operations at Poultry Litter-to-energy Plant
• The boiler and turbine startup procedures reduces operator workload and helps to ensure a smooth and safe startup

• At the company's Ulsan resin plant, six Exaquantum servers were connected to CENTUM CS 3000 and other vendor's systems.
• KKPC needed to expand its SBC capabilities and improve production efficiency at its plants.

• Yokogawa's integrated solutions control FGD processes at Romania's largest power plant
• SO₂ and dust emissions are controlled within the EU environmental standards

• Installation of Exaquantum PIMS package improves efficiency of process data management.
• Improve quality and yield through proactive maintenance of plant assets.

• CENTUM CS 3000 plays key role in Malaysian waste oil to diesel project.
• Yokogawa proposed to provide its systems and services as the main instrument vendor.

• Exaquantum Achieves $2 Million in Annual Savings for CENIBRA Pulp & Paper Plant.
• Following an upgrade to the CENTUM CS 3000 Production Control System, leading pulp and paper supplier CENIBRA saw the potential for further savings and efficiencies through tighter control of the production process.

• CENTUM CS 3000 replaces legacy system at Paris's largest waste to energy plant
• Exaquantum is used to calculate plant performance and generate the reports needed to optimize operations and demonstrate regulatory compliance

• Innovative GEOLIDE waste water treatment complex in Marseille uses CENTUM and Exaquantum. 
• The visualization of all data on items such as motor and pump operating time and chemical consumption amount allows operators to optimize key operation items.

• Easy-to-use report system
• Electric power demand monitoring screen with enhanced real-time capability
• Monitoring screens for estimated free calcium oxide content
• Automatic production control ranging from schedule to instructions, current status display, actual data collection, and report output

Eraring Power Station, located just north of Sydney, is one of the largest power stations in Australia, comprising four 660MW coal-fired units. The power station has operated reliably since 1981. To ensure continued reliability for the next few decades, Eraring Energy, the owner of the power plant, decided to replace the original hard-wired control equipment with a modern integrated control and monitoring system (ICMS).

• Yokogawa provides CENTUM CS 3000 and ProSafe-RS for the largest LNG terminal in Europe.
• Yokogawa's OmegaLand plant operator training simulator (OTS) helps to reduce costs, optimize LNG terminal processes.

• Yokogawa receives award for hot cutover of BP Sharjah plant DCS.
• Yokogawa was selected by BP as main automation contractor (MAC) for a project to replace the Sharjah plant's existing legacy DCS with Yokogawa CENTUM VP.

• Yokogawa's CENTUM VP and PRM improve efficiency at new nylon plant in Thailand.
• At the plant startup stage, PRM was used together with FieldMate to thoroughly check all loops.

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.

• Yokogawa provides CENTUM CS 3000, Exaquantum and PRM solutions for China's largest refinery/petrochemical complex.
• Process data management by Exaquantum is a key issue in the petrochemical complex.

Improved plant operation efficiency and reduced maintenance costs based on appropriate predictive maintenance are the common objectives that need to be achieved in every manufacturing domain. Exaquantum is positioned above the Process Control System (PCS) layer and gathers and stores huge volumes of process and laboratory data over long terms.

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ARC believes that by implementing procedural automation, many process plants can minimize variability to help ensure smooth, efficient, and safe state transitions.

Modern historians do much more than just store process data. They also provide analysis, reports, and valuable operational and business information.

Exaquantum/ARA is a comprehensive set of statistical reports and KPIs based upon ISA 18.2-2009 & EEMUA 191.  Alarm and Events can be aggregated by hour, day, shift, week, month, quarter and year providing alarm rates, counts, peaks, floods, etc. Exaquantum/ARA can be used to reduce the number of unwanted and distracting alarms allowing operators to react faster to abnormal situations with the proper corrective action, resulting in a safer and more productive plant, reduced environmental risk, enhanced maintenance response; Reduction in the amount of equipment damage.  This package is part of our Alarm Management suite that utilizes software tools, alarm rationalization processes, and alarm philosophy generation as part of the solution aimed at reducing operator stress, operator overload prevention, and providing KPI information to key stakeholders on demand and by emails facilitating efficient and timely decision making.

Exaquantum/DTA enables Downtime analysis to be carried out by automatically recording times when plant equipment is not running ('Downtimes') and production figures which are less than the Maximum Sustainable Production Rate ('Rate Losses'). Reasons can then be assigned to these events to add context.  The solution provides statistics including support for Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) that are integral to the operational decision making process with a view to minimizing plant loss and maximizing future production.

The solution allows implementation of a continuous plant availability improvement program through increased awareness of Downtime and Rate Loss within the operating process and equipment dynamics.   Exaquantum/DTA can be used to prioritize maintenance by identifying the causes and effects of production loss and reduces manual data entry inaccuracies by automating data collection.

Exaquantum is a comprehensive Plant Information Management System (PIMS) incorporating a data historian for real time and historical data, alarms, and events along with aggregations, role-based views and KPIs, graphical HMI, trends, reports, and integration with different systems.  It provides a cetralized repository for users throughout the plant and is the foundation for most of Yokogawa's production, safety, and alarm optimization solutions and operator effectiveness solutions. Exaquantum can acquire data from all facets of a process and transform that data into easily usable, high-value actionable information that can be made avaialable across the enterprise.

Exaquantum/GF (graphical framework) provides an enhanced user interface tool for the Exaquantum/Explorer environment. It provides graphic navigation control, history replay, integration of additional process information, user configurable trend groups and links to frequently used functions. These enhancements reduce configuration time for graphics  and trend groups, and improves analysis with a history replay feature.

Exaquantum/RM (Report Manager) allows using Microsoft Excel to create reports. Reports are scheduled on demand or periodically (hourly, weekly, monthly, etc.). Reports can be saved as web pages, Excel files, and as PDFs. Using standard off the shelf environment tools enables timely creation and distribution of reports, including reduced leanring curve and manpower in the production of regular reports along with easier auditing and management of reports.

Exaquantum/OTM provides long-term trending of process values combined with Alarm and Events.  It provides System-wide and user-specific trend groups with quick and easy access to important process information.  This raised visibility allows optimizing plant performance and safety by helping operators to identify changes in plant behavior that require attention.

Exaquantum /PPC provides real-time power performance calculations for primary and auxilliary equipment (such as boilers, turbines, heat exchangers) as well as overall plant efficiency.

The configuration environment is easy to use with pre-built blocks based on ASME PTC that are used to defined specific plant configurations. 'What-if' analysis provides the ability to examine different plant operating scenarios and the impact.

The solution provides key performance indicator dashboards for targeted useres to increase performance awareness that enables improved power plant efficiency, optimized maintenance, better asset utilization, bottleneck identification, and energy loss identification for continuous improvement and identificatin of optimal operating conditions.

Exaquantum/SER is a unified sequence of events recorder solution that provides a plantwide integrated view of alarms, events and associated process data.  It identfies, collects, and processes alarms, events and process data related to plant trips from systems throughout the plant (DCS, historians, PIMS, PLCs, process automataion controllers, SCADA systems, safety systems, etc.) and stores the created information in an open and portable database. It can be used to provide trip detection based upon specific plant conditions and provide a full log of all relevant process information in the crucial period before and after a plant event.  Exaquantum/SER's plantwide integrated view can be used for peformance analysis and in aiding investigation teams in performing root cause analysis and problem identification. This solution assists in the elimination or reduction in the number of unexpected incidents and trips while increasing availability and production.

Exaquantum is one of the most comprehensive Plant Information Management Systems (PIMS) available for process industries.