All about CENTUM VP

Do you own a large factory or a production plant, plan to start one or ever wondered how an oil refinery or a power plant works with 100s and 1000s of instruments like pumps, valves, sensors, etc. spread over square kilometres of area?

Let me introduce you to Yokogawa’s CENTUM VP, the flagship DCS product from one of the well-known vendors in Industrial Automation.

With Yokogawa’s CENTUM VP you can efficiently control, operate and manage all these instruments by just sitting in front of a computer.

A Brief History

In the year 1975, Yokogawa manufactured and implemented the very first Distributed Control System “CENTUM”. Since the last 40+ years, Yokogawa CENTUM has been constantly evolving from automating processes to enabling digital transformations in operations. Recent release CENTUM VP R6.07 provides enhanced field digital communication and the addition of function for the Automation Design Suite (AD Suite) which is the integrated engineering environment.

Let’s get into some serious business! Why CENTUM VP?

Monitoring and controlling various parameters in a plant has always been a challenging task for the plant Engineers and Operators.

CENTUM VP and Yokogawa’s methodologies addresses one’s pain points and offers various solutions to improve overall excellence while minimising the cost of operation through DCS platform - CENTUM VP, be it a new installation or a migration from older DCS system.

How CENTUM proves to be the best?

CENTUM has a proven availability of 99.9999999% and with a downtime of less than a minute over ten years.
Project teams have successfully achieved major reductions in project hours as CENTUM DCS and project execution methodology come together to automate the manual processes of verification, binding, configuration, testing and documentation for field devices.
Certified and proven Cyber Security: CENTUM undergoes rigorous testing in Yokogawa’s Global security lab and is certified by the most trusted third-party standards.
Yokogawa’s Network I/O with flexible binding enables automated commissioning.
Automation design suite transcends traditional DCS engineering functionality, Automation Design Suite
automates manual programming processes, manages change, maintains data integrity and greatly simplifies application developments.
A high-performance HMI provides situational awareness and advanced decision support.
CENTUM VP integrates well with other systems.
CENTUM VP operates seamlessly with Yokogawa and other third party systems, safety instrumentation systems and SCADA systems.
Yokogawa’s advanced solutions use artificial intelligence to deliver proven results with measurable ROI without compromising safety and reliability.
CENTUM VP allows application changes to be made on the fly while the control system continues to process. Shutting the control system is unnecessary which means production is uninterrupted.

CENTUM VP at its best everywhere

Yokogawa’s CENTUM technology supports around 10000 plants globally to meet production targets.

Reduce your business risk and attain lowest cost ownership by having Yokogawa your trusted Automation partner.