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Yokogawa-CEO Takashi Nishijima delivered the sponsor’s lecture – starting with the growing world population, highlighting the shrinking resource base and ending in climate change. “At the same time, the world is becoming more complex in our production plants due to networking and cyber attacks”, said Nishijima. These major task according to his assessment, can be solved only through innovations. His credo: “Yokogawa delivers solutions without limits for all types of companies.

Tomorrow's Plant Automation?

“Impressive evidence of our competency in automation are approx. 40,000 automation projects executed worldwide. How innovations in the process industry can look like for users was illustrated by Dr. Andreas Helget, Manager of Yokogawa Deutschland, with the help of many examples.

“The technical automation-based heart of a plant continues to be the lead system and and it will continue to be so in the future”, said Helget convincingly, but he also clarified that asset management and near-plant AMS became a reality long ago and have expanded the task areas. No one should feel insecure that the automation pyramids have reached their limits and will crumble. “After all, it is only a model”, says Helget.

Flexibility in High Demand

A flexible automation, an optimized production and services according to dimension are inevitable preconditions for successful producers, but also the good collaboration between operator and equipment supplier.

Besides the Automation Design Suite of Yokogawa, the Head of Yokogawa Deutschland presented several tools and projects that can optimize a plant with the help of innovative ideas, say with a model-predictive regulation, big data or statistical methods. With the last option for instance, it was possible to detect a critical situation in a polymerization process five hours before its onset, instead of getting the essential information only a few minutes before the shutdown due to excessive temperatures - as earlier.

Another example comes from maintenance: Here, Augmented Reality was tried out in a producing company in the Höchst Industry Park with remarkable success. Supplementary, useful information was loaded in the maintenance software on the tablets and on the monitors of the maintenance staff. Helget emphasized in his lecture that one does not always need complete virtual solutions, one can achieve major uses at minor expenditure.

How it continued on the first day in Bad Neuenahr, among other things with the challenges in Plant Performance, is described on the next page.

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