Yokogawa’s new subsidiary ‘Yokogawa Bio Frontier’ commenced business operations on March 22 and will produce and market biomass materials to establish a sustainable carbon cycle.

Yokogawa has developed the Oprex Operational Risk Management: Field Assistant R2.02. This Android application is intended for use during field inspections of industrial facilities, and will be released on June 11.

Yokogawa China hat von Zhejiang Petrochemical den Zuschlag über die Lieferung von 190 Gaschromatografen (GC8000) für einen Raffinerie- und petrochemischen Anlagenkomplex in China erhalten.

Yokogawa Middle East & Africa has received an order from the state-owned Egyptian Natural Gas Company (Gasco) to supply a gas pipeline management and control system.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary, Yokogawa China, has signed a partnership agreement with Sinopec Engineering in order to build a long-term collaborative relationship.

Yokogawa strengthens its IoT-based advanced solutions business with the acquisition of cloud-based plant data sharing services provider Industrial Evolution.

With a total investment of 4.2 billion US dollars, the Nanhai petrochemicals complex at Daya Bay in Huizhou, China, has attracted a lot of attention because of its sheer scale. But to automation experts the complex is equally interesting because of the sophistication of its process control and monitoring systems.

A widespread issue in manufacturing plants is alarm overload. As formerly independent systems are integrated for more effective operation by fewer operators, each operator has to monitor an increasingly wider area and consequently deal with more alarms. Without rigorous alarm rationalization efforts, alarm flooding becomes a serious problem and increases the risk of safety and environmental incidents.