Yokogawa Oprex User Manual

Integrated Production Control System

CENTUM VP

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Through "Process Co-Innovation,"
Yokogawa creates new value with our clients

The CENTUM VP Distributed Control System (DCS) is Yokogawa's most advanced,

integrated process control system, providing enhanced productivity and

optimization across a wide range of industries. For over forty years, the CENTUM

DCS family has evolved to meet and exceed the needs of businesses and will

continue to do so as they reinvent themselves through digital transformations

for a brighter future.

and incorporate new technologies such as IoT far into the future.

CENTUM VP

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Customer Centric Values

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CENTUM VP is a reliable built for safe performance control system that
is scalable, flexible, powerful and easy to use.

Efficient Engineering Environment

Automation Design Suite enables users eliminate redundant work, increase engineering
efficiency using flexibility of Standardized Modular engineering, maintain data integrity and
enable change management through smart engineering. The reduced workflow translates to
sustainable, efficient project execution to realize business value.

Intuitive Unified Plant Operations

Operator centric interface for control, safety, asset intelligence integrated with embedded
Consolidated Alarm Management System prevents information overload for operators
allowing deliver safe, high performance, efficient plant operations for customer satisfaction.

Pragmatic Lifecycle Management Programmes

CENTUM History

Vnet/IP (1 Gbps)

V net (10 Mbps)

Vnet/IP

CENTUM

CENTUM

CS

Over 40 years and still counting

CENTUM

VP

ProSafe-RS

VP R5

CENTUM

CS 3000

CENTUM VP R6

CENTUM

CS 3000 R3

2015

Yokogawa provide online upgrades, patches, migration, security solutions as lifecycle services.
These services involve comprehensive customer collaboration ensuring sustainable return on
investment for control system assets. These services are applicable across plant lifecycle.

Improved Project Execution and Reduced Cost

N-IO (Network I/O), the next-generation software configurable smart I/O reduces footprint,
lowers marshalling costs and allows flexible I/O binding.
N-IO matched with the FieldMate Validator commissioning tool allow significantly faster
project completion to reduce costs without quality compromise.

HF-BUS (1 Mbps)

F-BUS (250 Kbps)

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CENTUM

CENTUM-XL

Yokogawa has maintained exclusive ownership of CENTUM
development throughout the history of this product series.
The upgrade path for each legacy system is always taken
into consideration before a new version is released.

Yokogawa’s Commitment

Yokogawa's system platforms strengthened with decades of market proven execution experience
provide the highest quality solutions for secure and optimized process automation management.
Yokogawa's global customer centric focus with strong local support reduces users' business
risks. Yokogawa provides the lowest total cost of ownership. With a long history of progressive
compatibility, Yokogawa is your dependable automation partner.

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