Industrial Automation Magazine India

Yokogawa launches OpreX Managed Service

Published on : Tuesday 06-10-2020

Monitoring and maintenance support for the efficient operation of plant equipment.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that it has developed the OpreXTM Managed Service, which supports the remote monitoring and maintenance of plant equipment. By identifying and correcting issues with plant equipment and devices before they can break down, this service can prevent unexpected plant shutdowns. It can be accessed and utilised in a variety of ways, depending on customer requirements. The service is being offered as part of the OpreX Sustainable Maintenance family lineup, and will be launched in all regions other than Japan on September 28.

It is difficult to prevent equipment failure from being a leading cause of plant incidents and unplanned shutdowns with conventional maintenance practices alone. This is driving an increasing need for predictive maintenance capabilities that can prevent production losses by identifying the status of devices and looking for signs that a fault may occur. In addition, more and more plants are streamlining their production operations by linking control systems with the information systems that oversee production management and equipment maintenance, and integrating previously separate instrument rooms and control systems. This has resulted in systems that are larger and more complex than ever before, making it difficult to assess their condition. Another issue is the pressing need to implement the necessary cybersecurity measures at these plants. However, obtaining the expertise needed to maintain these large-scale systems has grown increasingly difficult with the mass retirement of skilled and knowledgeable personnel.

Yokogawa has developed the OpreX Managed Service to address these issues and meet the needs of industry by enabling the digital transformation of asset monitoring and maintenance in production and manufacturing.