Industrial Automation Magazine India

Yokogawa releases AI enabled versions of SMARTDAC Plus

Published on : Wednesday 08-04-2020

Includes paperless recorders and data logging software, and environmentally robust AI enabled e-RT three Plus Edge computing platform for industry applications.

Tokyo, April 7, 2020 – Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced the release of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled versions of the GX series panel-mount type paperless recorders, GP series portable paperless recorders, and GA10 data logging software, which are components of the highly operable and expandable SMARTDAC+™ data acquisition and control system. This new AI functionality includes the future pen, a function developed by Yokogawa that enables the drawing of predicted waveforms. Yokogawa is also releasing a new CPU module for the e-RT3™ Plus edge computing platform that is environmentally robust and Python™1 compatible. The GX/GP and e-RT3 Plus release is set for April 8, and the GA10 software will be released on May 13. The SMARTDAC+ system is a product in the OpreX™ Data Acquisition family, and the e-RT3 Plus is part of the OpreX Control Devices family.

The introduction of AI functions such as the future pen, a first for industrial recorders, will help users identify and correct problems before they have a chance to cause disruptions in production operations. 

Enhancements include:

• A future pen function has been added to the GX/GP series recorders to enable the drawing of predicted waveforms based on the use of AI to analyse collected data in real time. By viewing predicted waveforms up to a specified time point, users can identify the likelihood that an alarm will occur and take action in advance.
• A machine learning function has been added to the GA10 data logging software that can acquire normal process values from correctly operating devices and use these values to detect an anomaly and predict a potential failure, a capability that up till now has only been possessed by the most expert operators.
• e-RT3 Plus controllers can be built into various types of devices. For use with these controllers, Yokogawa is releasing a new CPU module that supports Python, a programming language that is widely used in machine learning and other branches of the AI field. The large library of software written in this language includes numerous tools that programmers can use to speed up their development of AI predictive diagnostic functions.