Yokogawa continues quest for top spot

Yokogawa, which says it will be the number one industrial automation supplier by 2010, will start up what it calls its asset excellence initiative which consists of three key approaches that achieves “production excellence through asset excellence, safety excellence and lifecycle excellence,” said Isao Uchida, president and chief executive of Yokogawa at the ARC Forum in Orlando, Fla.
Yokogawa is committed to the move, Uchida said. “A commitment made is a commitment kept.”
The company approach to asset excellence brings in four factors that end users will be able to measure to get the most out of their plant assets over the long haul: Asset reliability, asset availability, asset predictability, and asset performance.
Meanwhile, Yokogawa remained busy making news as Uchida unveiled a “working integration with GE Energy System for an integrated asset management system.
Yokogawa will provide a framework for monitoring the health of field devices, while GE will provide similar functionality for the mechanical and thermodynamic health of rotating machinery.
“The two systems will exchange data,” Uchida said.