It intends to extend from its strength in downstream oil and gas into
niche solutions--the new CombustionOne solution. The company will also
develop more services and solutions expanding upon the VigilantPlant
Services offering introduced last year. Specifically in North America
Yokogawa will also focus on upstream and midstream with additional focus
on potential of gas industry, since the US just passed Russia as
largest gas producer. It will also target shale gas developments,
specialty chemical with particular focus on instrument, analytical and
sensor products on global basis integrated with process control and
network based control systems.
A review of competitive specifications along with its own tests, the new
FA-M3, vitesse, is benchmarked as the fastest PLC on the market. It is a
mid-to-high range product targeted for applications from machine
control to network based control system. It will be marketed throughout
channel and to machine OEMs. Executives described it as small and light,
secure and reliable, extremely scalable.
CombustionOne solution is a packaged product targeted for control,
optimization and safe operations of fired heaters, dryers, heat
exchangers and the like. It combines control with the Truepeak TDL laser
analyzer.
