Yokogawa provides advanced solutions in measurement, control, and information to customers across a broad range of industries, including energy, chemicals, materials, pharmaceuticals, and food. Yokogawa addresses customer challenges in optimizing production, assets, and supply chains through the effective application of digital technologies that enable the transition to autonomous operations.
Founded in Tokyo in 1915, the company now has more than 17,000 employees in a global network of 128 companies spanning 62 countries, all working toward a more sustainable society.
OpreX is the comprehensive brand for Yokogawa’s industrial automation and control business. The OpreX brand stands for excellence in the technology and solutions that Yokogawa cultivates through the co-creation of value with its customers.
OpreX Information: Information technology that helps customers leverage the value of data, drawing on Yokogawa’s strength in operational technology (OT).
OpreX Control: Exceptionally reliable control technology that responds quickly to changes in management and operations and establishes the foundation needed for high efficiency, high quality, safety, and stability in plant operations.
OpreX Measurement: Highly reliable measurement technology for the implementation of value-enhancing operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) integration.
OpreX Consulting: Consulting services that leverage our exceptional knowledge and experience for the investigation and identification of customer issues and provision of to-be models.
OpreX Execution: Innovative, world-class project implementation capabilities, built on a strong track record of success all over the globe.
OpreX Lifecycle: Maintenance capabilities backed by extensive experience gained from working closely with our customers allow us to optimize operations over the entire plant lifecycle.
OpreX Integrated Solutions: Integrated solutions that make use of products, services, and expertise in specific fields to address a variety of customer challenges.
The low power consumption model of the field control node (FCN) autonomous controller meets the demanding requirements at inhospitable remote locations which lack power. Learn...
Yokogawa has released its cloud-based OpreX Quality Management System to accelerate the digital transformation of quality assurance processes in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals...
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will be releasing an enhanced version of the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system (SIS) on November 27.
Yokogawa Corporation of America announces the release on this date of the SensTation Digital sensor measurement system, a scalable and integrated solution that combines the unique...
Find out in this Take Five video why the use of remote access tends to be higher in the processing industries than in discrete manufacturing and where processing companies tend...
The OPC Foundation, CC-Link Partner Association and ODVA have all made announcements about major moves planned for 2019, indicating serious movement toward greater device and ...
Yokogawa’s OpreX Profit-driven Operation uses metrics methodology based on deep domain expertise to provide process industries plant visibility aligned with high-level objectives...
Automation suppliers are using the cloud, analytics, simulation and even new forms of accounting to expose the hidden value within process equipment in the plant.
ExxonMobil has spent a lot of its own energy convincing the automation community that there is a need for a standards-based control architecture. Now, under the umbrella of The...
As companies explore the Internet of Things, fog computing and edge computing take center stage as strategic ways of dealing with the plethora of data to be analyzed and acted...
Borne out of seven years of research and development inside Boeing, the control system security methods developed there are now offered by Tempered Networks to all of industry...
McLaren Applied Technologies is using what it’s learned through Formula 1 racing—modeling and simulating racing conditions through sensor data analysis—to optimize operating conditions...
No longer just a tool for control, automation systems must operate as business tools, managing all the complexities of an entire operations, noted retired Shell executive Simon...
From project execution, total cost of ownership, and lifecycle support issues to field device and systems integration and increased focus on software, Yokogawa executives discuss...
Company officials say the kit helps manufacturers accelerate open process automation with standardized communications, scalability and vendor-independent system integration.
KBC, a Yokogawa company, has introduced Visual MESA Multi-Period Optimizer 6 to reduce costly uncertainty in energy use over multiple time periods across generation portfolios...
Yokogawa releases its Operations Management software, a tool that assists plant personnel and management by digitizing and standardizing workflows to enhance efficiency and safety...
How FogHorn Systems’ updated Lightning software platform promises to deliver machine learning to Industrial Internet of Things edge and cloud computing systems.
As industry takes advantage of Internet of Things capabilities to improve manufacturing operations, it is highly unlikely that anybody will be able to go it alone.
Processing data on-premises at the edge of the network is becoming an increasingly popular tactic, as the amounts of data generated are just too massive to effectively send to...
Using reinforcement learning AI developed by Yokogawa, along with other Yokogawa automation technologies, a distillation column at a JSR Corp. plant was autonomously operated ...
In a recent survey conducted by Yokogawa, environmental sustainability was identified as one of the areas where autonomous technologies would have the most significant impact....
Several automation technology suppliers and end users have partnered to create an independent, not-for-profit association to accelerate the development and deployment of vendor...
Research shows that digital transformation is the primary driver of automation technology spending across the discrete, batch, and continuous process industries. But which technologies...
Though it represents one of the greater job skill challenges for new entrants, technology is increasingly viewed as a key attractor for the next-generation industrial workforce...
From dealing with core operating factors such as the hazardous and remote location of many assets to new consolidation and outsourcing trends, the process industries are leading...
From the evolving standard to test labs, movement to an interoperable framework is taking shape. But the OPAF group is asking for more help from manufacturers.
The new automation model focuses on services that reduce a manufacturer’s financial risks by shifting the responsibility of asset acquisition on to the OEM or technology supplier...
As more automation technology suppliers incorporate open-source tools, the ability to use open-source software in automation projects no longer depends on access to arcane software...
As the group readies version 2.0 of its open process automation standard, there’s an overarching feeling of unity but an underlying concern about what this architecture really...
An Automation World reader survey detects a rising interest in alarm management best practices. It finds that, though many users are investing in new software, many are also missing...
Though standardization efforts for Time-Sensitive Networking continue at pace, it is still years before industry should expect to see a bumper crop of compatible products.
Cybersecurity alliances are a key part of protecting the industrial sector from an increasingly coordinated and sophisticated attack base. How much can—or should—automation vendors...
The Open Process Automation Forum has been hard at work to develop a reference architecture that will transform process control systems. But there are still concerns around functionalit...
After weathering storms both economic and meteorological, will the industry stick to the hard-won lessons it has learned about the importance of optimization and process improvement...
Brazilian company GranBio avoids unnecessary maintenance work and plant shutdowns with integrated device configuration, asset management and remote access solutions
Yokogawa Corporation of America announces that it has received orders from Freeport LNG for its Liquefaction Facility (LQF) and Pre-Treatment Facility (PTF).
Yokogawa Corporation of America is pleased to announce that it has received TUV Rheinland certification for Functional Safety Management (FSM) IEC 61511-1:2003 SIS Integration...
The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute announced that Yokogawa Electric Corporation has successfully achieved ISA100 Wireless certification for its latest ISA100 Wireless Stack...
