CENTUM VP

Integrated Production Control System Overview

The core platform for Yokogawa’s VigilantPlant ® Solutions

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CENTUM history Nearly 40 years and still counting

2005 2008 2011

CENTUM CENTUM 2014
Vnet/IP (1 Gbps) VP VP R5 CENTUM VP R6

1993 1998 2001

CENTUM CENTUM CENTUM
V net (10 Mbps) CS CS 3000 CS 3000 R3

1983 1988
HF-BUS (1 Mbps) CENTUM V CENTUM-XL

Is your plant silent and boring?

“A well managed plant is silent and boring.”- Peter. F. Drucker

1975 Yokogawa has maintained exclusive ownership of CENTUM

F-BUS (250 Kbps) CENTUM development throughout the history of this product series. The
upgrade path for each legacy system is always taken into
consideration before a new version is released.

Yokogawa's commitment
VigilantPlant is Yokogawa's vision for the ideal plant. Our vision is for a plant to be a place Yokogawa’s system platforms combined with its proven execution experience provide the
where people can be watchful and attentive, while the business responds quickly and highest quality and the most innovative solutions for secure and optimized process
effectively to change. Non-stop production is assured as the plant's personnel confidently automation and management. Yokogawa’s global customer centric focus together with
expand their capabilities. In such a well managed plant, it is possible to plan for the future strong local support reduces users’ business risks and provides the lowest total cost of
and make the kind of changes needed to optimize every aspect of its operations. It keeps ownership. With a long history of progressive compatibility, Yokogawa is your dependable
evolving in response to changing needs. automation partner.
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CENTUM VP ushers in an operating environment that keeps everyone
fully aware, well informed, and ready to face the next challenge.

Versatile and Efficient Engineering Improved Project Execution and Reduced Cost
The Automation Design Suite, Yokogawa's new engineering environment, is designed for faster and N-IO (Network I/O), the next-generation software configurable smart I/O,
more flexible engineering. This radical innovation ensures a standardized and consistent engineering reduces footprint, lowers marshalling costs and allows flexible I/O binding.
framework, thereby maintaining data integrity and facilitating management of change. It streamlines Matched with the FieldMate Validator, our commissioning tool, this allows
engineering workflow, eliminates redundant work and increases reusability. for significantly faster project completion and reduced costs without
compromising on quality.

Intuitive and Integrated Operation High Performance and Dependable Control

A common interface for control, safety, and asset intelligence provides operators with all the 99.99999% availability is a CENTUM hallmark that provides unmatched
relevant information to aid in decision-making. This together with embedded mechanisms such as reliability for plant control. The powerful Field Control Station (FCS)
our Consolidated Alarm Management Software (CAMS) prevents information overload and coupled with the Vnet/IP high-speed network not only ensures
ensures safe and unified plant operation. high-capacity processing but also secure and reliable communication.

Continuous Evolution and Long-term Investment Protection

Yokogawa provides a comprehensive and systematic approach to plant lifecycle management.
With online upgrades and modifications, step-by-step migration paths, in-depth security solutions
and a wide array of lifecycle services, we make sure that our customers get the most out of their
investment.
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True Integration of Production Excellence,
Safety Excellence and Asset Excellence
CENTUM VP achieves the Operational Excellence that is the focus of Yokogawa’ s Dedicated Operation Keyboard
Production Excellence, Safety Excellence and Asset Excellence initiatives. It offers Optimized allocations of the function keys and buttons enable operators to call up or
switch graphics and control loops by pressing a single key. Two types, a single-loop
integrated viewing and data handling functions. For example, alarms from the
and an eight-loop simultaneous operation keyboards, are provided giving users the
ProSafe-RS Safety Instrumented System and Plant Resource Manager, Yokogawa’ s ability to react quickly to process conditions.
Asset Management product, can be seen and handled seamlessly in the Human
Interface Station (HIS).

Easy to operate with clear visibility

Yokogawa offers an intuitive and easy-to-understand HMI environment for plant operation and monitoring, which is the result of Software Suites
vast experience with CENTUM systems in operation. Flexibility in displaying operation windows and monitors helps in adapting to CENTUM VP's versatile architecture covers not only continuous and batch process control but also
various aspects of operation needs. CENTUM VP provides easy-to understand graphics based on the ergonomics and knowledge manufacturing operations management.
engineering. For instance, data displays are provided with high visibility that enables intuitive awareness of the situation. The use
of colors considers the best contrast and environments of the central control room and the configuration of the displays integrates
Consolidated Alarm Management
the knowhow of experienced operators. With all these functions, CENTUM VP enables operators to make quick and accurate
Consolidated Alarm Management Software (CAMS) helps customers avoid safety and environmental incidents that can
decisions during operations and contributes to improve operation efficiency.
be caused by alarm flooding. It also enables customers to improve operational efficiency under normal conditions,
freeing operators from having to perform tedious repetitive tasks and allowing them to focus on true process concerns.
CAMS supports Six Sigma DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) for alarm management based on the
latest EEMUA #191 alarm management guideline. It provides additional useful tools such as graphical historical data
System message banner analysis and automatic alarm reduction. Sequence of event management functions are also included.
Continuously displays the latest alarm
messages, keeping operators up to date on Plant Asset Management
process conditions.
With PRM (Plant Resource Manager) and intelligent field devices, operators and maintenance personnel can monitor
Browser bar the condition of plant assets remotely. Plant Resource Manager's diagnostic functions detect early signs of
Contains navigation tools for the convenience performance deterioration such as valve sticking and impulse line blocking. By helping curtail excessive preventive
of operators, frequently-used icons can be maintenance and enabling higher level predictive and proactive maintenance, Plant Resource Manager opens the way
grouped in a My Favorites folder. to asset predictability.

A wider variety of software suites for automation solutions is available.

Window history
Lists the previous operational displays.
Operators can quickly call up previously-used
graphics windows.

AOG Solution
The AOG (Advanced Operator Graphics) solution
emphasizes ergonomic design and seeks,
through improved color selection, layout, and
visual function, to improve operators situational
awareness. A team of Yokogawa engineers
visited many plants to conduct a detailed
analysis, review the tasks carried out by
operators, and learn about the plant's operations.
In accordance with general principles on industrial
design and human engineering, Yokogawa then
redesigned the GUIs for the HMI displays to
reduce operator errors, make their work easier to
All plant process data and device data are
perform, and reduce physical stress.
handled by CENTUM VP.
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Ensuring the Highest Availability and Reliability

Yokogawa’s CENTUM series achieves high availability thanks to a dual-redundant Online Maintenance
design, online maintenance capability, and other advanced features. The FCS Through an online maintenance function, FCS applications can be modified without shutting down the FCSs. It means, you can change
processor module, power supply, I/O modules, and I/O networks are all dual logics and parameters without interrupting the process control. This is useful for expansion or modification of the plant in operation.
redundant. Active and stand-by processor modules work in synchronization: even if a
failure occurs, control switches over seamlessly to the stand-by module and the FCS Wide variety of Function Blocks
continues running. Failed modules can be replaced online, ensuring that not even a The CENTUM VP provides functional blocks for monitoring, control, manipulations, calculations, logic functions, and sequences. Not
hardware failure will interfere with plant operation. only continuous control but also advanced control, complicated sequence control, and batch control are all executed in a redundant,
secure, and reliable controller environment. Plant systems can be flexibly designed, ranging from small-to-large-scale, through the
combination of these control blocks.
Control network
Designed for Stable Control
The CENTUM series employs a pair & spare architecture
that improves the stability of process control. Each N-IO (Network I/O) : Ultimate flexibility
processor module has redundant CPUs that execute the N-IO reduces footprint, lowers marshalling costs and allows flexible I/O assignment.
same computations simultaneously. Their outputs are
constantly compared and a bump-less switchover to the
stand-by processor module is initiated if any anomalies Baseplate
caused by electronic noise or other phenomena are
detected. This minimizes the likelihood that CPU hardware Universal I/O and Software Marshalling
N-IO has AI/AO/DI/DO in each I/O channel. Each I/O channel Universal I/O Module
I/O network I/O network faults will have any impact on process control.
can be changed to other I/O types by software programming. • 16 Channels I/O
• Signal: AI/AO/DI/DO
No Single Point of Failure Adapter (Built-in Signal Conditioner) • Software Configurable
The HIS runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems N-IO implements a wide variety of built-in signal conditioners on • HART 7 Support
platforms and offers customers the convenience of using its baseplate. In most cases, there is no need to prepare external • Full Redundancy
commercial-off-the-shelf hardware. Although the reliability of a signal conditioning or the additional space this requires.
PC is relatively low, it does not affect the total reliability of the
process operator function. As the HIS is not server-client Redundancy Adapter
dependent, multiple HISs provide independent backup such The same N-IO baseplate supports both single and dual
• Built-in Signal Conditioner
that there is no single point of failure. redundant formations, eliminating the need for multiple
• Single point integrity
hardware/software vendors when implementing redundancy.
• Through, Pulse, Multi
types of DI and DO, etc.
The state-of-the-art Field Control Station (FCS) I.S. Barriers
The N-IO baseplate supports Intrinsically Safe I/O barriers.
Yokogawa has a long history of delivering stable and high quality
Termination Block
CENTUM systems. The CENTUM VP controller features outstanding
processing performance and a large application storage capacity, yet
inherits the same quality and stability that are the hallmark of the
CENTUM series. It has been optimized to take full advantage of
advances in field digital technology that will help plants operate with
increased efficiency and stability.

1 Gbit, World’s Fastest Open Control Network

Yokogawa's Vnet/IP provides open, reliable, and real-time
broadband communications, which enables the use of commercial
off-the-shelf technology that help reduce costs. The open

CENTUM : the DCS solution with

communication does not affect process control data
communications nor does it impact the performance and security
aspect of the control communications. The Yokogawa system
guarantees data updates every second in the HIS, regardless of
project size or complexity.
an incredibly high 99.99999% availability!
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Yokogawa accelerates plant startup and The Automation Design Suite - Improving Quality, Reducing Complexity and
Ensures sustainable performance Enhancing Productivity
The Automation Design Suite, Yokogawa's new engineering environment, retains the entire engineering history of your plant from
Yokogawa paves way for a new engineering paradigm for the next-generation. It is design phase, through commissioning and live operation; which ensures up-to-date plant knowledge with every expansion, or
not uncommon for a project to experience backsliding and significant rework, all of hardware and software change throughout your lifecycle.

which affects the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Yokogawa's engineering prevents
these inefficiencies and ensures our customers reap all these benefits throughout a Module Based Engineering
plant’s lifecycle. The Automation Design Suite adopts a Modular approach to
automation design and execution, where process loops, alarm
design philosophy, graphics and more are deployed as design
patterns: downloaded, shared and re-used as standards across the
enterprise, saving time and resources.
Conventional Design Configuration Application Ship & Field
SAT
& HW FAT Install wiring Yokogawa leverages its long history and vast expertise in process
Engineering
automation, with standardized, industry proven engineering
modules available that span a broad range of processes and
Automation Design functions for production, safety and asset excellence.
N-IO effects FieldMate Validator effects
Suite effects

Management of Change and Resources

Manufacturing Ship & Loop The Automation Design Suite is more than the ‘As built’ specification of your plant… It provides dynamic management of
& HW FAT wiring Validation
design, investment and project effectiveness by auditing and versioning engineering changes, and facilitating effective
Early Start-up
Yokogawa’s Application engineering through ModPacks (Modification Packages).
Engineering Design Configuration SAT
FAT
ADMDB This serves to maintain project schedules by
ModPack ModPack
reducing the delays and the engineering impact
Control Control
Documents Documents
Improving quality, Reducing risks of late design changes or scope changes. The
Alarm Design Alarm Design
Reducing complexity and to scheduled project delivery HW/SW Config HW/SW Config Automation Design Suite also auto-documents
Enhancing productivity and checks inconsistencies in project activity
Check-out Check-in and software resources, removing the pain
Yokogawa provides smart engineering thanks to three innovative products.
● Automation Design Suite, Yokogawa’s engineering environment from project management, and significantly
● N-IO (The Network I/O), Yokogawa’s software configurable smart I/O reducing project risk.
● FieldMate Validator, Yokogawa’s commissioning tool for N-IO

Approve
Validate
Flexible I/O Binding – ensuring project execution excellence
After the DCS is sent to a site, design changes often happen due to physical restrictions of implementation or inadvertent
miscalculations and these changes can significantly affect the project schedule. And shortening the term of a project is an everpresent
Change
challenge. Flexible I/O binding, Yokogawa’s improved late I/O binding solution, helps overcome these customer challenges.
Dependency Analyze Authorization Function Recording changes through out the plant lifecycle

Reducing the Risks to Scheduled Project Delivery

The flexible I/O binding facilitates simple and hassle-free I/O binding. This is made possible by software marshaling
and the N-IO’s universal channels. The type of I/O and the interconnection between the I/O module and the controller
can be modified remotely which significantly absorbs the impact of last-minute I/O changes. Furthermore, the flexible
I/O binding achieves early delivery of I/O cabinets to the site, and problems can be found and fixed on-site at a very
early stage.

Early Start-up Yokogawa’s vast and in-depth engineering experience

coupled with CENTUM’s rich history guarantees
The flexible I/O binding shortens duration of a project. After I/O design is fixed, application engineering and hardware
engineering can progress independently and parallel. This is made possible by System Independent Loop
Commissioning. System Independent Loop Commissioning project capability utilizes Yokogawa's FieldMate
Validator, an innovative tool allowing the field testing and validation of N-IO without requiring a deployed system.
unparalleled project execution.
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YOKOGAWA is committed to sustaining your business
With vast experience in maintenance technology and an extensive support Security
structure, Yokogawa maintains the reliability and availability of the control system We are in a new age of controlling security risks. The spread of malware and a rise in increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks
throughout a plant's lifecycle. are causing even more serious damage. The threat of cyber-security risks extends beyond information technology systems and
into control systems. The use of information technology systems has advanced control systems and helped reduce costs and
Yokogawa’s services for plants lifecycle provide more functions. However, we now need to tackle the associated security risks.

Yokogawa provides operational solutions and optimization of the maintenance plan as well as overall cost through our three introductory
steps that include Opportunity Identification Services, Solution Implementation Services and Lifecycle Effectiveness Services.

Robust Cyber-Security

Three Introductory Steps Step1 Opportunity Identification Services ® CENTUM VP field control unit has obtained the ISASecure® Embedded Device
Security Assurance (EDSA) certification from the ISA Security Compliance
Yokogawa evaluates the effectiveness of a customer’s system with periodical inspection, CENTUM VP has obtained the
Institute (ISCI). The certification was obtained through a process that involved an
environmental diagnosis, deterioration diagnosis and maintenance histories and identifies ISASecure® Embedded Device Security examination by the CSSC (Control System Security Center) Certification Labora-
issues that require improvement to avoid risks. Based on objective data, Yokogawa Assurance (EDSA) certification. tory. It ensures that CENTUM is equipped with the cyber security features to be
proposes optimum lifecycle maintenance plans and conducts measures based on the used in the industries such as oil, petrochemical, power and many others.
plan. Also, we analyze system utilizations such as controllability, alarm, HMI etc.
Step quantitatively and identify new opportunities for improvement.
ISASecure EDSA 2010.1 Level 1 TM
Certification number : CSSC-C00001
Endpoint Security Service
CENTUM VP R5.03.00 / Vnet/IP Firmware R18 Yokogawa provides an effective security service in response to the customer’s
requests and operational conditions. USB Port Lock Service, Unauthorized
Step 2 Solution Implementation Services® Program Countermeasure Service, Security Information Service, etc. are
available. The Anti-virus software and the white listing software are provided by
Yokogawa provides maintenance operations based on the plant lifecycle plan for the Yokogawa.
purpose of sustaining the system’s functions and overall effectiveness.

Preventive Maintenance to sustain high availability

Migration
Provide periodical inspections and parts replacement, improve system reliability and
Not satisfied with another vendor’s control systems? Consider migrating it to CENTUM VP. We have successfully migrated over
availability. (MTBF Improvement)
Step Prompt Recovery in case of emergency
350 non-Yokogawa systems so far and the number is steadily growing. To name a few: Bailey INFI90, Foxboro I/A, Emerson
RS3/PROVOX/DeltaV, Eurotherm, Hartman & Brown ContronicP, Hitachi, Honeywell TDC2000/TDC3000/PKS, Siemens
Yokogawa Global Response Center and our worldwide network provides prompt SIMATIC, Taylor MODCELL, Toshiba, Allen-Bradley PLC.
recovery 24/7 with the effective utilization of remote maintenance technology.
(MTTR Reduction)
Upgrading
Integrity / Security sustainment Upgrading is simple and quick: it takes just one click of a mouse to execute an FCS upgrade. All of Yokogawa's legacy CENTUM
Yokogawa prevents data corruption and inconsistency by providing software systems can be controlled and monitored from a newer CENTUM system. Via a control network, CENTUM VP can control and
backup services. Also, our security service protects the customer system from monitor operations at a plant that relies on a CENTUM V, CENTUM-XL, CENTUM CS, or CENTUM CS 3000 system. The latest
virus infection and data tampering. CENTUM VP can also communicate with both the N-IO and the more traditional FIO and Yokogawa will continue to sell and
provide long-term support to both types of I/O. Thus, by allowing its customers to utilize their existing assets wherever possible,
Operation Optimization Yokogawa offers them a cost-effective way to upgrade their production control systems.

Step Yokogawa advocates the concept of Advanced Decision Support (ADS) which
enabling operators quick and accurate decision making in plant operation and
improving plant safety and productivity. The following services are provided based on
the international standards under the ADS concept.

YOKOGAWA maintains the reliability

* ISA-18.2 based design consulting for alarm management
* ISA-101 based design consulting for HMI

and availability of the control system throughout

* ISA-106 based design consulting for procedure automation

Step 3 Lifecycle Effectiveness Services® a plant's lifecycle.

Yokogawa periodically reviews the customer lifecycle plan and verifies
the effectiveness of maintenance and improvements.
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Scalable and interoperable architecture CENTUM VP has a simple & common architecture consisting of human machine interfaces, field control stations, and a control network.

PRM
（Asset management） Business domain
Firewall

ENG（Automation Design Suite） HIS HIS TSE Contorol network

FCS FCS FCS UGS

SCS

Field wireless N-IO

management
Wireless station
Fieldbus FIO Fieldbus Fieldbus

Wireless Wireless
access point access point
PLC

FCN FCN-RTU FCJ

PLC

Wireless Wireless
transmitter transmitter

Human Interface Station (HIS) Control Network (Vnet/IP)

Windows based operating system, commercial-off-the-shelf PC Vnet/IP, an IEEE802.3 Ethernet compliant redundant network Multiple System Connection
hardware, and optional specialized operator keyboard for a large operating at 1 Gbps, incorporates Yokogawa’s technology, Customers are demanding different sites to be linked together so that bi-directional operation can be made more efficient.
variety of operator consoles. achieving deterministic, reliable, and secure communications. Yokogawa provides a multiple system connection function to connect several CENTUM VP sites together and link older CENTUM sites.

Engineering Station (ENG) Digital Fieldnetworks True Interoperability

With the same PC features mentioned above, this includes a CENTUM VP supports FOUNDATIONTM fieldbus, HART, PROFIBUS-DP, Interoperability of Yokogawa CENTUM systems with the “outside world” begins with OPC. CENTUM VP utilizes an OPC server that meets the
comprehensive engineering package for all the CENTUM VP DeviceNet, Modbus, Modbus/TCP, and EtherNet/IP. demands of information flow, advanced control, and alarm/event management. Our customers enjoy solid performance and wide flexibility of our
components and applications.
OPC server for their integration projects. Yokogawa maintains interoperability with all intelligent instrumentation and deployed fieldbuses.
Safety Control Station (SCS) - ProSafe-RS
Field Control Station (FCS)
100% Yokogawa manufactured. This is the core of CENTUM VP’s
This is Yokogawa’s TÜV SIL3 certified premier safety instrumented Subsystem Integration and Digital Fieldnetworks Support
system. It incorporates Yokogawa’s own Pair & Spare and Vnet/IP
high availability/reliability, continuing the CENTUM heritage. To meet the growing need for communication with manufacturing equipment including
technologies and offers unprecedented synergy with CENTUM VP.
variable speed drives, PLCs, and “smart” motor protection relays for operation and
UGS/GSGW Network-based Control System - STARDOM monitoring, as well as with analyzers, weighing machines, smart instruments, and other
Unified Gateway Station (UGS) serves as a gateway to interface Yokogawa’s intelligent-hybrid remote telecommunication instruments used for product inspection, CENTUM VP supports a wide variety of
CENTUM VP with STARDOM or the third-party subsystems. controllers are ideal for the oil and gas upstream market. They communication interfaces and digital fieldnetworks such as FOUNDATIONTM fieldbus,
Generic Subsystem Gateway (GSGW) is a controller for operating can be seamlessly integrated, via the UGS, to CENTUM VP. PROFIBUS-DP, Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP/IP, and DeviceNet.
and monitoring subsystems connected to CENTUM VP.
Operational Excellence Software Suite Wide Area Network Connection
Bus Converter (BCV) A software suite for the Windows platform that supports plant CENTUM VP can expand its control network by connecting with a wide area network.
Interface hardware that connects multiple control network domains. operations and maintenance improvement, such as plant safety, System integration and monitoring of remote or isolated locations are enabled using a
It also connects previous CENTUM series systems to CENTUM VP. plant asset management, production management, and optimization. public or satellite network, with no loss in reliability or security.
With the release of the world’s first DCS nearly four decades ago,
Yokogawa helped empower an entire generation of plant operators.
With our focus on creating a sustainable future, we are committed in
our efforts to support a new generation of plant operators.

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CENTUM, Lifecycle Effectiveness Services, Opportunity Identification Services, ProSafe, Solution Implementation Services, STARDOM, FieldMate, VigilantPlant,
VigilantPlant Services and Vnet/IP are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Yokogawa Electric Corporation.
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