Yokogawa releases Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation R5.03

08/31/2021

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that Yokogawa and Shell jointly developed Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation R5.03 and released it as a solution under the OpreXTM Asset Operations and Optimization family.

Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation is a software suite that brings together Shell's advanced plant process control technology and Yokogawa's real-time control technology to help customers improve productivity by increasing product yield and reducing energy consumption. This version upgrade supports Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA), the latest version of a communication standard that improves plant systems interoperability and security, and provides the basis for digital transformation to help customers transition to industrial autonomy.

Yokogawa's Platform for Advanced Control and Estimation suite delivers the following functionalities:

• Multivariable model predictive control (the control of multiple variables based on predictions made using models of the dynamic characteristics of plant responses)
• Soft sensing for estimating quality in real-time based on temperature, flow rate, pressure, and other process values
• Customization of calculations

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