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Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced the April 12 release of version R4.01 of its Plant Resource Manager (PRM) software tool for centrally managing large amounts of data from plant monitoring and control devices as well as manufacturing equipment.
PRM R4.01, an upgrade to R3.31, has been significantly enhanced with a new function that provides statistical data needed to identify the overall status of the devices in a plant. Through the provision of information that is essential for efficient maintenance and optimum operations, this new PRM release will help to ensure plant safety.
Plant Resource Management Enhancements
- Display of quantitative status information on all the devices in a plant
A function for the reporting of key performance indicators (KPI) on field assets has been added to R4.0 With this function, PRM is able to create and display the following three KPIs: (1) overall device effectiveness (ODE), the percentage of time that devices operate normally (without alarms or events); (2) time availability (TA), the percentage of time that devices communicate normally with PRM; and (3) performance availability (PA), the percentage of time that devices operate and communicate normally with PRM. While the previous PRM release only provided information on individual devices, R4.01 has the added ability to display statistics on the operating status of all the devices in a plant. Thus, PRM R4.01 can help operators detect potential device problems, identify and analyze failure causes, and determine maintenance priorities. These KPIs can also be referred to when planning a maintenance schedule.
- Efficient setting of device parameters
A template function for the setting of device parameters has been added to R4.01. Once parameters are set using this function, the template can be downloaded to multiple devices. This makes it easy to apply parameters to devices. When replacing one or more devices, their template can be used as is on the new device(s), or another template with different parameters that has been prepared in advance can be used. By making it easy to reset parameters, this function allows the immediate start up and use of the new device(s).