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Yokogawa Integrates Advanced Diagnostic Module into its Plant Resource Manager Software

The Advanced Diagnostic Module (ADM) from Pepperl+Fuchs
The Advanced Diagnostic Module (ADM) from Pepperl+Fuchs
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has released the latest upgrade to its Plant Resource Manager (PRM™), version R3.02. PRM is a key component of Yokogawa's VigilantPlant® Asset Excellence initiative. PRM integrates and manages maintenance information, monitors online conditions, and records historical data of assets ranging from field devices to plant equipment.

With over 7,000 patents, Yokogawa has a long history of invention and innovation. The company that provided the process industry with the world's first digital sensors for flow and pressure measurement, offers a wide range of products and systems for process and factory automation. Since it's founding in 1915, Yokogawa has developed into a global player with a network of 18 manufacturing facilities, 84 companies, and over 650 sales and engineering offices in 33 countries.

The Plant Resource Manager from Yokogawa is a software solution targeted at the worldwide process industry. It serves to integrate and manage maintenance information, monitor online conditions and record a wide range of historical data from plant equipment all the way to individual field devices.

With its Advanced Diagnostic Module (ADM), Pepperl+Fuchs offers a unique solution for the FOUNDATION fieldbus. Being part of the well-known FieldConnex® concept of the company, this system allows comprehensive insight into the fieldbus physical layer, making it an invaluable tool for asset management and proactive maintenance. ADM's online monitoring capabilities provide actionable information, indicating changes in the fieldbus physical layer before they become critical.


A history: Device and diagnostics integration moves asset management to new heights:Now including FieldConnex Advanced Diagnostics for the physical layer.
A history: Device and diagnostics integration moves asset management to new heights: Now including FieldConnex Advanced Diagnostics for the physical layer.

The latest release of the Yokogawa Plant Resource Manager features full integration of the Pepperl+Fuchs Advanced Diagnostics Module and the associated Diagnostic Manager. Integration means that the configuration for the plant is augmented with the information regarding the ADM. With only a few mouse clicks the user selects the segments to be monitored and PRM is configured making the ADM even easier to apply than a field device.

Due to this new feature, users are now able to open the consolidated supervisory window of ADM directly within the PRM R3.02 environment. This allows real-time access to a wealth of information concerning the physical layer of the fieldbus infrastructure. From summary information per segment all the way down to details on every field device connected, the fieldbus physical layer becomes fully transparent, enabling efficient root-cause analysis in oder to maintain process control and increase plant availability.


All segments are configured in PRM. Adding the physical layer as manageable asset is automated with only a few mouse clicks.
All segments are configured in PRM. Adding the physical layer as managed asset is automated with only a few mouse clicks.

With the joint efforts of Yokogawa and Pepperl+Fuchs, two leading players on the global process control market have joint their expertise in order to provide superior solutions for plant operation and management. The integration of the FieldConnex® ADM-interface has considerably expanded the scope of the asset management capabilities of PRM, providing operators with solid information for well-informed decisions.

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Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has released the latest upgrade to its Plant Resource Manager (PRM™), version R3.02. PRM is a key component of Yokogawa's VigilantPlant® Asset Excellence initiative. PRM integrates and manages maintenance information, monitors online conditions, and records historical data of assets ranging from field devices to plant equipment.